George Washington University, Department of Statistics
Graduate Student Seminar, 2009-2010

Spring 2010

Date Speaker Title
January 22 Bijit Roy Using Cumulative Hazard and Marker Processes to Model Failure
February 5 Eric Groo Version Control
February 19 Tong Zhang A Generalized Ehrenfest Urn
April 2 Owen Martin The Semantic Web and the Future of the Statistician's Burden
April 16 Ravi Kalpathy Some Convergence Results in a Modified Leader Election Algorithm
April 30 Alessandro Arlotto Some Results on the Sequential Selection of Long Unimodal Subsequences

Fall 2009

Date Speaker Title
October 2 Nassos Markitsis The Proportion of True Null Hypotheses in a Microarray Experiment
October 16 Vicky Wang Contemporary Methods for Analysis of Time-to-recurrent Event Data: Application to the Hematology Products
October 30 Haojin Zhou Progression-Free Survival and Overall Survival in Oncology Studies
November 6 Anna Gordon Simulation Experiments and Efficient Designs for Agent-Based and Systems Dynamics Models Pertaining to Problems of National Defense
December 11 Rick Liu Some Nonparametric Inference Methods Based on the Triangle Data Depth for Multivariate Data

All seminars take place on Fridays from 3:30-4:30 pm in the conference room in the Department of Statistics (2140 Pennsylvania Ave).
Please contact the student seminar coordinator, Ravi Kalpathy, if you have any questions.