Seminar Series 2014-2015

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
September 23, 2014	Martin Tingley, Penn State	Changes in Means and Extremes of Surface Temperatures, from Centennial to Daily Timescales Abstract
October 2, 2014	Duncan Thomas, USC	Empirical and Mechanistic Modeling of Gene-Environment and Gene-Gene Interactions in Candidate Pathway and Genomewide Studies Abstract
October 9, 2014	Sudipto Banerjee, University of Minnesota	On Nearest-Neighbor Gaussian Process Models for High-Dimensional Geostatistical Datasets Abstract
October 16, 2014	Daniel Schaid, Mayo Clinic	Whole-Exome Sequencing Scan in Pedigrees and Controls: Association and Cosegregation Methods Abstract
October 23, 2014	Cyril Rakovski, Chapman University	Unweighted Analysis of Counter-Matched Case-Control Data Abstract
November 6, 2014	Stacey Hancock, UCI	Metonymy as a Lens Into Student Understanding of Sampling Distributions Abstract
November 13, 2014 *Seminar will be held in 2011 Bren Hall	Abel Rodriguez, UCSC	Modeling Dynamic Networks, with Applications to Financial Regulation Abstract
November 25, 2014	Dimitris Politis, UCSD	Model-free Prediction Intervals for Regression and Autoregression Abstract
December 4, 2014	Michael Donohue, UCSD	Modeling Long-term Disease Progression Abstract
January 15, 2015	Shiwei Lan, University of Warwick (UK)	Adaptive Geometric Monte Carlos Using Gaussian Process Emulation for Computation Entensive Models Abstract
February 5, 2015 (4-5 p.m., 2011 Bren Hall)	Shemra Rizzo (UCLA)	Meta-Analysis of Odds Ratios with Incomplete Extracted Data Abstract
February 6, 2015 (4-5 p.m., 2011 Bren Hall)	Jesse Windle (Duke University)	A Tractable State-space Model for Dynamic Covariance Matrices Abstract
February 9, 2015 (3-4 p.m., 2011 Bren Hall)	Jessica Cisewski (Carnegie Mellon)	Approximate Bayesian Computation for the Stellar Initial Mass Function Abstract
February 10, 2015 (4-5 p.m., 2011 Bren Hall)	Weining Shen (University of Texas)	Theory and Computation for Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation Problems Abstract
February 11, 2015 (2-3 p.m., 2011 Bren Hall)	Antonio Linero (University of Florida)	Flexible Bayesian Analysis in the Presence of Nonignorable Missingness Abstract
February 12, 2015	Talithia Williams (Harvey Mudd)	Know Thyself: Introspective Data Mining Abstract
March 5, 2015	Rob Kass (Carnegie Mellon University)	Examples of Bayesian Statistical Thinking in Neuroscience Abstract
April 16, 2015	David Stoffer (University of Pittsburgh)	Almost Everything You Always Wanted to Know about NONLINEAR STATE SPACE MODELS (but were afraid to ask) Abstract
April 23, 2015	Joachim Vandekerckhove (UCI)	Cognitive Psychometrics and Cognitive Latent Variable Models Abstract
April 30, 2015	Yaming Yu (UCI)	Multiplicative Algorithms: Why do They Converge and How to Make them Faster Abstract
May 7, 2015	Dan Gillen (UCI)	Characterizing Transitive Two-Sample Tests Abstract
May 14, 2015	Reza Ramezan, (Cal State Fullerton)	A Biologically Justified Approach to Modeling Neural Spike Trains Abstract
June 4, 2015	Wes Johnson (UCI)	Bayesian Semi-parametric Longitudinal Data Analysis Abstract