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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 Savery 409 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.

For information or questions about the CSSS Seminars, please contact our CSSS Seminar Director, Peter Hoff.

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Winter 2010

Wednesday, January 6, 2010: Peter Hoff, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington; "Hierarchical Modeling of Longitudinal Trade Networks"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010: Jon Wakefield, Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Washington; "The Combination of Ecological and Individual Level Data"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010: Rebecca Nugent, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University; "Mixture Model Component Trees as an Alternative to High-Dimensional
Cognitive Diagnosis Models"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010: Becky Pettit, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Washington; "Invisible Men: Prison Growth and the Construction of Social Statistics"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010: Eric Zivot, Professor of Economics and Gary Waterman Distinguished Scholar, University of Washington; "Evaluating the Impact of Environmental Policy on the Trend Behavior of U.S. Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides and Volatile Organic Compounds"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010: S. McKay Curtis, Post-Doc Researcher, Department of Statistics, University of Washington; "Bayesian approaches to factor analysis models for cognitive outcomes with multiple nuisance dimensions"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010: Teddy Seidenfeld, H.A. Simon Professor of Philosophy and Statistics, Departments of Philosophy and Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University; "Forecasting with Imprecise Probabilities [IP] - some preliminary findings"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010: Jennifer Hill, Associate Professor of Applied Statistics, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, New York University(NYU) -Steinhardt; "Addressing lack of common support in causal inference using Bayesian non-parametrics"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010: John Bongaarts, Vice President, Policy Research Division, The Population Council, New York; "The Quantum and Tempo of Life-Cycle Events"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010: Allan Stam, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan; "A New Understanding of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.