Statistics Seminars,
University of Toronto, 2008-2009
Unless otherwise noted, seminars in the
Department of Statistics are
from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. on Thursdays,
preceded by delightful refreshments
at 3:10, all in Sidney Smith Hall Room 1072.
All are welcome -- please join us! The seminars are a great way to
interact with other statisticians, and learn about research ideas.
A partial list of the incoming seminars is available also on the
University wide web notice system.
Click here to see the seminars from
previous years.
The list
of dates below is for
planning purposes.
If you wish to invite a speaker (or speak yourself!), or if you have
any
questions/comments/suggestions, please contact the seminar
coordinators,
Radu Craiu or Fang Yao. Note that
the time slots with TBA are still available.
September
11, 2008: Departmental
Orientation of New Teaching Assistants.
September
18, 2008:
Modified
Likelihood Ratio Test for Homogeneity in a two-sample problem.
Yuejiao
Cindy Fu (York
University) [FY]
September
25, 2008:
Methods
to analyze longitudinal matched case-control data
Thierry
Duchesne (Universite Laval) [RC]
October
2, 2008: TBA
October
9, 2008:
Bayesian
Empirical Likelihood Inference for Complex Surveys
(Sponsored by MITACS Project on Statistical Methods for Complex Survey
Data)
Changbao Wu
(University of Waterloo) [RC]
October
16, 2008:
Emulating
Computer Simulators Using Compactly Supported Correlation Functions
Derek Bingham (Simon Fraser University) [JS]
Monday 3.10pm, October 20, 2008 in Bahen
Centre 1180: Creating
structured and flexible models: some open problems
Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)
[NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME AND LOCATION]
Tueday 2-4pm, October 21, 2008 in Room 108N,
Munk Centre for International Studies: Why Americans Vote the Way they Do
Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)
[NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME AND LOCATION]
October
23, 2008: Nonparametric
Quantile Estimation for Successive Events Subject to Censoring
Adin-Cristian Andrei
(University of Wisconsin, Madison) [RC]
October
30, 2008: Regression
Models for Length-biased Failure Time Data
Yu Shen (University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center) [NR]
November 6, 2008:
Jason Nielsen (Carleton University) [JS]
November 13, 2008:
One Stop Shopping as a Feature of Merit in Stochastic Financial Models
Michael Steele (University of
Pennsylvania) [AF]
November 20, 2008:
Accounting for Spatial Correlation
in the Scan Statistic
Ji Meng Loh (Columbia University) [RC]
November 27, 2008:
Regularized Autoregressive
Approximation
Yulia Gel (University of Waterloo) [RC]
December
4, 2008:
Departmental holiday party, 3:30pm-5:30pm
January
8, 2009: TBA
January
15, 2009: Methods for analysing
recurrent events
subject to event-dependent censoring
Richard
Cook (University of Waterloo) [RC]
January
22, 2009: Local CQR Smoothing
Hui
Zou (University of
Minnesota) [RC and FY]
January
29, 2009: Bayesian Views of Some
Causal Inference
Procedures
David Stephens
(McGill University) [RC]
February
5, 2009: TBA
February
12, 2009:
The Extremogram: A Correlogram for
Extreme Events
Richard Davis (Columbia University) [FY]
February
19, 2009: No
Seminar in Reading Week
February
24, 2009 at 3.30pm in Ramsay Wright Labs 110:
Stochastic prediction using output
from numerical models
Veronica Berrocal (Duke University)
February
25, 2009 at 4.10 pm in SS2127 (please note the unusual time and
location): Cross-validation
for the
truncated SVD
and the non-negative matrix factorization
Art
Owen (Stanford University)
February
26, 2009 at 3.30pm in Sidney Smith Room 1072
Nonparametric Inference of Quantile
Curves for Non-stationary
Time Series
Zhou
Zhou (University of Chicago)
March
3, 2009 at 3.30pm in Ramsay Wright Labs 110:
Multivariate Mixture Regression
Modeling Applied to
Multi-dimensional NMR Biomolecular Studies
Nicoleta Serban (Georgia Tech)
March
5, 2009 at 3.30pm in Sidney Smith Room 1072:
TBA
March
10, 2009 at 3.30pm in Ramsay Wright Labs 110:
Sparse Model Estimation: Parametric
and Nonparametric Settings
Pradeep Ravikumar (University of California, Berkeley )
March 19, 2009:
Bias correction of cross-validation
criterion
Hirokuzu Yanagihara (Hiroshima University)
March 26, 2009:
Spatial Process Models for Social
Network Analysis
Crystal Linkletter
(Brown University) [JS]
April 2, 2009: Nested Sampling
John Skilling
(University of Cambridge) [ME]
April 9, 2009: TBA
April 16, 2009: Seeking Interpretable Models for
High Dimensional Data
Bin Yu (University
of California at Berkeley) [AF and FY]