Special Colloquia Spring 2001

Friday, January 12, 2001, 3:30 in LAEB B1238
Mr. Jason Schweinsberg, University of California, Berkeley
Coalescents with Simultaneous Multiple Collisions


Tuesday, January 16, 2001, 4:30 in MATH 215
Professor Jun Xie, University of California, Los Angeles
A Bayesian Insertion/Deletion Robust Algorithm for Protein Motif Searching via Entropy Filtering


Monday, January 29, 2001, 4:30 in REC 113
Mr. Galin Jones, University of Florida
Honest Exploration of Intractable Probability Distributions Via Markov Chain Monte Carlo


Friday, February 2, 2001, 3:30 in MATH 215
Mr. Yuguo Chen, Stanford University
Conditional Inference on Zero-One Tables: A Sequential Importance Sampling Approach


Monday, February 5, 2001, 4:30 in REC 113
Ms. Fei Zou, University of Wisconsin-Madison
On Empirical Likelihood for a Semiparametric Mixture Model, with Application to Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis


Tuesday, February 6, 2001, 4:30 in UNIV 001
Ms. Rebecka Jornsten, University of California, Berkeley
Compression and Analysis of Microarray Images


Thursday, February 8, 2001, 4:30 in KRAN G013
Joint with Computational Finance
Ms. Lan Zhang, University of Chicago
From Martingales to ANOVA: Implied and Realized Volatility


Wednesday, February 14, 2001, 4:30 in MATH 211
Professor Ming-Hui Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Conjugate Priors for Generalized Linear Models


Monday, February 19, 2001, 4:30 in REC 123
Joint with Computational Finance
Ms. Seongjoo Song, University of Chicago
Options and Discontinuity: An Asymptotic Decomposition for Trading Algorithms


Wednesday, February 21, 2001, 4:30 in MATH 175
Special Statistics Department and
Special Mathematics Department
Joint with Computational Finance
Dr. Vladimir Pozdnyakov, University of Pennsylvania
A Bound on LIBOR Futures Prices For HJM Yield Curve Models


Monday, February 26, 2001, 4:30 in REC 113
Dr. Raquel Prado, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
Bayesian Time-Varying Autoregressions: Models and Applications


Monday, March 5, 2001, 4:30 in REC 113
Dr. Moulinath Banerjee, University of Washington
Likelihood Ratio Inference for Monotone Functions in a Class of Non-Regular Problems