| Thursday, January 25 |
| Huiliang Xie Ph.D. Candidate Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "Extending SCAD-Penalized Regression to Accelerated Failure Time Models"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, February 1 |
| Jiafeng Sun Department of Actuarial Science, Risk Management, and Insurance University of Wisconsin-Madison "Heavy-Tailed Longitudinal Data Modeling Using Copulas"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, February 8 |
| Arka Ghosh Department of Statistics Iowa State University "Optimal Buffer Size for a Stochastic Processing Network with a Drift"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, February 15 |
| Kate Cowles Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "Parallelizing MCMC for Bayesian Spatiotemporal Geostatistical Models"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Monday, February 19 |
| Rong Chen NSF Program Director for Statistics Professor of Information and Decision Sciences University of Illinois-Chicago "Sequential Monte Carlo Methods and Their Applications: An Overview and Recent Developments"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, March 1 - Cancelled due to weather; rescheduled for April 19 |
| John Manistre AEGON USA, Inc. Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
| Thursday, March 8 |
| Lan Wang School of Statistics University of Minnesota "Consistent Model Selection and Data-Driven Smooth Tests for Clustered Data"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| [Spring Break, March 12-16] |
| Thursday, March 22 |
| William Meeker Department of Statistics Iowa State University "Using Accelerated Tests to Predict Warranty Returns"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, March 29 |
| Wei Chen Principal Financial Econometrician SAS Institute, Inc. "Tail Tales -- Topics on Portfolio Risk Management"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, April 5 |
| David Bates Department of Finance University of Iowa "On Estimating and Filtering Time-Changed Levy Processes"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, April 12 |
| Xuming He Department of Statistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Inference for Quantile Regression Models"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| [ASA Iowa Chapter Meeting, April 18] |
| Thursday, April 19 |
| John Manistre AEGON USA, Inc. Cedar Rapids, Iowa "Tail Correlation - A Practitioner's Perspective"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, April 26 - Craig Lecture #1 - CANCELLED |
| Nancy Reid Department of Statistics University of Toronto "Weighting the Likelihood Function" |
| Friday, April 27 - Craig Lecture #2 - CANCELLED |
| Nancy Reid Department of Statistics University of Toronto "Putting Asymptotics to Work" |
| Wednesday, May 2 |
| Xian Zhou Department of Applied Mathematics The Hong Kong Polytechnic University "Survival Analysis with Long-term Survivors"
9:30 Talk in 221 Jessup Hall |
| Thursday, May 3 |
| Rick Chappell Departments of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics & Statistics University of Wisconsin-Madison "Delta What? Choice of Outcome Scale in Non-Inferiority Trials"
2:30 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |