NCSU Statistics Seminars: 2004-2005

NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 2004-2005

Seminars are on Fridays at 3:35 - 4:35 pm in 206 Cox Hall, unless otherwise noted.
In addition to the regular friday seminars, we organize several other seminars

For additional information, please e-mail to:

2004-2005 Seminar Committee:
Sujit Ghosh (chair), Phone: (919)515-1950
Jason Osborne, Helen Zhang and Karen Chiswell

Seminar Schedule for 2004-2005

NCSU North Campus Map Building# 55 is the Cox Hall.

Fall, 2004

August 20 - Faculty Meeting
August 27 - Wenbin Lu, Jung-Ying Tzeng and Roger Woodard
North Carolina State University
A Sampler of NCSU Faculty
September 3 - Jennifer Sloan, Sheng Feng and Ke Zhang
North Carolina State University
A Sampler of Graduate Students
September 17 - Somnath Datta - datta@stat.uga.edu CANCELED due to adverse weather
University of Georgia
Rank-Sum Tests for Clustered Data
September 24 - Faculty Meeting
September 28 - Larry Nelson - Joint Seminar with Biomathematics and NCSU Ethics Program
Assistant Dean, International Programs/CALS, NCSU
Research Ethics and the Use and Misuse of Statistics
October 1 - Mayetri Gupta - gupta@bios.unc.edu
University of North Carolina
Statistical Challenges in Discovering Gene Regulatory Modules
October 15 - Paul Rathouz - prathouz@health.bsd.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago
Missing Covariate Data in Matched Case-Control Studies
October 22 - Faculty Meeting
October 29 - Malay Ghosh - ghoshm@stat.ufl.edu
University of Florida
Bayesian Neural Networks for Prostate Cancer Study
November 5 - Jimmy Doi and Jared Lunceford
California Polytechnic State University (CalPoly) and
Merck Research Laboratories
Exact Unconditional Methods for the Difference of Proportions and
Pharmacogenetic Analysis with Haplotype Data
November 12 - Jianhua Huang - jianhua@wharton.upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania
Covariance selection and estimation via smoothing and penalized likelihood
November 18 - James Crow - Cockerham Lecture*
University of Wisconsin
Age and sex effects on mutation rates: an old problem with new complexities
*Witherspoon Auditorium, 4:00-5:00 (note change in time and place)
November 19 - Faculty Meeting
December 3 - Bruce Lindsay - bgl@psu.edu
Penn State University
Some unique statistical challenges arising in mixture models

Spring, 2005

January 21 - Faculty Meeting
January 28 - Noel Cressie - ncressie@stat.ohio-state.edu
The Ohio State University
Title: A Fast, Optimal Spatial-Prediction Method for Massive Datasets
February 4 - Emery Brown - brown@neurostat.mgh.harvard.edu
Harvard Medical School/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Using the State-Space Paradigm to Analyze Information Representation in Neural Systems
February 11 - No seminar
February 18 - Faculty Meeting
February 25 - No seminar
March 4 - Jie Zhang - jie.zhang@pharma.novartis.com
Novartis
Title: Futility Analysis in a Large Pivotal Fracture Trial
March 11 - Bimal Sinha - sinha@umbc.edu
University of Maryland
Title: Meta-Analysis: Combining independent F-tests with environmental applications
March 18 - No seminar
March 25 - No classes day
April 1 - Faculty Meeting
April 8 - Hua Yun Chen - hychen@uic.edu
University of Illinois at Chicago
Approximation to locally semiparametric efficient scores in missing data problems through likelihood robustification
April 15 - Kathryn Roeder - roeder@stat.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University
Title: False discovery or missed discovery? Using linkage to improve power of association tests.
April 22 - Faculty Meeting
April 28* - Mahlet Tadesse - mtadesse@cceb.upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania
Title: Bayesian variable selection methods for the analysis of genomic data
*Notice the change in time and place: 4:00-5:00, 208 Patterson Hall
April 29 - Tommy Wright - tommy.wright@census.gov
U.S. census Bureau
Title: Simple Proof of an Important Inequality for Probability Sampling

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