Department of Statistics & Operations Research

Statistics Seminars

2014/2015

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Second Semester

10 March	Dan Garber, Technion Online Algorithms for Principal Component Analysis
24 March	Felix Abramovich, Tel-Aviv University Model Selection in High-Dimensional Regression: Some Results and Extensions
14 April	Heejung Shim, University of Chicago Multi-scale approaches for analyses of functional phenotypes arising from high-throughput sequencing assays
21 April	Lior Wolf, Tel-Aviv University Image Annotation using Deep Learning and Fisher Vectors
5 May	Daniel Yekutieli, Tel-Aviv University Inferring predictive treatment effects from the Cochrane Collaboration reviews
12 May	Noam Slonim, IBM IBM Debating Technologies
19 May	Diklah Geva, Ben-Gurion University Shelf life estimation for single and multiple storage conditions
26 May	Alex Ely Kossovsky, City University of New York Benford's Law: Digits within Numbers
28 May ** special time and place**	The Israel Statistical Association Annual Meeting
9 June	Avital Lavie, Hebrew University המספרים מפרים את חוק המספרים הגדולים
16 June	Shulamith Gross, Baruch College of CUNY Comparing the Predictiveness of Nested Statistical Models
23 June	Emilio Porcu, University Federico Santa Maria Space-Time Covariance Functions for Planet Earth
30 June	Iain Johnstone, Stanford University Estimating sparse eigenstructure for high dimensional data
7 July	Will Fithian, Stanford University Optimal Inference After Model Selection

First Semester

21 October	Richard Olshen, Stanford University Clonality, richness, and multinomial parameters
23 October ** special time	Malgorzata Bogdan, Wroclaw University of Technology Do the magic properties of the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure hold in the context of multiple regression?
28 October	Itai Dattner , Haifa University Statistical Inference for Systems of Differential Equations
4 November	Ohad Shamir, Weizmann Institute Learning with Information Constraints
11 November	Jeffrey Silber, University of Pennsylvania Mistaken Advice on Heart Attack Mortality from Medicare's Hospital Compare
16 November ** special time and place**	Special Meeting Israel Biostatistics Forum (IBF)
18 November	Yair Weiss, Hebrew University
	Compressed Sensing and Natural Image Statistics
25 November	Jonathan Rosenblatt, Weizmann Institute On the Optimality of Averaging in Distributed Statistical Learning
2 December	Saharon Rosset, Tel-Aviv University
	Quality Preserving Databases: Statistically Sound and Efficient Use of Public Databases for an Infinite Sequence of Tests
9 December	Philip Reiss, New-York University Varying-smoother models, with applications to human brain development
16 December	Tamar Sofer, University of Washington Methods for the Analysis of Exposure Effect on Secondary Outcomes in Case-Control Studies
23 December	Adam Sales, Carnegie Mellon University Adjusting for Many Covariates in Matching-Based Causal Inference
30 December	Eran Shmaya, Tel-Aviv University Merging of opinions in a stationary environment
5-7 January	Special Meeting
	Replicability across labs concerns in animal phenotyping and other pre-clinical studies
13 January	Niv Buchbinder, Tel-Aviv University A Primal-Dual Approach to Online Optimization Problems

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Seminars are held on Tuesdays, 10.30 am, Schreiber Building, 309 (see the TAU map ). The seminar organizer is Ruth Heller.

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Seminars from previous years

• 2013-2014 (organized by Ruth Heller)
• 2012-2013 (organized by Ruth Heller)
• 2011-2012 (organized by Ruth Heller and Saharon Rosset)
• 2010-2011 (organized by Saharon Rosset)
• 2009-2010 (organized by Saharon Rosset)
• 2008-2009 (organized by Saharon Rosset)
  
  
• 2007-2008 (organized by Daniel Yekutieli)
• 2006-2007 (organized by Daniel Yekutieli)
• 2005-2006 (organized by Daniel Yekutieli)
• 2004-2005 (organized by Daniel Yekutieli)

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