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Seminars

General Departmental Seminars - Academic Year 2009-2010

Date  
Location & Time
Presenter  
Title  
Abstract
Friday
December  13, 2009
G5/113 CSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Trainee Seminars To Be Announced...
Friday
December  4, 2009
G5/113 CSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Colin Begg, Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering
To Be Announced...
** CANCELLED **
Friday
November  27, 2009
G5/113 CSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM
** CANCELLED **
Friday
November  20, 2009
G5/113 CSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Mike Daniels, Ph.D.
University of Florida
Causal inference for quality of life data in the presence of progression and death abstract
Friday
November  13, 2009
G5/113 CSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Bob Mau, PhD
Genome Center of Wisconsin
Evolution is more complicated than I thought: A personal journey in comparative genomics abstract
Friday
November  6, 2009
G5/113 CSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM
John Neuhaus, Ph.D.
University of California-San Francisco
Estimation of covariate effects in generalized linear mixed models with informative cluster sizes abstract
** CANCELLED **
Friday
October  30, 2009
G5/113 CSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Yuan Ji, Ph.D.
University of Texas, Anderson MD Cancer Center
** CANCELLED **
Bayesian Models for Genetic Pathways
abstract

Friday
October  23, 2009
**140 Bardeen**
Note location change

12:00 - 1:00 PM
Baba Vemuri, Ph.D.
UF Research Foundation Professor, Dept. of Computer and
Information Science and Engineering Director, Center for
Vision Graphics and Medical Imaging, University of Florida
Mathematics of higher-order SPD tensors and their estimation from DW-MRI abstract
Friday
October  16, 2009
G5/113 CSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Richard Cook, Ph.D.,
Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methods for Health Research Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Methods for Analyzing Recurrent Events Subject to Event-Dependent Censoring abstract
** CANCELLED **
Friday
October  9, 2009
G5/113 CSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Po-Huang Chyou, Ph.D.
Director/Senior Biostatistician
Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
** CANCELLED **
Impute Or Not: When Data Are Missing Completely At Random?
abstract
Friday
October  2, 2009
New location
** 140 Bardeen **

12:00 - 1:00 PM
Guilherme J. M. Rosa, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Dairy Science University
of Wisconsin - Madison
Design of Microarray Experiments for Genetical Genomics Studies with Outbred Populations abstract
Friday
September  25, 2009
G5/113 CSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Dylan Small, Ph.D. Wharton, University of Pennsylvania Error Free Milestones in Error Prone Measurements abstract
* TUESDAY *
September  22, 2009
7615 MSC
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Patrick Ryan, GlaxoSmithKline R & D and
David Madigan, Dept. of Statistics, Columbia University
Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership: Improving drug safety through data mining of observational healthcare databases abstract
Friday
September  18, 2009
G5/113 CSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Atanu Biswas, Ph.D., Indian Statistical Unit, Calcutta Estimating Treatment Difference
for Binary Responses in the
Presence of Surrogate End-Points
abstract
* Thursday *
September  17, 2009
* 4201 HSLC *
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Karl Broman, Ph.D., BMI Chair Candidate
Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics,
University of Madison, Wisconsin
“Genetic Maps: Past, Present and Future” abstract
* Tuesday *
September  8, 2009
1309 HSLC
5:00 – 6:00 PM
José Pinheiro, Ph.D., BMI Chair Candidate
Senior Biometrical Fellow, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Evaluating and Quantifying Benefit of
Exposure-Response Modeling for Dose Finding
announcement
Friday
September  4, 2009
G5/113 CSC
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Adin Cristian-Andrei, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor Department
of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin
A Novel Pseudo-Observations-Based
Modeling Approach for Interval-Censored Data
abstract
* THURSDAY
July  23, 2009
1309 HSLC
5:00 – 6:00 PM
David B. Allison, Ph.D., BMI Chair Candidate
Professor and Head, Section on Statistical Genetics,
Department of Biostatistics
Director, Clinical Nutrition Research Center,
Department of Nutrition Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
“Doth the grave gape thrice wider for thee? A numerical reckoning of obesity and death.” abstract
* MONDAY
July  20, 2009
1309 HSLC
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Paul J. Rathouz, Ph.D., BMI Chair Candidate
Associate Professor, Biostatistics Department
of Health Studies University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Semiparametric Generalized Linear Models abstract
FRIDAY
June 19, 2009
234 WARF
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
José Pinheiro, Ph.D.
Senior Biometrical Fellow
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Target Dose Estimation Under Model Uncertainty:the MCP-Mod Approach abstract
FRIDAY
June 5, 2009
5275 MSC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Inkyung Jung, Ph.D.
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
University of Texas Health
Sciences Center, San Antonio
A Generalized Linear Models
Approach to Spatial Scan Statistics
for Covariate Adjustment
abstract
* TUESDAY
May 12, 2009
5275 MSC
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Hector Corrada Bravo
Postdoctoral Fellow
Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Dept.
Model-Based Quality Assessment and Base-Calling for Second-Generation Sequencing Data abstract
FRIDAY
May 1, 2009
1325 HSLC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Training Seminar Speakers:
  • Andy Thurman

  • Lee McDaniel

  • Lizzi Esterberg
abstracts:
  • Detecting Differential Gene Regulation in Pediatric Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)

  • Detecting Clusters of More Significant
    P-Values

  • Operating Characteristics for Group Sequential Designs
April 24, 2009 5275 MSC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Barry Storer, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Medicine & Public Health
University of Washington
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Evaluating Survival When Age and Background Mortality Are An Issue: Examples from Merkel cell carcinoma and HCT abstract
* Wednesday
April 22, 2009
140 Bardeen
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Mark Vander Laan, Ph.D.
(Joint with Statistics Dept)
Division of Biostatistics School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Towards Robust Machine Learning Algorithms for Causal Effects that Preserve Meaningful Statistical Inference abstract
April 17, 2009 5275 MSC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hongwei Zhao, Ph.D.
Texas A & M University
Cost and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis with Censored Data abstract
MONDAY
April 13, 2009
5275 MSC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Milan Sonka, Ph.D.
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Iowa
3-D Analysis of Retinal OCT Images abstract
April 10, 2009 5275 MSC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Jason Fine, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina
Sensitivity Testing for NonIdentifiable Models, With Application to Longitudinal Data with Noninformative Dropout abstract
April 3, 2009 5275 MSC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lei Sun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Department of Statistics, University of Toronto
Unifying Stratified and Weighted FDR Methods with Applications
to Large-Scale Genetic Studies
abstract
March 27, 2009 5275 MSC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Michael Kosorok, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Statistics and Operations Research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Reinforcement Learning, Clinical Trials
and Individualized Therapy
abstract
March 20, 2009 5275 MSC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
     
NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
     
March 13, 2009 5275 MSC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Yolanda Gil, Ph.D.
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
Semantics and Problem Solving for
Planning Computational Workflows:
Large-Scale Distributed Data
Analysis for e-Science
abstract

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Seminar Location Addresses (campus map)
CSC = Clinical Sciences Center, 600 Highland Ave. Comp Sci = Computer Sciences, 1210 West Dayton St.
MSC = Medical Sciences Center, 1300 University Ave WARF = Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, 610 Walnut St

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