DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE

SEMINARS -- FALL 2005

Seminars are held at 3:00 p.m. on Friday in Rm.131 Dedman Life Science Bldg.  unless otherwise indicated.

The seminars indicated by ** are joint with the North Texas Chapter of the ASA and are held at 7:00 pm in Room 153 of Heroy Science Hall on the SMU campus. Heroy Hall is the building in which the Department of Statistical Science is located, 3225 Daniel Avenue.

Date

Speaker

Title (Click on Blue/Underlined Titles for Abstracts)
August 19  Richard F. Gunst, Dept of Statistical Science,
 Southern Methodist University
 Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant
 Roles within the Department of Statistical
 Science
August 26  Faculty of the Department of Statistical Science, 
 Southern Methodist University
 Current Research Programs
September 9  Monnie McGee, Department of Statistical 
 Science, Southern Methodist University
 Gene Expression Microarray Analysis for
 Dummies:  What I Learned this Summer
September 16  Richard F. Gunst, Dept of Statistical Science, 
 Southern Methodist University
 Graduate Student Research in Statistical
 Science
September 30  N. Balakrishnan, Department of Mathematics
 and Statistics, McMaster University

 Hybrid Censoring: Concepts and Results

October 7  Qihua (Catherine) Lin, Department of Statistical
 Science, Southern Methodist University
 Spatiotemporal Modeling of Functional
 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data
October 14  William Christensen, Department of Statistics
 Brigham Young University
 Spatio-temporal Analysis of Auditory
 Cortex Activation as Detected with Silent
 Event-Related fMRI
October 21  Marc Elliott, the Rand Corporation  Using Bayes' Theorem to Combine Geo-
 coded Race/Ethnic Data with Surname
 Lists to Estimate Racial/Ethnic Disparities
  in Health Outcomes Without Self-Reported
 Race/Ethnicity
October 25  Kangxia Gu, SMU  The Comparison of Two Poisson Rates
October 28  Sergio Juarez  Going from Reality to Research in Statistics
 and Not Vice Versa
November 1  Yue (Helena) Jia, SMU  Dissertation Prospectus
November 4  Prabhu Bhagavatheeswaran, SMU  Dissertation Prospectus
November 11  Ben Pierce, Battelle  Using Statistics and Mathematics at Battelle
November 18  Md. Jobayer Hossain, Department of Statistical  Science, Southern Methodist University  Analysis of Non-stationary Time Series
 with Time Varying Frequency
November 30 Dr. Giovanni Filardo, Baylor University Medical Center

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