Course: STA395: Readings and Research
Instructor: Dalene Stangl
Email: dalene@stat.duke.edu
Office: 212 Old Chemistry

Meeting Time: 4:25-5:40 Monday, 3:30-5:30 Fridays, 116 Old Chemistry

Presentation Schedule for STA395

Date Speaker Title and Abstract Reading #1 Reading #2
Sept. 5 Abel Rodriguez

Bayesian Structural Alignment of Proteins Eidhammer et al. Liu and Lawrence
Sept. 9 Nicole Lazar Comparison of Changepoint Location in Two Independent Curves
Sept. 12 SAMSI: Homeland Defense Biointellignece, Real time inference, Anomaly detection, Data integratation, Dynamics of massive databases
Sept. 16 CMU Case Studies Does the Effect of Micronutrient Supplementation on Neonatal Survival Vary with Respect to the Percentiles of the Birth Weight Distribution? Francesca Dominici, Scott L. Zeger, Giovanni Parmigiani, Joanne Katz, and Paul Christian. An Assessment of Climate Change in the Ocean. Michael Levine, Susan Lozier and Ana Rappold. Panel Discussion: ``Subjectivism and Objectivism: Two Views of Bayesian Analysis'' Jim Berger and Michael Goldstein -- moderator Susie Bayarri.
Sept. 19 SAMSI: Finance The goal of the opening workshop is to initiate discussion focused on identifying avenues of areas of research in financial mathematics, statistics and econometrics, including models of risk and uncertainty, extreme events; equity, credit, and energy markets; computational and practitioners issues, portfolio optimization. A prominent theme throughout both the workshop and program will be the necessity of exploiting the natural synergy between areas of financial mathematics, statistics and econometrics.
Sept. 23 Steve Smale Learning Theory: Some Algorithms and Estimates
Sept. 26 Joe Lucas Sparse Bayesian analysis and data synthesis in gene expression experiments Mitchell and Beauchamp Scott and Berger
Sept. 30 Haiyan Huang Non-standard methods for finding functionally related genes using gene expression data
Oct. 3 Abel Rodriguez Bayesian Functional Clustering Clyde, Parmigianni, Vidacovic Escobar, West
Oct. 7 Joe Gastwirth Statistical Issues in the Use of Epidemiologic Evidence in Product Liability Cases
Oct. 14 Sayan Mukherjee Learning Coordinate Covariances via Gradients
Oct. 17 Casper Wu Bayesian CART Models Bayesian CART Model Search A Bayesian CART Algorithm
Oct. 21 Evarist Gine Ratio limit theorems for empirical processes and applications to regression and machine learning
Oct. 25 Darren Wilkinson Stochastic modelling and inference for complex biological processes
Nov. 4 Paul Biemer Model-based Estimation of Drug Use Prevalence Using Item Count Data
Nov. 14 Leanna House A Bayesian, Nonparametric Approach for Expression Proteomic Analyses Morris et al Wolpert
Nov. 18 Andrew Nobel A probabilistic analysis of frequent itemset mining with noise
Nov. 21 Jen-Hwa Chu Bayesian Curve Estimation with Overcomplete Wavelet Dictionary Abramovich, Sapatinas and Silverman Johnstone and Silverman
Nov. 28 Chong Tu Bayesian Nonparametric Function Estimation and Applications Wolpert and Ickstadt 1 Wolpert and Ickstadt 2
Dec. 9 Susie Bayarri Divergence-Based (DB) priors for Objective Bayes Hypothesis Testing
Dec. 9 Dean Bilheimer Compositional Data in Biomedical Research
Jan. 11 Liang Zhang Title TBA Reading #1 TBA Reading #2 TBA
Jan. 23 SAMSI: Astro
Jan. 30 Floyd Bullard On Finding Exoplanets Ford Gregory
Feb. 6 Zhenglei Gao Title TBA Reading #1 TBA Reading #2 TBA
Feb. 13 Dawn Banard Title TBA Reading #1 TBA Reading #2 TBA
Feb. 20 Gangqiang Xia Title TBA Reading #1 TBA Reading #2 TBA
Feb. 27 SAMSI: Finance
Mar. 6 Zhi Ouyang Title TBA Reading #1 TBA Reading #2 TBA
Mar. 20 Rosy Luo Title TBA Reading #1 TBA Reading #2 TBA
Mar. 27 Carlos Carvalho Title TBA Reading #1 TBA Reading #2 TBA
Apr. 3 Natesh Pillai Title TBA Reading #1 TBA Reading #2 TBA
Apr. 10 Saki Kinney Title TBA Reading #1 TBA Reading #2 TBA
Apr. 17 Scotland Lehman Title TBA Reading #1 TBA Reading #2 TBA