Events Archive: 2011 - Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Confidence distribution and a Frequentist Approach to Incorporate Expert Opinions
Professor Minge Xie, Rutgers University
Monday, January 10, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
The Development of High-Order Accurate and Scalable Models for the Atmosphere and Ocean
Prof. Frank Giraldo, Department of Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School
Monday, January 24, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
TBD
Dr. Alexander Braunstein, Google
Monday, January 31, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
On the Causes of Effects
Professor Stephen E. Fienberg, Dept. of Statistics, and Machine Learning Dept, Carnegie Mellon
Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
On the Causes of Effects
Stephen E. Fienberg, Professor of Statistics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Bayesian Time Series Analysis of Stock Selection Strategies
Dr. Omar Aguilar, Vice President and Head of Portfolio Management, Financial Engines
Monday, February 7, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Dani Gamerman's Seminar
Dani Gamerman, Professor of Statistics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Dani Gamerman's Seminar
Dani Gamerman, Professor of Statistics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Earthquakes Triggered by Seismic Waves
Emily E. Brodsky, Associate Professor of Geophysics, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UCSC
Monday, February 14, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Ensemble Synthesis of Decentralized Controllers for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems
M. Ani Hsieh, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics Department, Drexel University
Monday, February 28, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Ensemble Synthesis of Decentralized Controllers for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems
M. Ani Hsieh, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics Department, Drexel University
Monday, February 28, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Predicting Variable-Length Functional Outputs for Emulation of a NASA Flight Simulator
Yuning He
Friday, March 4, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Double-Diffusive Convection at High and Low Prandtl Numbers
Adrienne Traxler
Monday, March 7, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Bayesian Hierarchical Models in Characterizing Molecular Adaptation
Saheli Datta
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Noise Attenuation in Biological Systems
Dr. Qing Nie, Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine
Monday, April 4, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Eningeering 2, Room 180
A Mathematical Framework for Density Dependent Population
Todd L. Parsons, Research Associate, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, April 11, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Analysis of Experiment for the Reconstruction of a Bond Potential
Christopher Simon
Friday, April 15, 2011, 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
A Bayesian Approach to Vevea & Hedges' Weight-Function Model for Publication Bias
Dr. Jack L. Vevea, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced
Monday, April 18, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Likelihood-based Climate Model Evaluation
Dr. Amy Braverman, Senior Statistician, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Monday, April 25, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Hierarchical Mixtures and Conditional Dependence Models with Applications to Molecular Interrogation Data
Donatello Telesca, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics, UCLA
Monday, May 2, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Density estimation via Quasi-Conformal mapping
Dr. Marc Coram, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Research & Policy, Stanford
Monday, May 9, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Quantifying the uncertainty of pollutant loads in Great Barrier Reef catchments
Dr. Petra Kuhnert, Research Statistician, CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, Australia
Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Fluid Dynamics of Ram and Suction Feeding Fishes
Professor Angela Cheer, Dept. of Mathematics, UC Davis
Monday, May 16, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Data assimilation and implicit sampling
Professor Alexandre Chorin, Dept. of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
Monday, May 23, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Explorations of an Essentially-Nonlinear Dynamo Process
Ben Byington
Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Statistical Modeling for Dark Energy and Associated Cosmological Constants
Tracy Holsclaw
Friday, May 27, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Revitalizing homogeneous systems theory to develop new approaches for nonlinear controller design
Chunjiang Qian, Associate Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio
Monday, June 27, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Bayesian nonstationary Gaussian process models via treed process-convolutions
Liang Waley
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: A new framework for Bayesian analysis of dose-response studies through dependent nonparametric modeling for categorical responses
Kassie Fronczyk
Thursday, July 21, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Defense: Bayesian Nonparametric Methods for Emulation, Sensitivity Analysis, and Calibration of Computer Simulators
Marian Farah
Friday, September 23, 2011, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
AMS Faculty Presentations
Professor Marc Mangel, Professor Bruno Sanso, Professor Nicholas Brummell, and Associate Professor A
Monday, September 26, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
AMS Faculty Presentations
Professor Herbert Lee, Associate Professor Pascale Garaud, Professor Raquel Prado, and Assistant Pro
Monday, October 3, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
AMS Faculty Presentations
Professor David Draper, Professor Hongyun Wang, Assistant Professor Abel Rodriguez, and Assistant Pr
Monday, October 10, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Seminar: Nonlinear Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Statistical Models
Professor Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
Monday, October 17, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Seminar: Bayesian Density Estimates in Minimum Hellinger Distance Estimation
Yuefeng Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, UC Santa Cruz
Monday, October 24, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Seminar: Predictive Innovation or Innovative Prediction?
Aaron Lai, Senior Manager, Blue Shield of California
Monday, October 31, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Seminar: Population Genetic Inference in the Personal Genome Era
Carlos Bustamante, Professor, Department of Genetics, Stanford University
Monday, November 7, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Seminar: Automated methods to maintain aircraft separation
Dr. Todd Lauderdale, NASA Ames Research Center
Monday, November 14, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Seminar: Uncertainty in Modeled Upper Ocean Heat Content Change using a Large Ensemble
Robin Tokmakian, Research Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School
Monday, November 21, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Defense: Topics in Model Selection: Variable Selection for Computer Experiments and Choosing the Number of Nodes for Neural Networks
Jing Chang
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330