Statistics Seminar Schedule

Spring 2009 Seminar Series Where: Room 199, Cupples I, Washington University at St. Louis When: Tuesdays 4:30 - 5:30 pm.
Date	Speaker	Institution	Title and Abstract	Remark
Jan 20	Patricio S. La Rosa	Department of ESE, Washington University in Saint Louis	Detection of Uterine Magnetomyogram Contractions During Pregnancy
Feb 3	Ruibin Xi	Department of Mathematics, Washington University in Saint Louis	Aggregation of the Estimating Equation Estimation with Applications in Data Cubes
Feb 10	Andrew Womack	Department of Mathematics, Washington University in Saint Louis	Some Ideas on Longitudinal SSVS
Feb 17	Xiao Huang	Department of Mathematics, Washington University in Saint Louis	Inference of Population Structure Using Bayesian Approach	This is a math major oral presentation.
Feb 25	Prof. Edward Spitznagel	Department of Mathematics, Washington University in Saint Louis	Causal Reasoning in Statistics -- A Primer	This is a graduate student seminar talk at 4pm-5pm on Wednesday.
Mar 4	Prof. Jimin Ding	Department of Mathematics, Washington University in Saint Louis	Introduction of Joint modeling of survival and Longitudinal data	This is a graduate student seminar talk at 4pm-5pm on Wednesday.
Apr 2	Prof. Shuangge Ma	Yale University, School of Medicine	Interval Censored Data with a Cured Subgroup	This is a colloquium talk at 4:30pm-5:30pm on Thursday.
Apr 7	Qing Li	Department of Mathematics, Washington University in Saint Louis	Bayesian Elastic Net	This is a math major oral presentation.
Apr 14	Andrew Womack	Department of Mathematics, Washington University in Saint Louis	Adaptive Monte Carlo Methods	This is a math major oral presentation.
Apr 15	Prof. Stanley Sawyer	Department of Mathematics, Washington University in Saint Louis	Sex for pathogenic bacteria meets queueing theory	This is a graduate student seminar talk at 4pm-5pm on Wednesday.
Apr 16	Prof. Ji Zhu	Department of Statistics, University of Michigan	Partial Correlation Estimation by Joint Sparse Regression Models	This is a colloquium talk at 4:30pm-5:30pm on Thursday.
Apr 21	Haley Abel	Department of Mathematics, Washington University in Saint Louis	The role of positive selection in molecular evolution: alternative models for within-locus selective effects	This is a Ph.D. thesis defense.
Apr 22	Prof. Nan Lin	Department of Mathematics, Washington University in Saint Louis	Clustering short time-course microarray data using order-restricted inference	This is a graduate student seminar talk at 4pm-5pm on Wednesday.

Past semesters:
Fall 2008 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