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Scientific and Statistical Computing Seminar

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Seminars are followed by refreshments and informal discussion. Typically a speaker will present an introduction and survey of a particular problem, application, or research area of current statistical interest. Seminars usually last 50 minutes, with additional time for discussion.

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SPRING QUARTER 2013

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MONDAY, June 3, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
SANDRO ROMANI, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
"Scaling Laws of Memory Retrieval"

FRIDAY, May 31, 2013, at 12:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
FACULTY SEMINAR
LEK-HENG LIM, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
TBA

MONDAY, May 20, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
BRADLEY EFRON, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
"Frequentist Accuracy of Bayesian Estimates"

WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2013, at 12:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ERNST WIT, Statistics and Probability, University of Groningen
"Sparse GLMs (With a Bit of Differential Geometry)"

MONDAY, May 13, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
HAN LIU, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
"Graph Estimation"
THURSDAY, May 9, 2013, at 12:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
FACULTY SEMINAR
DEBASHIS MONDAL, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
"Wavelet Spectral Analysis for Irregularly Sampled Time Series"

MONDAY, May 6, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
PETER GUTTORP, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"The Heat Is On! A Statistical Look at the State of the Climate"

THURSDAY, May 2, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Breasted Hall, at the Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th Street
Reception following the lecture in Eckhart 209, 5734 S. University Avenue
BILLINGSLEY LECTURES ON PROBABILITY
PERSI DIACONIS, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
"On Coincidences"

TUESDAY, April 30, 2013, at 12:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SPECIAL STATISTICS CONSULT/NATURAL HISTORY SEMINAR
ALISTAIR BOETTIGER, Zhuang Research Lab, Harvard University
"Elucidating Principles of Gene Regulation from Stochastic Models"
Joint seminar with Department of Ecology and Evolution
Host: John Reinitz

MONDAY, April 29, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
PATRICK PERRY, Stern School of Business, New York University
"Point Process Modeling for Directed Interaction Networks"

MONDAY, April 22, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
PAUL BRESSLOFF, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
"Molecular Motor-based Models of Random Intermittent Search"

BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
PETER GREEN, University of Bristol, and University of Technology, Sydney
MONDAY, April 15, 2012
"Emission Tomography and Bayesian Inverse Problems"
THURSDAY, April 18, 2012
"Bayesian Graphical Model Determination"

MONDAY, April 8, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
PRADEEP RAVIKUMAR, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
"Winsorized Poisson Graphical Models"

MONDAY, April 1, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
ANTHONY SO, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
"Chance-Constrained Linear Matrix Inequalities: Tractable Approximations and Recent Applications"

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UPCOMING SEMINARS FOR 2013–2014

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AUTUMN QUARTER 2013  [Click to open, click to close]

MONDAY, November 11, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
CRIS MOORE, Santa Fe Institute
TBA

MONDAY, November 4, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
JEFF LEEK, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
TBA

MONDAY, October 28, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
ILA FIETE, Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas at Austin
TBA

MONDAY, October 21, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
INGRAM OLKIN, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
TBA

MONDAY, October 14, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
LAURENT DEMANET, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TBA
 
MONDAY, October 7, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
SURYA GANGULI, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
TBA

MONDAY, September 30, 2013, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
GÁBOR CSÁNYI, Engineering Laboratory, Cambridge University
TBA

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