The Duke Statistics Research Seminars Academic Year 2008/2009
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos
(Assistant Professor, Dept of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
"Representations and posterior simulation for Dirichlet hierarchical models with applications to inference for non-parametric Hidden Markov Models."
Friday, September 5, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Hedibert Lopes
(Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business)
"Spatial Dynamic Factor Models"
Friday, September 12, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Nicholas Chopin, Professor of Statistics, ENSAE, Paris, France
"A formal and practical assessment of nested sampling (joint work with Christian Robert)"
Friday, September 19, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Rob McCulloch
(Professor, Econometrics & Statistics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business)
"TBD"
Friday, September 26, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Sylvain Rubenthaler
(Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonne, Probability and Statistics Team, Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis Nice, France)
"TBD"
Friday, October 3, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Surya Tokdar
(Morris H. DeGroot Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University)
"TBD"
Friday, October 10, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Fred Wright
(Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"TBD"
Friday, October 17, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Arnaud Doucet
(Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Statistics and Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia)
"TBD"
Friday, October 24, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Edsel Pena
(Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC)
"TBD"
Friday, October 31, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Fei Zou
(Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"TBD"
Friday, November 7, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Peter Mueller
(MD Anderson Cancer Center)
"TBD"
Friday, November 14, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Carlos Carvalhos
(Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business)
"TBD"
Friday, November 21, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Seminars generally take place in 116 Old Chem Building on Fridays from 3:30 - 4:30 pm. However, please check individual abstracts to confirm time and location. Refreshments will be served after the seminars in the lobby of Old Chem.
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