2014

Spring 2014

January 30 at 3:45pm
Hess Commons

"Spatial Modeling of Brain Imaging Data: Task-related Activation, Functional Connectivity, and Prediction"    
DuBois Bowman, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics
Columbia University
Hosted by: Qixuan Chen, PhD

February 6 at 3:45pm
Hess Commons

"Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Health Predictors and Cross-sectional Health Outcomes via Mean and Variance Trajectories"    
Mike Elliott, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics 
University of Michigan
Hosted by: Qixuan Chen, PhD

February 12 at 3:45pm
Hess Commons

"Risk Prediction with Biomarkers under Complex Study Designs"    
Tianxi Cai, PhD
Professor, Department of Biostatistics 
Harvard University
Hosted by: Yuanjia Wang, PhD

February 20 at 3:45pm
8th Floor Auditorium

"BETASEQ: A Novel Method to Control Type-I Error in Partially Sequenced Data for Rare Variant Association Testing"   
Yun Li, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics 
University of North Carolina
Hosted by: Shuang Wang, PhD

February 27 at 3:45pm
Hess Commons

"On the Comparison of Adaptive Interventions Using Data Arising from a SMART: With Application to Autism Research"    
Daniel Almirall, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center 
University of Michigan
Hosted by: Min Qian, PhD

March 6 at 3:45pm
Hess Commons

"Microbiome, Metagenomics and High-dimensional Compositional Data Analysis"    
Hongzhi Li, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics 
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Iuliana Ionita-Laza, PhD

March 13 at 3:45pm
Hess Commons

"Modeling Frame Deficiencies for Improved Calibration"    
Eric Slud, PhD
Professor, Department of Mathematics 
University of Maryland
Hosted by: Zhezhen Jin, PhD

March 27 at 3:45pm
Hess Commons

"Goodness-of-Fit Diagnostics for Bayesian Hierarchical Models"    
Ying Yuan, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics 
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hosted by: Qixuan Chen, PhD

April 3 at 3:45pm
Hess Commons

"The Consumer Assessments of Healthcare Providers and Systems CAHPS Survey for Medicare: Exploratory Hierarchical Modeling and a Mode Experiment"    
Alan Zaslavsky, PhD
Professor, Department of Health Care Policy 
Havard University
Hosted by: Qixuan Chen, PhD

April 10 at 3:45pm - CANCELED
Hess Commons

"Likelihood Ratio Tests for Dependent Data with Applications to Functional Data Analysis"    
Ana-Maria Staicu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics 
North Carolina State University
Hosted by: Jeff Goldsmith, PhD

April 17 at 3:45pm
Hess Commons

"Molecular epidemiology: predicting the future, past and present of transmission networks of RNA viruses"    
Stephane Aris-Brosou, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics 
University of Ottowa
Hosted by: Arindam RoyChoudhury, PhD

April 24 at 3:45pm
Hess Commons

"An adaptive study design for dose finding based on both safety and immunologic response for oncology clinical trials"    
Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, PhD
Director of Biostatistics, Hollings Cancer Center 
Medical University of South Carolina
Hosted by: Bin Cheng, PhD

May 1 at 3:45pm
Hess Commons

"Optimizing Schedule-Dose Regimes in Early Phase Clinical Trials"    
Peter Thall, PhD
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hosted by: Min Qian, PhD and Shing Lee, PhD

May 5 at 4pm Special Lecture
Hess Commons

"Winners and Losers: Borrowing Strength via Empirical Bayes, Shape Constraints and Convex Optimization"    
Ivan Mizera, PhD
Professor, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Science
University of Alberta
Hosted by: Ying Wei, PhD

May 8 at 3:45pm
Hess Commons

"Bayes and Empirical Bayes Estimation of Health Characteristics for Small Geographic Areas "    
Partha Lahiri, PhD
Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland
Hosted by: Qixuan Chen, PhD

Fall 2014