Current Seminar Schedule & Abstracts

SPRING 2012:

Location: Colloquium Room, 1147 Mathematical Sciences
Time: Thursdays, 4:10 – 5:30pm
Refreshments prior to Seminar at 3.30pm in Statistics Lounge, 4110 Mathematical Sciences

Times, dates and locations are the same for all seminars except where stated.

Organizer: Chris Drake (cmdrakeucdavis.edu).

Spring 2012			Organizer: Chris Drake
*Date*	*Speaker*	*Institution*	*Title*
4-Apr-12	Michael Jordan (Math/Stat Symposium)	UC Berkeley	Statistics and computation in the age of massive data
5-Apr-12* *1:10pm, MSB 1143	Hongwei Zhao	Texas A&M	Generalized redistribute-to-the-right algorithm: application to the analysis of censored cost data
5-Apr-12	Liza Levina	U Michigan	Consistency of community detection and probability models in networks
9-Apr-12	Chunming Zhang	U Wisconsin	Robust inference in regression and classification methods for large dimensional data
12-Apr-12	Nello Cristianini	U Bristol, UK	Patterns in news and social media content
19-Apr-12	Nicoleta Serban	Georgia Tech	Multilevel functional clustering analysis
26-Apr-12	George Fein (2012 Shumway Lecture)	President, Neurological Behavioral Research Inc	The 'noise' in ERP studies of alcoholics contains a signal of potential crucial importance
3-May-12	Rasmus Nielsen (Berkeley/Davis Colloquium)	UC Berkeley	Statistical problems in the analysis of next-generation sequencing data
9-May-12	Edward Ionides	U Michigan	Inference for partially observed stochastic dynamic systems
10-May-12	Shaw-Hwa Lo	Columbia U	Locating a few needles in a haystack: discovering infleuntial variables: a review
17-May-12	Debashis Paul	UC Davis	A regularization of Hotelling's $T^2$ for hih-dimensional data
24-May-12	Hung Chen	National Taiwan U	On effectiveness of k-means clustering of functional data with marginal covariance matrix
31-May-12	Anna Panorska	U Nevada, Reno

For seminar abstracts from previous quarters, please visit the Recent Seminar Abstract Library.