Thursday, January 23, 2003 -- "Surfing 101 for Statisticians: Catching the Six Sigma Wave", Dave Burn, Boston Scientific Corporation, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 6, 2003 -- "Rotation of Principal Components: A Penalized Likelihood Approach", Trevor Park, Cornell University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, February 18, 2003 -- "Exact Sampling Algorithms for Bayesian Disease Mapping Models", Murali Haran, University of Minnesota, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 20, 2003 -- "Maximum Likelihood and Rank Estimation for All-Pass Time Series Models", Beth Andrews, Colorado State University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, February 25, 2003 -- "Efficient Estimators for Quasi-Likelihood Regression Models", Ursula Mueller, University of Bremen, Germany, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.,

Tuesday, March 4, 2003 -- "Detecting and Estimating Sparse Mixtures", Jiashun Jin, Stanford University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 -- "Computational Genefinding: Probabilistic Models and Statistical Methods", Jing Wu, University of California, Santa Cruz, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, March 20, 2003 - "Testing Ignorable Missingness in Estimating Equation Approaches for Longitudinal Data", Annie Qu, Oregon State Univesity, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - "Regressions with Singular Design", Wenjiang Fu, Michigan State University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 3, 2003 - "Emerging Issues in Noninferiority Studies", Matilde Sanchez, Merck Laboratories, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, 2003 -- Statistics Alumni Workshop, Friday, April 4, "Beyond the Classroom: The Evolving Role of a Statistician in the Pharmaceutical Industry," Matilde Sanchez, Merck Laboratories, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm, Eisenhower Auditorium Conference Room.

Tuesday, April 8, 2003 -- "Building Models with Random Location and Scale Effects", William Cleveland, Bell Labs, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 10, 2003 -- "Semiparametric Regression with Partially Informative Censoring," Noel Veraverbeke, Universitair Centrum, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Monday, April 14, 2003 -- Clifford Clogg Lecture - "Assessing Neighborhoods: How Do We Do It and What Have We Learned?, Stephen Raudenbush, University of Michigan, 8:00 pm, 105 Wartik

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 -- "Some Thoughts On Causal Inference in a Social World", Stephen Raudenbush, University of Michigan, 12:20 pm, 305 Wager Bldg.

Thursday, April 17, 2003 -- "Spline Estimation for Single Index Models", Jianhua Huang, University of Pennsylvania, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 -- "Testing Regression Predictors Without a Model", Dennis Cook, University of Minnesota, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 24, 2003 -- "Inference with Monte Carlo Data: The Bayesian Paradox?", Xiaoli Meng, Harvard University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26, 2003 -- Workshop on Current Trends in Bayesian Methods --Friday, April 25, 9:30 am, 107 Wartik Lab, "Statistical Validation of Computer Models", James Berger, Duke University. Saturday, April 26, 9:15 am, 201 Thomas Bldg., "Bayes and the Bootstrap", Bradley Efron, Stanford University.

Thursday, May 1, 2003 -- "Performance Limits for Estimators of the Risk or Distribution of Shrinkage-Type Estimators, and Some General Lower Risk-Bound Results," Benedikt Poetscher, University of Vienna, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, May 8, 2003 - Probal Chaudhuri, ISI, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.