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.