Lectures and Seminars

Biostatistics Seminars

Archive of Seminars

Room Locations

• ACB1.2345 is the Telehealth Conference Room on the first floor of the Ambulatory Clinic Building / Lowry and Peggy Mays Clinic
• ACB1.2325 is a room adjacent to the Telehealth Conference Room
• CPB8.3059 is a conference room on the eighth floor of the Cancer Prevention Building / Dan L. Duncan Building
• FC1.2002 is the AT&T Classroom on the first floor of the Faculty Center
• FCT conference rooms are in the T. Boone Pickens Academic Tower

2012

Wednesday, May 16, 10:00 a.m.

ACB1.2345

Athanasios Kottas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Baskin School of Engineering
University of California at Santa Cruz

Bayesian nonparametric inference for mean residual life functions in survival analysis

Wednesday, May 9, 10:00 a.m.

ACB1.2345

Ian L. Dryden, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Statistics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina

Bayesian alignment of unlabeled marked point sets using random fields

Wednesday, April 25, 10:00 a.m.

CPB8.3059

Adrian Dobra, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Statistical methods for dynamic spatio/temporal networks

Friday, April 20, 2:00 p.m.

FC1.2002

Vince D. Calhoun, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Image Analysis and MR Research
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Structural and functional networks in health and disease: Application of independent component analysis to neuroimaging data

Wednesday, April 18, 10:00 a.m.

ACB1.2345

Abdus S. Wahed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Testing multiple adaptive treatment strategies in sequentially randomized clinical trials

Wednesday, March 28, 10:00 a.m.

ACB1.2345

Babak Shahbaba, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
University of California Irvine
Irvine, California

Bayesian gene set analysis

Wednesday, March 21, 10:00 a.m.

ACB1.2345

Ying Yuan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Bayesian optimal up-and-down design for phase I clinical trials

Wednesday, March 7, 9:30 a.m.

ACB1.2345

Naisyin Wang, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics & Biostatistics
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Parameter estimation for ordinary differential equations: An alternative view on penalties

Wednesday, February 29, 10:00 a.m.

ACB1.2345

John O'Quigley, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
and
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Paris, France

A fresh look at survival analysis

Wednesday, February 22, 10:00 a.m.

ACB1.2345

Mahlet Getachew Tadesse, Sc.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Yerby Visiting Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University (2011-2012 academic year)

A stochastic partitioning method for associating high-dimensional data sets

Friday, February 17, 11:00 a.m.

FCT3.5001

Samuel Kou, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Statistics
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sequential Monte Carlo methods in protein folding

Wednesday, February 15, 10:00 a.m.

ACB1.2345

A. Jeffrey Goldsmith
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Biostatistics
Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Scalar-on-function and scalar-on-image regression

Wednesday, February 8, 9:30 a.m.

ACB1.2345

Alexia Iasonos, Ph.D.
Assistant Attending Biostatistician
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Bayesian analysis for large spatial data

Tuesday, February 7, 10:00 a.m.

FCT5.5049

Eric F. Lock
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Joint and individual variation explained (JIVE) for integrated analysis of multiple data types

Thursday, February 2, 11:00 a.m.

FCT5.5049

Suprateek Kundu
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Biostatistics
Gillings School of Global Public Health
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Bayes variable selection in semiparametric linear models

Wednesday, February 1, 10:00 a.m.

FCT4.6057

Yuan Ji, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Division of Quantitative Sciences
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Why we should (REALLY) want to stop using the 3+3 design for phase I clinical trials

Wednesday, January 18, 10:00 a.m.

ACB1.2345

Thomas Michael Braun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

A generalized continual reassessment method for two-agent phase I trials

Friday, January 13, 11:00 a.m.

FCT4.6057

Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

A multivariate spatial factor model for clustered data with informatively present mixed responses