NOTE: Usual time and place (except if otherwise noted) is:
Thursdays, 4:10
- 5:00 pm, Room 1074, Sidney Smith Bldg.
Week |
Speaker |
Title (Local Host) |
| Sept 16 | TA orientation session | |
| Sept 23 | David Andrews, University of Toronto | Statistical Inference in Complex Problems: Specifying Real Uncertainty |
| Sept 30 | James Stafford, University of Toronto |
ICE: Iterated Conditional Expectations |
| Oct 7 | Bill Strawderman, Rutgers University |
Improved Estimation of a Mean Vector (Muni Srivastava) |
| Oct 14 | Sam Roweis, University of Toronto |
Multiple Alignment of Continuous Time Series |
| Oct 21 | Galin Jones, University of Minnesota |
Fixed-Volume Output Analysis for Markov Chain Monte Carlo (Jeff Rosenthal) |
| Oct 28 | Thierry Duchesne, Universite Laval |
Regression Models for Lifetime Given the Usage History(Jeff Rosenthal) |
| Nov 4 | Radu Craiu, University of Toronto |
Estimation and Model Selection for the Competing Risks Model with Masked Causes of Failure |
| Nov 11 | Liqun Wang University of Manitoba |
Estimation of nonlinear models with Berkson-type measurement errors (Jamie Stafford) |
| Nov 18 | Student seminar day Schedule |
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| Nov 25 | Charmaine Dean, Simon Fraser University | Problems in the Analysis of Spatial Longitudinal Data (Jamie Stafford) |
| Dec 2 | Angelo Canty, McMaster University |
Finding Differentially Expressed Genes from Microarray Data (NR) |
| Jan 6 | ||
| Jan 13 | Jianqing Fan, Princeton University |
Likelihood Ratio Tests: Old and New (NR)
Professor Fan is also speaking at York University on Friday (see below) |
| Jan 20 | Mu Zhu, University of Waterloo |
A Computationally Efficient Method for Statistical Detection (NR) |
| Jan 27 | ||
| Feb 3 | Tom Hurd, McMaster University |
New models for default risk and pricing credit derivatives (Sebastian Jiamungal) |
| Feb 10 | Raphael Gottardo, University of Washington |
Bayesian Robust Inference for Differential Gene Expression (Keith Knight) |
| Monday Feb 14 11:00 AM SS1074 |
Anil Ghosh, Institute of Statistical Science, Academica Sinica |
Multi-scale Smoothing in Nonparametric Classification (Keith Knight) |
| Monday Feb 21 4:00 PM SS2108 |
Yi Lu, Concordia University |
On periodic and Markovian non-homogeneous Poisson processes with application to risk theory (Keith Knight) |
| Tuesday Feb 22 4:00 PM SS1072 |
Mikyoung Jun, University of Chicago |
Models for Space-time Processes and Their Application to Air Pollution (Keith Knight) |
| Thursday Feb 24 |
Nicholas Hengartner, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
The challenges of passive muon tomography (Jamie Stafford) Nick is also speaking on Friday afternoon at the Public Health Sciences Research Day (see link below) |
| Friday Feb 25 2:00 PM SS2110 |
Julia Brettschneider, University of California, Berkeley |
Quality measures for microarray gene expression data (Keith Knight) |
| Thursday Mar 3 |
Jon N K Rao, Carleton University |
Some Problems and Issues in Small Area Estimation (Muni Srivastava) |
| Friday Mar 4 2:00 PM |
Sebastian Jaimungal, University of Toronto |
Equity linked (re)insurance products with Levy processes. (Keith Knight) |
| Wednesday Mar 9 4:00 PM |
Theo Koulis, University of Waterloo |
Stochastic population dynamics approaches to sea ice modelling (Keith Knight) |
| Thursday Mar 10 |
Andrei Badescu, University of Waterloo |
Risk Processes Analyzed as Fluid Queues (Keith Knight) |
| Tuesday Mar 15 4:00 pm |
Wai-Sum Chan, |
A Study of the Lead-lag Relationship Between the Cash Market and Stock Index Futures Market Using Threshold Regression Model (Keith Knight) |
| Thursday Mar 17 |
Dan Nicolae, University of Chicago |
Quantifying Relative Information (Radu Craiu) |
| Mar 24 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm |
Student seminar day | Schedule |
| Mar 31 | Wendy Lou, University of Toronto |
Biomedical Applications of Runs and Patterns and their Distributions |
| Apr 7 | Virginia Young, University of Michigan |
Minimizing the probability of lifetime ruin under borrowing constraints(Sheldon Lin) |
| Apr 21 | Michael Akritas, Penn State University | Nonparametric Covariate Adjustment (NR) |
| Apr 28 Munk Centre, Campbell Conference Facility 1 Devonshire Place |
Don Fraser, University of Toronto |
Why a Prior? To be followed by a reception at Massey College, 5.00 to 8.00 pm; hope to see you there! |
This is where I collect various campus seminars of potential interest.
Suggestions always welcome!
Week |
Speaker |
Location/Notes |
| Sept 14 | Sir David Cox | Fields Institute DLSS, 3.30 |
| Sept 15 | Sir David Coxdfsd | Fields Institute DLSS, 3.30 |
| Sept 27 | David Binder Statistics Canada |
Ramsay Wright, Room 117 11.30 - 12.50 (refreshments to follow) Abstract RSVP to Susan Murphy, RDC |
| Oct 25 | Steve Fienberg Carnegie-Mellon University |
12.45 pm , Fields Institute, Room 230 Fields day for new Fellows of the RSC |
| Nov 30 | Ursula Franklin University of Toronto |
7.30 pm , George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place University Professor Lecture Series |
| Dec. 8 | Dr. Arthur Carty Science Advisor to the Prime Minister |
12.30 pm , Wallberg 116, 200 College Street Lectures at the Leading Edge |
| Dec. 10 | Dr. Jianhong Wu York University, Math and Stats |
3.10 pm , SS 5107A (Sidney Smith) Challenges in modeling emerging infectious diseases. |
| Jan. 14 | Dr. Jianqing Fan Princeton University |
10.30 pm , N 638 Ross High dimensional semilinear model for analysis of microarry data. |
| Feb. 7 | PRMIA Risk Management Seminar Register Rotman School, Fleck Atrium |
5.00 to 8.00 pm , 105 St. George St. The current and future state of credit risk. |
| Feb. 25 | Public Health Sciences Research Day | 8.30 to 4.00 pm , Fitzgerald Building, Room 103 Agenda |
| Mar. 3 12 noon - 1 pm |
Michael Muller, St. Michael's Hospital | Clinical Epidemiology Rounds 2 Bond Assembly Hall, 2nd floor Bond Wing, St. Michael's Hospital Propensity Scores: magic bullet or total b-l s-t? |
| Apr. 21 12 noon - 1 pm |
Damon Scales, St. Michael's Hospital | Clinical Epidemiology Rounds Paul Marshall Lecture Theatre, St. Michael's Hospital Searching for unreasonably large effect sizes in critical care research |
| Apr. 22 2.30 - 4 pm |
Ken Krzywicki , Trans Union RSVP |
22nd SORA Seminar Stratum Canada Clustering System BCE Place, 22nd Floor (SAS Canada) 181 Bay Street |
| Apr. 28 12 noon - 1 pm |
Pamela Udak, University of Toronto | Clinical Epidemiology Rounds 2 Bond Assembly Hall, St. Michael's Hospital A Tale of Two Methods: The Potential of Mixed-Methods Research |
| May 6 7.30 - 9 pm |
Stephen Lewis | Medical Sciences Auditorium Deciphering Our World |
Suggestions are welcome! Please E-mail reid@utstat.toronto.edu