Departmental Colloquia

Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University

The Department hosts a colloquium series featuring presentations of current research and special topics in statistics by leading researchers in the field. All are welcome to attend. Students registered for STAT 681 receive course credit for attending the regular talks.

Colloquium Schedule, Spring 2002
Date Time Room Speaker Topic
Tue, Feb 5 4-5pm BLOC 411 Yan Cui, Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health		 Biological Knowledge Discovery Through the
Analysis of Genome-Wide Gene Expression Data
Thur, Feb 7 4-5pm BLOC 150 Zhengyuan Zhu, University of Chicago Design and Inference for Gaussian Random Fields
Fri, Feb 8 4-5pm BLOC 448 Vlada Pipiras, Department of Mathematics
Boston University		 Estimation of the Self-Similarity Parameter when
Data has Finite Variance or is Heavy-Tailed
Tue, Feb 12 4-5pm BLOC 448 Yoonkyung Lee, Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison		 Multicategory Support Vector Machines
Fri, Feb 15 4-5pm BLOC 448 Athanasios Kottas, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Duke University		 Direchlet Process Mixture Modeling for Nonparametric
Bayesian Regression, Survival Analysis and Spatial
Data Analysis
Tues, Feb 19 4-5pm BLOC 448 Gabriel Huerta, CIMAT, Mexico Time Series Modeling Via Hierarchical Mixtures
Thur, Feb 21 4-5pm BLOC 150 Xueli Liu, University of California-Davis Warping and Convex Synchronization for Random Curves
with Applications to Biological Functional Data
Tues, Feb 26 4-5pm BLOC 448 Faming Liang, Department of Mathematics
National University of Singapore		 Some Strategies for Improving MCMC with Applications
in Statistics and Computational Biology
Thur, Feb 28 4-5pm BLOC 150 Yijun Zuo, Department of Mathematics
Arizona State University		 Projection Depth Functions and Some Applications
Thu, Mar 14 Spring Break
Thur, Mar 21 4-5pm BLOC 150 Marc Aerts
Thur, Mar 28 4-5pm BLOC 150 Tianxi Cai
Thur, April 11 4-5pm BLOC 150 Cheng Cheng
Thur, April 18 4-5pm BLOC 150 Deb Sinha

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