Department of Statistics & Operations Research

Statistics Seminars

2013/2014

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Second Semester

18 February	Yishay Mansour, Tel-Aviv University Learning Multiple Tasks using Shared Hypotheses
25 February	Yaacov Ritov, Hebrew University On Asympotically Optimal Confidence Regions and Tests for High-Dimensional Models
4 March	Gal Elidan, Hebrew University Lightning-speed Model Selection of Complex Densities
11 March	Malka Gorfine, Technion Heritability Estimation using Regularized Regression Approach (HERRA)
25 March	Danny Pfefferman, Government Statistician Statistical Inference under Nonignorable Sampling and Nonresponse. An Empirical Likelihood Approach
1 April	Robert Adler, Technion A Statistical and Probabilistic Potpourri of Problems in Applied Algebraic Topology
8 April	Yoel Shkolnisky, Tel-Aviv University Viewing Directions Estimation in cryo-EM Using Synchronization
29 April	Natan Srebro, Technion Matrix Learning: A Tale of Two Norms
19 May	Boaz Arad, מיה מחשבים big dataפתרונות אנליטיים בעידן
20 May	Ephraim Kenigsberg, Weizmann Institute Studying tissue heterogeneity by measuring single-cell gene expression
27 May	Jonathan Rosenblatt, Weizmann Institute On Seletive Estimation in Nueroimaging
10 June	Or Zuk, Hebrew University Association Analysis using Wavelets Hidden Markov Trees
11 June ** special day and time**	Israel Statistical Association annual meeting Program
1 July	Emmanuel Candes, Stanford University The Knockoff Filter for Controlling the False Discovery Rate

First Semester

15 October	Amir Globerson, Hebrew University Vanishing Component Analysis
29 October	Tomer Koren, Technion Linear Regression with Limited Observation
5 November	Oren Louidor, Technion
	The thinned extremal process of the 2D discrete Gaussian Free Field
7 November ** special day and time**	Abraham Wyner, University of Pennsylvania Statistical Learning with Time Series Dependence: An Application to Scoring Sleep in Mice
12 November	Daniel Yekutieli, Tel-Aviv University
	Optimal exact tests for complex alternative hypotheses on cross tabulated data
19 November	Marianna Pensky, University of Central Florida Laplace deconvolution on the basis of time domain data and its application to Dynamic Contrast Enhanced imaging
26 November ** special time and place**	Special Meeting Israeli Biostatistics Forum (IBF)
3 December	David Golan, Tel-Aviv University Accurate Estimation of Heritability in Case-Control GWAS
24 December	Boris Levit, Queen's University Some new perspectives in best approximation and interpolation of random data
31 December	Joseph Agassi, Tel-Aviv University Replicability in science with special application to statistics
14 January	Roded Sharan, Tel-Aviv University
	Protein networks: from topology to logic
21 January	Emilio Porcu, University Federico Santa Maria
	Adaptive tapers for space-time geostatistics

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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

• 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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