Stochastic Modeling and Computational Statistics, Spring 2013
Meeting times: Thursdays 10am-11am (notice the new timings) in Thomas 327.

Guidelines:

1. 40 minutes for each talk + 20 minutes for discussion
2. informal style: chalk and blackboard talks are welcome
3. the talk should be accessible to all grad students who have completed 1 year of the program
4. interruptions during the talk are welcome but they should only be for clarifications; other questions are to be left to discussions
5. unpublished work may not be shared/discussed outside the group without the permission of the speaker/author

Date	Speaker	Topic
Jan 10	Vishesh Karwa	An introduction to propensity score methods
Jan 17	No meeting
Jan 24	Chia-Jung Chang (PSU Industrial Engineering)	Representation/quantification of nano-particle dispersion using non-homogeneous Poisson process
Jan 31	Jason Morton (Math/Stat)	Graphical hypermodels: a technique for interpolating among Bayesian network models with differing architecture
Feb 7	Dennis Lin	Dimensional Analysis and Statistics
Feb 14	No meeting
Feb 21	Michael Schweinberger	Second-generation exponential-family models of networks: Scaling up
Feb 28	Youngjoo Cho	A Weighted Estimator of Accelerated Failure Time Model under Presence of Dependent Censoring
Mar 7	No meeting due to spring break
Mar 14	Boaz Nadler (Weizmann Institute)	Diffusion maps, a generalization of principal components for nonlinear (non-Gaussian) data
Mar 21	Yu Zhang	Infinite-state HMMs for population sequencing data analysis
Mar 28	Don Richards	The Affinely Invariant Distance Correlation
Apr 4	Uday Shanbhag (PSU Industrial Engineering/Operations Research)	Stochastic approximation schemes: regularization, smoothing, and adaptive steplengths
Apr 11	Michael Kuhn (Astronomy)	Spatial point processes to study clusters of young stars
Apr 18	Won Chang	A composite likelihood approach to computer model calibration
Apr 25	Murali Haran	Tutorial/overview of Monte Carlo methods for spatial generalized linear mixed models