Statistics Seminar Schedule

Spring 2014 Seminar Series Where: Room 6, Cupples I, Washington University at St. Louis When: Thursdays 11 am.- 12 pm.
Date	Speaker	Institution	Title and Abstract
Jan. 23	Prof. Laura Dumitresu	Dept. of Mathematics, Washington University at St. Louis	Robust small area estimation under semi-parametric mixed models
Feb. 3 (Mon.) 11-12	Dr. Joseph Guinness	Dept. of Statistics, North Carolina State University	Fast matrix-free methods for massive multivariate spatial lattice data
Feb. 6 (Thur.) 4:15-5:15	Prof. Dan Shen	Dept. of Mathematics, University of North Carolina	PCA Asymptotics and Application in Image Analysis
Feb. 10 (Mon.) 11-12	Dr. Ick Hoon Jin	MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas,	Fitting Exponential Random Graph Models Using Varying Truncation Stochastic Approximation MCMC Algorithm
Feb. 13 (Thur.) 4:15-5:15	Prof. Tod Kuffner	Dept. of Mathematics, Washington University at St. Louis	Objective Bayes and Conditional Frequentist Inference: Theory and Methodology
Feb. 21 (Fri.) 3-4	Dr. Stephanie Zhang	Dept. of Statistics, Columbia University	On the Identifiability of Q-matrix Based CDMs
Feb. 24 (Mon.) 11-12	Prof. Laura Dumitrescu	Dept. of Mathematics, Washington University at St. Louis	Robust small-area estimation under semi-parametric mixed models
Apr. 7 (Mon.) 11-12	Prof. Yuefeng Wu	Dept. of Mathematics, University of Missouri, St. Louis	Hellinger Distance and Bayesian Non-Parametrics: Hierarchical Models for Robust and Efficient Bayesian Inference
Apr. 17	Prof. Jaroslaw Harezlak	Dept. of Biostatistics, Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University	Regression trees for longitudinal data (LongCART) and their application in the biomarker neuroimaging study
May. 1	Chao Chang	Dept. of Mathematics, Washington University at St. Louis	Bayesian Quantile Regression via Dirichlet Process Mixture of Logistic Distributions
Past semesters: Fall 2012 schedule Spring 2010 schedule Spring 2009 schedule Spring 2008 schedule Fall 2007 schedule Spring 2007 schedule Fall 2006 schedule Other Talk Lists: Math Department Talk List Biostatistics Seminar in Medical School