University of Wisconsin-Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics

Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
General Departmental Seminar Schedule
Academic Year 2007 - 2008

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

Second - Spring Semester 2008
Date	Time	Presenter	Abstract
Jan 25		Radu Craiu, Toronto Canada	Nonparametric Covariate Adjustment for Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves
Feb 1
Feb 8		Doug Schaubel, Univerisity of Michigan	Modeling Treatment Effects on the Recurrent Event Mean and Rate in the Presence of a Terminating Event
Feb 13	Wed 12:15-1:15	Wenguang Sun, University of Pennsylvania Faculty Candidate	A New Framework for Large-Scale Multiple Testing: Compound Decision Theory and Data-Driven Procedures
Feb 13	Wed 4-5 pm 140 Bardeen	Annie Qu, Oregon State University Stat/BMI Faculty Candidate	Efficient Aggregate Unbiased Estimating Functions Approach for Correlated Data Missing at Random
Feb 20	Wed 12:15-1:15	Min Zhang, North Carolina State University Faculty Candidate
Feb 22
Feb 29		Sijan Wang University of Michigan Faculty Candidate
Mar 7
Mar 14
Mar 21		Spring Recess
Mar 28		Jeanne Kowalski Johns Hopkins University
Apr 2	4:00 140 Bardeen	Butch Tsiatis, North Carolina State University
Apr 4		Masha Kocherginsky University of Chicago
Apr 8	4:00 Genetics Biotech Center Aud.	CIBM Seminar, Gary Churchill	On the Subspecific Origin of the Laboratory Mouse
Apr 11		Keith Worsley McGill University
Apr 16	4:00 140 Bardeen	Mike Akritas, Penn State University Joint Seminar (with Statistics)
Apr 18
Apr 23	4:00 140 Bardeen	Vijay Nair, University of Michigan Joint Seminar (with Statistics)
Apr 25		Lior Pachter University of California, Berkeley
Spring/Summer Semester 2008
May 2	12:00 PM 5275 MSC	Julie Schneider Assistant Director for Scholarly Communications	NIH Public Access Policy : copyright, submissions & how librarians can help
May 9	12:00 PM	BMI Trainee Seminars Elizabeth Esterberg Ben Haaland Darlene Lu	Elizabeth Esterberg: Meta-Analysis for Gene Association Network Reconstruction Ben Haaland: Interpolation Methods for Large Datasets Darlene Lu: Effects of Viral Integration of Human Papillomavirus in Patients with Head/Neck and Cervical Cancers
May 12	11:00 AM 3265 MSC	Eagu Kim Computer Science Department, University of Arizona	Learning Parameters for Sequence Alignment from Examples with Missing Data
May 19	11:00 AM 3310 CS	Ashish Raj University of California San Francisco	How To Solve Challenging Bayesian Problems in MR? A: Graph Cuts!
July 8	12:00 PM 1420 WARF	Guan-Hua Huang, PhD Associate Professor Institute of Statistics National Chiao Tung University	Special Seminar: Statistical Validation of Endophenotypes Using a Surrogate Endpoint Analytic Analogue
July 8	2:00 PM 140 Bardeen	Ken Cheung, PhD Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics Columbia University	Adaptive designs, treatment selection, and blinding in placebocontrolled randomized clinical trials

First - Fall Semeter 2007
Date	Location	Presenter	Abstract
Sept 7		Eneida Mendoca, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Informatics College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University, New York, NY Faculty Candidate	Bringing medicine to a new level by the use of clinical narrative and scientific text processing
Sept 14		Steven Gilmour, PhD School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London	Biological Kinetics: Data Analysis and Design of Experiments
Wednesday Sept 19	140 Bardeen	David Dunson, PhD National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Biostatistics Branch Adjunct Professor, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University Adjunct Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Joint Seminar	Bayesian density regression via kernal stick-breaking processes
Sept 21		Michael Perlman Department of Statistics University of Washington	The Role Reversal in Statistical inference: Two Vignettes
Sept 28		Boguang Zhen, PhD Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration	Drug/Biologics Product Development and Statistical Review at the FDA
Thursday Oct 4	G5 113 CSC 1-2pm	Ian Bradbury, PhD Frontier Science, Scotland	Multi-resistant Staphyllococus Aureus: To Screen or Not
Oct 5		James Gee, PhD Professor of Radiologic Science and Computer and Information Science and Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania	Symetric Image Normalization in the Space of Diffeomorphisms
Oct 12		Ying J. Zhang, PhD Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics University of Iowa, Iowa City	Semiparametric Analysis of Panel Count Data
Wednesday Oct 17		David Oakes, PhD Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics, Dept of Biostatistics and Computational Biology University of Rochester Joint Seminar	Potential risk reversal due to heterogeneity
Oct 19		Vladimir Dragalin, PhD Senior Director , Statistical Research and Applications , Global Biostatistics & Programming , Wyeth Research	Adaptive model-based designs in clinical drug development
Oct 26
Nov 2		Moo Chung, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior University of Wisconsin-Madison	Fourier Spectral Method for Shape Asymmetry Analysis
Wednesday Nov 7	4:00 140 Bardeen	Edsel Pena, Professor Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina Joint Seminar	Probabilistic Modeling and Non- and Semi-Parametric Inference for Event Times in Recurrent Event Settings
Nov 9		Lisa Getoor , Assistant Professor Department of Computer Sciences and University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies	Graph Identification and Alignment
Nov 16		Yi Li, PhD , Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University	Understand Racial Disparities in Cancer Cures: Results from Large Population Science Studies
Nov 23		No Seminar due to Thanksgiving holiday
Nov 30		Kristin Javaras Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior	Do Americans or the British have more national pride? : Analyzing Likert Attitude Data with Varying Response Styles
Dec 5	4:00 140 Bardeen	Andrei Yakovlev University of Rochester Joint Seminar	Testing differential expression in non-overlapping gene pairs: A new perspective for the empirical Bayes method
Dec 7		Training Seminars Shuang Huang (Newton) Elizabeth Esterberg (Kim) Ben Haaland (Palta)
Dec 14		Training Seminars Yang Zhao (Keles) Charlie Casper (Kendziorski) Darlene Lu (Chappell)	Yang Zhao: Microarray gene expression analysis of rhinovirus induced asthma Charlie Casper: Breast Cancer: Fibroblast Gene Expression Darlene Lu: The Effects of Radiation Therapy on the Quality of Life of Patients with Prostate Cancer

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.

Departmental Seminar Archives - by Academic Year
2009-2010	2008-2009	2007-2008
2006-2007	2005-2006	2004-2005	2003-2004
2002-2003	2001-2002	2000-2001	1999-2000