Seminar Series 2012-2013

Unless noted otherwise, all seminars take place in Donald Bren Hall sixth floor conference room (DBH 6011) from 4 to 5 p.m.

For additional information, please contact Seminar Administrative Coordinator: Lisa Stieler at lstieler@uci.edu or (949) 824-3806.

Past Statistics Seminar Series:
2014-15
• 2013-14 • 2012-13 • 2011-12 • 2010-11

Date	Speaker	Title
October 8, 2012	Wesley Thompson, UCSD	Methods for Improving Gene Discovery in GWS Abstract
October 15, 2012	Fengzhu Sun, USC	Alignment-Free Genome and Metagenome Comparison Based on NGS Reads Abstract
November 5, 2012	Gabriel Chandler, Pomona College	Testing for Volatility Clusters in Time Series Data Abstract
November 19, 2012	Steve Horvath, UCLA	When is Hub Gene Selection Better Than Standard Meta-Analysis? Abstract
December 3, 2012	Mark Fiecas, UCSD	Temporal and Spatial Methods in Imaging Research Abstract
January 10, 2013	Ping, Li, Cornell University	Big Data: Probabilistic Methods for Efficient Search and Statistical Learning in Extremely High-Dimensional Data Abstract
January 31, 2013	Joel Dubin, University of Waterloo	Challenges in Modeling Longitudinal Smoking Cessation Data, and a Proposed Approach for Modeling Multivariate Longitudinal Data from Smoking Cessation Studies Abstract
February, 7, 2013	Olga Vitek, Purdue University	Statistical Methods and Tools for Quantitative Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics Abstract
February 22, 2013	Ery Arias-Castro, UCSD	On the Convergence of Maximum Variance Unfolding Abstract
February 25, 2013	Murray Aitken, University of Melbourne	Bayesian Model Comparison, and its Relevance to Social Network Modelling Abstract
March 7, 2013	Claudia Kirch, Karlsruher Institute of Technology	Evaluating Stationarity via Change-Point Alternatives with Appliations to fMRI Data Abstract
April 4, 2013	Ronald Christensen, University of New Mexico	No Pun Intended: Surely You are Joking, Dr. Christensen (with apologies to Dr. Feynman) Abstract
April 11, 2013	Rob Kass, Carnegie Mellon	Synchrony Assessment in Neural Spike Trains using Point Process Regression and Bayesian Protection against False Discoveries Abstract
April 25, 2013	Xingping Cui, UC Riverside	Differential Equation Based Modeling and Parameter Estimation for Systems Biology: An Application to Growth of Pollen Tube of Arabidopsis Abstract
May 9, 2013	Thomas Lin, Allergan	(1) Dichotomizing a Continuous Measure for Group Comparisons (2) Statician’s Role in a Pharmaceutical Company Abstract
May 16, 2013	Rob Weiss, UCLA	Eurasian Fusion or The Markov Chinese Restaurant Process: A Non-parametric Bayesian Cluster Memory Model for Longitudinal Data Abstract
May 23, 2013	Raquel Prado, UCSC	Bayesian State-Space Models with Structured Priors for the Analysis of Brain Signals Abstract