Department of Statistics Colloquium Schedule  (Fall/Spring 07-08)
Date	Speaker	Title
	Fall 2007
September 07 (3:00-4:00)	Rima Izem Harvard University	Analyzing Nonlinear Variation in Functional Data
September 14 (3:00-4:00)	Qiman Shao University of Oregon	On Independence Tests Based on Large Sample Corrleation Matrix
October 09 (10:00-11:00)	Liangliang Duan University of Virginia	Doubly-adaptive Biased Coin Designs with Heterogeneous Responses
October 12 (3:00-4:00)	Liqiang Ni University of Central Florida	Variable Selection via Multivariate Adaptive Group Lasso
October 19 (3:00-4:00)	Heping Zhang Yale University	A forest-based approach to identify gene and gene-gene interactions
October 26 (3:00-4:00)	Youngsook Jeon University of Virginia	Optimal adaptive designs for binary response trials with k treatments.
	Spring 2008
February 01 (3:00-4:00) Physics 210	Ginger Davis University of Virginia	Hierarchical Bayesian Markov Switching Models with Application to Predicting Spawning Success of Shovelnose Sturgeon
February 08 (3:00-4:00) Physics 210	Wenbin Lu North Carolina State University	Estimation and Inference for partial Linear Transformation Models with Censored Survival Data
February 15 (3:00-4:00) Physics 210	Ani Manichaikul Johns Hopkins University	Identifying quantitative trait loci by model selection allowing for epistasis
February 22 (3:00-4:00) Physics 210	Taeryon Choi University of Maryland Baltimore County	A note on the Bayes factor in a semiparametric regression model
March 14 (3:00-4:00) Physics 210	Douglas Lake University of Virginia	Small Sample Kernel Density and Renyi Entropy Estimation
March 21 (3:00-4:00) Physics 210	Annie Qu Oregon State University	Efficient aggregate unbiased estimating functions approach for correlated data with missing at random
March 28 (3:00-4:00) Physics 210	Jaki McCarthy National Agricultural Statistical Service	Quality Issues in Survey Data Collection
April 04 (3:00-4:00) Physics 210	Lexin Li North Carolina State University	Sufficient Dimension Reduction with Application to Microarray Data Analysis
April 11 (3:00-4:00) Physics 210	Clyde Tucker Bureau of Labor Statistics	Election Projections: How We Got Here and Where We’re Heading
April 18 (3:00-4:00) Physics 210	Jeff Gonzales Bureau of Labor Statistics	Multiple Matrix Sampling: Approaches to Redesigning the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey
April 25 (3:00-4:00) Physics 210	Steve Miller Bureau of Labor Statistics	Some Examples of Integrating Models and Design-Based Inference at the Bureau of Labor Statistics