Thursday, August 30, 2001 -- "Stochastic Epidemic Dynamics of Measles: Forty Years After Bartlett", Ottar Bjornstad, Entomology, Penn State University.

Thursday, September 6, 2001-- "Nonparametric Regression with Measurement Error: Some Recent Progress", David Ruppert, Cornell University.

Thursday, September 13, 2001 -- "Liquidity Consequences of Lockup Expirations", Charles Cao, Finance, Penn State University.

Thursday, September 20, 2001 -- "Multiscale Advanced Raster Map Analysis System Definition, Design and Development", G. P. Patil, Statistics, Penn State University.

Thursday, September 27, 2001 -- "How Often Do Means Converge?", Arkady Tempelman, Statistics, Penn State University.

Thursday, October 4, 2001 -- "A Simple Resampling Method by Perturbing the Minimand", Zhezhen Jin, Columbia University.

Wednesday, October 10, 2001 -- "Using Spatial-Temporal Fields as Inputs for Numerical Models: Global Warming and Its Agricultural Impacts", Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, October 11, 2001 -- "Neyman's Smooth Test and Its Applications in Econometrics", Anil Bera, Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Tuesday, October 16, 2001 -- 2001 Khatri Memorial Lecture, "Has Statistics A Future? If So, in What Form?, C. R. Rao, Statistics, Penn State University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, October 18, 2001 -- "Large Optimal Adaptive Designs for Clinical Trials", Feifang Hu, University of Virginia.

Thursday, October 25, 2001 -- "Semiparametric Composite Likelihood Ratio Inference: With Application to Linkage Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Traits", Jian Huang, University of Iowa.

Friday, October 26, 2001 -- "Statistics & Wine: An Opportunity for a Highly Significant Positive Interaction, Simon Sheather, University of New South Wales & University of Sydney. 4:00 pm, 118 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, November 1, 2001 -- "Mixture Models for Genetic Changes in Cancer Cells", Manisha Desai, Columbia University.

Thursday, November 8, 2001 -- "The Complex Elliptical Distributions with Applications to Shape Analysis, Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut.

Friday, November 9, 2001 -- "International Trends in Air Quality Indices", William Hunt, North Carolina State University.

Monday, November 12, 2001 -- "Robust Portfolio Selection Problems", Garud Iyengar, Columbia University.

Thursday, November 29, 2001 -- "Statistical Behavior and Consistency of Classification Methods Based on Convex Risk Minimization", Tong Zhang, IBM Watson Research Center.

Monday, December 10, 2001 -- "Confidence-Distributions: Concept, Theory and Applications", Kesar Singh, Rutgers University.