Robert L Wolpert

' Robert L Wolpert

Robert L Wolpert

Office: 211-C Old Chemistry Building
Phone: +1-919-684-3275
Fax: +1-919-684-8594
E-mail: wolpert@stat.duke.edu

Mailing Address:

Duke University Dept Stat Sci
211c Old Chem, Box 90251
Durham, NC 27708-0251 USA

A short description of my current research interests.
Recent research papers, presentations, my cv (ps, pdf), or our FDS website (up).
Current (F08) course:

STA 104 Probability SISS

Recent courses:

STA 104/MTH 135	Probability	F01, F03, F04, F05.	STA 205	Prob & Measure	S02, S03, S04, S05, S06, S07, S08.
STA 114/MTH 136	Statistics	S00, S01.	STA 215	Stat Inference	S00, S01, S02, S05, S06, S07.
STA 113	Prob/Stat Egr	S03.	STA 293	Topics	F98, F01, F02, S04, S08

Go to the Duke Statistics, NSOE (Duke Forest), or Duke home pages or a few other links.

Member, ASCC (Arts & Sciences Committee on Computing) (wiki)
Member, ITAC (Information Technology Advisory Council) and of its steering committee.
Member, CTMS (Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences) Steering Committee
Member, PARISS (Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences) Board
Member, USP (University Scholars Program) Faculty Advisory Board.
Executive Secretary, ISBA (International Society for Bayesian Analysis), and member of ISBA Executive Committee. website.
Honorary Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London
Adjunct Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
Friend of the: Duke Lemur Center, NC Zoo, NCMLS and Cornell Ornithology lab.

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Presentations

2007-12-02:06	Coffs Harbor, NSW, AU	Biometrics by the Beach	Bayesian Semi-parametric Space-time Models
2008-01-07:11	Bormio, IT	MCM'Ski 2
2008-06-10:11	Warwick, UK	CRiSM: Functional Sampling	Generating Lévy Random Fields
2008-07-17:18	Brisbane, AU	Bayesian Environmetrics	Bayesian Analysis of Fecal Coliform Indicators
2008-07-21:25	Hamilton Isl, AU	ISBA '08	Perfect Simulation of Matérn Type III Repulsive Point Processes
2008-08-03:07	Denver, CO	JSM 2008	Chair Session 122: The Role of Priors
2010-06-01:06	Valencia, ES	9^th Valencia Int Mtg Bayes Stat
Duke Statistics Meetings Calendar		ASA Meetings Calendar	ISI Meetings Calendar

Recent Research Papers

Using Statistical and Computer Models to Quantify Volcanic Hazards with M. J. Bayarri, James O. Berger, Eliza S. Calder, Keith Dalbey, Simon Lunagomez, Abani K. Patra, E. Bruce Pitman, and Elaine Spiller. Submitted.
Nonparametric Models for Peak Identification and Quantification in Mass Spectroscopy, with application to MALDI-TOF with Leanna House and Merlise Clyde. Submitted.
A Note on Posterior Consistency of the Nonparametric Poisson Regression Model with Natesh S. Pillai and Merlise A. Clyde. Submitted.
Lévy Adapted Regression Kernels with Chong Tu and Merlise Clyde. Submitted.
Modeling the Relationship between Most Probable Number (MPN) and Colony-Forming Unit (CFU) Estimates of Fecal Coliform Concentration with A. D. Gronewold. Water Research, in press.
An Assessment of Fecal Indicator Bacteria-Based Water Quality Standards with A. D. Gronewold, M. E. Borsuk and K. H. Reckhow. Environmental Science & Technology, in press.
Characterizing the function space for Bayesian kernel models with Natesh Pillai, Qiang Wu, Feng Liang, and Sayan Mukherjee. J. Mach. Learn. Res., 8, 1769-1797.
Nonparametric Function Estimation using Overcomplete Dictionaries with Merlise Clyde. In Bayesian Statistics 8 (Bernardo et al., eds), 91-114.
Rapid Taste Responses in the Gustatory Cortex during Licking with JR Stapleton, ML Lavine, MAL Nicolelis and SA Simon. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(15), 4126-4138
Nonparametric Models for Proteomic Peak Identification and Quantification with Merlise Clyde and Leanna House. In Bayesian Inference for Gene Expression and Proteomics (Do, Müller & Vannucci, eds.), Chapter 15.
Fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Lévy Processes and the Telecom Process: Upstairs and Downstairs with Murad Taqqu. Signal Processing 85(8), Aug 2005, 1523-1545.

More papers are in the Duke Statistics Discussion Papers list or on my curriculum vitæ.