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The CSSS seminar series

The CSSS seminar series is centered around intellectual exchange and interaction, and the audience is encouraged to ask questions during presentations. The goal is a seminar that looks less like a lecture and more like a spirited discussion of issues raised in a relatively brief presentation of a statistical issue or a research project.

All seminars will be held at 12:30 on Wednesdays in Denny 401 unless otherwise noted, and we will aim to conclude by 1:30. Coffee and treats will be provided after the seminar; attendees are also welcome to bring their lunch.

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Spring 2009

Wednesday, April 1, 2009: Bala Rajaratnam, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University; "Estimating Sparse Network Models"; Denny 401, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009: David van Dyk, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California Irvine; "Empirical Comparisons of Computer Models for Stellar Evolution"; Denny 401, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009: Ian Dinwoodie, Visiting Associate Professor of Statistical Sciences, Duke University; "Sequential Sampling for Binary Sequences"; Denny 401, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009: Presentation of CSSS Courses; "Presentation of CSSS courses for 2009-2010 academic year"; Denny 401, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009: Jon A. Krosnick, Frederick O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Stanford University; "The Accuracy of Online Surveys with Non-probability Samples of People who Volunteer to do Surveys for Money"; Denny 401, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009: Aleksandra Slavkovic, Assistant Professor Department of Statistics, Penn State; "Logistic Regression with Distributed Databases"; Denny 401, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009: Mayetri Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University; "Prior Elicitation and Variable Selection in High Dimensional Regression Models"; Denny 401, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009: Patrick Gerland, Population Affairs Officer Population Division, United Nations; "Estimation of Robust Demographic Time-series with Noisy Data for Developing Countries: Selected Cases Studies from Africa and Asia"; Denny 401, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009: Carlos Calvalho, Assistant Professor of Econometrics & Statistics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business; "Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe"; Denny 401, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.