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SEMINARS

2009-10 Seminar Series

Jun 10, 2009
The Departmental Seminar Series is a forum for researchers to share their ideas and forge collaborative relationships.

Held every Thursday from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Sidney Smith Hall, Room 1086, 100 St. George Street. Light refreshments will be served at 3:10 p.m.

Occasionally, seminars are held on a different day or at a different time. Check the listing below. There are no seminars during the summer or during exam weeks.

If you wish to invite a speaker (or speak yourself), or if you have any questions/comments/suggestions, please contact Sarah Johns, Seminar Coordinator. Note that the time slots listed as TBA are still available.

All are welcome to attend. We especially encourage graduate student participation at our Seminar Series.

Previous Seminars

 



Fall 2009 Seminars | Winter 2010 Seminars

Fall Term Dates

Speaker

Title and Abstract

Host

September 10, 2009

Orientation week (no seminar)

   

September 17, 2009

Alicia Carriquirry
Iowa State

Clustering Posterior Distributions
- Application to Somatic Embryogenesis in Maize

NR


September 24, 2009

Dawn Woodard
Cornell University

Lower Bounds on the Mixing Time of Adaptive MCMC Methods

JR

October 1, 2009

Raphael Gottardo
IRCM

Statistical and computational issues involved in the analysis of high throughput ChIP assays

JS

October 8, 2009

Samuel Kou
Harvard University

Stochastic modeling and inference in nanoscale biophysics

RC

October 15, 2009

Naisyin Wang
Texas A&M University

Functional Linear Models with  Longitudinal or Functional Covariate Processes

NR

October 22, 2009

Eleanor Pullenayegum
McMaster University

Empirical priors for the between-study variance in meta-analyses

JS

October 29, 2009

Larry Weldon
Simon Fraser University

Experiential Learning in Statistics: Expanding its role

AG

November 5, 2009

Lexin Li
North Carolina State University

Some Recent Developments in Sufficient Dimension Reduction

LS


November 12, 2009

November break (no seminar)

   

November 19, 2009

Rob Kass
Carnegie Mellon University

Some Statistical Thinking in the Analysis of Neural Spike Train Data

JS

November 26, 2009

N. Balakrishnan
McMaster University

New Multi-Sample Nonparametric Tests for Panel Count and Current Status Data

NR

December 3, 2009

Y. Cao; L. Gon; M. Thompson; L. Xu.

University of Toronto
Student presentations

TBA; A multivariate risk
process with capital infusions; Slice Sampling with Multivariate Step; TBA


 

Winter Term Dates

Speaker

Title and Abstract

Host

January 7, 2010

Keith Knight
University of Toronto

TBA



January 14, 2010

Ji Zhu
University of Michigan

TBA

FY

January 21, 2010

TBA

TBA

TBA

January 28, 2010

TBA

TBA

TBA

February 4, 2010

TBA

TBA

TBA

February 11, 2010

Mark Reimers
Virginia Commonwealth University

Issues in high-throughput data analysis

LD

February 18, 2010

Reading week (no seminar)

   

February 25, 2010

Suhasini Subba Rao
Texas A&M University

TBA

ZZ

March 4, 2010

Student presentations

TBA

TBA

March 11, 2010

Yuguo Chen
University of Illinois

TBA

RC

March 18, 2010

Jim Hobert
University of Florida

TBA

JR

March 25, 2010

Christian Genest
Laval University

TBA

TBA

April 1, 2010

Wei-Biao Wu
University of Chicago

TBA

ZZ

April 15, 2010
Note: Seminar is during exam period

Johan Segers
Université catholique de Louvain

TBA

JR