Special Statistics Department Colloquia, Spring 2008
Schedule
Monday, January 28, 2008, 10:30 AM in LWSN B155
Dr. Bo Li, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-Time Covariance Functions and its Application in Paleoclimate Reconstruction
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 10:30 AM in HAAS 111
Dr. Tanzy Love, Carnegie-Mellon University
Discovery of Latent Patterns in Disability Data and the Issue of Model Choice
Thursday, February 14, 2008, 10:30 AM in HAAS 111
Dr. Lin Chen, University of Washington, Princeton
Causal Modeling in Quantitative Genomics
Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 10:30 AM in HAAS 111
Mr. Hadley Wickham, Iowa State University
A grammar of graphics: past, present, future
Friday, February 22, 2008, 10:30 AM in HAAS 111
Dr. Guang Cheng, Postdoctoral Fellow at Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI)
Higher Order Semiparametric Inference Based on the Profile Likelihood
Monday, February 25, 2008, 10:30 AM in HAAS 111
Mr. (Raymond) Yun Fu, Beckman Institute and Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Unified Discriminative Subspace Learning for Facial Image Computing
Monday, March 3, 2008, 10:30 AM in HAAS 111
Mr. Bodhisattva Sen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Cancelled
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 10:30 AM in HAAS 111
Dr. Sergey Kirshner, University of Alberta, Canada
Modeling of Rainfall with Graphical Models: A Bayesian Approach
Thursday, March 6, 2008, 10:30 AM in LWSN 3102 AB
Dr. Luis Ortiz, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Solving Problems in Complex Systems
Monday, March 17, 2008, 12:30 PM in HAAS 111
Dr. S. V. N. Vishwanathan, National ICTA, Australia
Optimization for Machine Learning
