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Fall 2008-2009 (semester 1) Seminars

 

Schedule

Date

Time and Location
Presenter
Title
Abstract
Slides
Aug. 25, 2008 (Monday)

3:15-4:15
140 Bardeen

Michael Redmond, Dept of Statistics, UW-Madison New Student Orientation - Using Statistics Computers (1) NA slides
Aug. 29, 2008 (Friday)

1-2:30
140 Bardeen

Michael Redmond, Dept of Statistics, UW-Madison New Student Orientation (Advanced) - Using Statistics Computers (2) NA slides
Sept. 10, 2008 (Wednesday)

4-5 pm
140 Bardeen

1) Karl Broman - Univ. of Wisconsin
2) Rick Chappell - Univ. of Wisconsin
3) Sijian Wang - Univ. of Wisconsin
1) Crossover Interference and the Sex Difference in Recombination
2) Equivalence Trials: A Horse of a Different Color
3) High-dimensional Data Analysis and Variable Selection Research in UW-Madison Statistics
abstract NA
Sept. 17, 2008 (Wednesday)

4-5 pm
140 Bardeen

Wanli Min - IBM TJ Watson Research Center Inference on Time Series with Weakly Dependent Innovations abstract NA
Sept. 24, 2008 CANCELLED

4-5 pm
140 Bardeen

Nancy Garcia - Dept of Statistics, UNICAMP
Please note - Seminar CANCELLED
A Penalized Nonparametric Method for Nonlinear Constrained Optimization Based on a Random Sample abstract NA
Oct. 1, 2008 (Wednesday)

4-5 pm
140 Bardeen

Mary Sara McPeek - Univ of Chicago, Dept. of Statistics Genetic Association Studies with Known and Unknown Population Structure abstract NA
Oct. 8, 2008 (Wednesday)

4-5 pm
140 Bardeen

Zhengjun Zhang - Dept of Statistics, UW-Madison Quotient Correlation: A New Light of Measuring Variable Associations and Testing Hypotheses of Independence and Tail Independence abstract NA
Oct. 15, 2008 (Wednesday)

4-5 pm
140 Bardeen

Wing Wong - Stanford University Some Issues in the Analysis of ChIP-seq and RNA-seq Data
(Joint with Biostatistics)
abstract NA
Oct. 22, 2008 (Wednesday)

3:30-4:30
140 Bardeen

Fei Zou - UNC, Biostatistics

Please note special time!
Control of Population Stratification and Bias Adjustment in Whole-Genome Scans (Joint with Biostatistics) abstract NA
Oct. 30, 2008 (Thursday)

4-5 pm
331 SMI

Greg Fasshauer - IIT, Dept of Applied Mathematics
Please note special day and room!
RBF Interpolation and Iterated Approximate MLS Approximation abstract NA
Nov. 5, 2008 (Wednesday)

4-5 pm
140 Bardeen

Tailen Hsing - Univ of Michigan, Dept of Statistics Deciding the Dimension of Effective Dimension Reduction Space for Functional Data abstract NA
Nov. 12, 2008 (Wednesday)

4-5 pm
140 Bardeen

Andrew Nobel - UNC, Statistics Finding Significant Large-Average Submatrices in High Dimensional Data
(Joint with Mathematics)
abstract NA
Nov. 19, 2008 (Wednesday)

4-5 pm
133 SMI

Haonan Wang - Colorado State Univ, Dept of Statistics
PLEASE NOTE - Change of Rooom
Nonlinear Exploratory Latent Structure Analysis abstract NA
Nov. 26, 2008 (Wednesday)

4-5 pm
140 Bardeen

No Seminar Scheduled No Seminar Scheduled NA NA
Dec. 3, 2008 (Wednesday)

4-5 pm
140 Bardeen

Petrutza Caragea - Iowa State, Dept of Statistics Monitoring Successions and Plant Dynamics in Abandoned Agricultural Fields Using the Centered Autologistic Model abstract NA
Dec. 10, 2008 (Wednesday)

4-5 pm
140 Bardeen

Michael Newton, Dept of Statistics, UW-Madison Gamma Rankings for Clustering Genes in Multi-group Expression Analysis abstract NA

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