04/05 Statistics and Applied Probability  Seminar Series

Thi spage describes  weekly  seminars of the statistics research group in the Department
of Mathematics which  started  in first week of October.  All meetings, unless otherwise noted, are held in NS 234 on
Tuesdays at  1:00  PM. Some of the seminar meetings are coordinated and / or co-organized  with  CVIP Lab in ECE Department  as well as  Brown Cancer Center Microarray Facility at HSC.

Tentative schedule of talks for Spring 04

Date
Speaker
Title and Abstract
Links
Feb 1
Greg Rempala  Stochastic models for intracellular reaction networks (I)
slides in pdf
Feb 8
Greg Rempala  Stochastic models for intracellular reaction networks (II) slides in pdf
Feb 15
Kiseop Lee
An introduction to Stochastic Integrals

Feb 22
Ryan Gill
 Markov Chain-Monte Carlo Methods

Mar 1
Ayman El-Baz
 Modified EM Algorithm in Density Estimation and Image Classification

Mar 8
Nigel Cooper
tour of Dr Cooper's microarrays lab facility

Mar 29
John Schwarz Overview of  the unsupervised clustering methods
slides in pdf
Apr 12
Ted Kalbfleisch
Modeling BioChemical Reactions Kinetics:  Stochastic vs. Deterministic Approach

Apr 19
Greg Rempala
 Langevin equation and hybridization reaction on DNA-microarrays




List of past talks given in Fall 04

Date
Speaker
Title and Abstract
Links
Oct  5
Greg Rempala
Intro to Gene Expressions Analysis (I)
R. Irizarry web site
Oct 19
Greg Rempala
Intro to Gene Expressions Analysis (II)
slides in pdf
Oct 26
Greg Rempala Intro to Gene Expressions Analysis (II) (cont from Oct19)
slides in pdf
Oct 28
Greg Rempala Multiple Tests For Gene Expression Data slides in pdf
Nov  9
Mussie Tesfamicael
 Structual Equation Modeling for Assessing Microarray Data

Nov 16
Ryan Gill
 (Gentle) Intro to Penalized Splines Theory
slides in pdf
Nov 23
Refaat Mohamed
Mean Field Theory for Density Estimation using Support Vector Machines
slides in pdf
Nov 30
Michal Czajkowski
General broken line regression model in cohort studies

Dec 7
Iwona Pawlikowska
Characterization of gamma distribution via independence of certain sample statistics


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For more info  contact  Greg Rempala   or Math Department staff