Student Organized Seminars

Fall 2005 Series

The purpose of the Student Organized Seminars (S.O.S.) is to provide current graduate students with talks from various people in the statistics community. Such speakers include graduate students and faculty in the department, alumni, and statisticians from industry and the government. The talks are always held in 327 Thomas at the time and on the date specified. Lunch will also be provided at the talks, so come and enjoy a good talk and good food!

Currently, our speakers for the fall 2005 semester include:

Dr. Shabnam Mousavi (Research Associate and Assistant Professor of Statistics, Penn State University)

Date/Time: Friday, September 30^th, 2005 @ 12:20 p.m.

Title of Talk: An Outside the Box Approach to Bounded Rationality

Dr. John Fricks (Assistant Professor of Statistics, Penn State University)

Date/Time: Friday, October 7^th, 2005 @ 12:20 p.m.

Title of Talk: An Introduction to Current Research

Borislav Froloshki and Feng Liu (Biostatisticians, GlaxoSmithKline)

Date/Time: Friday, October 21^st, 2005 @ 12:10 p.m.

Title of Talk: GSK Scholar Award Presentation

Dr. Naomi Altman (Associate Professor of Statistics, Penn State University)

Date/Time: Friday, November 11^th, 2005 @ 12:20 p.m.

Title of Talk: Designing Intelligent Experiments to Understand the Evolution of Flowers

Dr. Robert Starbuck (Wyeth-Ayerst Research Associate)

Date/Time: Friday, December 2^nd, 2005 @ 4:00 p.m.

Title of Talk: Anxiety Over Statistics (or Vice Versa?)

Last updated:  03 November 2005  Derek S. Young