Thursday, January 12, 2006 -- "Robust Inference on Haplotype/Disease Association Using Parent-Affected-Child Data: The Projection Conditional on Parental Haplotypes Method", Glen Satten, National Center for Environmental Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, January 19, 2006 - "Bayesian Methods in Haplotype Inference and Disease Mapping", Yu Zhang, Harvard University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, January 26, 2006 -- "The Practice of Cluster Analysis", Jon Kettenring, Drew University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 9, 2006 -- "Combining Deterministic and Stochastic Models for Modeling, Estimation and Prediction of Spatial Temporal Environmental Processes", Montse Fuentes, North Carolina State University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 16, 2006 -- "Inference for Quantile Regression Models with Applications to GeneChip Data", Huixia Judy Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 23, 2006 -- "Microarray Normalization and Partial Consistency", Tao Huang, Yale University School of Medicine, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 -- "Exchangeable Cluster Processes for Classification Problems", Jie Yang, University of Chicago, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, March 2, 2006 - "Estimating Genotype Effect from Association Data", Sebastian Zoellner, University of Michigan, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Friday, March 3, 2006 -- "Design and Analysis of High-Accuracy Experiment and Low-Accuracy Experiment", Zhiguang Qian, Georgia Institute of Technology, 12:15 pm, 9 Life Sciences Bldg.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 -- "Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Data and Multiple Testing", Debashis Ghosh, University of Michigan, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, March 16, 2006 -- " An RKHS Formulation of High-Dimensional Data Analysis Problems", Tailen Hsing, Ohio State University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 2006 Statistics Alumni Workshop, Subhash Lele, University of Alberta, Canada, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm, Eisenhower Auditorium Conference Room.

Thursday, March 23, 2006 -- "Semiparametric Methods for Gene-Environment Case-Control Studies", Raymond Carroll, Texas A & M University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Friday, March 24, 2006 -- "On Using Expert Opinion in Ecological Analyses: A Frequentist Approach", Subhash Lele, University of Alberta, Canada, 12:20 pm, 9 Life Sciences.

Thursday, March 30, 2006 --"A Statistical Approach to Exploring Glass Compositions", Dean Neubauer - Corning Incorporated, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 6, 2006 --"Characterization of Cost Structures, Perceived Value and Optimization Issues in Small Domain Estimation", John Eltinge, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 13, 2006 -- "Bayesian Areal Wombling for Geographical Boundary Analysis", Bradley Carlin, University of Minnesota, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 20, 2006 -- "Inference for Quantile Regression Models", Xuming He, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 27, 2006 -- "Context Dependent Models for Discovery of Transcription Factor Binding Sites", Chuancia Wang, Hershey Medical Center, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, May 4, 2006 -- "Functional Regression for Longitudinal Data", Hans-Georg Mueller, University of California at Davis, 4:00 pm, 118 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 --"An EM Algorithm for a Semiparametric Mixture Model", Didier Chauveau, Universite d'Orleans et CNRS, France, 4:00 pm, 117 Thomas Bldg.