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        statistics colloquia meet regularly throughout the academic year. An average of 25 talks per year are given by visiting scholars and a few faculty members, and joint colloquia with Biostatistics and Mathematics are held periodically. To be added to the department's colloquium mailing list, e-mail mrr@email.unc.edu . 

        See: Directions to the Department and other maps . 

        Spring 2004

        March 29, 2004, JIA LI, Pennsylvania State University,

        "THE 2-D HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL FOR IMAGES, IT'S EXTENSIONS, AND APPLICATIONS"
        ABSTRACT

        March 15, 2004, LENA RINGSTAD OLSEN, Mathematics & Statistics Institute, University of Tromso, Norway,

        "DETECTION OF SHORT AND LONG RANGE CHANGE POINTS IN TIME SERIES USING SPECTRAL ANALYSIS"
        ABSTRACT

        February 16, 2004, DR. HARRY HURD, Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina,

        "INTERPRETATION OF CLUSTERS BASED ON CORRELATION DISTANCE"
        ABSTRACT

        February 2, 2004, DR. MOU-HSIUNG CHANG, Mathematics Division, Engineering Sciences Directorate, U.S. Army Research Office,

        "HEREDITARY PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION WITH TRANSACTION COSTS AND TAXES: A QUASI-VARIATIONAL HJB INEGUALITY IN INFINITE DIMENSIONS"
        ABSTRACT

        January 12, 2004, DR. ROBERT RODRIGUEZ, SAS Research & Development,

        "NEW SOFTWARE FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS IN SAS 9: 
         THE STORY YOU DIDN'T SEE ON 60 MINUTES"
        ABSTRACT
         
         
         
         


        Hotelling Lectures are an annual event featuring three talks by an eminent guest speaker. The first lectures were given by David R. Cox in 1980, and in subsequent years by Herman Chernoff, Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Frank Hampel, David Brillinger, David Kendall, Persi Diaconis, Pal Revesz, Willem van Zwet, C.R. Rao, Bradley Efron, Lucien LeCam, Peter Bickel, Ulf Grenander, Larry Shepp, David Donoho, David Siegmund, Herbert Robbins, Lawrence D. Brown, Nancy Reid, S.R.S. Varadhan, Stuart Geman and Iain Johnstone.
         

        The 2002 Hotelling Lectures this year will be given by Dr. Peter Hall of Australian National University.
         

        Lecture 1:
               Monday, November 18, 4:00 p.m., Phillips Hall, Rm 265

        NONPARAMETRIC INFERENCE UNDER CONSTRAINTS.

        A reception in New West 204 will follow the lecture.
         

        Lecture 2:
               Wednesday, November 20, 3:30 p.m., New West, Rm. 212

        NONPARAMETRIC METHODS FOR DECONVOLVING MULTIPERIODIC FUNCTIONS.

        Refreshments will be served in New West 204 at 3:00 p.m.
         

        Lecture 3: 
               Friday, November 22, 3:30 p.m., New West, Rm. 212

        SIGNAL ANALYSIS USING NONUNIFORM SAMPLING RATES.

        Refreshments will be served in New West 204 at 3:00 p.m.
         

         ABSTRACTS