University of Sydney Statistics Seminar
Semester 1, 2009


Unless otherwise specified seminars are held on Fridays at 2pm in Carslaw 173



March 13, 2009
Tom Britton
Division of Mathematical Statistics
Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University
Title:  Dynamic random networks

March 27, 2009
Justin Wishart
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Sydney
Title:  Kink estimation with Long-Range dependent noise

April 3, 2009
Tien-Chung Hu
Department of Mathematics
The National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Title:  The complete convergence for arrays of random variables

April 24, 2009
Samuel Mueller
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Sydney
Title:  Smooth extreme value estimation for densities with log-concave tails

May 8, 2009
John Robinson
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Sydney
Title:  Asymptotic Approximations in Sampling and Resampling

May 22, 2009
Marc Mehlman
Department of Mathematics
University of New Haven
Title:  Structure and Moving Average Representation for Strongly Harmonizable Processes

July 14, 2009, 11-12am, Carslaw 829
Mohsen Pourahmadi
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
Title:  Generalized Linear Models for the Covariance Matrix of Longitudinal Data

August 7, 2009
Matt Wand
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics
University of Wollongong
Title:  Variational Approximations in Semiparametric Regression

August 21, 2009
Uri Keich
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Sydney
Title:  Discovering and confidently estimating the number of replication origins

September 4, 2009
Jean Yee Hwa Yang
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Sydney
Title:  Statistical issues in identification of miRNA regulatory modules and their targets

September 18, 2009
Alan H. Welsh
Centre for Mathematics and its Applications
The Australian National University
Title:  Recent Reflections on Extra Zeros in Count Data

October 13, 2009
Juerg Huesler
Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Bern
Title:  On exceedances of continuous Gaussian processes

October 30, 2009
Susan R. Wilson
Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Mathematical Sciences Institute, The Australian National University
Prince of Wales Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, The University of New South Wales
School of Mathematics & Statistics, Faculty of Science, The University of New South Wales
Title:  Perspectives on Statistical Approaches to Gene Expression Data




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