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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 13 140
Bardeen
4-5pm
Annie Qu
Oregon State University
Efficient Aggregate Unbiased Estimating Functions Approach for Correlated Data Missing at Random
Feb 18 Mon
133 SMI
4:00pm
Jae-kwang Kim
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Parametric Fractional Imputation for Missing Data Analysis
Feb 20 Wed 12:15-1:15 Min Zhang
North Carolina State University
Faculty Candidate
Improving efficiency of inferences in randomized clinical trials using auxiliary covariates
Feb 22      
Feb 29   Sijan Wang
University of Michigan
Faculty Candidate
Hierarchically Penalized Cox Regression for Censored Data with Grouped Predictors and Its Oracle Property
Mar 7      
Mar 14      
Mar 21   Spring Recess  
Mar 28   Jeanne Kowalski
Johns Hopkins University
**CANCELLED**
Nonparametric, Hypothesis-based Analysis of High-Dimensional Data
Apr 2 4:00 140 Bardeen Butch Tsiatis
North Carolina State University
Estimating mean response as a function of treatment duration in an Observational Study, where duration may be informatively censored
Apr 4   Masha Kocherginsky
University of Chicago
Interval Estimation for the Difference in Median Survival Times Based on Multiple Imputation
Apr 8 4:00
Genetics Biotech Center
Aud.
CIBM Seminar, Gary Churchill
The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine
On the Subspecific Origin of the Laboratory Mouse
Apr 11  

Keith Worsley

McGill University
Montreal, Canada

The topology of point clouds: galaxies, multiple sclerosis lesions, and 'bubbles'
Apr 16 4:00 140 Bardeen Mike Akritas
Penn State University

Joint Seminar (with Statistics)
Random and Mixed Effects Designs: Fully Nonparametric Models for High Dimensional Data
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
Statistical foundations of distance-based phylogenetics
May 2 12:00 5275 MSC Julie Schneider
Assistant Director for Scholarly Communications
NIH Public Access Policy : copyright, submissions & how librarians can help
May 9   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 3265 MSC Eagu Kim
Computer Science Department, University of Arizona
Learning Parameters for Sequence Alignment from Examples with Missing Data
       
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 fromLarge 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.

Previous Academic Year Departmental Seminars
2006-2007 2004-2005 2002-2003 2000-2001
2005-2006 2003-2004 2001-2002 1999-2000

 

 

 

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