Statistics Colloquium Schedule

Department of Statistics UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Spring 2007 Colloquium Schedule
Date	Time and Place	Speaker	Title and Abstract
Thu Jan 25	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Ji-Ping Wang Northwestern University	Statistical models for nucleosome DNA alignment and linker length prediction in Eukaryotic cells
Thu Feb 1	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Marina Vannucci Texas A&M University	Bayesian Methods for Genomics with Variable Selection
Thu Feb 8	11:00 - 12:00 am 3401 Siebel Center	Fred Wright University of North Carolina	Hypothesis Tests of Functional Categories in Microarray Data – A New Approach
Thu Feb 8	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Wenxuan Zhong Harvard University	Variable selection using single index models for motif discovery
Thu Feb 22	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Yoshi Oono University of Illinois	To obtain collective features: Informal talk on non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis
Tue Feb 27	4:00 - 5:00 pm 165 Everitt Lab	Andrew Barron Yale University	The Interplay of Information Theory, Probability, and Statistics
Thu Mar 1	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 122	Douglas Simpson University of Illinois	Seminar on Ethical Research Practices for Graduate Students and Faculty in Statistics
Thu Mar 15	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Matthew Stephens University of Chicago	Models and Methods for Population Genetic Variation
Thu Mar 29	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Jian Zhang Purdue University	Learning with Pairwise Constraints
Sat Apr 7	9:00 am - 2:15 pm Levis Center 919 W Illinois St	Mary Ellen Bock Purdue University	Bohrer Student Workshop Keynote Address: Directions in Statistics
Tue Apr 17	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Piotr Fryzlewicz University of Bristol	A data-driven wavelet-Fisz technique for nonparametric function estimation
Thu Apr 19	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Naisyin Wang Texas A&M University	Analysis of Biomedical Data Using Semiparametric Models
Thu Apr 26	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Ying Nian Wu University of California at Los Angeles	Information Scaling and Information Projection
Thu Apr 27	10:30 - 11:30 am 3401 Siebel Center	Olga Vitek Purdue University	Discovery of biomarkers of disease in a combined LC-MS and LC-MS/MS proteomics workflow
Thu May 3	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Mei-Ling Ting Lee Ohio State University	Threshold Regression for Survival Analysis: Modeling Event Times by a Stochastic Process Reaching a Boundary
Fall 2006 Colloquium Schedule
Date	Time and Place	Speaker	Title and Abstract
Thu Aug 24	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Jun Zhu University of Wisconsin Madison	Spatial-temporal modeling of forest gaps generated by colonization from below- and above-ground bark beetle species
Thu Aug 31	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Feng Liang University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Nonparametric Bayesian Kernel Models
Thu Sep 7	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Joseph Tadjuidje Kamgaing University of Kaisserslautern	Generalized Mixture of Nonlinear and Nonparametric AR-ARCH: Theory and Application
Thu Sep 14	4:30 - 5:30 pm Purdue University	Xiaofeng Shao University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Joint Illinois-Purdue Colloquium Fourier analysis in time series: some theory and an application to space-time modeling
Thu Sep 21	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Zhongjun Qu University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	An Evaluation of the Log-Periodogram Estimate in the Presence of Level Shifts and its Implications for Stock Returns Volatility
Thu Sep 28	4:00 - 5:00 pm 269 Everitt Lab	David Cummings State Farm Research Center	Applications of Statistics in Insurance
Fri Oct 6	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Marc Hallin Université Libre de Bruxelles	Determining the Number of Factors in the General Dynamic Factor Model
Thu Oct 12	4:00 - 5:00 pm 165 Everitt Lab	James Ramsay McGill University	Data Analysis with the Quantile Function
Thu Oct 19	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	ChengXiang Zhai University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Statistical Language Models for Text Retrieval and Mining
Thu Oct 26	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Xiaodong Song University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Seismic Imaging of the Earth's Interior
Thu Nov 2	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Per Mykland University of Chicago	Financial Data and the Hidden Semimartingale Model
Thu Nov 9	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 122	Douglas Simpson University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Department faculty meeting
Thu Nov 16	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Fuqing Zhang Texas A&M University	Ensemble-based State and Parameter Estimation in Atmospheric Sciences
Mon Dec 4	4:00 - 5:00 pm Illini Hall, Room 2	Robert Kass Carnegie Mellon University	Bayesian Curve Fitting and Neuron Firing Patterns

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