Seminars

April 2013

Title: Part I: Functional Boxplots for Visualization of Complex Curve/Image Data: An Application to Precipitation and Climate Model Output Part II: Paradigms for a 21st Century University

Date: Monday, April 1, 2013 - 4:00pm

Speaker: Professor Marc Genton CMSE (Comp., Elec. & Math Sci, & Eng.) KAUST (King Abdullah Univ. of Sci. & Tech)

Room: SMI 133

Title: Disparity Methods in Conditionally-Specified Models

Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 4:00pm

Speaker: Giles Hooker, Dept. of Statistical Science, Cornell University

Room: 140 Bardeen

Title: Optimal Stopping with Memory and Random Coefficients: Recent Results and Open Problems

Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 4:00pm

Speaker: Mou Hsiung (Harry) Chang, Mathematical Sciences, U.S. Army Research Office

Room: 140 Bardeen

Title: The Population Dynamics of Black-White-Mulatto Racial Systems

Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 4:00pm

Speaker: James Montgomery, Dept. of Sociology, UW Madison

Room: 140 Bardeen

May 2013

Title: BigData: Probabilistic Methods for Efficient Search and Statistical Learning with Extremely High-Dimensional Data

Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 4:00pm

Speaker: Ping Li, Dept of Statistical Science, Cornell University

Room: 140 Bardeen

Title: Detection of Disease Outbreaks with Complex Spatio-Temporal Structures Using Real Surveillance Data

Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 4:00pm

Speaker: Frank Jian Zou, Dept. of Math Sciences, IUPUI

Room: 140 Bardeen

Archive of Past Seminars

Title: Detection of Disease Outbreaks with Complex Spatio-Temporal Structures Using Real Surveillance Data

Speaker: Frank Jian Zou, Dept. of Math Sciences, IUPUI

Date: Wed, 05/08/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: BigData: Probabilistic Methods for Efficient Search and Statistical Learning with Extremely High-Dimensional Data

Speaker: Ping Li, Dept of Statistical Science, Cornell University

Date: Wed, 05/01/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: The Population Dynamics of Black-White-Mulatto Racial Systems

Speaker: James Montgomery, Dept. of Sociology, UW Madison

Date: Wed, 04/24/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: Optimal Stopping with Memory and Random Coefficients: Recent Results and Open Problems

Speaker: Mou Hsiung (Harry) Chang, Mathematical Sciences, U.S. Army Research Office

Date: Wed, 04/17/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: Disparity Methods in Conditionally-Specified Models

Speaker: Giles Hooker, Dept. of Statistical Science, Cornell University

Date: Wed, 04/10/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: Tensor Dimension Reduction for Chemical Sensoring

Speaker: Wenxuan Zhong, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois

Date: Wed, 04/03/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: Part I: Functional Boxplots for Visualization of Complex Curve/Image Data: An Application to Precipitation and Climate Model Output Part II: Paradigms for a 21st Century University

Speaker: Professor Marc Genton CMSE (Comp., Elec. & Math Sci, & Eng.) KAUST (King Abdullah Univ. of Sci. & Tech)

Date: Mon, 04/01/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: Log-Concave Density Estimation with Applications

Speaker: Richard Samworth, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge University

Date: Wed, 03/20/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: Midwest Statistics Research Colloquium

Speaker: TBA

Date: Sat, 03/16/2013 - 9:00am
Title: Midwest Statistics Research Colloquium

Speaker: TBA

Date: Fri, 03/15/2013 - 1:30pm
Title: Tracking the Elusive Gene: Ancestry Identification and Association Mapping in Admixed Individuals

Speaker: Abra Brisbin, Dept. of Mathematics, UW-Eau Claire

Date: Wed, 03/13/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: New Statistical Learning Methods for Estimating Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes

Speaker: Professor Yingqi Zhao, Department of BMI UW-Madison

Date: Wed, 03/06/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: Optimal Estimation of Functional Data

Speaker: Ming Yuan, Dept of Statistics, UW Madison

Date: Wed, 02/20/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: Small Area Confidence Bounds on Small Cell Proportions in Survey Populations

Speaker: Professor Eric Slud Dept. of Mathematics University of Maryland

Date: Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: Beyond R: Rcpp and Julia

Speaker: Douglas Bates Professor Emeritus Department of Statistics UW-Madison

Date: Wed, 02/06/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: Assembling the Tree of Life: Theory Beyond the Substitution-Only Model of Sequence Evolution

Speaker: Professor Sebastien Roch Dept. of Mathematics UW-Madison

Date: Wed, 01/30/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: Geometry of Gaussian Graphical Models

Speaker: Caroline Uhler, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria

Date: Wed, 01/23/2013 - 4:00pm
Title: Operator Limits of Random Matrices

Speaker: Benedek Valko, UW Madison, Department of Mathematics

Date: Wed, 12/05/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Large Volatility Matrices Estimation Based on High-Frequency Financial Data With Noise Contamination

Speaker: Minjing Tao, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Statistics

Date: Wed, 11/28/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Computational Models of Eukaryotic Transcriptional Regulatory Networks: An Evolutionary Perspective

Speaker: Sushmita Roy, UW Madison, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Date: Wed, 11/14/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Sequential Analysis with Pairwise Comparisons

Speaker: Rob Nowak, UW Madison, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Date: Wed, 11/07/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: EMPIRICAL AND QUANTILE PROCESS CLTS FOR TIME DEPENDENT DATA

Speaker: Jim Kuelbs, UW Madison, Department of Mathematics

Date: Wed, 10/31/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: EMPIRICAL AND QUANTILE PROCESS CLTS FOR TIME DEPENDENT DATA

Speaker: Professor Emeritus James Kuelbs, Department of Mathematics

Date: Wed, 10/31/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Optimal Diagnostic Strategy

Speaker: Ben Haaland, National University of Singapore

Date: Fri, 10/19/2012 - 3:00pm
Title: Machine Learning from Observational Clinical Data

Speaker: David Page, UW Madison, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Date: Wed, 10/17/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Measures of Heterogeneity, Diversity, and Inequality

Speaker: Ingram Olkin, Stanford University, Department of Statistics

Date: Thu, 10/11/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Inference of Alternative Splicing from RNA-Seq Data with Probabilistic Splice Graphs

Speaker: Colin Dewey, UW Madison, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Date: Wed, 10/03/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Statistical Analysis of Functional MRI Resting State Brain Connectivity Data

Speaker: Brian Caffo, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biostatistics (Joint w/Biostatistics)

Date: Wed, 09/26/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Safety Concerns of the 3+3 Design: A Comparison to the mTPI Design

Speaker: Yuan Ji, Northshore University Health System, Director of Cancer Informatics (Joint w/Biostatistics)

Date: Wed, 09/19/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Making the most of the Center for High Throughput Computing(CHTC)

Speaker: Bill Taylor, UW Madison, Center for High Throughput Computing

Date: Wed, 09/05/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Variable Selection in High-Dimensional Linear Models

Speaker: Jun Shao, UW Madison, Dept. of Statistics

Date: Wed, 05/02/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Finding the Right Level of Abstraction in Social Conflict and Cellular Regulation

Speaker: Bryan Daniels, WID, Center for Complexity and Collective Computation

Date: Wed, 04/25/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Co-clustering for Directed Graphs: An Algorithm, a Model, and Some Asymptotics

Speaker: Assistant Professor Karl Rohe, UW Madison, Dept. of Statistics

Date: Wed, 04/18/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Dynamic Adaptive Procedures for False Discovery Rate Estimation and Control

Speaker: Kun Liang, UW Madison, Department of Statistics, Post Doc for Sunduz Keles

Date: Wed, 04/11/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: R Estimation for Linear Models for Cluster Correlated Data

Speaker: John Kloke, UW Madison, Dept. of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics

Date: Wed, 03/28/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Adjusted Regression Estimation for Time-to-Event Data with Differential Measurement Error

Speaker: Professor Menggang Yu, UW Madison, Dept. of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics

Date: Wed, 03/21/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: High-performance computing with R, Rcpp and RcppEigen

Speaker: Emeritus Professor Douglas Bates, UW Madison, Dept. of Statistics

Date: Wed, 03/14/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Semantic-Based Information Extraction Of Biomedical Definitions

Speaker: Saeed Hassanpour

Date: Wed, 03/14/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: Fifty Years of Classification and Regression Trees

Speaker: Professor Wei Yin Loh, Dept. of Statistics, UW-Madison

Date: Wed, 03/07/2012 - 4:00pm
Title: High Dimensional Covariance matrix Estimation

Speaker: Ming Yuan, Georgia Tech

Date: Mon, 02/27/2012 - 12:00pm
Title: Differential Expression Identification and False Discovery Rate Estimation in RNA-Seq Data

Speaker: Jun Li, Stanford University

Date: Wed, 02/22/2012 - 12:00pm
Title: Leveraging in Statistical Analysis of RNA-Seq

Speaker: Ping Ma, Univ. of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign

Date: Mon, 02/20/2012 - 12:00pm
Title: Longitudinal High-Dimensional Data Analysis

Speaker: Vadim Zipunnikov, Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Date: Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:00pm
Title: Bayesian Analysis of Reversible Markov Chains with Applications to Molecular Dynamics

Speaker: Sergio Bacallado, Stanford University

Date: Wed, 02/08/2012 - 12:00pm
Title: Convex Regularization Algorithms for Learning Large Incomplete Matrices

Speaker: Rahul Mazumder, Stanford University

Date: Wed, 02/01/2012 - 12:00pm
Title: Statistical Inference for Non-Parametric Models in High Dimensions: Statistical & Computational Aspects

Speaker: Garvesh Raskutti, Dept. of Statistics, University of California-Berkeley

Date: Wed, 01/25/2012 - 12:00pm
Title: Computational Methods for Stochastic Models of Bio-chemical Systems (and other population processes)

Speaker: David Anderson, Dept. of Mathematics, UW -Madison

Date: Wed, 12/14/2011 - 4:00pm
Title: Measurement of Response Style in Educational and Psychological Tests

Speaker: Professor Dan Bolt Dept. of Educational Psychology UW-Madison

Date: Wed, 11/30/2011 - 4:00pm
Title: Rank-Based Estimation and Order Selection for GARCH Processes

Speaker: Beth Andrews, Dept. of Statistics, Northwestern Univ.

Date: Wed, 11/09/2011 - 4:00pm
Title: Opportunities in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at DMS

Speaker: Professor Sastry Pantula, North Carolina State University

Date: Mon, 11/07/2011 - 4:00pm
Title: BIG Statistics

Speaker: Dennis Lin, Department of Statistics, Penn State

Date: Wed, 10/26/2011 - 4:00pm
Title: In-Situ Computing: Statistics Meets Optimization Theory and Machine Learning

Speaker: Michael Coen, Dept. of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, UW Madison

Date: Wed, 10/26/2011 - 4:00pm
Title: Fluctuation Exponents for Some Directed Polymer Models

Speaker: Professor Timo Seppalainen, Dept. of Math, UW Madison

Date: Wed, 10/19/2011 - 4:00pm
Title: Some Recent Developments of the Support Vector Machine

Speaker: Yufeng Liu, Dept. of Statistics & OR, Univ. of N. Carolina

Date: Wed, 10/12/2011 (All day)
Title: Joint Estimation of the Mean and Error Distribution in Generalized Linear Models

Speaker: Alan Huang, Dept. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, UW Madison

Date: Wed, 10/05/2011 - 4:00pm
Title: Masking Unmasked by Using Stepwise Local Influence Method

Speaker: Professor Lei Shi, Yunnan University of Finance & Economics

Date: Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:00pm
Title: See PDF

Speaker: Micheal Newton, Yazhen Wang and Zhengjun Zhang-Dept. of Statistiscs, UW Madison

Date: Wed, 09/14/2011 - 4:00pm
Title: The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems

Speaker: Prof. Ben Recht, Computer Science Dept, UW-Madison

Date: Wed, 09/07/2011 (All day)

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