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Last Year's Seminars

Fall 2006 Speaker Topic
September 5 No seminar; first week of class
September 12 Dennis Tolley
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics		 Probability in a Certain World
September 19 Yasuo Amemiya
IBM
Thomas J. Watson Research Center		 Modern Multivariate Analysis for Business and Technology Applications
September 26 Jeff Humpherys
Brigham Young University
Department of Mathematics		 Algorithmic Decision Processes
October 3 No seminar today; moved to October 6th
October 6 Dave Higdon
Los Alamos National Laboratory		 Simulator-aided Inference for Multivariate Field Data and Simulator Output
October 10 Gil Fellingham
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics		 Every Play, Every Day--A Success Story for Statistics in Sports
October 17 Erin Bigler
Brigham Young University
Department of Psychology		 Neuroimaging and Cognitive Neuroscience: Contemporary Methods for Studying Brain-Behavior Relationships
October 24 Steve Kuykendall
Medtronics Inc.		 ASQ Sponsored Seminar
October 31 Bill Brady
Brigham Young University
Marriott School of Management
Business Career Center		 Successful Interviewing
November 7 No seminar today; Election Day
November 14 Kevin Seppi
Brigham Young University
Department of Computer Science		 Optimization in a Bayesian Age
November 21 No seminar; Friday instruction day
November 28 Natalie Blades
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics		 Transcriptional Repression by Estrogen Receptors
December 5 Herbie Lee
UC Santa Cruz
Department of Applied
Mathematics and Statistics		 Nonstationary Modeling and Adaptive Sampling Using Treed Gaussian Processes
December 12 Stephan Sain
National Center for Atmospheric Research		 Multivariate Markov Random Field Models for Assessing Regional Climate Model Output


Winter 2007 Speaker Topic
January 9 No seminar; first week of class
January 16 William F. Christensen
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics		 Integrating diverse sources of airshed information
January 23 Shane Reese
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics		 Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trial Design for Dose Response Studies
January 30 Gretchen Moisen
US Forest Service
Rocky Mountain Research Station		 Nevada's Photo-based Inventory Pilot (NPIP)
February 6 Bruce Brown
Brigham Young University
Department of Psychology		 Why Factor Analysis Can’t Deliver All that Psychologists Expect: The Overlooked Matter of Measurement Error
February 13 Dennis Eggett
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics		 Student Survival Seminar
February 20 No seminar; Monday instruction day
February 27 J. Andres Christen
CIMAT
Guanajuato, Mexico		 The t-walk: A Self-Adjusting Multi-Scale MCMC Algorithm
March 6 Melanie Wall
University of Minnesota
Division of Biostatistics		 Modeling multiple latent classes
March 13 Sharad Prahbu
The SAS Institute		 The Changing Landscape of Design of Experiments
March 20 Cancelled
March 27 Mevin Hooten
Utah State University
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics		 Non-linear process specifications in hierarchical spatio-temporal models
April 3 Keith Baggerly
University of Texas
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center		 Cell Lines, Microarrays, Drugs and Disease: Predicting Response to Chemotherapy
April 10 Earl C. Lawrence
Los Alamos National Laboratory
April 17 Mu Sigma Rho End-of-Year Seminar
January 24 Test

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