CSI/Statistics Colloquium Series
Spring 1995
All seminars are held on Fridays at 10:45 in Room 206 of Science and
Technology I, except as noted. Coffee and refreshments are served at 10:30.
January 27
George W. Rogers, Naval Surface Warfare Center
``Adaptive Measure Models''
(Abstract available)
February 3
Timothy D. Sauer, George Mason University
``Time Series Prediction for Chaotic Systems''
(Abstract available)
February 10
Richard Bolstein, George Mason University
``Estimation in a Complex Survey: The Marine
Recreational Fishing Statistics Survey''
(Abstract available)
February 17
James C. Spall, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
``Stochastic Optimization in Multivariate Problems''
(Abstract available)
February 24
Edward J. Wegman, George Mason University
``Huge Data Sets, Computational Feasibility, and High Performance Computing''
(Abstract available)
March 3
Satish C. Misra, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
``On Estimating Rare Events and Comparing the Means of Two
Poisson Distributions''
(Abstract available)
March 10
James M. Davenport, Virginia Commonwealth University, and
James E. Gentle, George Mason University
``Technologies That Have Changed The Way We Teach Statistics''
(Abstract available)
March 17
GMU Spring Break; no seminar
March 24
Peter J. Munson, National Institutes of Health
``Statistical Approaches to Protein Structure Prediction''
(Abstract available)
March 31
11:00 a.m.
Room 111, Science and Technology II
Eric Wolman, Wayne State University School of Medicine
``Constructing a Probability Model of Surprising Data:
Have Non-Returning Patients Really Abandoned their Customary Clinics''
(Abstract available)
Co-sponsored with the Department of Operations Research and Engineering
April 7
Matt Goldberg, IDA
``A Method for Simulating Correlated Random Variables
from Partially Specified Distributions''
(Abstract available)
April 14
Informal group discussion
The State of the Statistical Sciences: Big Topics and Small
(Abstract available)
April 21
Vladimir Vapnik, AT&T Bell Laboratories
``Structure of Statistical Learning Theory''
(Abstract available)
April 28
Douglas R. Miller, George Mason University
``Probability Modeling of Some Polymer Chemical Systems''
May 5
James R. Thompson, Rice University
``Postmodern Data Analysis: the End of Statistics''
(Abstract available)
Co-sponsored by the George Mason Statistics Graduate Student Association
Past schedules are also available.
James Gentle, jgentle@gmu.edu