Statistics GIDP Colloquia

Colloquia sponsored by or of interest to faculty in the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP) in Statistics at the University of Arizona.

Spring 2008:

The GIDP in Statistics sponsors, co-sponsors, and lists colloquia, seminars, and other public forums to disseminate modern research in statistics and quantitative thinking.

Interested individuals are encouraged to attend the following events. Further information is available from the listed sponsor or source of the event. This list will be regularly updated as more events are brought to our attention.

• Monday, January 14, 2008: Dr. Lifeng Wang, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, the University of Pennsylvania.
  Regularization and Variable Selection for Multiclass Support Vector Machine and Varying-Coefficient Models with Applications in Genomics
  4:00 pm, Math Bldg., Room 501.
  Sponsor: Department of Mathematics.

• Wednesday, January 16, 2008: Professor Bonnie LaFleur, Division of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University.
  Likelihood-Based Evaluation of Normalization Techniques
  12:00 pm, Drachman Hall, Room A114.
  Sponsor: Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health Scholar Seminar Series.

• Tuesday, January 29, 2008: Mr. Vivekananda Roy, Department of Statistics, the University of Florida.
  Convergence rates and asymptotic standard errors for MCMC algorithms for Bayesian probit regression
  3:15 pm, Math Bldg., Room 501.
  Sponsor: Department of Mathematics.

• Friday, February 1, 2008: Mr. Guilherme V. Rocha, Department of Statistics, the University of California, Berkeley.
  Designing penalty functions for grouped and hierarchical selection
  4:00 pm, Math Bldg., Room 402.
  Sponsor: Department of Mathematics.

• Monday, February 4, 2008: Dr. Iryna Lobach, Yale Center for Statistical Genomics and Proteomics, Yale University.
  Pathway-based analysis of large-scale association studies
  12:00 noon, Shantz, Room 440.
  Sponsor: Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.

• Tuesday, February 5, 2008: Dr, Chiu-Hsieh (Paul) Hsu , Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, College of Public Health
  Survival Analysis via Multiple Imputation
  4:15 pm, Keating Building, Room 103

• Friday, February 8, 2008: Ms. Lingling An, Department of Statistics, Purdue University.
  Dynamic Clustering of Time Series Gene Expression
  12:00 noon, Shantz, Room 440.
  Sponsor: Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.

• Monday, February 11, 2008: Dr. Leanna House, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University.
  Functional data analysis using a Levy random fields model for multi-spectra feature extraction and classification
  12:00 noon, Shantz, Room 440.
  Sponsor: Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.

• Tuesday, February 12, 2008: Dr. Ted Trouard, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and BIO5 Institute
  Noninvasive Measurement of Tissue Properties with MRI
  4:15 pm, Keating Building, Room 103
  Sponsors: Bio5 Institute, Applied Mathematics GIDP, Statistics GIDP, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health

• Tuesday, February 19, 2008: Dr. Gary Skinner,Department of Physics
  Mechanical Tension within DNA Controls Gene Transcription Initiation
  4:15 pm, Keating Building, Room 103
  Sponsors: Bio5 Institute, Applied Mathematics GIDP, Statistics GIDP, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
  

• Wednesday, February 20, 2008: Dr. Sholom Wacholder, Senior Investogator NCI, Screeing for Rare Disease and Other Problems of Searching for theFew Among the Many
  12:00 pm, Drachman Hall, Room A114
  

• Tuesday, February 26, 2008: Dr. Bruce Walsh, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and BIO5 Institute
  Who's Your Great-great-great Granddaddy?  Estimation of Time to Most
  Recent Common Ancestor Give Molecular Gemological Data
  4:15 pm, Keating Building, Room 103
  Sponsors: Bio5 Institute, Applied Mathematics GIDP, Statistics GIDP, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
  

• Tuesday, March 4, 2008: Dr. Jonathan Overpeck, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth
  Departments of Geosciences and  Atmospheric Sciences
  Climate Change, Sea Level, and Western Drought: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference?
  4:15 pm, Keating Building, Room 103
  Sponsors: Bio5 Institute, Applied Mathematics GIDP, Statistics GIDP, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
  

• Thursday, March 6, 2008: Professor David Rocke, Division of Biostatistics, University of California–Davis.
  Pre-Processing Spectroscopic Data for Omics Analysis
  12:00 pm, BioSciences West, Room 210.
  Sponsor: Statistics GIDP.

• Tuesday, March 11, 2008: Dr. Bonnie LaFleur, University of Utah, Biostatistics Section Department of Pediatrics
  Quantitative Issues in Biomarker Development
  10:30 am, Drachman Hall, Room A122.

• Tuesday, March 11, 2008: Professor Dean Billheimer, University of Utah.
  An Introduction to Compositional Data Analysis
  12:00 pm, SUMC, Sabino Room.
  Sponsor: Statistics GIDP.

• Tuesday, March 11, 2008: Dr. Vicki Chandler, Director, BIO5 Institute
  Quantitative Analyses of Single- and Multi-locus Tandem Repeats in the Human Genome
  4:15 pm, Keating Building, Room 103
  Sponsors: Bio5 Institute, Applied Mathematics GIDP, Statistics GIDP, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
  

• Friday, March 14, 2008: Dr. Ching-Ti Liu, Yale University, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
  A forest-based approach to identifying gene and gene-gene interactions
  11:30 am, Drachman Hall, Room A114.

• Friday, March 21, 2008: Dr. Chengcheng Hu, Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics
  Recursive Partitioning Method in the Study of HIV Resistance Mutations
  11:30 am, Drachman Hall, Room A114.

• Tuesday, March 25, 2008: Ms. Julia Arciero, Program in Applied Mathematics
  Roles of Oxygen-dependent ATP Release by Red Blood Cells and Conducted Responses in Metabolic Blood Flow Regulation
  4:15 pm, Keating Building, Room 103
  Sponsors: Bio5 Institute, Applied Mathematics GIDP, Statistics GIDP, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
  

• Tuesday, April 1, 2008. Postponed to Tuesday, April 29
  

• Tuesday, April 8, 2008: Mr. Jonathan Dyhr, Program in Neuroscience
  Visual Speedometers in the Honeybee Brain
  4:15 pm, Keating Building, Room 103
  Sponsors: Bio5 Institute, Applied Mathematics GIDP, Statistics GIDP, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
  

• Wednesday, April 9, 2008: Dr. Walter Piegorsch, GIDP in Statistics and Department of Mathematics
  The UA GIDP in Statistics: An Introduction, Illustrated with Transitional Benchmark Risk Assessment
  12:00 noon, Keating Building, Room 103
  Sponsors: Bio5 Institute, Statistics GIDP
  

• Tuesday, April 15, 2008: Dr. Alain Goriely, Department of Mathematics, Dr. Andrew Hausrath,
  Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
  Coils, Coiled-coils, and Coiled-coiled-coils: Unraveling the Hierarchical Structure of Adiponectin
  4:15 pm, Keating Building, Room 103
  Sponsors: Bio5 Institute, Applied Mathematics GIDP, Statistics GIDP, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
  

• Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Dr. Parker Antin, Departments of Cell Biology and Anatomy and Molecular and Cellular Biology
  4:15 pm, Keating Building, Room 103
  Sponsors: Bio5 Institute, Applied Mathematics GIDP, Statistics GIDP, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
  

• Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Dr. Leo Lopes, Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering
  Network Modeling of Gene Regulatory Pathways in Vertebrate Development
  4:15 pm, Keating Building, Room 103
  Sponsors: Bio5 Institute, Applied Mathematics GIDP, Statistics GIDP, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
  

• Tuesday, April 29, 2008: Dr. Herman Gordon, Departments of Cell Biology and Anatomy and Molecular and Cellular Biology
  Multiple Models of Molecular Assembly at Synapses
  4:15 pm, Keating Building, Room 103
  Sponsors: Bio5 Institute, Applied Mathematics GIDP, Statistics GIDP, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
  

• Friday, May 2, 2008: Judah Rosenblatt, Retired Director of Biomathematics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
  Alternative approaches to some frequently encountered mathematical and statistical problems
  3:00 pm, Math 402. See abstract.
  

Statistics Colloquia from past semesters:
    Fall 2007

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Statistics GIDP
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