Michael I. Jordan (Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, Departments of EECS and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley), "Applied Hierarchical Nonparametric Bayes"   [abstract]
Friday, August 29, 2008, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (Assistant Professor, Dept of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), "Representations and posterior simulation for Dirichlet hierarchical models with applications to inference for non-parametric Hidden Markov Models."   [abstract]
Friday, September 5, 2008, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Hedibert Lopes (Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business), "Spatial Dynamic Factor Models"   [abstract]
Friday, September 12, 2008, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Nicholas Chopin, Professor of Statistics, ENSAE, Paris, France , "A formal and practical assessment of nested sampling (joint work with Christian Robert)"   [abstract]
Friday, September 19, 2008, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Rob McCulloch (Professor, Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management (IROM) McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin), "Choleski Multivariate Stochastic Volatility (Authors:Hedibert Lopes, Robert E. McCulloch, Ruey Tsay)"   [abstract]
Friday, September 26, 2008, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Sylvain Rubenthaler (Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonne, Probability and Statistics Team, Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis Nice, France), "Tree based functional expansions for particle models"   [abstract]
Friday, October 3, 2008, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Surya Tokdar (Morris H. DeGroot Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University), "Bayesian Sufficient Dimension Reduction in Density Regression"   [abstract]
Friday, October 10, 2008, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Fred Wright (Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Estimating Risk and Controlling for Stratification in Genome-Wide Association Studies"   [abstract]
Friday, October 17, 2008, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Arnaud Doucet (Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Statistics and Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia), "The Expected Auxiliary Variables Method for Monte Carlo Simulation"   [abstract]
Friday, October 24, 2008, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Edsel Pena (Professor, Dept of Statistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC), "On Some Issues of Optimality in Multiple HypothesesTesting"   [abstract]
Friday, October 31, 2008, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Fei Zou (Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Bayesian Variable Selection in Semiparametric Regression Modeling with Applications to Genetic Mapping"   [abstract]
Friday, November 7, 2008, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Peter Mueller (MD Anderson Cancer Center), "Random partition models indexed with covariates"   [abstract]
Friday, November 14, 2008, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Carlos Carvalho (Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business), "Handling Sparsity with the Horseshoe"   [abstract]
Friday, November 21, 2008, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

John Skilling (Maximum Entropy Data Consultants Ltd, ex Dept Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge), "Nested sampling"   [abstract]
Friday, December 5, 2008, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Gavino Puggioni (Duke University Statistical Science), "Using Data Augmentation and Stochastic Differential Equations in Spatio Temporal Modeling"   [abstract]
Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 3:00pm, Gavino Puggioni Defense, 025 Old Chem