Statistics GIDP Colloquia

Colloquia sponsored by or of interest to faculty in the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP) in Statistics at the University of Arizona.

Spring 2010:

The GIDP in Statistics sponsors, co-sponsors, and lists colloquia, seminars, and other public forums to disseminate modern research in statistics and quantitative thinking. Primary Statistics Colloquia are typically held the second Monday of every month while classes are in session.

Interested individuals are encouraged to attend the following events. Further information is available from the listed sponsor or source of the event. This list will be updated regularly as more events are brought to our attention.

• Cancer Prevention and Control Seminar:
  Wednesday, 27 January 2010: Dr. Georg Luebeck, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
  "Biological modeling of colorectal cancer: Implications, applications, challenges"
  9:00 am - 10:00 am, Arizona Cancer Center, Kiewit Auditorium.

• Statistics GIDP Colloquium:
  Monday, 8 February 2010: Professor Scott Eliason, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona.
  "On the empirical support for statistical models estimated by maximum likelihood and related methods"
  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Student Union Memorial Center (SUMC), Presidio Room.

• Statistics GIDP Colloquium:
  Monday, 1 March 2010: Mr. Paul T. Edlefsen, Department of Statistics, Harvard University.
  "Profile HMMs for DNA sequence families: the conditional Baum-Welch and dynamic model-surgery algorithms"
  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Mathematics Building, Room 501.

• Statistics GIDP Colloquium:
  Monday, 8 March 2010: Professor Kobus Barnard, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona.
  "Statistical inference in computer vision"
  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Student Union Memorial Center (SUMC), Presidio Room.

• Statistics GIDP Colloquium:
  Monday, 29 March 2010: Dr. Abhishek Bhattacharya, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University.
  "Nonparametric Bayes inference on manifolds with applications to hypersphere and shape spaces"
  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Student Union Memorial Center (SUMC), Presidio Room.

• Statistics GIDP Colloquium:
  Monday, 12 April 2010: Annual Faculty Meeting
  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Student Union Memorial Center (SUMC), Presidio Room.

Statistics Colloquia from past semesters:
Fall 2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007

To have your event listed on this website, contact the Colloquia & Forums Committee of the GIDP in Statistics:
Statistics GIDP
The University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210240
BIO5 Institute
1657 E. Helen St.
Tucson, AZ 85721

Tel: 520.621.2357

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