colloquia and seminars

        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 . 

         

        Spring 2005

        February 2, 2005

        Stefanka Chukova, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

        "Warranty Analysis: An overview"
        ABSTRACT

         

        February 9, 2005

        Alexander Shapiro, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

        "Some recent developments in stochastic programming"
        ABSTRACT

         

        March 2, 2005

        Jack Snoeyink, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina-CH

         

        March 23, 2005

        David Simchi-Levi, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and The Engineering System Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

        "Risk Aversion in Inventor Management"
        ABSTRACT (Material Download)

         

        March 30, 2005

        Gurhan Kok, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

         

        More interesting colloquia and seminars will follow...

         

        Fall 2004

        September 13, 2004, 107 SMITH BLDG. 3:30 P.M.

        AMARJIT BUDHIRAJA, DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH, UNC-CH

        "SINGULAR STOCHASTIC CONTROL WITH STATE CONSTRAINTS"
        ABSTRACT

        Refreshments will be served at 3:00 p.m. in the Smith Lounge,
        202 Smith Bldg.

         

        September 20, 2004, 107 SMITH BLDG. 3:30 P.M.

        PROF. HAO ZHANG, DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY

        "MODEL-BASED GEOSTATISTICS: MODELLING,
        COMPUTATION AND ASYMPTOTICS"
        ABSTRACT

        Refreshments will be served at 3:00 p.m. in the Smith Lounge,
        202 Smith Bldg.

         

        October 11, 2004, 107 SMITH BLDG. 3:30 P.M.

        PROF. JOSEPH IBRAHIM, DEPARTMENT OF BIOSTATISTICS, UNC-CH

        "THE POWER PRIOR: THEORY AND APPLICATION"
        ABSTRACT

        Refreshments will be served at 3:00 p.m. in the Smith Lounge,
        202 Smith Bldg.

         

        October 27, 2004, 107 SMITH BLDG. 4:00 P.M.

        PROF. RICHARD SOWERS, DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

        "RANDOM PERTURBATIONS OF PSEUDOPERIODIC FLOWS"
        ABSTRACT

        Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. in the Smith Lounge,
        202 Smith Bldg.

         

        November 8, 2004, 107 SMITH BLDG. 3:30 P.M.

        PROF. GEOFF McLACHLAN, Dept. of Mathematics & the Institure for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland

        "DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS OF MICROARRAY GENE-EXPRESSION DATA"
        ABSTRACT

        Refreshments will be served at 3:00 p.m. in the Smith Lounge,
        202 Smith Bldg.

         

        November 10, 2004, 107 SMITH BLDG. 4:00 P.M.

        PROF. OTIS JENNINGS, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

        "HEAVY TRAFFIC LIMIT THEOREMS FOR TANDEM POLLING STATIONS"
        ABSTRACT

        Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. in the Smith Lounge,
        202 Smith Bldg.

         

        December 1, 2004, 107 SMITH BLDG. 4:00 P.M.

        K.D.GLAZEBROOK, Management School , University of Edinburgh , UK

        "ALLOCATION MODELS FOR THE OUTSOURCING OF WARRANTY REPAIRS"

        ABSTRACT

        Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. in the Smith Lounge,
        202 Smith Bldg.

         

        Spring 2004
         

        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, Iain Johnstone and Peter Hall. 
         

        The 2004 Hotelling Lectures this year will be given by Dr. Ruth J. Williams of the University of California at San Diego.
         

        Lecture 1:
               Monday, November 1, 3:30 p.m., Howell Hall, Rm 104

        STOCHASTIC PROCESSING NETWORKS: WHAT, WHY AND HOW?.

        A reception in Howell 103 will follow the lecture.
         

        Lecture 2:
               Wednesday, November 3, 3:30 p.m., Smith Bldg., Rm. 107

        MULTICLASS QUEUEING NETWORKS: PROGRESS AND SURPRISES OF THE PAST 15 YEARS.

        Refreshments will be served in Smith Bldg. 202 at 3:00 p.m.
         

        Lecture 3: 
               Friday, November 5, 3:30 p.m., Smith Bldg., Rm. 107

        CONTROL OF STOCHASTIC PROCESSING NETWORKS: MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS.

        Refreshments will be served in Smith Bldg. 202 at 3:00 p.m.
         

         ABSTRACTS


 
 
           

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