Thursday, January 15, 1998 -- "Bivariate QQ-Plots", John Marden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Thursday, January 22, 1998 -- "Statistical Approaches to Multiscale Assessment of Landscapes and Watersheds with Satellite and Synoptic Multivariate Spatial Data", G. P. Patil, Penn State University.

Friday, January 23, 1998 -- "Detecting and Correcting Model Misspecification in Regression", Simon Sheather, University of New South Wales.

Thursday, January 29, 1998 -- "Some Inferential Aspects of Empirical Likelihood", Nicole Lazar, Carnegie Mellon University.

Thursday, February 5, 1998 -- "Nonparametric Estimation of the Conditional Distribution in Regression with Censored Data", Ingrid Van Keilegom, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium.

Friday, February 6, 1998 -- "Introduction to Regression with Censored Data", Ingrid Van Keilegom, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium.

Tuesday, February 17, 1998 -- "Statistics and Dynamical Systems, Beyond Chaos", Barbara Bailey, North Carolina State University.

Thursday, February 19, 1998 -- "Identification of Common Long-Range Dependent Components in a Vector Time Series", Bonnie Ray, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Friday, February 20, 1998 -- "Analysis of Competing Risks Data with Non-Proportional Hazards Models", Jason Fine, Harvard University, 216 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, February 24, 1998 -- "A Reduction Paradigm for Multivariate Laws", Francesca Chiaromonte, University of Minnesota.

Tuesday, March 3, 1998 -- "Prediction of Random Fields Combining Different Sources of Data", Montserrat Fuentes, University of Chicago.

Thursday, March 5, 1998 -- "Probability, Evolution, and Eve(s): Statistical Models of Biological Relationships", Joe Chang, Yale University.

Friday, March 6, 1998 - "Resolution of the St. Petersburg Paradox", Sandor Csorgo, University of Michigan.

Thursday, March 19, 1998 -- "Least Average Residual Algorithm(LARA) for Tracking the Motion of Ice Floes", Shyamal Peddada, University of Virginia.

Friday, March 27, 1998, 1:25 p.m. -- "Bayesian Modeling and Inference for Stationary Spatial Processes", Alan Gelfand, University of Connecticut.

Wednesday, April 1, 1998 -- "Circumventing the Multiple Testing Problem in Searching for Disease Genes: A Mulitlocus Approach to the TDT Statistic", Lauren McIntyre, Duke University, 12:20 p.m., 216 Thomas Building.

Thursday, April 2, 1998 -- "Canonical Estimating Functions", Abram Kagan, University of Maryland.

Thursday, April 9, 1998 -- "Covariate Measurement Error Methods in Failure Time Regression" Sharon Xie, Hershey Medical Center.

Thursday, April 16, 1998 -- "Some Improved Procedures for Linear Mixed Models", Joseph Schafer, Department of Statistics, Penn State University.

Thursday, April 16, 1998 , 1:00 p.m. -- "Statistics in Industry: Experiences and Examples", Jon Kettenring, Bellcore. Location: Penn State Harrisburg, Capital Union Building.

Friday, April 24, 1998, 12:20 p.m. -- 216 Thomas Bldg., "Asymptotic Inference for Mixtures Using Data Dependent Priors", Larry Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University.