Seminars in the Department of Statistics and at the University of Toronto

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NOTE: Usual time and place (except if otherwise noted) is:
Thursdays, 4:10 - 5:00 pm, Room 1084, Sidney Smith Bldg.

WEEK       SPEAKER

Sept 12  No seminar is scheduled due to the TA orientation session.

Sept 19  

Sept  26  


Oct 3 


Oct 10  David L. Martell, Faculty of Forestry, U. of Toronto. [NR]
	"Forest Fire Management -- Some Statistical Challenges"

Of Interest:  Oct 29, 30 & Nov 1 (Monday, Tuesday & Thursday)
Gene Golub, Stanford University, "Matrices, Moments and Quadrature"
at The Fields Institute, 3:30 - 4:30pm.

Nov 1   Robert Almgren, Depts Mathematics & Computer Science, U of T. [JR]
	"Statistics of Financial Time Series and Derivatives Pricing"

Nov 8  Jacques Carriere, University of Alberta. [ActSci]
	"A Gaussian Process of Yield Rates Calibrated with Strips"

Nov 15  Randy Sitter, Simon Fraser University. [JS]
	"Empirical Likelihood Methods and Range Restricted Weights in
	Regression Estimators for Surveys"

Nov 22  Daniel Dufresne, University of Montreal. [ActSci]
	"The Integral of Geometric Brownian Motion, and Related Topics"

Nov 29 Radford Neal, University of Toronto.
"Density Estimation and Clustering Using Dirichlet Diffusion Trees"

Dec 6 Ben Reiser, Haifa University & University of Michigan. [AF]
	"Survival Analysis with Incomplete Failure Cause Information"

Of Interest:  Friday, Dec 7, 2:30-4:00. Silvia Goncalves, U. of Montreal
"Maximum Likelihood and the bootstrap for nonlinear dynamic models"
in the Coach House located in the back of 150 St. George St 

Dec 10 V. Girko, Michigan State University. [MS]
	"General Statistical Analysis"
		*** Cancelled due to travel problems ***

Dec 13 Agnes Tourain, Dept of Mathematics, Univ of Toronto. [ActSci]
	"Optimal Stochastic Control Applied to Glider Flying"

Jan 8, 4 pm, Tuesday, Diego Hernandez Rangel, U Waterloo. [NR]
	"Incomplete Markets and Insurance Contracts"
	*** NOTE: not at usual time or place ***

Jan 10 David Naylor, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, U of T. [DA]
	"The Role of Statisticians in Clinical and Health Services Research"

Jan 11, 4 pm, Friday, Sebastian Jaimungal, U Toronto and Mathpoint [NR]
	"The Method of Lines for a Class of Levy Processes"
	*** NOTE: not at usual time or place:  Room 2118 Sid Smith ***

Of Interest: Wednesday Jan 16, 4:10pm, Sid Smith 5017A:
	John Holbrook, Guelph U, "Random Balanced Samples - Singular and Smooth"

Jan 17 Pekka Sinervo, Physics Dept & Vice-Dean A&S, Univ of Toronto [NR]
	"Statistical Challenges in Particle Physics Experiments"

Jan 24 No scheduled seminar.

Jan 28 MONDAY, 4pm. Room 1085 Sid Smith: Robert L.  Brown, U. of Waterloo [NR]
	"Security for Social Security: Is Pre-funding the Answer"

Jan 31 Shaojun Wang, University of Waterloo. [JR]
	"Latent Maximum Entropy Principle: A Unified Probabilistic
	Framework for Statistical Language Modeling"

Jan 31 Of Interest: @ Fields Institute, 12 Noon, Georges Monette, York U.
	"Pine Trees, Comas and Migranes: Asymptotic Regression in Time"

Feb 1 Friday, 1 pm; Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve University [NR]
	"Bump and Component Hunting in Data with Measurement Errors"
	*** NOTE: not at usual time or place:  Sid Smith 2128 ***

Feb 7 Dietrich von Rosen, Uppsala University, Sweeden [MS]
	"Residuals in the Growth Curve Model & Its Extension"

Feb 14 Ayesha Ali, University of Washington [NR]
	"Graphical Approaches to Investigating Causal Hypotheses in the
	Presence of Confounding : An Example From STD Research"

Feb 18 -- 22  --- READING WEEK -- READING WEEK -- READING WEEK

Feb 25 MONDAY. 4pm, Room 2106.  Z. Zhu [NR]
	"Design and Inference for Gaussian Random Fields"

Feb 28 Derek Bingham, Univ of Michigan [JR]
	"Identifying Experimental Designs for Model Selection"

Mar 1, FRIDAY, 4pm, Room 1086.  Mark Reesor, Bank of Canada [SL/NR]
	"Relative Entropy, Distortion & Risk Measures"

Mar 7 Florentina Bunea, Florida State University [RC]
	"Penalty Choices and Consistent Covariate Selection in
	Semiparametric Models"

Mar 21 Departmental Meeting (in lieu of seminar).

Mar 25 MONDAY. 4pm, Room 2106.  Andrew Y. Ng, UC Berkeley [NR]
	"Shaping and Policy Search in Reinforcement Learning
	and On Spectral Clustering: Analysis and an Algorithm"

Mar 28 Carlos Rivero Rodriguez, Univ. Complutense of Madrid [DF]
	"Analysis of Variance with Grouped Data: Some Iterative Algorithms"

Mar 28   11am, MC102.  Michael Collins, AT&T Labs Research [NR]
	"Large-Margin Methods for Natural Language Learning"

Apr 1 Of Interest:  Monday at 11am in Room 266, Pratt Bldg:
	Daniel Marcu, Univ of Southern California
	"Probabilistic Noisy Channel Models for Summarization, Translation,
	and Reasoning"

Apr 4 Boris Steipe, Dept Biochemistry, U of Toronto [NR]
	"Biological Complexity and the Search for Protein Structure-Motifs"

Apr 4 Of Interest:  At 11am in Room 3154, Medical Sciences Bldg:
	L. Greller, "Dynamics, Data Mining and the Molecular Basis of Disease"

Apr 5 Of Interest:  Friday at 4:10pm in Room 120, Woodsworth Hall:
	Serena Ng, "A Panic Attack Unit Roots and Cointegration"

Apr 9 Of Interest:  Tuesday at 11am, Room 1105, Sandford Fleming.
	F. McSherry, U of Washington, "Data Mining via Spectral Analysis"

Apr 11 Of Interest:  Thursday at 11am, Room 202, Galbraith.
	N. Koudas, ATT Labs - Research, "Join Operations for Data Cleaning"

Apr 11 Gordon E. Willmot, University of Waterloo [SL]
	"Risk Properties of Compound Geometric Distributions"


April 16 & 18, at 4:00 pm. Don Fraser, University of Toronto;
	"Fields Institute: Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistics:
		Is the Future Bayesian or Frequentist?
	www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/01-02/fraser/"