Department of Statistics & Operations Research

Statistics Seminars

2012/2013

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Second Semester

26 February	Daniel Yekutiely, Tel-Aviv university Bayesian Post Model Selection Inference
12 March	Danny Vilenchik, Weizmann Institute Do Semidefinite Relaxations really solve Sparse PCA?
19 March	Yuval Benjamini, UC Berkeley Exploring image representation in the visual cortex using encoding models
9 April	Sagi Snir, Haifa University Constructing the Microbial Tree of Life Using Quartet Based Approaches
22-25 April	^7th Meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International Biometric Society (EMR-IBS)
30 April	Tamar Sofer, Harvard University Multivariate analysis of high throughput methylation screening identifies methylation sites associated with exposure to pesticides
21 May	Eran Halperin, Tel-Aviv University Methods for ancestry inference from genotype data
28 May	Ron Kenett, The KPA Group On doing fine work in statistics
4 June	Moshe Pollak, Hebrew University On Reaching Nirvana (a.k.a. Steady State)
11 June	Yakir Berchenko, Cambridge University Respondent Driven Sampling as a Counting Process
18 June	Yaacov Ritov, Hebrew University These are my beliefs! Am I serious? Certainly not! (Some heresy about Bayes)
25 June	Ofer Harel, University of Connecticut Generating multiple imputation from multiple models to reflect missing data mechanism uncertainty: Application to a longitudinal clinical trial

First Semester

23 October	Saharon Rosset, Tel-Aviv university Isotonic Modeling: Methodology and Applications
30 October	Anat Reiner, Haifa University Statistical analysis of time-course tiling array data
6 November	Benjamin Yakir, Hebrew University
	On asymptotic constants in the theory of Gaussian processes
20 November	Yair Goldberg, Haifa University Test Error in Classification and Adaptive Oracle Classifiers
27 November	Boaz Nadler, Weizmann Institute Continuous Goodness of Fit Testing: Old Problem, New Ideas
4 December	Tamir Tuller, Tel-Aviv University Deciphering and modeling gene translation
11 December	Armin Schwartzman, Harvard University Multiple Testing of Local Maxima for Detection of Peaks in 1D
18 December	Rami Cohen, Tel-Aviv University Hierarchical weighted methods which control the false discovery rate criterion and their use in clinical trials
25 December	Ehud Lehrer, Tel-Aviv University Competitive economy as a ranking device over networks
8 January	Arie Yeredor, Tel-Aviv University Charms, Charrelations, and their relations to correlations
15 January	Alexander Goldenshluger, Haifa University A unified framework for signal detection in Gaussian noise
30 January ** special seminar**	Youngjo Lee, Seoul National University Error controls in multiple testing under dependence

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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

• 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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