Statistics Seminars 2009 - 2010

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September	October	November	December	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August

August 2010

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 8/24 Daniele DeMartini Dipartimento SEMEQ, Università del Piemonte Orientale On power estimation - with applications to clinical trials 8/17 Ramit Mehr Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University The Humoral Im-mune Response: Complexity and Theoretical Challenges 8/12 Larry Shepp Professor of Statistics, Rutgers University Optimal Stochastic Control and Retirement Investing This is a special change of date to Thursday 8/10 Nicoleta Serban Industrial Systems and Engineering School, Georgia Institute of Technology A Multilevel Space-Time Varying Coefficient Model: The Equity of Service Distribution 8/9 Christian P. Robert Universite Paris-Dauphine and CREST A vanilla Rao--Blackwellisation of Metropolis--Hastings algorithms This is a special seminar on Monday

July 2010

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 7/27 Benjamin Yakir Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 7/13 Patrick Perry Harvard University Point Process Models for Pairwise Interactions 7/6 Bradley Efron Department of Statistics, Stanford University False Discovery Rates and Copy Number Varia-tion

June 2010

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 6/29 Gautham Mysore Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University A Non-negative Framework for Joint Modeling of Spec-tral Structure and Temporal Dynamics in Sound Mixtures 6/1 Danyu Lin Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Accounting for Unknown Population Substructure in the Statistical Analysis of Genomewide Association Studies

May 2010

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 5/25 Ovidiu Lipan University of Richmond Discrete stochastic models for stress response in CHO mammalian cells 5/18 Samuel Kou Department of Statistics, Harvard University Multi-resolution inference of stochastic models from partially observed data 5/11 Wing Wong Department of Statistics, Stanford University Optional Polya Tree and Bayesian Inference 5/4 David G. Stork Chief Scientist, Ricoh Innovations Statistical techniques in the image analysis of paintings: Machine learning for the analysis of brush strokes, lighting, perspective, style and the authentication of fine art stork/FAQs.html

April 2010

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 4/27 Peter Hall Department of Statistics, UC Davis Clustering high-dimensional data using evidence of multimodality 4/20 Steven N. Evans Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley Discriminating between microbial populations *SBJC 4/13 David Donoho Department of Statistics, Stanford University Theoretical Calculation of Lasso Operating Characteristics 4/6 Laurent Cavalier Department of Statistics, University of Aix-Marseille 1 Risk hull method for inverse problems

March 2010

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 3/30 Rasmus Bro Department Food Science, Univ. Copenhagen Applications using tensors in chemometrics 3/9 Tze Leung Lai Department of Statistics, Stanford University A Fast Stepwise Method for High-Dimensional Sparse Regression Models and Its Applications 3/2 Ryan Tibshirani Department of Statistics, Stanford University A Statistician Plays Darts

February 2010

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 2/23 Ping Li Department of Statistical Science, Cornell ABC-Boost: Adaptive Base Class Boost for Multi-Class Classification and Empirical Comparisons with SVM and Deep Learning 2/16 Emmanuel Candes Departments of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University Robust Principal Component Analysis? 2/9 Martin Wainwright Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and Statistics, UC Berkeley Statistical inference in high-dimensional settings: A unified analysis of regularized estimators 2/5 Michael Woodroofe Departments of Statistics, University of Michigan Bootstrapping the Grenander Estimator 2/2 Deepak Agarwal Yahoo! Research Recommender Problems for Web Applications

January 2010

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 1/26 Alon Orlitsky Electrical & Computer Engineering, UCSD Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets 1/19 Steve Wang Department of Statistics Swarthmore College & Blauistein Visiting Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, Stanford University Statistical Challenges in Paleontology 1/12 Yonina Eldar Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) Dominating Least-Squares for Linear Regression

December 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 12/1 Susan Holmes Department of Statistics, Stanford University Comparing Trees using Distances & Multidimensional Scaling

November 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 11/17 Jiayang Sun Department of Statistics, Case Western Reserve University Non-Fourier Estimation in Measurement Error Problems 11/10 Guenther Walther Department of Statistics, Stanford University Detection with scan and average likelihood ratio **BSJC 11/03 Nancy Zhang Department of Statistics, Stanford University Cross-Sample and Cross-Platform DNA Copy Number Analysis

October 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 10/27 Athanasios Kottas Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of California, Santa Cruz Bayesian nonparametric modeling under stochastic order constraints, with an application to ROC data analysis 10/20 Haiyan Huang Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley A Bayesian Approach to Transforming Public Gene Expression Repositories into Disease Diagnosis Databases 10/13 C. F. Jeff Wu Georgia Institute Of Technology Sequential Minimum Energy Designs: From Nano Exporiments to Global Optimization 10/06 David Stork Ricoh Innovations & Stanford University Lake Wobegon Dice

September 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 09/29 Robert Bell AT&T Labs, Research Lessons from the Netflix Prize 09/22 Wolfgang Polonik Department of Statistics University of California, Davis Asymptotic normality of plug-in level set estimates with applications to binary classification 09/08 Daniel Yekutieli Department of Statistics and OR, Tel Aviv University Adjusted Bayesian inference for selected parameters 09/01 Ishay Weissman Industrial Engineering and Management Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Dependence Measures for Multivariate Extreme Value Distributions

*	SBJC = Stanford-Berkeley Joint Colloquium at Stanford
**	BSJC = Berkeley-Stanford Joint Colloquium at Berkeley