WINTER 2013

AUTUMN 2012

SUMMER 2012

SPRING 2012

WINTER 2012

AUTUMN 2011

SUMMER 2011

THURSDAY, September 1, 2011, at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HYUN PARK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Control of Variance in Drosophila Transcription

THURSDAY, August 4, 2011, at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YUXIN ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Market Neutral Portfolio Trading: A General Method Based On Fractional Cointegration

THURSDAY, July 28, 2011, at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIHUN OAK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Effective Algorithm to Predict Hospitalization

THURSDAY, July 21, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Eckhart 117, 5734 S. University Avenue
YINXIAO HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Thesis Presentation
Nonparametric Online Inference for Time Series and Series Estimation under Dependence

TUESDAY, July 12, 2011, at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAOQUAN WEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Thesis Presentation
Bayesian Analysis of Genetic Association Data, Accounting for Heterogeneity

TUESDAY, July 12, 2011, at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HAN XIAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Thesis Presentation
Simultaneous Inference on Sample Covariances

WEDNESDAY, July 6, 2011, at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
LAN WEI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Maximum-Likelihood Estimate for Distance Matrix

TUESDAY, July 5, 2011, at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MILES LUBIN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Scalable Stochastic Optimization

SPRING 2011

THURSDAY, June 9, 2011, at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
KEUNWOO KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Calling Behavior and the Effect of Rate Policy in the Telecommunication Market in Sri Lanka

WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2011, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
First Year PhD Presentations
Seminar Chair: Lian Huan Ng

• 4:00–4:15 PM, SOMAK DUTTA, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Comparison of Treatments and Data-Dependent Allocation for Circular Data
• 4:15–4:30 PM, DINAH SHENDER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Reconstruction Problem on b-ary Trees
• 4:30–4:45 PM, RUMING WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Parameter Estimation and Prediction for Log-Gaussian Cox Process
• 4:45–5:00 PM, WALTER DEMPSEY, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Geometric Bounds for Eigenvalues of Markov Chains
• 5:00–5:15 PM, MICHAEL HORRELL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Spatial Statistics and Estimation of Non-Stationary Variance Structure
• 5:15–5:30 PM, MIAOYAN WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Correlation and Large-scale Simultaneous Significance Testing
• 5:30–5:45 PM, HYUN PARK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Genomic-Control Approach to Analyzing a Case-Control Sample

FRIDAY, May 13, 2011, at 11:20 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HAOHUA TANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Biofuel FeedStock Commodity Pricing

THURSDAY, May 12, 2011, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
BYUNG CHAE KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Momentum Premium in Korean Stock Market and its Comparison with that of the US

THURSDAY, May 12, 2011, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
LI HOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Market Efficiency of Crude Oil Futures; A Multivariate Approach

THURSDAY, May 12, 2011, at 3:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIAN WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Bandwidth Selection Based on Intersection Confidence Interval Rule

THURSDAY, May 12, 2011, at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JINHANG XUE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
An ACD-ECOGARCH(1,1) Model for Irregular Time Spaced Ultra-high-frequency Data

THURSDAY, May 12, 2011, at 2:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YUMIN LI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Review of Value at Risk and Empirical Data Analysis

THURSDAY, May 12, 2011, at 1:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
VICTORIA YAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Network Inference with Gene Expression Data Using Correlation and Regression-Based Methods

THURSDAY, May 12, 2011, at 11:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
OH JAE KWON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Model Selection Criteria with the Data Analysis on Korean Life Insurance Market

WEDNESDAY, May 11, 2011, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ALAN HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Thesis Presentation
An Exponential Tilt Approach to Generalized Linear Models

WEDNESDAY, May 11, 2011, at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WEI CAI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Random Matrices with Uncorrelated Entries

WEDNESDAY, May 11, 2011, at 10:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
RINA FOYGEL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Thesis Proposal Presentation
Comparing Applied Settings and Theoretical Results in Sparse and Low-Rank Modeling

TUESDAY, May 10, 2011, at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
LIJUAN CAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Data Mining Methods to Predict GE Stock Returns at NYSE

MONDAY, May 9, 2011, at 11:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHENG HONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Temperature, Humidity, and Wind in East Asia

FRIDAY, May 6, 2011, at 1:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
PYUNG KUN CHU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Regularization Parameter Selection Methods for Gaussian Graphical Models

WEDNESDAY, April 20, 2011, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
Second Year PhD Presentations
Seminar Chair: Stefano Castruccio

• 4:00–4:15 PM, LIAN HUAN NG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Part-Based Statistical Mixture Models for 2D Objects Revisited
• 4:15–4:30 PM, WEI SU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Contact Process on Trees
• 4:30–4:45 PM, SHENG ZHONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Kinship Estimator and Its Applications
• 4:45–5:00 PM, DUO JIANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Random Rankings and a Model Based on Multinomial Comparisons
• 5:00–5:15 PM, CHRIS FOX, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Consistency of the Lasso for Gaussian Graphical Model Selection

WINTER 2011

TUESDAY, March 15, 2011, at 4:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HYUNG IL KANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Checking Patterns in Residual Series with the Spectral Analysis

WEDNESDAY, March 9, 2011, at 11:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHUOCHEN WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Title Methods for Constructing Statistical Model Associated with Movement and Neuron Data

TUESDAY, March 1, 2011, at 3:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MARTIN WENDLER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Visiting Student Seminar
Generalized Linear Statistics of Dependent Data

WEDNESDAY, February 23, 2011, at 2:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAOCHUN NI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Curve Clustering of Time Course Gene Expression Data Using Gaussian Process

THURSDAY, February 17, 2011, at 4:30 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIN CHOI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Estimation of the Tail Behavior of Mutual Fund Returns : An EVT-based Approach

THURSDAY, February 17, 2011, at 4:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
LIOR RENNERT, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Analysis of Lung Cancer Incidence in Illinois

THURSDAY, February 17, 2011, at 3:30 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YINGHUA ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Estimation of the Lead-Lag Parameter from Synchronous Data

THURSDAY, February 17, 2011, at 3:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
FENGWAN WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Adaptive Pointwise Estimation of the Largest Interval of Homogeneity in Conditional Heteroscedasticity Models

RESCHEDULED--WEDNESDAY, February 16, 2011, at 1:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
BECKETT STERNER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Psychology and Scientific Method in the Statistical Enlightenment

WEDNESDAY February 16, 2011, at 12:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YEZHOU CAI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
On Improving EM Algorithm in Digit Recognition

WEDNESDAY February 16, 2011, at 11:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
LI AN CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
An Empirical Study on Variants of k-Means Clustering

TUESDAY, February 15, 2011, at 3:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAOCHEN CAI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Methods for Detecting Trait Association with X-chromosome Markers in Pedigree Data

FRIDAY, February 11, 2011, at 2:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SARAH DARIN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Simulation-Based Approach for Eliminating Aggregation Bias in Aggregated Marketing Data

THURSDAY, February 10, 2011, at 4:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SHENG ZHONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Two Kinship Estimators and Their Applications

CANCELLED--THURSDAY, February 10, 2011, at 3:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
BECKETT STERNER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago

THURSDAY, February 10, 2011, at 1:00 pm, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
XI XI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Analysis of Long-term Speaking and Swallowing Performance for Patients With Advanced Head and Neck Cancer

RESCHEDULED--MONDAY, February 7, 2011, at 11:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YING LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Rejection Sampling for an Extended Gamma Distribution

CANCELLED--THURSDAY, February 3, 2011, at 10:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YING LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago

AUTUMN 2010

MONDAY, December 6, 2010, at 1:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
CHAD KEARNEY, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Survey Response Coding as an Incomplete-Data Problem

FRIDAY, November 19, 2010, at 9:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JOSEPH GUINNESS, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Non-Stationary Models for Space-Time Processes

TUESDAY, November 16, 2010, at 11:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
TING ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Statistical Inference Under Parameter Instability

FRIDAY, November 12, 2010, at 10:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ROBERT KREEK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Mortality Due To Pneumonia and Influenza in Texas: An Illustration of Disease Mapping

THURSDAY, November 11, 2010, at 2:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SOOYEON CHO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Simulation Study of Resampling Methods for Confidence Intervals of Variogram Estimates

THURSDAY, November 11, 2010, at 1:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XINGJIAN DONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Statistical Credibility Theory and Its Applications to Actuarial Modeling

THURSDAY, November 11, 2010, at 11:30 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
GEORGE SKOUNTRIANOS, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Corporate Based Decision Making Framework Targeted at Reducing Company Greenhouse Gas Emissions

WEDNESDAY, November 10, 2010, at 12:30 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
FEIFEI LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
The Relationship Between CO₂ and Temperature in Climate Simulations

TUESDAY, November 9, 2010, at 3:30 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
LINGJIAO ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Analysis of River Flow Data: PARMA and Related Models in Time Series

WEDNESDAY, October 20, 2010, at 9:30 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HARRY CRANE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Markov Random Partition Sequences

SUMMER 2010

FRIDAY, August 20, 2010, at 1:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JOHN LABIAK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Distance Metric Learning for K Nearest Neighbor Phonetic Frame Classification

TUESDAY, August 3, 2010, at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YIBI HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Thesis Presentation
Capacity Analysis of Attractor Neural Networks with Binary Neurons and Discrete Synapses

THURSDAY, July 29, 2010, at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YAYAN ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Potential Payoffs from Streakiness in Major League Baseball

THURSDAY, July 29, 2010, at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
GUILLAUME POULIOT, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Some Statistical Issues in Visual Field Analysis

THURSDAY, July 29, 2010, at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JONGWOOK LEE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Permutation Tests for Small Sample Research: The Abecedarian Project Case

TUESDAY, July 20, 2010, at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
NAIQING GU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Hierarchy of Bounds for Multistage Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs

THURSDAY, July 1, 2010, at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MICHAEL FINEGOLD, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Thesis Presentation
Robust Network Inference with Multivariate t-Distributions

SPRING 2010

WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2010, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
Seminar Chair: Ting Zhang
First Year PhD Presentations

• 4:00–4:15 PM, CHRISTOPHER FOX, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Bayesian Palaeoclimate Reconstruction
• 4:15–4:30 PM, DUO JIANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Partition Structures Invariant Under Deletion of a Random Part
• 4:30–4:45 PM, LIAN HUAN NG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Part-Based Statistical Mixture Models for 2D Objects
• 4:45–5:00 PM, LIOR RENNERT, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Family Size Process, Ewens Sampling Formula, and Fishers Distribution on Species
• 5:00–5:15 PM, WEI SU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A New Method on Normal Approximation

THURSDAY, May 13, 2010, at 11:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WEI YANG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Two-Stage Gauss-Ewens Process and Simulation

WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2010, at 9:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XINGHAO QIAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices

MONDAY, May 10, 2010, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ADAM MOLNAR, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Bayesian Neural Networks and Variable Selection

MONDAY, May 10, 2010, at 1:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WENLONG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Thesis Presentation
Wavelet Analysis for Non-Stationary Time Series Models

WEDNESDAY, April 28, 2010, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
DAN WANG (05), Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Thesis Presentation
Displaced Lognormal and Displaced Heston Volatility Skews: Analysis and Applications to Stochastic Volatility Simulations

WEDNESDAY, April 14, 2010, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
Seminar Chair: Jie (Natalie) Huang
Second Year PhD Presentations

• 4:00–4:15 PM, TAKINTAYO AKINBIYI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Some Recent Approaches to Modeling Durations in Time Series
• 4:15–4:30 PM, STEFANO CASTRUCCIO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Fixed Domain Asymptotics for Stationary Gaussian Random Fields
• 4:30–4:45 PM, RINA FOYGEL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Extended BIC for Normal Regression and Other Models
  
  
• 4:45–5:00 BREAK
  
  
• 5:00–5:15 PM, DESISLAVA PETKOVA, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Title to be announced
• 5:15–5:30 PM, MATTHEW REIMHERR, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Impact of Coverage of Causal Variation in GWAS
• 5:30–5:45 PM, YUNDA ZHONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Are a Set of Microarrays Independent of Each Other?

WEDNESDAY, April 14, 2010, at 1:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
RACHEL HACKER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Variance of Ranked Data in the National Immunization Survey

WINTER 2010

FRIDAY, February 19, 2010, at 10:30am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SHUZHAN CLIVE WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A New Test Model for Mean Non-Stationary Time Series Analysis

AUTUMN 2009

WEDNESDAY, November 18, 2009, at 4:30 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YINXIAO HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Recursive Kernel Estimation for Stationary Time Series

WEDNESDAY, November 18, 2009, at 10:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAOHUI CHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Wavelet Analysis in Spatial Interpolation of High Frequency Monitoring Data

WEDNESDAY, November 18, 2009, at 8:45 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
CHANGGEE CHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Estimation of Covariance Matrix via the Sparse Cholesky Factor with Lasso

TUESDAY, November 17, 2009, at 2:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WINFRIED BARTA, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Some Aspects of Markov Chain Monte Carlo

TUESDAY, November 17, 2009, at 9:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HAN HAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
A Poisson Point Process Model with Its Applications and Network Analysis of Genome-wide Association Study

MONDAY, November 16, 2009, at 1:30 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WENLI WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Study of the Individual and Combined Effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), Age, and Ethnicity on Breast Cancer Incidence in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) Cohort Using Multiple Imputation

MONDAY, November 16, 2009, at 11:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MYOUNGJI LEE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Understanding the Local Behavior of Unevenly Spaced Isotropic Stationary Gaussian Processes

FRIDAY, November 13, 2009, at 9:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
TIANXIAO ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Semiparametric Inference of Discretely Sampled Stable Lévy Processes

WEDNESDAY, November 11, 2009, at 1:30 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
QI ZHONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Estimating Company Profitability Using Fundamental Data

WEDNESDAY, November 11, 2009, at 12:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ALAN HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Semiparametric Exponential Tilt Regression Models

WEDNESDAY, November 11, 2009, at 10:30 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HAN XIAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Second Order Inference for Nonstationary Time Series and Asymptotic Distributions of Wald Statistics

WEDNESDAY, November 11, 2009, at 9:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
FANG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Application of Two Types of Multinomial Probit Models: Prediction of Number of Children in a Household and Agricultural Land Use Change in the United States

TUESDAY, November 10, 2009, at 2:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JAY RO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
The Grand Re-Opening: Modeling Week 1 DVD Sales

MONDAY, November 9, 2009, at 12:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YI CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Monte-Carlo Simulation Valuation of Cliquet Options

FRIDAY, October 23, 2009, at 9:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
CLIFFORD CLIVE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Making Better Use of Consumer Ratings Data: Reinterpreting the Ratings to Make More Accurate Predictions

FRIDAY, September 18, 2009, at 9:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SADIA MALIK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Exploring Substructures in Bipolar Symptoms and Characteristics

SUMMER 2009

WEDNESDAY, August 12, 2009 at 9:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YUNDA ZHONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
An Analysis of Ready-to-eat Food Market on the Demand Side with Random Coefficient Models

WEDNESDAY, August 5, 2009 at 9:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHOU KONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Conceptions of Simultaneous Confidence Bands in Nonparametric Time Series Regression

TUESDAY, August 4, 2009 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YOON HEE CHO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Characteristics of Bipolar Disorder Patients and Their Suicide Attempts

FRIDAY, July 31, 2009 at 2:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ANDREI SIMION, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Recursive Model Simulation with Discussion

THURSDAY, July 30, 2009 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
DAN CHRISTINA WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Estimation of Leverage Effect with High Frequency Data

MONDAY, July 27, 2009 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
PHILLIP LYNCH, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Locally Mean Reverting Processes

THURSDAY, July 16, 2009 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YONGHENG LIN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Local Features Based Deformable Models for Image Classification

MONDAY, July 13, 2009 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHOU ZHOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Simultaneous Inference of Linear Models with Time-Varying Coefficients

WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZUOHENG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Statistical Methods for Genetic Association Mapping of Complex Traits with Related Individuals

SPRING 2009

WEDNESDAY, May 27, 2009, at 4:00–6:15 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
First Year PhD Presentations
Seminar Chair: Harry Crane

• 3:45–4:00 pm, TAKINTAYO AKINBIYI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Machine Learning Using Generative Modelling with Dense Deformable Parts
• 4:00–4:15 pm, STEFANO CASTRUCCIO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Fast and Exact Simulation of Large Gaussian Lattice Systems in R²
• 4:15–4:30 pm, DESISLAVA PETKOVA, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Multiple Hypothesis Testing in High-dimensional Data with Strong Dependence
• 4:30–4:45 pm, MATTHEW REIMHERR, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Testing for Individual Contributions to Complex DNA Mixtures
• 4:45–5:00 pm, RINA FOYGEL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Deformable Templates in Image Analysis and Classification
• 5:00–5:15 pm, BREAK
• 5:15–5:30 pm, YUNDA ZHONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Covariance Tapering for Likelihood Based Estimation in Large Spatial Datasets
• 5:30–5:45 pm, WEI YANG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  TBA
• 5:45–6:00 pm, LUBOV ZEIFMAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Modeling Neuronal Spiking Activity in a Point Process Framework
• 6:00–6:15 pm, SHENG ZHONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Regression Shrinkage and Selection and Introduction to Lasso

FRIDAY, May 15, 2009, at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ALEXANDER VOLFOVSKY, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Failure of the Bootstrap for a Parameter on the Boundary of the Parameter Space

WEDNESDAY, May 13, 2009, at 9:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
NAM JONG KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Nonparametric Estimation of Index Parameter of Symmetric α-Stable (SαS) Levy Process and Application to Financial Data

MONDAY, April 27, 2009, at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MARK KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Cohort Group Analysis of Pacific Herring from Sitka, Alaska

THURSDAY, April 9, 2009, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
Second Year PhD Presentations
Seminar Chair: Xiaohui Chang

• 4:30–4:42 pm, TING ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Inference for Continuous Semimartingales Observed at High Frequency
• 4:45–4:57 pm, JIE HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  On the Choice of m in the m Out of n Bootstrap
• 5:00–5:12 pm, JOSEPH GUINNESS, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Computer Experiments
• 5:15–5:37 pm, HARRY CRANE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Partition-Valued Markov Processes

WINTER 2009

WEDNESDAY, March 18, 2009 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAO PENG FENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Bayesian Time Series Approaches for Analyzing Epidemic Data

TUESDAY, March 10, 2009 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YIBI HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Precise Capacity Analysis in Binary Networks with Multiple Coding Level Inputs

THURSDAY, February 26, 2009 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JAE HYUNG CHOI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
The Weekend Effect of Return on Crude Oil Prices

WEDNESDAY, February 25, 2009 at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SHU ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Determine the Time Varying Distribution of High Frequency Finance Data Under Market Microstructure

WEDNESDAY, February 25, 2009 at 8:30 AM,Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YUANXIANG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Test of Correlations in Time Series

TUESDAY, February 24, 2009 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YONGNING WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Joint Dynamics of Volatility and Liquidity

THURSDAY, February 12, 2009 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAOQUAN (WILLIAM) WEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Estimation of Allele Frequencies at Untyped Genetic Markers from Summary (or Pooled) Genotype Data

WEDNESDAY, February 11, 2009 at 9:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
QINGQING XU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
One-Class Boosting and its Application to Classification Problems

FRIDAY, February 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZUOHENG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Job Talk Presentation
Testing Untyped SNPs in Case-Control Association Studies with Related Individuals

THURSDAY, January 29, 2009 at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHOU ZHOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Job Talk Presentation
Nonparametric Inference of Quantile Curves for Non-stationary Time Series

AUTUMN 2008

THURSDAY, December 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
DAN WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Displaced Lognormal Volatility Skew Slope and Variance Reduction in Monte Carlo Simulation of Barrier Option Price

TUESDAY, December 9, 2008 at 12:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
EGE RUBAK, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aarlborg University, Denmark
Visiting PhD Student Presentation
Alpha-permanental Random Fields

MONDAY, December 8, 2008 at 1:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
PHILLIP LYNCH, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Locally Mean Reverting Processes

MONDAY, November 24, 2008 at 11:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MARCIN HITCZENKO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Modeling Processes on Spheres

THURSDAY, November 20, 2008 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YANWEI ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Bivariate Approach to Setting Reserves

THURSDAY, November 20, 2008 at 10:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
PEIPEI ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the TOEFL Tests as a Measure of English Proficiency for International Teaching Assistants

WEDNESDAY, November 19, 2008 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
FAN SHI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Analysis of Patent Liability Claims Data Using Generalized Linear Models

WEDNESDAY, November 19, 2008 at 1:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MICHAEL FINEGOLD, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Inferring Sparse Graphical Models

TUESDAY, November 18, 2008 at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YUWEI CUI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Analysis of Sediment Toxicity Using Sediment Chemistry and Grain Data: the Mid-Atlantic Region Estuaries 1997 Sediment Data

MONDAY, November 17, 2008 at 9:45 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YIBI HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Memory Capacity of a Hebbian Learning Model with Inhibition

MONDAY, November 17, 2008 at 9:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MUHAMMAD WALIJI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Local Feature Based Statistical Model for Acoustic Object Classification and Detection

MONDAY, November 10, 2008 at 11:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHIFAN ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Market Openings: Qualified Foreign Institution Investors in China

FRIDAY, September 12, 2008 at 1:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAN TAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Wavelet Analysis of Long-Memory Stochastic Volatility Model

SUMMER 2008

THURSDAY, August 7, 2008 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SERENA REZNY, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Graphical Models for Phospholipid/Phosphoprotein Coexpression Data

WEDNESDAY, August 6, 2008 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
PETER KWOK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Phylogenetic Tree Model of Family Income Data

TUESDAY, August 5, 2008 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MEIQING LU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Negative Effect of Part-time Employees’ Overproportion on Students’ Academic and Working Performance: Cristo Rey Network Annual Report Data

TUESDAY, August 5, 2008 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
GEORGE SAVVAS, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Effect of Early Intervention on Job Tenure: The Perry Preschool Program

WEDNESDAY, July 30, 2008 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
OMAR DE LA CRUZ, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Geometric Approaches in the Analysis of Genetic Data

MONDAY, July 28, 2008 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YINGYING LI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Robustness of Volatility Estimation

TUESDAY, July 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JOACHIM ROBERT DE LEZARDIERE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Tail Index Estimation and ARCH Processes

SPRING 2008

TUESDAY, June 24, 2008 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
OLI ATLASON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Generalized Parametric Models and Rank Likelihood

WEDNESDAY, June 18, 2008 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
DALE ROSENTHAL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Trade Classification and Nearly-Gamma Random Variables

THURSDAY, June 12, 2008 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
DAVID MATTESON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Statistical Inference for Multivariate Nonlinear Time Series

THURSDAY, May 22, 2008 at 8:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIN WOO PARK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
On Bias Corrected Kernel Density Estimation

WEDNESDAY, May 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SEOKWOO LEE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Stochastic Volatility Model with Flex Normal Mixtures

MONDAY, May 19, 2008 at 8:30 AM., in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SANG JIN PARK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Hazard of Recurrence in Lymph Node-Negative Breast Cancer: Treatment Effects over Time by ER Status

FRIDAY, May 16, 2008 at 1:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YOU CHAN KEVIN CHUNG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Three-Step Disaggregate Forecasts of Personal Health Care Cost

FRIDAY, May 16, 2008 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
TAKINTAYO AKINBIYI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
An Intensity Based Patchwork of Parts Model For 2D Objects

FRIDAY, May 16, 2008 at 8:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIN XU, Departments of Sociology and Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
GARCH Local Approximation for Non-stationary Financial Data Through 1958-2007 and Its Influence in Value at Risk

THURSDAY, May 15, 2008 at 3:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
BAOGUAN KE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
A Method for Genetic Mapping of Quantitative Traits and Related Statistical Problems

TUESDAY, May 13, 2008 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
TAEJIN KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Empirical Estimation of Distributions of Limit Order Book

AUTUMN 2007

MONDAY, December 10, 2007 at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
DALE ROSENTHAL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Trade Signing and Nearly-Gamma Random Variables

TUESDAY, December 4 , 2007 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SU YEON KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Adaptive Evolution of Conserved Non-coding Elements

THURSDAY, November 29, 2007 at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WENLONG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Wavelet Analysis for Non-stationary Time Series

THURSDAY, November 29, 2007 at 3:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZUOHENG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
An Incomplete-data Quasi-likelihood Framework with Application to Genetic Association Studies on Related Individuals

TUESDAY, November 27, 2007 at 3:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHOU ZHOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Local Linear Quantile Estimation for Non-stationary Time Series

TUESDAY, November 13, 2007 at 3:00, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WEI-CHUN WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Estimation of Measurement Errors of Childhood Retrospective Section of NLSY97 Survey

FRIDAY, November 9, 2007 at 9:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIANGLAI ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Empirical Study of Parametric and Non-parametric VaR Models

TUESDAY, November 6, 2007 at 2:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
LUCY A. BILAVER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
An Application of Graphical Model Checking Methods for Discrete Time Hazard Models

THURSDAY, November 1, 2007 at 3:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XINGHUA ZHENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Critical Branching Random Walks and Spatial Epidemics

FRIDAY, October 26, 2007 at 9:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HUIMIN GU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Exploring Insurance Abusive Claim Identification with Model-Based Clustering Using the EM Algorithm

MONDAY, October 22, 2007 at 12:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SU YEON KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Job Talk Presentation
Adaptive Evolution of Conserved Non-coding Elements

WEDNESDAY, October 17, 2007 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YOUNG EUN KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Childhood Malaria in the Gambia

SUMMER 2007

FRIDAY, August 3, 2007 at 10:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HANS ROGGEMAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Presentation
Copula, Co-integration and Regression Methods in Mean-reversion Stock-Option Trading Strategies

TUESDAY, July 31, 2007 at 5:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
OLIVER RANDALL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Presentation
Variance Futures and Correcting the VIX

TUESDAY, July 31, 2007 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIE PENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Presentation
The Feasibility of a Genome-Wide Linkage Study of a Large Asthma Pedigree

FRIDAY, July 27, 2007 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ERIKA GARCIA, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Presentation
Observed Flow of Travelers in the U.S.-Mexico Border: Modeling and Decomposition Using RegARIMA

MONDAY, July 16, 2007 at 1:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
CHAE YOUNG LIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Characteristics of a Model Error in an Air Quality Model and Fixed-Domain Asymptotic Properties of Spatial Cross-Periodograms

TUESDAY, July 10, 2007 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ANGELA HUGEBACK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Point Process Models for Astronomy: Quasars, Coronal Mass Ejections, and Solar Flares

MONDAY, July 9, 2007 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHIBIAO ZHAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Nonparametric Inference for Stochastic Diffusion Models

SPRING 2007

WEDNESDAY, May 30, 2007 4:00 - 5:15 PM,Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
First Year PhD Presentation
Seminar Chair: Michael Finegold

• 4:00-4:15 pm, YINXIAO HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Equi-energy Sampler by Kou, Zhou and Wong
• 4:15-4:30 pm, MYOUNG JI LEE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Model-based Geostatistics
• 4:30-4:45 pm, DAN CHRISTINA WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Nonparametric Inference of Value-at-Risk for Dependent Financial Returns
• 4:45-5:00 pm, NAIQING GU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Limit Theorem for Hidden Markov α-chains
• 5:00-5:15 pm, ELIZABETH SMOOT, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  To be announced

TUESDAY, May 29, 2007 at 4:30–5:45 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
First Year PhD Presentation
Seminar Chair: Marcin Hitczenko

• 4:30-4:45 pm, ALAN HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Maximum Likelihood Methods for Phylogenetic Trees
• 4:45-5:00 pm, XIAOHUI CHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Robust Regression Model for Unequally Spaced Time Series Data with Application to Water Monitoring
• 5:00-5:15 pm, HAN HAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Equatorial Normal Mode in Modeling Large-Scale Wind Component
• 5:15-5:30 pm, WINFRIED BARTA, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  How Often to Shuffle a Deck of Cards to Make it Random?
• 5:30-5:45 pm, HAN XIAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Algebraic Algorithms for Sampling from Conditional Distributions

TUESDAY, May 22, 2007 at 1:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
OMAR DE LA CRUZ, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
A Geometric Approach for Detecting Cell Cycle Gene Expression

WEDNESDAY, May 16, 2007 at 1:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
RYAN CARR, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
No Small Potatoes. Using Shopper ID Level Models to Measure the Impact of Targeted Marketing for a Popular Potato Product

FRIDAY, April 20, 2007 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
KUN-HO KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Kernel-based Estimation of the Density for the Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedastic Process

WINTER 2007

TUESDAY, March 6, 2007 at 4:00-5:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
Second Year PhD Presentations
Seminar Chair: Omar De La Cruz

• 4:00-4:15 pm, DAN WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Hedging Variance Options
• 4:15-4:30 pm, MARCIN HITCZENKO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Likelihood Approximation for Large Data Sets
• 4:30-4:45 pm, OLIVER RANDALL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities
• 4:45-5:00 pm, MICHAEL FINEGOLD, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Hidden Markov Models in Customer Relationship Management
• 5:00-5:15 pm, CHANGGEE CHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Volatility Estimators for Discretely Sampled Levy Processes
• 5:15-5:30 pm, XIAOQUAN WEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Testing Ungenotyped Genetic Variation in Genome-wide Association Studies

WEDNESDAY, February 21 , 2007 at 12:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
RAYMOND LEE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
An Investigation of a Time Series Model For Forecasting of Insurance Claim Runoff Triangles

THURSDAY, February 1 , 2007 at 12:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
CHAE YOUNG LIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Job Talk Presentation
Characteristics of Model Error in an Air Quality Model and Fixed-Domain Asymptotic Properties of Spatial Cross-Periodogram

FRIDAY, January 19, 2007 at 12:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHIBIAO ZHAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Job Talk Presentation
Confidence Bands in Nonparametric Time Series Regression

AUTUMN 2006

WEDNESDAY, November 29, 2006 at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
DAVID MATTESON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Estimating High Dimensional Volatility Models

TUESDAY, November 28, 2006 at 10:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MINSUN SONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Methods for Detecting Gene-Gene Interaction and Single-Locus Association

FRIDAY, November 17 , 2006 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
BYEONG CHANG YANG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Prequential Guidelines When Making Predictions Using Short Time Series

THURSDAY, November 16 , 2006 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
CHINGLAN HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Statistical Analysis of Children’s Performances and Their Demographic Characteristics

THURSDAY, November 16 , 2006 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
STACY STEINBERG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Detection of Relationship Errors in Inbred Pedigrees

WEDNESDAY, November 15 , 2006 at 9:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
KANRU XIA. Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Inference of Hidden Markov Chain in a False Discovery Control Paradigm

TUESDAY, November 14 , 2006 at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAN YU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Statistical Analysis of Insured Hurricane Losses in the US with Application to Industry Loss Warranties

MONDAY, November 13 , 2006 at 1:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MARIA PAULA RIOS ARANGO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Monte Carlo Approach to Price Colombian Volatility Reducing Options

FRIDAY, November 10, 2006 at 8:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YING LI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Long Memory and Conditional Heteroscedasticity in Network Data

THURSDAY, November 9 , 2006 at 1:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SEUNG MIN YAE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
How to Detect Source of Economic Change, Structure or State?

THURSDAY, November 9, 2006 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIA LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Cointegration Analysis

WEDNESDAY, November 1, 2006 at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
DARONGSAE KWON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Kriging Prediction with Estimated Covariances

WEDNESDAY, October 18, 2006 at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YINGYING LI , Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Robustness of Volatility Estimators

FRIDAY, October 6, 2006 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
LIPING GAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Fitting and Testing a Semiparametric Generalized Linear Model Against Alternative Models

SUMMER 2006

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2006 at 10:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
FEN LIN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Discrete Time Survival Model: Diffusion of Freedom of Information Laws Among OECD Nations

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2006 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
NATHANIEL LOMAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Detection of Allelic Deletion via Inference of Loss of Heterozygosity in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by use of a Hidden Markov Model

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2006 at 9:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHUO ZHENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Boosting and Bagging of Neural Networks with Applications to Financial Time Series

MONDAY, July 31, 2006 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
LI MA, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Correcting the Bias Arising from Cluster Sampling Using Horvitz-Thompson Estimation in a Problem of Estimating the Number of Fish Eggs in a Southern Alaskan Region

WEDNESDAY, July 26, 2006 at 9:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
QINGLING DU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Fitting Regression Models Under Case-control Sampling

TUESDAY, July 25, 2006 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
IRINA OSTROVNAYA, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Estimating Error Rates for Independent and Dependent Test Statistics

TUESDAY, July 18, 2006 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIE YANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Infinite Exchangeability & Partitions and Permanent Process & Classification Model

WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2006 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAOFENG SHAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Statistical Evaluation of Multiresolution Model Output and Spectral Analysis for Nonlinear Time Series

SPRING 2006

THURSDAY, May 25, 2006 at 12:00 -1:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
First Year PhD Presentations
Seminar Chair: Zuoheng Wang

• 12:00-12:15 pm, MICHAEL FINEGOLD, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Coalescent
• 12:15-12:30 pm, MARCIN HITCZENKO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Dirichlet Cluster Processes and Classification Problems
• 12:30-12:45 pm, DAN WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  How Corporate Defaults are Correlated
• 12:45-1:00 pm, OLIVER RANDALL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Estimating Semiparametric ARCH(∞) Models by Kernel Smoothing Methods
  Authors: O. Linton and E. Mammen
  Source: Econometrica, Vol. 73, No. 3 (May, 2005), 771-836.

THURSDAY, May 18, 2006 at 2:00 PM,Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WEN MIN CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Hierarchical Models Using Mixture of Normal Distributions And Dirichlet Process

WEDNESDAY, May 17, 2006 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
PAUL BAILEY, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Bayesian Variable Selection in Multiple Regression with a p-norm Based Prior

MONDAY, May 15, 2006 at 12:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ABIGAIL JAGER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Likelihood Methods for Potential Outcomes

FRIDAY, May 12, 2006 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HONG GI MIN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Bayesian Inference of Stochastic Beta Model and GARCH Processes

WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2006 at 9:00 AM,Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YOUNG ROK KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Pricing Weather Derivatives

FRIDAY, May 5, 2006 at 1:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
FARNAZ MAHKHOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A 20-Day NCCLS Precision

THURSDAY, April 27, 2006 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MINGJUN WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Cream, Sugar, or Black? Comparison of Several Statistical Classification Methods in a Target Marketing Application

FRIDAY, April 14, 2006 at 9:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
FANG LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Automatic Classification of Statement and Question Intonations in Mandarin

WINTER 2006

TUESDAY, March 7, 2006 at 4:00 - 5:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
Second Year PhD Presentations
Seminar Chair: Yibi Huang

• 4:00-4:15 pm, DALE ROSENTHAL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Liquidity Risk and Arbitrage Pricing Theory
• 4:15-4:30 pm, XINGHUA ZHENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Windings of Planar Brownian Motion and Random Walks
• 4:30-4:45 pm, ZUOHENG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Association Test by Adjusting for Population Heterogeneity
• 4:45-5:00 pm, OMAR DE LA CRUZ, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Normalization of Microarray Data
• 5:00-5:15 pm, ZHOU ZHOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Quantile Regression: Applications and Current Research Areas
• 5:15-5:30 pm, WENLONG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Electric Networks and Probability on Graphs

THURSDAY, February 23, 2006 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
LEI LIAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
How Effective are Realized Effective Spreads?

WEDNESDAY, February 22, 2006 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JUN LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
The Impact of Market Microstructure Noise on Non-parametric Jump Test

TUESDAY, February 21, 2006 at 9:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HYUNG JIN KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Modeling Hidden Exposures in Claim Severity

THURSDAY, February 16, 2006 at 12:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIE YANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Job Talk Presentation
Exchangeable Cluster Processes for Classification Problems

THURSDAY, January 26, 2006 at 12:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAOFENG SHAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Job Talk Presentation
Fourier Analysis in Time Series: Some Theory and an Application to Space-Time Modeling

AUTUMN 2005

MONDAY, October 31, 2005 at 2:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SU YEON KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Testing for Natural Selection on Conserved Non-genic Sequences in Mammals

MONDAY, November 14, 2005 at 2:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
CHAE YOUNG LIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Statistical Properties on Error of the Air Pollution Model

TUESDAY, November 15, 2005 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ANGELA SNYDER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Statistics for Astronomy: Inference About the Population of Quasars

FRIDAY, November 18, 2005 at 3:45 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHIBIAO ZHAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Statistical Theory for Curve/level Crossing Analysis

TUESDAY, November 29, 2005 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
BAOGUAN KE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Looking for Risk Variants Using Conditional TDT

TUESDAY, November 29, 2005 at 5:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
OLI ATLASON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Generalized Parametric Models

WEDNESDAY, October 19, 2005 at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HAE KYUNG IM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Two Problems in Environmetrics

WEDNESDAY, November 2, 2005 at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MAOXIA ZHENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Two Statistical Problems in Gene Mapping

MONDAY, November 7, 2005 at 12:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ELLIOT JOEL BERNSTEIN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Statistical Models for Object Classification and Detection

WEDNESDAY, November 9, 2005 at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
TIMOTHY THORNTON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Statistical Inference for Genetic Analysis in Related Individuals

THURSDAY, November 17, 2005 at 3:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
EUN-HAE KO
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Media Bias and Public Intellectuals: Newspapers with Different Appetites

THURSDAY, November 17, 2005 at 12:00 NOON, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
BRINDA BIJAWAT, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
The Impact of Coronary Heart Disease and Arthritis on Depressive Symptoms—A Longitudinal Study

THURSDAY, November 17, 2005 at 10:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
CLIFTON EMERY
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Item Non-Response in the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, Consequences for Domestic Violence and Child Behavior

WEDNESDAY, November 16, 2005 at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
BENJAMIN VERSCHUERE
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
On the Pricing of Synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligation with Factor Copulas

WEDNESDAY, November 16, 2005 at 11:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JAKE BYRNES
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Using a HMM to Identify Ectopic Gene Conversion Events

THURSDAY, October 27, 2005 at 3:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
CHAVA ZIBMAN
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Semi-parametric Modeling of Effects of Air Quality Respiratory Health in Chicago Medicaid Population

MONDAY, October 17, 2005 at 9:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HUI DU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Bayesian Nonlinear Regression with Spatial Structure

TUESDAY, October 4, 2005 at 9:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
TAO LIANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Bayesian Analysis of Extreme Events with Time-varying Parameters

SUMMER 2005

FRIDAY, July 29, 2005 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SHALI WU
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Cultural Differences in Perspective Taking

WEDNESDAY, July 27, 2005 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
BROOKE SOWELL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Estimating the Recovery Kinetics of tER Sites

TUESDAY, July 19, 2005 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HONG XU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Sleep Stage Classification by EEG Wave

WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2005 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ETHAN ANDERES, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Estimating Deformations of Gaussian Random Fields

MONDAY, July 11, 2005 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MIKYOUNG JUN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Space-time Models and their Application to Air Pollution

SPRING 2005

TUESDAY, May 24, 2005 at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
First Year PhD Presentations
Seminar Chair: Angela Snyder

• 4:30 pm, WENLONG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Equivalence of Absorbing and Reflecting Barrier Problems for Stochastically Monnotone Markov Processes
  
• 4:45 pm, DALE ROSENTHAL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A New Statistic for Influence in Linear Regression
  
• 5:00 pm, OMAR DE LA CRUZ, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Choice of a Null Hypothesis in Large-Scale Simultaneous Testing
• 5:15 pm, ZUOHENG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Bayesian Method to Infer Haplotypes from Genotype Data
  
• 5:30 pm, XINGHUA ZHENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Geometric Bounds for Eigenvalues of Markov Chains
  
• 5:45 pm, ZHOU ZHOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Tale of Two Time Scales: Determining IntegratedVolatility with Noisy High-Frequency Data

WEDNESDAY, May 18, 2005 at 12:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MICHELE GLATTER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Gibbs Sampler for Predictive Covariance Matrices Using a Bayesian Approach

WEDNESDAY, May 18, 2005 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JACEK CZAJKOWSKI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Online Poker—Analysis by CART and Random Forest

FRIDAY, May 13, 2005 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HSI-WEN CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Measuring the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Exchange Rate Using VARs

MONDAY, May 9, 2005 at 1:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WEIHUA GUO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Influence of Body Mass Index and Other Characteristics on Outcomes After Treatment for Early Stage Colon Cancer

WINTER 2005

WEDNESDAY, March 9, 2005 at 4:00 - 5:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
Second Year PhD Presentations
Seminar Chair: Baoguan Ke

• 4:00-4:18 pm, YIBI HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Optimal Rate of Deconvolution Problems
• 4:18-4:36 pm, YINGYING LI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Determining Integrated Volatility of a Diffusion Process, in the Presence of Round-off Errors
• 4:36-4:54 pm, DARONGSAE KWON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Using PageRank to Characterize Web Structure
• 4:54-5:12 pm, MINSUN SONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Genetic Risk Factors for the Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• 5:12-5:30 pm, DAVID MATTESON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Distribution of Realized Exchange Rate Volatility

FRIDAY, February 25, 2005 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
PANGDING ZHU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Simulation-Based Bayesian Estimation of Quadratic Term Structure Models

FRIDAY, February 18, 2005 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JULIA YINGHUA ZHU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Economic Value of Volatility Timing Using Realized Volatility Under Optimal Sampling

AUTUMN 2004

WEDNESDAY, December 1, 2004 at 1:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
CHAVA ZIBMAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Accounting for Confounding by Time in a Semi-parametric Air Pollution Model

FRIDAY, November 19, 2004 at 1:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YAN LI , Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Statistical Methods for the Identification of Microdeletions

WEDNESDAY, November 17, 2004 at 4:15 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIE YANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Infinite Exchangeability and Random Set Partitions

WEDNESDAY, November 17, 2004 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
OU JIN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Smooth Transition Autoregressive Stochastic Volatility (STAR-SV) Modeling--Bayesian Inference Through C++ Programming

THURSDAY, November 11, 2004 at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAOFENG SHAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Statistical Evaluation of Multiresolution Model Output, and Asymptotic Spectral Theory for Nonlinear Time Series

THURSDAY, November 11, 2004 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
IRINA OSTROVNAYA, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Improved Estimation of the False Discovery Rate

TUESDAY, November 2, 2004 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAODONG WU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Trend Test for Association in Case-Control Studies with Pedigree Data

FRIDAY, October 8, 2004 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ANGELA SNYDER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Mastermind by Importance Sampling and Metropolis-Hastings

MONDAY, October 18, 2004 at 9:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HAN GAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Estimation of Variance Components of Lymphocytes and Cortisol in Inbred Populations

THURSDAY, September 30, 2004 at 8:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
PENG ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Different Age Distribution Patterns of Human, Nematode, Arabidopsis Duplicate Genes

SUMMER 2004

MONDAY, August 30, 2004 at 9:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YONG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Bayesian Linear Modeling Investigation of eBay Seller's Realized Profit

WEDNESDAY, August 4, 2004 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WEN GU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Distributed Lag Model: Analysis of Air Pollution on Asthma Occurrence

THURSDAY, July 22, 2004 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
LIPING TONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Statistical Inference for Multi-color Optical Mapping Data

FRIDAY, July 16, 2004 at 10:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
NA PENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Empirical Study on Deviance Information Criterion with Stochastic Volatility Models

TUESDAY, July 6, 2004 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
DAVID CLIFFORD, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
The Nature of Spatial Variation in Crop Yields

SPRING 2004

WEDNESDAY, June 23, 2004 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
RITUPARNA SEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Modeling the Stock Price Process as a Continuous Time Jump Process

FRIDAY, June 18, 2004 at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
TONGYAI IYAVARAKUL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Bootstrap Inference of Gini Index of Income Inequality in Thailand

THURSDAY, June 10, 2004 at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WANLI MIN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Inferences on Time Series Driven by Dependent Innovations

WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2004 at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
First Year PhD Presentations
Seminar Chair: Xiaofeng Shao

• 4:00-4:15 pm, YIBI HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Exact Sampling with Coupled Markov Chains and Applications to Statistical Mechanics
• 4:15-4:30 pm, ZUMIN LUO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Rescaling of Marked Point Processes
• 4:30-4:45 pm, DARONGSAE KWON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A Practical and Powerful Approach to Multiple Testing
• 4:45-5:00 pm, MINSUN SONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Random Field Approach to the Analysis of Field-Plot Experiments and Other Spatial Experiments
• 5:00-5:15 pm, YINGYING LI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Iterated Random Functions
• 5:15-5:30pm, DAVID MATTESON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Least Angle Regression
• 5:30-5:45 pm, MICHELE GLATTER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Variable Selection and Shrinkage Comparison of Some Approaches

TUESDAY, May 25, 2004 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XINGE ZHENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Shape Restricted Nonparametric Method with Financial Applications

WINTER 2004

TUESDAY, March 9, 2004 at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
Second Year PhD Presentations
Seminar Chair: Irina Ostrovnaya

• 4:00-4:15 pm, OLI ATLASON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Frequentist Model Averaging
• 4:15-4:30 pm, CHAE YOUNG LIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Metropolis-Hastings Algorithms for Point Process
• 4:30-4:45 pm, BAOGUAN KE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Discovery of Conserved Sequence Patterns
• 4:45-5:00 pm, SU YEON KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Estimation of Space-Time Covariance Matrix with Missing Observation
• 5:00-5:15 pm, ANGELA SNYDER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Finding An Optimal Strategy For Mastermind
• 5:15-5:30 pm, ZHIBIAO ZHAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  An Introduction to Voronoi Tessellation

TUESDAY, February 24, 2004 at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
QI AN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation and Mini-Workshop Presentation
Calibration of Atmospheric Temperature

FRIDAY, January 30, 2004 at 10:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
RITUPARNA SEN
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Job Talk Presentation
Modeling the Stock Price Process as a Continuous-time Discrete Jump Process

FRIDAY, January 9, 2004 at 10:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
RUSSELL WIERZBA, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Comprehensive Model for Bond Portfolio Risk Management

AUTUMN 2003

WEDNESDAY, December 10, 2003, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
PETER BOUMAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Statistical and Computational Inference for Complex Multicenter Studies.

FRIDAY, December 5, 2003, at Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
Mini-workshop Presentation

• 1:30 PM, ROBERT ADAM MOLNAR, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Bayesian Neural Networks and Variable Selection

FRIDAY, November 21, 2003, at 11:15 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ADAM RAUK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
The Bradley-Terry Model in Baseball Analysis

THURSDAY, November 20, 2003, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
Mini-workshop Presentation

• 10:30 am, MIKYOUNG JUN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Space-time Modeling of Air Pollution Levels
• 3:00 pm, HAE KYUNG IM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Inverse Modeling of Ammonia Emissions for the Eastern United States

THURSDAY November 20, 2003, at 9:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAOMING BAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Validity of Short-Term Beta-Agonists Prescriptions as a Marker for Asthma

WEDNESDAY, November 19, 2003, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
Mini-workshop Presentation

• 9:30 am, ELLIOT BERNSTEIN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Generative Models for Handwritten Digit Recognition in the Presence of Noise
• 1:30 pm, ETHAN ANDERES, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Estimating Deformations of Isotropic Random Fields
• 3:30 pm, MAOXIA ZHENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Assessment of Goodness of Fit of Models for Block Haplotype Structure

TUESDAY November 18, 2003, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
RUBENS CYSNE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
On the Parametric Estimation of Diffusion Processes

TUESDAY November 18, 2003, at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WEN-HSIN FENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Two-Marker Likelihood Based Transmission/Disequilibrium Test for Association Studies

WEDNESDAY, November 12, 2003, at 1:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JICHAO SUN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
The Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: Temporal Stability and Change

TUESDAY, November 11, 2003, at 2:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YUAN LI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Model-based Clustering via the Bayesian Information Criterion with Applications and Comparison with K-means Algorithm

TUESDAY, October 28, 2003, at 10:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
NICHOLAS CHAMANDY, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Coupling the Monopoly Sampler: An Illustration of Convergence Assessment Techniques for Markov Chain Monte Carlo

WEDNESDAY, October 8, 2003, at 1:30 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JING YANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Method for Comparing Survival Duration in the Presence of Strong Intraclass Correlation

THURSDAY, October 2, 2003, at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MARTIN ROMERO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Optimal Bridge Sampling with Dependent Draws

SUMMER 2003

TUESDAY, July 8, 2003, at 9:30 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
DAVID CLIFFORD, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Mini-workshop Presentation
The Nature of Spatial Variation in Crop Yields

THURSDAY, July 31, 2003, at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JONGWOO SONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
A Sequential Clustering Algorithm with Applications to Gene Expression Data

WEDNESDAY, July 30, 2003, at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
GEORGE KORDZAKHIA, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
The Problem of Coexistence in Multi-Type Competition Models

WEDNESDAY, August 27, 2003, at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
LEAH WELTY, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Spatial Statistics for Modeling Phytoplankton

TUESDAY, August 5, 2003, at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HUA TANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A New Amino Acid Distance

FRIDAY, August 1, 2003, at 11:15 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ENRIQUE BASURTO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Applied Multivariate Methods: Principal Components and Factor Analysis

MONDAY, July 28, 2003, at 11:00 AM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MEILIN Q. SONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Estimation of Causal Effects via Propensity Score Methods

MONDAY, July 21, 2003, at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHIQIANG TAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Likelihood Approach to Monte Carlo Integration

MONDAY, June 30, 2003, at 3:00 PM, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
REGINA DOLGOARSHINNYKH, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Modelling Epidemics: Sirs Models