Seminars held in 2007

Date Speaker Title
December 20,  2007 Professor Peter Hall Bootstrap Aggregation for Cross-validation and Inference Under Constraints
December 18,  2007 Professor Yongjin Jin Sampling Survey on Population and Labor Force in China
November 27,  2007 Professor Tiong Wee Lim Optimal Early Withdrawal and Valuation of Fund Protection Options
November 19,  2007 Professor Jay Breidt Endogenous Post-Stratification in Surveys
November 13,  2007 Professor Ming-Yen Cheng Kernel methods for optimal estimation of change-points in derivatives
November 6,  2007 Professor Hans Mueller Topics in Functional Regression
October 16,  2007 Professor Pheng Ann Heng Research and Applications of Virtual Medicine
October 2,  2007 Professor Liang Peng Goodness-of-fit tests for a heavy tailed distribution and parametric models of bivariatex extremes
July 3,  2007 Professor Ken Cheung Dose-finding Principles in Phase I Clinical Trials: Coherence & Rigidity
April 24,  2007 Professor Long S. Chiu Estimating Rainfall from Space
April 17,  2007 Professor David A. van Dyk Spectral Analysis of Faint Astronomical Objects: Bayesian Modeling, Computation, and Inference
March 6,  2007 Professor Wenbo V. Li(photo) Small Value Phenomena in Probability and Statistics
March 5,  2007 Professor Paul Embrechts A Pillar 1 Approach to Operational Risk: Utopia or Not
February 13,  2007 Professor Tze Leung Lai (photo) A Hidden Markov Modeling Approach To Multiple Change-Points
January 30,  2007 Professor Yuedong Wang (photo) Semi-parametric Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models and Their Applications
January 16,  2007 Professor Jia-An Yan New Risk Measures Based on Choquet Integrals