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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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Fall 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009: Eric Xing, Associate Professor, Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; "Time Varying Networks: Reverse Engineering and Analyzing Rewiring Social and Genetic Interactions"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009: Christopher Adolph, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, and CSSS, University of Washington; "Getting Ahead in the Communist Party: Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009: Sylvia Richardson, Chair in Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, United Kingdom; "Bayesian Graphical Models for Combining Multiple Data Sources, with Applications in Environmental Epidemiology"
This talk is sponsored in part by the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences (PIMS).; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009: Ben Hansen, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan; "Propensity Score Matching to Recover Latent Experiments: Diagnostics and Asymptotics"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009: Yang Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago; "Cohort Analysis in Social Research: What's New?"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009: Sabrina Oesterle, Research Assistant Professor, Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington; "Latent Pathways to Adulthood and their Associations with Alcohol, Tobacco, and Marijuana Abuse and Dependence"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009: Veteran's Day - No Seminar
Wednesday, November 18, 2009: Claus Portner, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Washington; "The Determinants of Sex-Selective Abortions"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009: Miruna Petrescu-Prahova, Post-Doc Researcher, Department of Statistics, University of Washington; "Discrete Exponential Family Models for Residential Settlement and Segregation"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009: Elizabeth (Betz) Halloran, Professor in Biostatistics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; "TBA"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009: Adrian Raftery, Blumstein-Jordan Professor of Statistics and Sociology, Department of Statistics, University of Washington; "Probabilistic Projections of HIV Prevalence Using Bayesian Melding"; Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.