Robert L Wolpert

Office: 211-C Old Chemistry Building Phone: +1-919-684-3275
Fax: +1-919-684-8594
E-mail: wolpert@stat.duke.edu

Mailing Address:

Duke University Dept Stat Science
211c Old Chem, Box 90251
Durham, NC 27708-0251 USA

A short description of my current research interests.
Recent research papers, presentations, my cv, or our FDS website (up). Sakai
Current (F12) course:

STA 711(205) Probability and Measure Theory Storm Sakai

Past courses:

STA 230(104)/MTH 230(135)	Probability	F05, F08, F09, F10	STA 711(205)	Prob & Measure	S06, S07, S08, S09, F10, F11
STA 250(114)/MTH 342(136)	Statistics	S00, S01, S09, F09, S11	STA 732(215)	Stat Inference	S00, S01, S02, S05, S06, S07
STA 832(345)	Multivariate	S10	STA 690(293)	Topics	F98, F01, F02, S04, S08

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Member, CTMS (Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences) and its Steering Committee
Faculty Fellow, SAMSI (Statistics & Applied Mathematics Institute), and participant in the extremes and surrogate working groups
Member, ITAC (Information Technology Advisory Council) and of its Steering Committee
Member, LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) ISSC (Informatics and Statistics Science Collaboration)
Member, MADAI (Models and Data Analysis Initiative) Collaboration)
Member, PARISS (Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences) Board
Member, RCAC (Research Computing Advisory Council)
Member, SCAC (Scalable Computing Advisory Committee)
Member, USP (University Scholars Program) Faculty Advisory Board.
Member, Duke/UNC Probability Group and Duke Probability Working Group.
PI, Froggy (Focussed Research Group on Prediction & Risk of Extreme Events) Volcano Team.
Honorary Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London
Adjunct Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Friend of the: Duke Lemur Center, Duke Park Neighborhood, Nasher Museum, NC Zoo, NCMLS and Cornell Ornithology lab.

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Presentations

2011-07-06:09	E Lansing, MI	MADAI Meeting	What are the odds? (full)
2011-10-17	RTP, NC	SAMSI Extremes WG Meeting	Extremal Dependence: Where to Start? (full)
2012-04-02:05	Raleigh, NC	UQ12: SIAM Conf on U Q (Sched)	Combining Deterministic and Stochastic Models for Hazard Assessment (full)
2012-04-19:21	RTP, NC	L-R Dep, Self-Sim & Heavy Tails
2012-09-09:12	RTP, NC	SAMSI Massive Data Workshop
Duke Statistics Meetings Calendar		ASA Meetings Calendar	ISI Meetings Calendar

Recent Research Papers

Markov Infinitely-Divisible Stationary Time-Reversible Integer-Valued Processess with Larry Brown. Submitted.
Geometric Representations of Hypergraphs for Prior Specification and Posterior Sampling with Simón Lunagómez and Sayan Mukherjee. Under Invited Revision.
α-Stable Limit Laws for Harmonic Mean Estimators of Marginal Likelihoods with Scott C Schmidler (2011). Statistica Sinica 22(3), in press.
Stochastic Expansions Using Continuous Dictionaries: Lévy Adaptive Regression Kernels with Merlise A Clyde and Chong Tu (2011). Annals of Statistics 39(4), 1916-1962.
Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Peak Identification in MALDI-TOF Mass Spectroscopy with Leanna L House and Merlise A Clyde (2011). Annals of Applied Statistics 5 (2B), 1488-1511.
Constraining the initial state granularity with bulk observables in Au+Au collisions at √s_NN=200 GeV with Hannah Petersen, Christopher Coleman-Smith, and Steffen A Bass (2011). J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 38, 045102.

More papers are in the Duke Statistics Discussion Papers list or on my curriculum vitæ.