CSI/Statistics Colloquium Series
Spring 1996
Except as noted, all seminars are held on Fridays at
10:45 in Room 206
of Science and Technology I , on the Fairfax Campus of George Mason
University.
Coffee and refreshments are served at 10:30.
Directions to the Fairfax Campus and a
campus map are available.
Visitors should use the visitor's parking area in the
Parking Deck (near the middle of the map).
Signs on campus point the way to the Parking Deck.
January 26
Leonard Hearne, University of North Carolina
``A Nonparametric Method of Model Validation''
Abstract available (PostScript)
February 2
Informal group discussion ( Canceled, University closed )
The State of the Statistical Sciences: Big Topics and Small
Abstract available (PostScript)
February 9
Carl M. Harris, George Mason University
``Distribution Estimation Using Laplace Transformation Approximations''
Abstract available (PostScript)
February 16
Ehsan S. Soofi, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and visiting George Mason University
``Maximum Entropy Estimation and Probing of Models for Data-Generating
Distributions''
Abstract available (PostScript)
February 23
Charles Perry, National Agricultural Statistical Service
``Selecting Samples
in Multiple Surveys To Reduce Respondent Burden''
Abstract available (PostScript)
March is Optimization Month!
March 1
Ariela Sofer, George Mason University
``Nonlinear Optimization of the Iterative 3-D PET Reconstruction
Problem''
Abstract available (PostScript)
March 8
Snow day. Seminar rescheduled.
March 15
George Mason spring recess. No seminar
March 22
Karla L. Hoffman, George Mason University
``Solving Very Large and Difficult Combinatorial Optimization
Problems''
Abstract available (PostScript)
March 29
Roman A. Polyak, George Mason University
``Exterior Point Methods in Constrained Optimization''
Abstract available (PostScript)
April 5
Informal group discussion, led by
Clifton Sutton
George Mason University
Education in the Statistical Sciences:
How Do Statisticians Become Statisticians?
April 12
Panel discussion by
George Michaels
Philippe Loustaunau
John Wallin
Edward J. Wegman
``What Is Computational Science All About?''
(Abstract available)
April 19
Lynne B. Hare, National Institute of Standards and Technology
``A Case Study in the Reduction of Variation
Through Graphics and Statistical Thinking''
Abstract available (PostScript)
April 26
Refik Soyer, The George Washington University
``Bayesian Computations for Reliability Growth Modeling''
Abstract available (PostScript)
May 3
Panel discussion on the nature of the computational sciences.
(Follow-up to April 12 discussion.)
Past schedules are also available.
James Gentle, jgentle@gmu.edu