Unless noted otherwise, all seminars take place in Donald Bren Hall sixth floor conference room (DBH 6011) from 4 to 5 p.m.
For additional information, please contact Seminar Administrative Coordinator: Lisa Stieler at lstieler@uci.edu or (949) 824-3806.
Date
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Speaker
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Title
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October 8, 2012 |
Wesley Thompson, UCSD |
Methods for Improving Gene Discovery in GWS |
October 15, 2012 |
Fengzhu Sun, USC |
Alignment-Free Genome and Metagenome Comparison Based on NGS Reads |
November 5, 2012 |
Gabriel Chandler, Pomona College |
Testing for Volatility Clusters in Time Series Data |
November 19, 2012 |
Steve Horvath, UCLA |
When is Hub Gene Selection Better Than Standard Meta-Analysis? |
December 3, 2012 |
Mark Fiecas, UCSD |
Temporal and Spatial Methods in Imaging Research |
January 10, 2013 |
Ping, Li, Cornell University |
Big Data: Probabilistic Methods for Efficient Search and Statistical Learning in Extremely High-Dimensional Data |
January 31, 2013 |
Joel Dubin, University of Waterloo |
Challenges in Modeling Longitudinal Smoking Cessation Data, and a Proposed Approach for Modeling Multivariate Longitudinal Data from Smoking Cessation Studies |
February, 7, 2013 |
Olga Vitek, Purdue University |
Statistical Methods and Tools for Quantitative Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics |
February 22, 2013 |
Ery Arias-Castro, UCSD |
On the Convergence of Maximum Variance Unfolding |
February 25, 2013 |
Murray Aitken, University of Melbourne |
Bayesian Model Comparison, and its Relevance to Social Network Modelling |
March 7, 2013 |
Claudia Kirch, Karlsruher Institute of Technology |
Evaluating Stationarity via Change-Point Alternatives with Appliations to fMRI Data |
April 4, 2013 |
Ronald Christensen, University of New Mexico |
No Pun Intended: Surely You are Joking, Dr. Christensen (with apologies to Dr. Feynman) |
April 11, 2013 | Rob Kass, Carnegie Mellon |
Synchrony Assessment in Neural Spike Trains using Point Process Regression and Bayesian Protection against False Discoveries |
April 25, 2013 | Xingping Cui, UC Riverside |
Differential Equation Based Modeling and Parameter Estimation for Systems Biology: An Application to Growth of Pollen Tube of Arabidopsis |
May 9, 2013 | Thomas Lin, Allergan |
(1) Dichotomizing a Continuous Measure for Group Comparisons (2) Statician’s Role in a Pharmaceutical Company |
May 16, 2013 | Rob Weiss, UCLA |
Eurasian Fusion or The Markov Chinese Restaurant Process: A Non-parametric Bayesian Cluster Memory Model for Longitudinal Data |
May 23, 2013 | Raquel Prado, UCSC |
Bayesian State-Space Models with Structured Priors for the Analysis of Brain Signals |