Departmental Colloquia - Spring 2008

Thursday, January 24

Jackie Hughes-Oliver
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University
"ChemModLab: QSAR Modeling and Model-Based Searching"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, January 31

Xiaowen Zhou
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Concordia University
"Spectrally Negative Levy Processes and Risk Models"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, February 7

Guang Cheng
Postdoctoral Fellow
SAMSI
"Higher Order Semiparametric Inference Based on the Profile Likelihood"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, February 14

Bo Li
Post Graduate Scientist
National Center for Atmospheric Research
"Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-Time Covariance Functions and its Application in Paleoclimate Reconstruction"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Tuesday, February 19

Dawn Woodard
Department of Statistical Science
Duke University
"Bayesian Computation for Multimodal Posterior Distributions"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 1505 Seamans Center

Thursday, March 6

Jerome Pansera
Quantitative Analyst
Geode Capital Management
"Consistent Interest-Rate Modeling"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, April 10

Bruce Schobel
President, Society of Actuaries
"Update on major activities at the Society of Actuaries"

2:45 Refreshments and 3:00 presentation of the Taylor and Knowler Awards in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, April 17

Xiangming Fang
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"Generalized Additive Models with Correlated Data"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, April 24

Dai Feng
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"MRI Tissue Classification using High Resolution Bayesian Hidden Markov Normal Mixture Models"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, May 1

Russell Lenth
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"StatWeave: Flexible Software for Literate Programming in Statistics"

2:45 Refreshments and 3:00 Presentation of the Craig and Reitz Awards in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall