Colloquium Schedule

Fall 2009

Each colloquium is held from 3:30 to 4:45 in room 204 in Hutcheson Hall. Unless otherwise noted.

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
September 3 Andrew Nobel Depart. of Statistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill Finding Significant Large-Average Submatrices in High Dimensional Data
September 10 Tina Savla Dept. of Human Development, Virginia Tech Effects of Missing Data on Statistical Power: A Primer
September 17 Naren Ramakrishnan Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech Graphical Models of Evolutionary Constraints in Protein Families
September 24 Jenise Swall US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC Statistical Issues in the Assessment of Air Quality Model Performance
October 15 Bjarne Bergquist Lulea University of Technology Quality Improvement in Process Industry Experimenting with time series and Improving Quality of International Research Cooperation
October 22 Chris Parmeter Dept. of Ag. Econ, Virginia Tech Constrained Nonparametric Kernel Regression: Estimation and Inference
November 5 Helen Zhang Dept. of Statistics, North Carolina State University Automatic Model Structure Selection for Partially Linear Models
November 12 Montserrat Fuentes Dept. of Statistics, North Carolina State University Clearing the Air
November 19 Xiaoli Hou Biometrics Research, Merck Research Labs TBA
December 3 Justine Shults Dept. of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania (HUP), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine TBA