Spring 2009
Colloquia Organizer: Patti Williamson
Joint Biostatistics Symposium-May 15
CWRU/CCF/OSU Annual Biostatistics Symposium
hosted at Cleveland Clinic
Lerner Research Institute, NA5-08
East 100th Street and Carnegie Avenue
11:30-4:30
Schedule of Events
Mar 6
Craig Zirbel
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Bowling Green State University
2:30-3:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
3:00-4:00—Talk, Yost 101
RNA multiple sequence alignment using stochastic context-free grammars and 3D structural data
Mar 20
Julius Smetona
Fellow of the Society of Actuaries
President and Founder, DeSales Associates
2:30-3:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
3:00-4:00—Talk, Yost 101
The Development of Actuarial Education
Mar 27
Alexandra Piryatinska
Department of Mathematics
San Francisco State University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Multivariate Analysis of EEG-Sleep Patterns of Neonates
Apr 10
Sreenu Konda
Department of Statistics
Temple University
2:30-3:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
3:00-4:00—Talk, Yost 101
Asymptotics for Time-Dependent Autoregressive Processes
Apr 17
Michael Woodroofe
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
2:30-3:00—Refreshments, Yost 300
3:00-4:00—Talk, Yost 300
The Conditional Central Limit Question
For a Stationary Process With Applications to Time Series
Fall 2008
Colloquia Organizer: Patti Williamson
Sep 3
Tomas Radivoyevitch
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Equilibrium Model Selection
Sep 17
Maria Rizzo
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Bowling Green State University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Distance Correlation
Oct 1
Curtis Tatsuoka
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Cleveland Clinic
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Sequential testing in classification on partially ordered models
Oct 8
Bin Wang
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of South Alabama
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
A Generalized Density Estimation Method for High Quantile Estimation
Nov 12
David Gurarie
Department of Mathematics
Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Stochastic Models of Infection Diseases: In-host Dynamics and Community Transmission
Nov 19
Bo Hu
Assistant Staff
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
A Semiparametric Joint Model for Longitudinal and Survival Data
Spring 2008
Colloquia Organizer: Patti Williamson
Jan 30
Jiayang Sun
Professor, Department of Statistics
Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Tube Method and Its Applications
Feb 6
Daniela Calvetti
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost, Room 101
Statistical Framework for Computational Cellular Metabolic Models
Feb 15--CANCELED
Sreenu Konda
Assistant Professor, Statistics Department
Temple University
2:30-3:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
3:00-4:00—Talk, Yost 101
Fitting Nonstationary Time Series with Whittle Likelihood Estimator on Sieves
Feb 27
Manfred Denker
Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics
Case Western Reserve University
Professor, Institut fur Mathematische Stochastik
Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Maximum likelihood estimation for random matrix ensembles
Mar 5
Balgobin Nandram
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Bayesian Nonresponse Models for Small Areas: An Application to Body Mass Index
Mar 26
Xiaofeng Zhu
Associate Professor
Division of Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Genetic Association Analysis and Population Structure
Apr 16
Rafal Weren
Ph.D. Wroclav University or Technology
Hugo Steinhaus Center for Stochastic Method
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Modeling and forecasting electricity prices
Apr 23
Kazim Khan
Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Kent State University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
CUSUM Stopping Rule & Financial Trading
Fall 2007
Colloquia Organizer: Patti Williamson
Sep 5
Manfred Denker
Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics
Case Western Reserve University
Professor, Institut fur Mathematische Stochastik
Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
A New Type of Bootstrapping Based on Almost Sure Limit Theorems
Sep 19
Liang Li
Assistant Staff, Biostatistics, Quantitative Health Sciences
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 10
Varying Coefficients Model with Measurement Error
Sep 26
Akim Adekpedjou
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Missouri-Rolla
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Estimation with Recurrent Event Data: Modeling and Analysis
Oct 1
Richard Charnigo
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics (College of Public Health)
Department of Statistics (College of Arts and Sciences)
University of Kentucky
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 300
Local and Global Analytic Curve Estimation
Oct 17
Norman Bresky
Swagelok Company
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Local and Global Analytic Curve Estimation
Oct 31
Vinay Cheruvu
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Mediation and Causal Inference
Nov 7
John Barnard
Head, Section of Biostatistics
Head, Section of Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Genome-Wide Association Studies: A Look at Their Past, Present, and Future
Nov 9
Rong Chen
Professor of Statistics, Dept. of Information and Decision Sciences
College of Business Administration
The University of Illinois at Chicago
12:30-1:30 Yost 101 (Refreshments)
Sequential Monte Carlo Methods and Their Applications:
An Overview and Recent Developments
Nov 14
Robert Wilkenson
Manager, Statistics and Intelligent Systems
The Lubrizol Corporation
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
Nov 28
Thomas Love
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (SOM)
Department of Operations (Weatherhead)
Director, Biostatistics and Evaluation Unit, Center for Health Care Research and Policy Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments, Yost 327
4:00-5:00—Talk, Yost 101
SUMMER 2007 SPECIAL SEMINARS
June 15
Roger Bielefeld
Director of Research Computing
Case Western Reserve University
12:00-1:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
ITS Research Computing
May 17
The 2007 Annual
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Ohio State University
Joint Biostatistics Symposium
Please email donna.marine@case.edu by April 16th to reserve lunch
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
11:30-11:45-Registration
11:45-12:45-Lunch
Click here for complete agenda
Spring 2007
Colloquia Organizer: Patti Williamson
April 25
John Holcomb
Department of Mathematics
Cleveland State University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Forecasting Police Calls during Peak Times for the City of Cleveland: A Case Study
April 18
Sunil Rao
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Fence Methods for Mixed Model Selection
April 11
John Cushman
Department of Mathematics
Purdue University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Dispersion Revisited: Generalized Hydrodynamics, Renormalization, Fractional Equations and the CTRW
April 4
Wojbor Woyczynski
Department of Statistics
Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Non-Gaussian linear and nonlinear diffusive models in the physical sciences and finance
March 28
Yuping Wu
Department of Mathematics
Cleveland State University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Feature-Based Classification of Proteomics Data
March 21
Mark Schluchter
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
CASE
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Joint Modeling of longitudinal and Time-to-event Data - Applications to Studies of Progressive Renal Disease and Cystic Fibrosis
March 7
Bin Wang
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of South Alabama
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Density Estimation for Informatively Censored Data
February 28
Jing Li
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Statistical Challenges in Genome-Wide Association Studies
February 21
Rhoderick N. Machekano
Center for Health Research and Policy and Center for AIDS Research
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Efficacy Studies of Malaria Treatments in Africa: Efficient Estimation with Missing Indicators of Failure
February 7
Patricia P. Williamson
Department of Statistics
Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
"Bayesian Analysis: An Overview with Application to Equivalence Testing
Fall 2006
Colloquia Organizer: Patti Williamson
December 6
Statistics Colloquium
Heather Morrison
Astronomy Department
CASE
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Fashionably Late? Building up the Galaxy's Inner Halo
November 29
Statistics Colloquium
Tonglin Zhang
Statistics Department
Purdue University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Spatial Clustering Detection in Loglinear Models
November 15
Statistics Colloquium
Stephen Ganocy
NIMH Center for Bipolar Disorder
Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Statistics in Psychiatry
November 1
Statistics Colloquium
Hemant Ishwaran
Dept. of Quantitative Health Sciences
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Some Useful Statistical Tools for Data Analysis
October 18
Statistics Colloquium
David Dean
Neurological Surgery
Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101 Diagnostic Imaging of Brain Tumor Photodynamic Therapy
October 4
Statistics Colloquium
Jim Albert
Bowling Green State University
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Hitting in the Pinch
Spring 2006
Colloquia Organizer: Joseph Sedransk
May 5
Statistics Colloquium
Jason Fine
University of Wisconsin--Madison
Department of Statistics
Department of Biostatistis & Medical Informatics
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Functional Regression Modelling of Survival Proceses
Apr 26
Statistics Colloquium
Robert Elston
CASE, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Advances in Statistical Human Genetics over the Last 25 Years
Apr 19
Statistics Colloquium
Xiaofeng Wang
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Nonparametric Regression with Measurement Errors in Predictors
Mar 8
Statistics Colloquium
Thomas Love
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University
3:30-3:45—Refreshments
3:45-4:45—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
A Statistician’s Adventures in Public Health Research: Balance and Design
Mar 1
Statistics Colloquium
Robert Keener
Professor, Statistics Department, University of Michigan
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Local Information and the Design of Sequential Hypothesis Tests
Feb 15
Statistics Colloquium
Vladimir Uchaykin
Visiting Professor, Statistics Department, Case Western Reserve University
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Self-similar One-dimensional Distributions in Anomalous Diffusion Models
Feb 1
Statistics Colloquium
John Barnard
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
3:30-4:00—Refreshments
4:00-5:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Binary Data Using Multiple Imputation
Fall 2005
Colloquia Organizer: Joseph Sedransk
Nov 4
Statistics Colloquium
Michael Woodroofe
University of Michigan
3:00-3:30—Refreshments (Yost 327)
3:30-4:30—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 101
A Restricted Minimax Determination of the Initial Sample--Joon Sang Lee and Michael Woodroofe
Oct 21
Statistics Colloquium
Alexandra Piryatinska
California Institute of Technology (JPL)
2:30-3:00—Refreshments
3:00-4:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 327
Statistical Analaysis of the Wave Front Observed in the Ocean Altimeter Model and ECCO Model Data
Sep 30
Statistics Colloquium
Piotr Biler
University of Wroclaw-POLAND
2:30-3:00—Refreshments (Yost 327)
3:00-4:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 300
On a Non-Linear Diffusion Equation Related to Chemotaxis
Spring 2005
Colloquia Organizer: James Alexander |