DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE

                               SEMINARS -- Fall 2009

  Seminars are held at 3:00 p.m. on Friday.   Locations will be announced with the seminar.

        The seminars indicated by ** are joint with the North Texas Chapter of the ASA and are held at 7:00 pm on the SMU campus.

Date & Location Speaker Title
September 11 in 131 DLSB Bivin Sadler, SMU Statistical Science Dept Demonstration of Clickers in the classroom
September 18 in 153 Heroy Wayne Woodward, SMU Statistical Science Dept

Examining Factors to Better Understand Autoregressive Models, abstract

September 25 in 153 Heroy Joel O'Hair, SMU Statistical Science Dept

Signal Extraction in the Presence of Correlated Noise with Application to fMRI Statistic Maps and EEG Spectrograms , Ph.D. Prospectus 

October 1** ASA Mtg. Dag Yemeny, ISN Software Corporation Mitigating Risk through Better Decision Making: Contractor Management Best Practices and Statistical Method Applications abstract
October 2 in 131 DLSB Ron Butler, SMU Statistical Science Dept

Multistate Survival Models as Transient Electrical Network, abstract

October 9 in 153 Heroy Elizabeth McClellan, SMU Statistical Science Dept Improving Statistical Methods in Biological Pathway Analysis, abstract (Ph.D. prospectus)
October 16 in 153 Heroy Patrick Carmack, University of Central Arkansas Nonparametric Semivariogram and Nugget Estimation, abstract
October 23 in 153 Heroy    
October 30 in 131 DLSB James Haney  

*** Tuesday ***

November 3 at 3:30 in 153 Heroy

Kim-Anh Do, Professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Bayesian semi-parametric models with Applications to Translational Cancer Research, abstract

November 6 in 153 Heroy Ohn Jo Koh, SMU Statistical Science Dept  Ph.D. Prospectus
November 13 James Haney, SMU Statistical Science Dept Ph.D. Prospectus
     

10/09    DLSB is Dedman Life Science Building

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