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DEPARTMENT OF BIOSTATISTICS
JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

SEMINARS SCHEDULED
SEPTEMBER 2011 to MAY 2012

(unless otherwise noted, all seminars are at 4 PM in Room W2030 of the BSPH Bldg)

DATE

TITLE

SPEAKER

9/7/11

Two Criteria for Evaluating Risk Prevention Models

Ruth Pfeiffer

Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics

National Cancer Institute

9/14/11

Multiscale Adaptive Smoothing Method for Neuroimaging Data

 

Hongtu Zhu

Gillings School of Global Public Health

University of North Carolina

9/21/11

Valid Statistical Inference after Model Selection

 

Lawrence D. Brown

Department of Biostatistics, The Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania

9/28/11

Personalized Medicine and Statistical Learning

 

Michael R. Kosorok

Departments of Biostatistics & Statistics and Operations Research

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

10/5/11

Generalizing Principal Components Analysis

 

Genevera Allen

Department of Pediatrics-Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine

Department of Statistics, Rice University

10/12/11

Expectation and Quantile Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo

 

James Flegal

Department of Statistics

University of California, Riverside

10/19/11

Structural Equation Models for Exposure Assessment and Health Effects Analysis of Airborne Particulate Matter

 

Meg Nikolov

Department of Mathematics

U.S. Naval Academy

10/26/11

Dimension Reduction for Functional and Longitudinal Data

 

Jane-Ling Wang

Department of Statistics

University of California, Davis

11/2/11

eBird: Statistical Models for Online Crowdsourced Bird Data

 

Daniel Fink

Information Science

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

11/9/11

Canceled

Meredith Franklin

Department of Preventative Medicine, Division of Biostatistics

University of Southern California

11/16/11

Learning Discrete Graphical Model Structure

 

Pradeep Ravikumar

Department of Computer Science

University of Texas, Austin

11/23/11

Thanksgiving Recess

 

11/30/11

Canceled

 

12/7/11

Bayesian Models for Mining Public Health Information from Twitter

 

Mark Dredze

Department of Computer Science

Johns Hopkins University

12/16/11 - 1/22/12

Winter Recess

 

1/11/12

Flexible Distributed Lag Models Using Random Functions with Application to Estimating Mortality Displacement from Heat-Related Deaths

Matthew Heaton

Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences

National Center for Atmospheric Research

1/18/12

Detecting Evolution in Experimental Ecology: Diagnostics for Missing State Variables

 

Giles Hooker

Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology

Department of Statistical Science

Cornell University

1/23/12

Optimal Sparse Signal Identification with Applications in Copy Number Variation Analysis

Jessie Jeng

Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

2/1/12

Inference with Implicit Likelihoods for Infectious Disease Models

Roman Jandarov

Department of Statistics

The Pennsylvania State University

2/3/12

Missing Heritability: New Statistical and Algorithmic Approaches

Or Zuk

The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

2/6/12

The Structure of Epigenetic Changes in Cancer as Revealed by Whole-genome Shotgun Bisulfite Sequencing

 

Kasper Hansen

Department of Biostatistics

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

2/10/12

Longitudinal High-Dimensional Data Analysis

Vadim Zipunnikov

Department of Biostatistics

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

2/15/12

Regularized Higher-Order Principal Components Analysis

 

Genevera Allen

Department of Pediatrics-Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine

Department of Statistics, Rice University

2/20/12 Assessing the Effect of Organ Transplantation on the Distribution of Residual Lifetime

David Vock

Department of Statistics

North Carolina State University

2/22/12

Singular Value Decomposition for High-Dimensional Data

Dan Yang

Department of Statistics

The Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania

3/7/12

Score and Pseudo-Score Confidence Intervals for Categorical Data Analyses

 

Alan Agresti

Department of Biostatistics

University of Florida

3/14/12

Prognostic versus Predictive Performances: Biomarker Associated Design Issues in Pharmacogenomics Confirmatory Trials

Sue-Jane Wang

Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

3/19/12 - 3/23/12

Spring Recess

 

3/28/12

False Discovery Rate Under Arbitrary Dependence

Jianqing Fan

Department of Statistics

Princeton University

4/4/12

2012 ENAR Spring Meeting

 

4/11/12

Sparsity in Multiple Kernel Learning

Ming Yuan

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Georgia Tech

4/18/12

L1 penalized LAD Estimator for High Dimensional Linear Regression

Lie Wang

Mathematics Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

4/25/12

Landmark Prediction of Survival Incorporating Intermediate Event Information

 

Tianxia Cai

Department of Biostatistics

Harvard School of Public Health

5/2/12

Calibration of Statistical Evidence Using Principles of Thermodynamics

 

Veronica Vieland

The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

 

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