Thursday, September 13, 2007 --"Estimation and Prediction of a Class of Convolution-Based Spatial Nonstationary Models for Large Spatial Data", Zhengyuan Zhu, University of North Carolina, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, September 20, 2007 --"A New Data Augmentation Scheme", Yuguo Chen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 4:40 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, September 27, 2007 -- "A Moment-Based Method for Estimating the Proportion of True Null Hypotheses and Its Application to Microarray Gene Expression Data", Yinglei Lai, George Washington University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, October 4, 2007 -- "Modeling Sparse Generalized Longitudinal Observations with Latent Gaussian Processes", Fang Yao, University of Toronto, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, October 11, 2007 --"Support Points of Locally Optimal Designs for Nonlinear Models with Two Parameters", Min Yang, University of Missouri, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, October 18, 2007 --"One Bulb? Two Bulbs? How Many Bulbs Light Up? A Discrete Probability Problem from a Pharmaceutical Company", M. B. Rao, University of Cincinnati, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, October 25, 2007 -- "Comparison of Two Possibly Crossing Hazard Rate Functions", Peihua Qiu, University of Minnesota, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, November 1, 2007 -- "Sufficient Dimension Reduction with Application to Microarray Data Analysis", Lexin Li, North Carolina State University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, November 8, 2007 -- "Equi-Energy Sampler: From Statistical Inference to Statistical Mechanics", Samuel Kou, Harvard University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, November 29, 2007 --"Estimating Subject-Specific Variance Components with Multivariate Repeated Measurements", Wei-Ting Hwang, University of Pennsylvania, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, December 6, 2007 --"Statistical Analysis of Diffusion Tensors in Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Data", Hongtu Zhu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.