NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 2003-2004

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

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Seminar Schedule for 2003-2004

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Fall, 2003

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• August 29 - Helen Zhang, Dahlia Nielsen and Daowen Zhang
  North Carolina State University
  A Sampler of NCSU Faculty

• September 12 -Andy Liaw - andy_liaw@merck.com
  Merck Research Laboratories
  Random Forest and Its Application to QSAR Modeling of HTS Data

• September 19 -Katja Remlinger, Kristi O'Grady, Ross Gosky and Yuliya Lokhnygina
  North Carolina State University
  A sampler of Graduate students

• September 26 - C. R. Rao - crr1@email.psu.edu
  Penn State University
  Statistics: The science, technology and art of creating new knowledge

• October 3 -Brad Carlin - brad@biostat.umn.edu
  University of Minnesota
  Bayesian versus Likelihood Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Event Time AIDS Clinical Trial Data

• October 17 - Cockerham lecture: Tomoko Ohta - tohta@lab.nig.ac.jp
  National Insitute of Genetics, Japan
  The Nearly Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
  Jointly with Bioinformatics Seminar Series
  Note: Special time and place: 4:00-5:00 at Witherspoon Auditorium.

• October 24 -Yuguo Chen - yuguo@stat.duke.edu
  Duke University
  Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Statistical Analysis of Tables

• November 7 -Xiaotong Shen - xshen@stat.umn.edu
  University of Minnesota
  On psi-learning and margin-based classification

• November 14 -Stephanie Monks - monks@u.washington.edu
  University of Washington
  Integrating Clinical, Genetic, Genomic, and Molecular Phenotype Data to Dissect a Complex Trait
  Jointly with Bioinformatics Seminar Series

• Deecmber 5 -Murad Taqqu - murad@math.bu.edu
  Boston University
  Self-similarity and Computer Network Traffic

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  Spring, 2004

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• January 23 - Kim Weems, Jason Osborne & Kevin Gross
  North Carolina State University
  A Sampler of NCSU Faculty

• February 6 -Susan Murphy - samurphy@umich.edu
  University of Michigan
  Experimental Methods for Developing Dynamic Treatment Regimes

• February 13 -Luke Tierney - luke@stat.uiowa.edu
  University of Iowa
  Simple Parallel Statistical Computing in R

• February 20 -Jason Fine - fine@biostat.wisc.edu
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Comparing Non-nested Cox Models

• March 5 -Xuming He - x-he@uiuc.edu
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and National Science Foundation
  Inference for Quantile Regression with Markov Chain Marginal Bootstrap

• March 19 -Wing Wong - wwong@hsph.harvard.edu     CANCELED!
  Harvard University
  Analysis of Cis-regulatory Signal in the Genome
  Jointly with Bioinformatics Seminar Series

• April 2 -Raymond Carroll - carroll@stat.tamu.edu
  Texas A & M University
  Longitudinal and Clustered Data and Non/Semiparametric Regression

• April 9 -Jean Opsomer - jopsomer@iastate.edu
  Iowa State University
  Two Applications of Nonparametric Regression in Survey Estimation

• April 16 -Danyu Lin -
  University of North Carolina
  Likelihood-Based Inference on Haplotype Effects in Genetic Association Studies

• April 23 -Nancy Glenn - nglenn@stat.sc.edu
  University of South Carolina
  Weighted Empirical Likelihood