University of Wisconsin-Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics

Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
General Departmental Seminar Schedule Academic Year 2006-2007

All seminars meet on Fridays at 5275 MSC, 12-1pm,
unless otherwise noted

Seminars Academic Year 2006-2007
2007
January 26		Ting-li Lin University of Wisconsin, Madison Department of Statistics	My Intern Experience with Quintiles
February 2		cancelled
February 9		K.K. Gordon Lan, PhD Johnson and Johnson New Jersey	Normal approximation in two-stage winner design
February 16		Frank DiMaio University of Wisconsin, Madison Department of Computer Science	Particle filtering and protein image recognition
February 28	Wednesday 140 Bardeen 4:00pm	Robert Krafty University of Pennsylvania Biostatistics/Statistics Joint Faculty Candidate	Penalized Functional Principal Components Analysis Using a Kullback-Leibler Criterion
March 2		Xiaomin Lu, PhD Candidate University of North Carolina Department of Statistics Biostatistics/Statistics Joint Faculty Candidate	Improving the Efficiency of the Logrank Test Using Auxiliary Covariates
March 5	Monday 10:30 a.m. 1111 Biotechnology Center Auditorium	Chad Myers Princeton University Computational Systems Biology Cluster Hire Candidate	Inferring biological networks from diverse genomic data
March 5	Monday 4:00pm 5275 MSC	Subharup Guha Harvard School of Public Health Biostatistics/Statistics Joint Faculty Candidate	Bayesian Hidden Markov Modeling of Array-CGH Data
March 7	Wednesday 140 Bardeen 4:00pm	Cancelled. To be rescheduled.
March 16		No seminar scheduled
March 19	Monday 1111 Biotech Center 1:30pm	Image Analysis Candidate Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; information available upon request parman@biostat.wisc.edu
March 19	Monday 5275 MSC 4:00pm	Joint Faculty Candidate Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics / Statistics; information available upon request parman@biostat.wisc.edu
March 22	Thursday 1441 Biotech Center 10:30 am	Karl W. Broman Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University	Mapping Mulitple QTL in Experimental Crosses
March 27	Tuesday Biotech Center 145 Henry Mall 4:00pm	Antonio Piccolboni, PhD Affymetrix, Emeryville, CA Computational Systems Biology Cluster Hire Candidate	Multivariate Segmentation in the Analysis of Transcription Tiling Array Data
March 28	Wednesday 140 Bardeen 4:00pm	Vikas Singh Department of Computer Science & Engineering State University of New York-Buffalo Faculty Candidate - Image Analysis	Computation Modeling of Multi-View Medical Image Analysis Problems
April 6		Spring Recess
April 10	Tuesday 1111 Biotech Center 4:00pm	William Mullally Boston University Image Analysis Faculty Candidate	Image-Based Analysis of the Topology and Morphology of Diseased Lungs
April 11	Wednesday 140 Bardeen 4:00pm	CANCELLED due to weather	Bayesian Density Regression with Applications
April 13		Chiara Sabatti UCLA Departments of Statistics and of Human Genetics	Bayesian Gaussian Mixture Models for High Density Genotyping Arrays
April 18	Wednesday K4/418 CSC 12:00	Susanne Ragg, M.D., PhD. Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Director, Osteosarcoma Clinical Care and Research Program Director, Center for Computation Diagnostics Indiana University School of Medicine	Biomedical research in the 21st century: Using proteomics and biomedical informatics to understand disease
April 18	Wednesday 5275 MSC 1:30pm	Bing Jian University of Florida, Gainesville Image Analysis Faculty Candidate
April 19		Steve Horvath Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Human Genetics UCLA	An Overview of Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis
April 19		Marvin Zelen, PhD Professor of Statistical Science Harvard University Department of Biostatistics Harvard School of Public Health
April 20		Hongzhe Li University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology	Statistical Methods for Network-based Analysis of Genomic Data
April 27		Annette Molinaro Department of Biostatistics Yale University	Data-Adaptive Approaches to Evaluating and Validating Therapeutically Relevant Biomarkers
May 4		Training Seminar	Charlie Casper NHLBI Dave D/Tom Cook Analysis of recurrent events and death Robert Green NIGMS Brian Yandell Analysis of Cystitis Survey Data Darlene Lu NIGMS Ron Gangnon Allergen sensitization of infants with asthma by age six
May 11		Training Seminar	Ben Haaland Applications of Statistics in Knee and Shoulder Therapies Lisa Chung Calcium Kinetics John Dawson Modeling multiple-QTL with interactions: Comparison of a novel approach with RQTL's Scan-Two
2006
Date	Time and Location	Presenter	Title/Abstract
Sept 8		Liam Paninski Columbia University	Two problems from neural data analysis: sparse entropy estimation and adaptive experimental design
Sept 15		Constantine Frangakis Johns Hopkins	The role of designs in partially controlled studies
Sept 22		Daniel Rowe Medical College of Wisconsin	Functional magnetic resonance imaging brain activation from k-space
Sept 29		No seminar (Biostat Training Meeting)
Oct 6		No Seminar
Monday, Oct 9	3:30 1210 MSC	David M. Steinberg Tel Aviv University, Israel	Designing factorial experiments for GLMs
Wednesday, Oct 11,	8:00am G5/113 CSC	UWCCC Grand Rounds Daniel J. Sargent Director, Biostatistics Shared Resource Mayo Clinic Cancer Center Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Rochester, MN
Wednesday, Oct 11	4:00pm 140 Bardeen	(Joint) Song Chen Iowa State	Semiparametric estimation with missing values via empirical likelihood
Friday, Oct 13	1:15, Pyle Center Rm.313, 702 Langdon St.	Michael Newton University of Wisconsin-Madison	Problems and solutions in gene set enrichment analysis
Oct 16	4:00pm 140 Bardeen	Brad Efron Stanford University (Joint Seminar)
Tuesday, Oct 17, 2006	331 Service Memorial Institute	Brad Efron Stanford University	Fifty Years of Empirical Bayes
Wednesday, Oct 18	4:00pm 140 Bardeen	Brad Efron Stanford University	Is a set of genes enriched?
Oct 27		No seminar (joint seminar on Nov, 1)
Wednesday, Nov 1	140 Bardeen	(Joint) Jamie Robins Harvard University	Minimax Point and Interval Estimators in Causal Inference and Missing Data Models: Application of a Unified Theory of Parametric, Semi and Nonparametric Statistics Based On Higher Dimensional Influence Functions.
Nov 3		Susan S. Ellenberg University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics	Statistical challenges in monitoring and investigating the safety of medical treatments
Nov 8	140 Bardeen	Susan Murray University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics,	Nonparametric inference for paired quality of life adjusted time-to-event data
Nov 10		Hongyu Zhao Yale University	Protein interaction predictions through integrating high-throughput data from diverse organisms
Nov 17		Bo Huang University of Wisconsin, Department of Statistics	Optimal two-stage Phase II Designs with Time to Event Endpoints
Dec 8		Biostatistics training seminar Lisa Chung Xipei Yang Charlie Casper	Lisa Chung:QTL analysis of mouse glaucoma data Xipei Yang:Data management and analysis of a phase II chemoprevention trial of a vitamin D2 analog in prostate cancer Charlie Casper:Survival estimation when data collection is delayed
Dec 15		Biostatistics training seminar Darlene Lu Rui Tang John Dawson	Darlene Lu:Testing for equality between two T-cell populations with the Fisher's exact test and the negative binomial Rui Tang:Trends during adolescence as predictors of later risk factors and complications in Type 1 diabetes John Dawson:A condor based web server for analyzing CSI-array data using CGI with R

Seminar Location Addresses (campus map)

CSC = Clinical Sciences Center, 600 Highland Ave.

Comp Sci = Computer Sciences, 1210 West Dayton St.

Bardeen, MSC = Medical Sciences Center, 1300 University Ave.

WARF = Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation office building, 610 Walnut St.

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