Course: STA395: Readings and Research
Instructor: Scott Schmidler
Email: schmidler@stat.duke.edu
Office: 223c 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
Jan. 16 No Class - MLK holiday
Jan. 23 SAMSI: Astro
Jan. 30 Gangqiang Xia Model Fitting and Inference Issues For Analyzing Large Spatial Data Sets Stein Zhang
Feb. 6 Zhenglei Gao On Neuron Spike Trains Kass Brown
Feb. 13 Dawn Banard Computational Complexity of Tempering for Multimodal Distributions Diaconis Geyer
Feb. 20 Floyd Bullard On Finding Exoplanets Ford Gregory
Feb. 27 SAMSI: Finance
Mar. 6 Liang Zhang Local Graphical Model Search and Applications of HDBCS Jones Dobra
Mar. 20 Rosy Luo Sparse regression and covariance selection Tibshirani Griffin
Mar. 27 Carlos Carvalho Canceled
Apr. 3 Natesh Pillai Characterising the function space for Bayesian kernel models Wolpert Reading #2 TBA
Apr. 10 Saki Kinney Statistical Disclosure Limitation with Multiple Imputation Raghunathan Reiter
Apr. 17 Scotland Lehman The Evolutionary Forest Algorithm Huelsenbeck Tavare