XuanLong Nguyen, (Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Statistical Science, Duke University), "Nonparametric and distributed decision making models for functional and spatial data analysis"   [abstract]
Friday, January 9, 2009, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar Series, 116 Old Chem Building

Surya Tokdar (Morris H. DeGroot Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University), "Joint Quantile Regression: A Semi-parametric Bayesian Approach"   [abstract]
Friday, January 16, 2009, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chemistry Bldg

Jason Morton (Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Mathematics, Stanford University), "Algebraic Models for Multilinear Dependence"   [abstract]
Monday, January 19, 2009, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Iain Murray (Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Computer Science, University of Toronto), "Markov chain Monte Carlo, normalizers and doubly-intractable inference"   [abstract]
Friday, January 23, 2009, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Anna Simoni (Toulouse School of Economics), "Regularized Posteriors in Linear Ill-posed Inverse Problems"   [abstract]
Friday, January 30, 2009, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Montserrat Fuentes (Professor, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University), "Bayesian Variable Selection for Spatially-Varying Coefficient Regression: Application to Physical Activity in Pregnant Women"   [abstract]
Friday, February 6, 2009, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard Universtiy), "To Center or Not to Center: That is Not the Question --- An Ancillarity-Sufficiency Interweaving Strategy (ASIS) for Boosting MCMC Efficiency"   [abstract]
Friday, February 13, 2009, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Tim Hanson (Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota School of Public Health), "Some Classes of Dependent Tailfree Processes and Applications"   [abstract]
Friday, February 20, 2009, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Michael Stein (Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor, Dept of Statistics, University of Chicago), "Simulation of Differentiable Gaussian Random Fields"   [abstract]
Friday, February 27, 2009, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Luis Carvalho (Postdoctoral Research Associate in Applied Mathematics , Brown University), "Bayesian Centroid Estimation"   [abstract]
Monday, March 2, 2009, 4:25pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Dennis Cox (Professor, Dept of Statistics, Rice University), "Covariance Priors for Bayesian Functional Data Analysis"   [abstract]
Friday, March 6, 2009, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Matthew Stephens (Professor, Dept of Human Genetics and dept of Statistics, University of Chicago), "Variable-selection Bayesian regression: a novel prior distribution, and applications to genetic association studies."   [abstract]
Friday, March 20, 2009, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Michael Daniels (Professor and Chair, Dept of Statistics, University of Florida), "Modeling Covariance Matrices via Partial Autocorrelations"   [abstract]
Friday, March 27, 2009, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar Series, 116 Old Chem Building

Jarad Niemi (Duke University Statistical Science), "Bayesian Analysis and Computational Methods for Dynamic Modeling"   [abstract]
Monday, April 6, 2009, 2:00pm, Jarad Niemi Defense, 025 Old Chem

James Scott (Duke University Statistical Science), "Bayesian Adjustment for Multiplicity"   [abstract]
Friday, April 10, 2009, 12:30pm, James Scott Defense, The Link Classroom 4

Taeyoung Park (Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh), "Bayesian Multiple Change-Point Regression Analysis of Homicide Rates"   [abstract]
Friday, April 10, 2009, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar Series, 116 Old Chem Building

Alexander Rakhlin (Assistant Professor , University of University of Pennsylvania , Department of Statistics and Department of Computer & Information Science), "Statistics meets optimization: a new look at the multi-armed bandit problem"   [abstract]
Friday, April 17, 2009, 3:30pm, Statistical Science Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building

Brian Reich (Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics, North Carolina State University), "Cancelled"   [abstract]
Friday, April 24, 2009, 3:30pm, Seminar, 116 Old Chem Building