Thursday, January 20, 2005 -- "Clustering Gene Expression Data Based on P-Values", Rebecka Jornsten, Rutgers University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, January 27, 2005 - "Statistical Approaches in the NIST World Trade Center Collapse" James Filliben, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 3, 2005 -- "Comparative Mammalian Genomics: Models of Evolution and Detection of Functional Elements", Adam Siepel, University of California at Santa Cruz, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 10, 2005 -- "Flexicast Delay Tomography", Earl Lawrence, University of Michigan, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 17, 2005 -- "Robustness of the Phylogenetic Comparative Method", Eric Stone, Stanford University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 24, 2005 -- "A Partial Least Squares (PLS) Dimension Reduction Approach to Some Challenges in Genome-Wide Expression Analysis", Danh Nguyen, University of California, Davis, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, March 3, 2005 -- "Polar Cloud Detection Using Satellite Data with Analysis and Application of Kernel Methods", Tao Shi, University of California, Berkeley, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, March 17, 2005 -- "MCMC via Sufficient and Ancillary Data Augmentation: As Motivated by Poisson Times Series Modeling in X-ray Astrophysics", Yaming Yu, Harvard University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, March 24, 2005 -- Statistics Alumni Workshop, Joseph McKean, Western Michigan University, 9:00 am, Eisenhower Auditorium Conference Room.

Thursday, March 24, 2005 -- "Rank Based Analyses of Multivariate Linear Models with Applications to Profile Analysis", Joseph McKean, Western Michigan University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 7, 2005 -- "Unfolding Models for Rank Data", John Marden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 14, 2005 -- "Ascent-Based Monte Carlo EM", Galin Jones, University of Minnesota, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 21, 2005 -- "Statistical Issues in Network Tomography", George Michailidis, University of Michigan, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 28, 2005 -- "Assessing and Correcting the Effect of Guessing Treatment by Clinicians in Double-Blind Clinical Trials" Eva Petkova, Columbia University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, May 5, 2005 -- "Bayesian Capture-Recapture Analysis and Model Selection for Closed Population Models", Sujit Ghosh, North Carolina State University, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg.