Tom Santner (Professor of Statistics, Ohio State University), "Seminar"
Thursday, January 12, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Robert Schapire, Professor of Computer Science (Princeton University), "A Maximum Entropy Approach to Species Distribution Modeling"   [abstract]
Friday, January 13, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Ed Iversen, Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (Duke University), "Gene Characterization with High Risk Family Data"   [abstract]
Friday, January 20, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Rebecca Willett, Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Duke University), "Multiscale Information Processing and Communication"   [abstract]
Friday, January 27, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (Columbia University), "Rich state, poor state, red state, blue state: What's the matter with Connecticut?"   [abstract]
Friday, February 3, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Sidney Resnick, Professor , School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering (Cornell University), "Multivariate heavy tails, asymptotic independence and beyond"   [abstract]
Friday, February 10, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

David van Dyk, Professor (University of California, Irvine), "Going Beyond Compatibility: The Future of the Gibbs Sampler?"   [abstract]
Friday, February 17, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Paul Marriott, Associate Professor (University of Waterloo), "Local and Global Mixture Geometry"   [abstract]
Friday, February 24, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Gauri Datta, Visiting Associate Professor of Statistics & Decision Sciences and SAMSI University Fellow (University of Georgia), "Small area estimation: the problem and some solutions"   [abstract]
Friday, March 3, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

David Blei, Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Princeton University), "Variational inference for Dirichlet process mixtures"   [abstract]
Friday, March 10, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Gary King, David Florence Professor of Government & Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (Harvard University), ""Demographic Forecasting""   [abstract]
Friday, March 24, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Grace Wahba, IJ Schoenberg-Hilldale Professor of Statistics, Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics and Professor of Computer Sciences (University of Wisconsin), "Regularized Kernel Estimation, Dissimilarity Data and Hard and Soft Classification"   [abstract]
Friday, March 31, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Jeff Gill, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science (University of California-Davis), "Dynamic Tempered Transitions for Exploring Multimodal Posterior"   [abstract]
Friday, April 7, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Paul Lewis, Associate Professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department (University of Connecticut), "Phylogenetics in the Bayesian Era"   [abstract]
Friday, April 14, 2006, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building