February 12, 2010, Carslaw 351: Andrei Volodin  
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia
Asymptotic Probability for the Deviations of Dependent Bootstrap Means from the Sample Mean

March 5, 2010: Thomas Fung
Department of Statistics, Macquarie University
Modelling and Estimation for Bivariate Financial Returns

March 19, 2010: Michael Stewart
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
Using normal mixtures for density estimation

April 16, 2010: Vivek Jayaswal
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
Identifying the optimal number and arrangement of rate matrices over a phylogenetic tree

April 30, 2010: John Robinson
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
Robust permutation tests

May 14, 2010: Terry Speed
Division of Bioinformatics, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Correcting for Unwanted Variation in Microarray Data

May 21, 2010: Gery Geenens
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales
Who deserved the 2008-2009 Belgian Football Champion title? A semiparametric answer

May 24, 2010 (Monday!): Anne Shiu
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
The Cyclohedron Test for Finding Periodic Genes in Time Course Expression Studies

June 4, 2010: Bruce Brown
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales
Cramer-von Mises smoothing of covariate curves

August 6, 2010: Philip Kokic
Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, CSIRO
Multivariate quantiles, expectiles and M-quantiles

August 27, 2010: Scott Sisson
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales
Adaptive optimal scaling of Metropolis-Hastings algorithms

September 17, 2010: John Ormerod
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
Skew-Normal Variational Approximations

September 24, 2010: Ross Sparks
Mathematics, Informatics and Statistic, CSIRO
How to detect spatio-temporal clusters very quickly?

October 22, 2010: Timothy L. Bailey
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
Statistical pattern discovery in ChIP-seq data

October 29, 2010: Gillian Heller
Department of Statistics, Macquarie University
Random sums regression - which level do we analyse?

December 15, 2010, 4-5pm in LT104 in the New Law School (AMSI sponsored lecture): Denise Lievesley
School of Social Science & Public Policy, King's College London, UK
The role of an International Statistician




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