Robert L Wolpert

Office: 211-C Old Chemistry Building Phone: +1-919-684-3275
Fax: +1-919-684-8594
E-mail: wolpert@stat.duke.edu

Mailing Address:

Duke University Dept Stat Science
211c Old Chem, Box 90251
Durham, NC 27708-0251 USA

A short description of my current research interests.
Recent research papers, presentations, my cv, or our FDS website (up). Sakai
Current (S12) course:

STA 357 Stochastic Processes Storm Sakai

Past courses:

STA 104/MTH 135	Probability	F05, F08, F09, F10	STA 205	Prob & Measure	S06, S07, S08, S09, F10, F11
STA 114/MTH 136	Statistics	S00, S01, S09, F09, S11	STA 215	Stat Inference	S00, S01, S02, S05, S06, S07
STA 345	Multivariate	S10	STA 293	Topics	F98, F01, F02, S04, S08

Go to the Statistical Science, Arts & Sciences, NSOE (Duke Forest), or Duke (Today) home pages.

Member, CTMS (Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences) and its Steering Committee
Fellow, SAMSI (Statistics & Applied Mathematics Institute), and participant in the extremes and surrogate working groups
Member, ITAC (Information Technology Advisory Council) and of its Steering Committee
Member, LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) ISSC (Informatics and Statistics Science Collaboration)
Member, MADAI (Models and Data Analysis Initiative) Collaboration)
Member, PARISS (Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences) Board
Member, RCAC (Research Computing Advisory Council)
Member, SCAC (Scalable Computing Advisory Committee)
Member, USP (University Scholars Program) Faculty Advisory Board.
Member, Duke/UNC Probability Group and Duke Probability Working Group.
PI, Froggy (Focussed Research Group on Prediction & Risk of Extreme Events) Volcano Team.
Honorary Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London
Adjunct Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Friend of the: Duke Lemur Center, Duke Park Neighborhood, Nasher Museum, NC Zoo, NCMLS and Cornell Ornithology lab.

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Presentations

2011-04-04:08	Soufrière Hills, Montserrat	MVO at 15 Workshop	Extreme Events in Volcanic Risk Assessment
2011-05-16:18	Buffalo, NY	GeoHazard Workshop
2011-05-19:21	Belgirate, Lago Maggiore, IT	GDRR 2011	Hazard Assessment for Pyroclastic Flows (full)
2011-07-06:09	E Lansing, MI	MADAI Meeting	What are the odds? (full)
2011-07-10:15	Ascona, CH	EFPL Workshop on Env Risk & Extreme Events
2011-10-17	RTP, NC	SAMSI Extremes WG Meeting	Extremal Dependence: Where to Start? (full)
Duke Statistics Meetings Calendar		ASA Meetings Calendar	ISI Meetings Calendar

Recent Research Papers

Markov Infinitely-Divisible Stationary Time-Reversible Integer-Valued Processess with Larry Brown. Submitted.
Geometric Representations of Hypergraphs for Prior Specification and Posterior Sampling with Simón Lunagómez and Sayan Mukherjee. Under Invited Revision.
α-Stable Limit Laws for Harmonic Mean Estimators of Marginal Likelihoods with Scott C Schmidler (2011). Statistica Sinica, in press.
Stochastic Expansions Using Continuous Dictionaries: Lévy Adaptive Regression Kernels with Merlise A Clyde and Chong Tu (2011). Annals of Statistics 39(4), 1916-1962.
Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Peak Identification in MALDI-TOF Mass Spectroscopy with Leanna L House and Merlise A Clyde (2011). Annals of Applied Statistics 5 (2B), 1488-1511.
Constraining the initial state granularity with bulk observables in Au+Au collisions at √s_NN=200 GeV with Hannah Petersen, Christopher Coleman-Smith, and Steffen A Bass (2011). J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 38, 045102.
The Stationary Matérn Hard Core Process of Type III with Jesper Møller and Mark Huber (2010). Stochastic Processes & Applications 120, 2142--2158.
On the Supremum of a Certain Family of Stochastic Processes with Wenbo Li and Natesh Pillai (2010). Statistics and Probability Letters 80(11-12), 911-915.
Spatial Inference of Nitrate Concentrations in Groundwater with Dawn Woodard and Michael O'Connell (2010). J. Agr. Biol. Envir. Stat. 15(2), 209-227.
Likelihood-based inference for Matérn Type III Repulsive Point Processes with Mark Huber (2010). Adv. Appl. Prob. 41(4), 958-977.

More papers are in the Duke Statistics Discussion Papers list or on my curriculum vitæ.