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DEPT OF STATISTICS

 

PAST COLLOQUIA

CURRENT COLLOQUIA

 
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

Mar 25

Statistics Colloquium
Vanja Dukic

University of Chicago, Department of Health Studies

2:30-3:00—Refreshments
3:00-4:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 300

Optimal Survival Curve Ranking (OSCR): Application to AIDS Reporting Delay

 

Feb 25

Physics Seminar
Ramani S. Pilla

Department of Statistics and Department of Biology, CASE

12:30—Room 221 (Miller Room), Rockefeller

A geometric approach to distinguish between a new source and random fluctuations: Applications to High Energy Physics

 

Jan 14

Statistics Colloquium
Ralph O'Brien

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

2:30-3:00—Refreshments
3:00-4:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 300

Sample-Size Analysis in Study Planning: Concepts and Issues

 
Fall 2004

Colloquia Organizer: James Alexander

Dec 3

Statistics Colloquium
Lajos Horvath

University of Utah, Department of Mathematics

2:30-3:00—Refreshments
3:00-4:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 300

Theory and Applications of GARCH and Related Processes Analysis

 

Oct 29

Statistics Colloquium
Anindya Roy

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Maryland at Baltimore County

2:30-3:00—Refreshments
3:00-4:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 300

Statistical Perspectives of Two-dimensional Gel Analysis

 

Oct 22

Statistics Colloquium
Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay

Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics, Case Western Reserve University

2:30-3:00—Refreshments
3:00-4:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 300

Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Masked Series System Lifetime Data

 

Oct 1

Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistics
Sponsored by ACES and the Statistics Department
Nancy Reid

Professor of Statistics, University of Toronto

12:00-1:00--Lecture 3, research lecture, lunch served, Reception to follow

Higher Order Asymptotics in Practice

 
Don Fraser

Department of Statistics, University of Toronto

2:30-3:00—Refreshments
3:00-4:00—Talk
Yost Hall, Room 300

Is there statistical inference? The Bayesian frequentist divergence

 

Sept 30

Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistics
Sponsored by ACES and the Statistics Department

Nancy Reid

Professor of Statistics, University of Toronto

12:00-1:00—ROCK 301--Lecture 1, public lecture, refreshment served

Statistics -- Good for your health!

3:00-4:00—YOST 300--Lecture 2, graduate lecture

Likelihood

CURRENT COLLOQUIA