COLLOQUIUMS, SEMINARS & ARCHIVE

COLLOQUIA & SEMINARS

Jan Callahan, Callahan Associates, Inc., Friday, November 12, 2009
Statistics Problems in Bioassay

James Cruickshank, National University of Ireland, Galway, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
Configuration Spaces of Linkages

Kung-Jong Lui, SDSU, October 23, 2009
Estimation of Risk Ratio in Noncompliance Randomized Clinical Trials with Trichotomous Dose Level

Hon Keung Tony Ng, SMU, October 9, 2009
Genetic Model Selection in Two-Stage Analysis for Case-Control Association Studies

Jinchi Lv, Yingying Fan, USC, October 2, 2009
Lv: A Unified Approach to Model Selection and Sparse Recovery Using Regularized Least Squares
Fan: High-Dimensional Classification Using Features Annealed Independence Rules

Sam Shen, SDSU, September 25, 2009
HHT Analysis of the Climate Normals

Thomas Smith, NOAA, September 3, 2009
Progress in Historical Reconstruction of Global Precipitation

Loki Natarajan, UCSD, May 1, 2009
Identifying Outlier Genes via Capture-Recapture Across Multiple Microarray Gene Expression Studies

Antonio Palacios, SDSU, April 29, 2009
A Mathematical Model of Motor Neuron Dynamics in the Heartbeat of the Medicinal Leech

Juanjuan Fan, SDSU, April 24, 2009
Tree Methods for Correlated Survival Data

Carmelo Interlando, SDSU, April 22, 2009
Algebraic Decoding of Non-Binary Quadratic Residue Codes

Kagba Suaray, CSU Long Beach, April 17, 2009
A New Trick for the Old Dog of Survival Analysis

Peter Blomgren, SDSU, April 15, 2009
Structure Enhancement Diffusion and Contour Extraction for Electron Tomography of Mitochondria

Chi-Hong Tseng, UCLS, April 10, 2009
Joint Modeling of Survival Data and Longitudinal Measurements Under Nested Case-Control Sampling

Vanamamalai Seshadri, McGill University,March 26, 2009
When is the Sum of the First N Integers a Perfect Square?

Mark Dunster, SDSU, March 25, 2009
Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions

Hector Lemus, SDSU, March 20, 2009
Modeling Multivariate Biomedical Data with Polynomial Smoothing Splines

Ricardo Carretero, SDSU, March 18, 2009
Faraday Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Don Lutz, SDSU, March 4, 2009
Asymptotic Factorization for Differential Equations; Some New Results on Old Problems.

Michael O'Sullivan, SDSU, February 25, 2009
The Sum-Product Algorithm on Some Simple Graphs

Milne Anderson, University College, London, February 19, 2009
Univalence Criteria and Quasicircles

Peter Salamon, SDSU, February 11, 2009
Pumping a Swing

Daniel Herrlin & Jonathan Wilson, SDSU, February 6, 2009
A Double Header

Vadim Ponomarenko, SDSU, February 4, 2009
The Joys of LaTex

Steve Hui, SDSU, January 28, 2009
A Differential Equation from Unknown Input Observer Design

Chi-Hse Teng, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, December 12, 2008
Statistical Power Considerations of Dichotomizing Continuous Outcome Variables

Imre Tuba, SDSU IVC, December 11, 2008
The Braid Group and Topololgical Quantum Computers

Aram Galstyan, USC Information Sciences Institute, December 5, 2008
Modeling and Tracking Activities with Event-Coupled HMMs

Craig Tillman, Weather Predcit Consulting, December 5, 2008
WPC Science for Managing Risks

Thokala Raju, BITS, Pilani, November 25, 2008
Nonlinear compression of chirped similariton pulses of generalized cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrodinger equation model.

Jianwei Chen, SDSU, November 21, 2008
A New ANOVA Inference for Nonparametric Local Polynomial Regression

Richard Somerville, UCSD, November 20, 2008
Global Warming: What Do We Know and What Should We Do?
Bulletin, SDSUniverse, The Daily Aztec1, The Daily Aztec2, Somerville website, podcast

Cameron Parker, USD, November 7, 2008
Putting Yourself Up by the Bootstrap: A Versatile Statistical Technique and Its Use in Time Series

Jim Lackritz, SDSU, October 10, 2008
The only thing I like about attorneys is working for them: A statistician talks about his work as an expert witness.

Jonq Juang, National Chiao Tung U, September 18, 2008
Stable Synchrony in Glabally-Coupled Integrate-and-Fire Oscillators

REUT, SDSU, Augst 11, 2008
Matrix Factorization Group, and Cell Migration Group

Jeff Remmel, UCSD, August 11, 2008
The Combinatorics of Pattern Avoidance in Permutations and Words

Glenn Tesler, UCSD, August 5, 2008
Reconstructing the Genomic Architecture of Ancestral Mammals

I-Yuan Liu, SDSU, August 1, 2008
Tests for Homogeneity of the Risk Ratio between a Secondary Infection, Given a Primary Infection, and the Primary Infection

Scott Nelson, SDSU, July 29, 2008
Econometric Forecasting

Kimberly Armbrust, SDSU, July 24, 2008
A Statistical Decoding Algorithm for General Linear Block Codes

Mayra Hernandez, SDSU, July 22, 2008
Road to NSF Felowship

Shiqi Li, CRMSE, July 21, 2008
Variation: A Distinctive and Effective Teaching Strategy

REUT, SDSU, July 15, 2008
Theoretical Studies in Cell Migration (biomathematics), and Matrix Factorization (number theory)

Dan Lanier, SDSU, July 8, 2008
Fractal Geometery and the Escape-Time Algorithms as Graphic Art Tools

Hojin Moon, CSULB, May 2, 2008
Ensemble methods for classification of patients for personalized medicine using high-dimensional biomarkers

Jo Hardin, Pomona College, Apr. 18, 2008
Biweight Correlation as a Measure of Distance Between Genes on a Microarray

Werner Balser, University of Ulm, Mar. 24, 2008
Why are divergent power series useful?

Zhaoxia Yu, UC Irvine, Mar. 21, 2008
Genotype Determination in the Prsence of Linkage Disequilibrium

Goong Chen, Texas A&MU, Mar. 7, 2008
An Introduction to Mathematical Study of Greenhouse Gas Molecules and Greenhouse Effects

Vanamamalai Seshadri, McGill U, Feb. 29, 2008
Some new results on the inverse Gaussian distribution

Daniel Pick, Pick Data Mining, Feb. 22, 2008
Gene Expression Profiling as a Biomedical Research Tool

Roger Barnard, TTU, Feb. 8, 2008
How far can you deform a disk under a convex map?

Vitaly Skachek, UCD, Jan. 30, 2008
Linear-Programming Decoding of Non-Binary Linear Codes

Douglas Nychka, NCAR, Jan. 25, 2008
Challenges of regional climate modeling and validation.

Donald Lutz, SDSU, Jan. 25, 2008
On some exponentially asymptotically constant difference equations with an application to nonlinear systems near a hyperbolic equilibrium.

Peter Blomgren, SDSU, Dec. 7, 2007
Simulations and Measurements of Time-Reversal in an Indoor Environment Using Wide-angle Antennas

John Brevik, CSU Long Beach, Nov. 30, 2007
Curves on Surfaces in Projective Space

Changxuan Mao, UC Riverside, Nov. 16, 2007
Population size estimation from multiple lists

Mark Dunster, SDSU, Nov. 16, 2007
Resonance and "almost" nonuniqueness in the scattered field of a dielectric circular cylinder

Oh Nam Kwon, Seoul National University, Nov. 1, 2007
Inquiry-Oriented Differential Equations: Its Impact and Prospects

Todd Coffey, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Oct. 30, 2007
How to think like a Statistician: Providing value in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Andre Kundgen, CSU San Marcos, Oct. 12, 2007
Graph minors and reliable single message transmission

Xin Lu, UCSD, Oct. 12, 2007
Statistical Issues in Microarray Gene Selections: False Discovery Control and Selection Reproductibility

Farshid Arjomandi, SDSU, Oct. 5, 2007
Frobenius' Theorem and Nonlinear Geometric Control

Scott Nelson, SDSU, Oct. 2, 2007
Careers in Statistics: An Intro to Energy Forecasting

Subir Ghosh, UC Riverside, Sept. 27, 2007
Model Search, Identification, and Discrimination in Factorial Experiments.

Rich Levine, SDSU, Sept. 21, 2007
Climate Change Uncertainties: Is global warming really our fault?

Kung-Jong Lui, SDSU, May 2, 2007
Interval estimation of the risk difference in non-compliance of randomized trials.

Vladimir Rotar, SDSU, April 6, 2007
On asymptotic proximity of probability distributions and the non-classical invariance principle

Vadim Ponomarenko, SDSU, April 5, 2007
Two simple ways to rig an election: an introduction to voting theory

Kristin Duncan, SDSU, April 2, 2007
Parametric and nonparametric Bayesian models for items response.

Steve Baer, Arizona State U, March 23, 2007
Slow passage through a Hopf bifurcation: New insights into the memory effect with application to neuronal bursting

Sigrun Bodine, U of Puget Sound, March 15, 2007
On dichotomies, weaker and stronger, in asymptotic integration of linear differential systems

Martin Haenggi, U of Notre Dame, March 14, 2007
Coverage and sentry selection in wireless sensor networks

Gilbert Walter, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, March 8, 2007
Prolate Spheroidal Waves and Wavelets and their remarkable properties

Adolfo J. Rumbos, Pomona College, March 1, 2007
Resonance in nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems

Andres Valloud, Cincon Systems, Feb. 23, 2007
A pattern of perception

Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research, February 15, 2007
Cryptographic hash functions from expander graphs

Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley, February 7, 2007
Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology