Thursday, May 24, 2007 - One-Day Conference - C. R. & Bhargavi Rao Prize - "A Unified View of Regression, Shrinkage, Empirical Bayes, Hierarchival Bayes, and Random Effects", Lawrence D. Brown, University of Pennsylvania, 8:30 am - 6:30 pm, 107 Forest Resources Building.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 --"Inference for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems", Edward Ionides, University of Michigan, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 19, 2007 --"Model-Based Clustering for Social Networks", Mark Handcock, University of Washington, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 12, 2007 --"Recent Developments in the Lasso-Type Penalized Models" Hui Zou, University of Minnesota, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 5, 2007 --"Computing the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of a Multidimensional Log-Concave Density", Richard Samworth, Cambridge University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, March 29, 2007 -- 2007 Statistics Alumni Workshop, Duanli Yan, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Eisenhower Auditorium Conference Room.

Monday, March 26, 2007 - 2007 Clifford C. Clogg Memorial Lecture - "The Three Principles in Social Science", Yu Xie, University of Michigan, 4:30 pm, 102 Thomas Bldg.

Monday, March 26, 2007 -- Clogg Memorial Sociology and Statistics Presentation, "Population Heterogeneity and Casual Inference", Yu Xie, University of Michigan, 12:00 pm , 302 Pond Lab.

Friday, March 23, 2007 -- "Local Spectral Envelope", David Stoffer, University of Pittsburgh, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 -- "A Bayesian SEIR Approach to Modeling Smallpox Epidemics", Vanja Dukic, University of Chicago, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Friday, February 16, 2007 - "Limiting Distribution of the MLE for Current Status Data with Competing Risks", Marloes Maathuis, University of Washington, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 8, 2007 - "Spline-Backfitted Kernel Smoothing of Additive Models in Time Series", Li Wang, Michigan State University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 -"Detecting Gene Regulatory Signals from Genome-Wide Chip-Chip Experiments and Sequence Data: Towards Developing a Strategy with Increased Statistical Power", Hongkai Ji, Harvard University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, January 25, 2007 - "Confidence Bands in Nonparametric Time Series Regression", Zhibiao Zhao, University of Chicago, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 -"Robust Inference Using Higher Order Influence Function", Lingling Li, Harvard University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, January 18, 2007 - "Sure Independence Screening for Ultra-High Dimensional Feature Space", Jinchi Lv, Princeton University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.