Current Seminar Schedule & Abstracts
FALL 2009:
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: Ethan Anderes (eanderes
wald.ucdavis.edu).
Below is a list of seminars hosted by the Department this Fall 2009.
Please click on date for Seminar abstract
| Fall 2009 | Organizer: Ethan Anderes | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 1-Oct-09 | Jiguo Cao | Simon Fraser U. | Statistical Inference for Differential Equations |
| 8-Oct-09 | Nancy Zhang | Stanford U. | Simultaneous change-point models with applications to cross-sample and cross-platform analysis of DNA copy number |
| 15-Oct-09 | Chad M. Shafer | Carnegie Mellon U. | Testing Cosmological Theories: Methodology for the Inference Challenges |
| 22-Oct-09 | Samuel Kou | Harvard | Statistical inference in nanoscale biophysics |
| 29-Oct-09 | James Flegal | UC Riverside | Batch Means and Spectral Variance Estimators in Markov Chain Monte Carlo |
| 30-Oct-09 (Friday) | Vic Patrangenaru | Florida State U | Tests for Mean P-Quaternion Objects and Glaucomatous Change Detection from Stereoscopic images of the Eye Fundus. |
| 5-Nov-09 | Petr Janata | Psychology, UC Davis | Music, Probability and the Brain |
| 12-Nov-09 | Laurie Davies | U Duisburg-Essen (Germany) | Approximating Data |
| 19-Nov-09 | Naoki Saito | Dept Math, UC Davis | Laplacian eigenfunctions that do not feel the boundary: Theory, Computation and Applications |
| 3-Dec-09 | Christopher Paciorek | UC Berkeley | The importance of scale for spatial-confounding bias and precision of spatial regression estimators |
