NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 1998-1999

Seminars are on Fridays at 3:35 - 4:35 pm in 206 Cox Hall, unless otherwise noted.

For additional information, please e-mail or phone the seminar chair, E. Jacquelin Dietz, at dietz@stat.ncsu.edu or (919) 515-1929.

For other statistics seminars in the Triangle, see Duke or UNC - Chapel Hill.

NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 1997-1998
NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 1996-1997
NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 1995-1996

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Seminar Schedule for 1998-1999

• September 4 - Bruce Weir - weir@stat.ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University
  Can a DNA Profile Be Considered Unique?

• 1998 Cockerham Lecture
  September 25, 1998 - Francis S. Collins
  National Human Genome Research Institute
  Medical and Societal Consequences of the Human Genome Project
  Seminar is at 3:30 in 124 Dabney Hall.
  Reception at 3:00 on the first floor of Dabney Hall.

• October 2 - Laura Sacerdote - sacerdot@unity.ncsu.edu
  Universita di Torino (visiting NCSU)
  A Technique for the Simulation of First-Passage Times for Diffusion Processes

• October 9 - Jye-Chyi Lu and the VIGORE Group - jclu@stat.ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University
  VIGORE - Vertical Integration of Outreach, Research and Education Activities

• October 13 - Wayne A. Fuller
  Iowa State University
  Estimation for Autoregressive Times Series
  Seminar is on Tuesday at 10:30 am in 220 Dabney Hall.
  Refreshments at 10:00 am.

• October 19 - Charles (Chip) Lawrence - Chip.Lawrence@Wadsworth.org
  Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
  A Bayesian MCMC Algorithm for Mining Protein Databases: Structural Prediction of Human Glutamate Decarboxylase
  Seminar is on Monday at 8:00 am in Williams 2223 (McKimmon Room).
  Refreshments at 7:45 am.

• October 23 - Douglas Nychka - nychka@ucar.edu
  North Carolina State University and National Center for Atmospheric Research
  Large Spatial Prediction Problems for Nonstationary Fields

• October 26 - Ina Hoeschele
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Bayesian Gene Mapping for Complex Pedigrees and Genetic Parameter Estimation in Finite Polygenic Mixed Models
  Seminar is on Monday at 8:00 am in 2405 Williams Hall.
  Refreshments at 7:45 am.

• Operations Research/Statistics/Biomathematics Joint Seminar
  October 27 - James C. Spall
  The Johns Hopkins University
  The Simultaneous Perturbation Method for System Optimization
  Seminar is on Tuesday at 4:00 in Riddick 320.
  Refreshments at 3:50 in Riddick 320.

• October 30 - Alan F. Karr - karr@niss.org
  National Institute of Statistical Sciences
  Recent Events and Future Plans at NISS

• November 6 - Richard D. De Veaux - deveaux@williams.edu
  Williams College
  Hybrid Neural Networks for Environmental Process Control

• November 13 - Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver - hughesol@stat.ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University
  Parametric Covariance Models for Shock-Induced Stochastic Processes

• November 17 - Niels Keiding - nk@kubism.ku.dk
  University of Copenhagen
  Selection Effects and Nonproportional Hazards in Survival Models and Models for Repeated Events
  Seminar is on Tuesday from 3:35 to 4:35 pm in 206 Cox Hall.

• January 8 - Gary L. Rosner - grosner@cstatz.mc.duke.edu
  Duke University Medical Center and Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University
  Bayesian Population Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Analyses Using Mixture Models

• January 22 - Maura Stokes - sasmzs@wnt.sas.com
  SAS Institute
  Recent Enhancements and New Directions in SAS/STAT Software

• January 29 - James L. Norris - norris@mthcsc.wfu.edu
  Wake Forest University
  Nonparametric MLE for Heterogeneous Poisson Species Abundance Models

• February 5 - Montserrat Fuentes - fuentes@eos.ncsu.edu
  National Center for Atmospheric Research and North Carolina State University
  Spatial Prediction of Climate Fields for Ecological Models

• February 12 - Alastair Hall - alastair_hall@ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University
  Generalized Method of Moments: A Survey and Some New Results on the Impact of Misspecification

• National Academy of Sciences - Public Symposium on Bioinformatics
  February 19 - Chancellor Marye Anne Fox
  Speakers and Titles
  Meeting is from 1:00 to 3:30 at the McKimmon Center.

• March 5 - Cynthia Z. F. Clark - cynthia.z.f.clark@ccmail.census.gov
  U.S. Bureau of the Census
  Striking a Balance Between Timeliness and Quality: Decisions Behind Plans for U.S. Census 2000

• March 26 - Tom Johnson - tom_johnson@ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University
  Technical Presentations with PowerPoint

• April 9 - Hal S. Stern - hstern@iastate.edu
  Iowa State University
  Better Sports Through Statistics
  Seminar is from 10:15 to 11:05 am in 357 Nelson Hall.
  Model Checking, Model Selection, and Random Effects
  Seminar is from 3:35 to 4:35 pm in 206 Cox Hall.
  

• April 23 - Bibhuti Bhattacharyya - bhattach@stat.ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University
  Wavelet Analysis -- An Introduction

• April 30 - William F. Hunt, Jr. - whunt@stat.ncsu.edu
  Environmental Protection Agency (visiting NCSU)
  National Air Quality and Emission Trends -- The Nation's Report Card on Air Pollution

• May 3 - Elizabeth A. Thompson
  University of Washington
  Monte Carlo Likelihood for Multipoint Linkage Analysis
  Seminar is at 9:00 am in the Stephens Room, 3353 Gardner Hall.
  Refreshments before the seminar.