Statlunch

Department of Statistics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Welcome to the home page of Statlunch! Statlunch is the Statistics students' seminar at UNC. In Statlunch, graduate students and faculty members in statistics or other departments present and discuss a topic in probability or statistics. The meeting is informal, presentations are voluntary and the format of each presentation is decided by the speaker. Please contact Francisco Chamú if you would like to give a presentation, invite a guest to present, or send your comments and suggestions.

Fall 2003 Schedule

Date Speaker Title Time Place
Th 09/04/2003 Rima Izem Functional Data Analysis Meets Evolutionary Biology: Analyzing Variation in a Set of Curves with Common Shape 11:30AM Hoeffding Library
Wed 09/10/2003 No meeting      
Wed 09/17/2003 Stanislav Kolenikov EM Algorithm for Spatio-Temporal Environmental Data 1:00PM Hoeffding Library
Wed 09/24/2003 Francisco Chamú Estimation of M4 Processes with Particle Filters  (slides) 12:00PM Hoeffding Library
Wed 10/01/2003 José Olmo Which Extreme Values Are Really Extreme?  (slides)  (paper) 12:00PM Hoeffding Library
Wed 10/08/2003 Michele Trovero Long Range Dependence: a Light Tale for the Practitioner  (slides)  (printable version) 12:00PM Hoeffding Library
Wed 10/15/2003 John Fricks Diffusion Ratchets and Biomolecular Motors 12:00PM Hoeffding Library
Wed 10/22/2003 No meeting      
Th 10/30/2003 Brian Lopes Inverse Problems Associated with Source Apportionment 11:30AM Hoeffding Library
Th 11/06/2003 Kevin Ross A Numerical Method for a Stochastic Control Problem in Finance  (slides) 11:30AM Hoeffding Library
Th 11/13/2003 Xiaohui Wang A Scale Based Approach to Finding Effective Dimensionality 11:30AM Hoeffding Library
Th 11/20/2003 Tao Huang Profile Likelihood Inferences on Semiparametric Varying-Coefficient Partially Linear Models 11:30AM Hoeffding Library
Mon 11/24/2003 Juhyun Park Nonparametric Inference about Service Time Distribution from Indirect Measurements 12:00PM Hoeffding Library
Th 12/04/2003 Jeongyoun Ahn Kernel Method in Support Vector Machine 11:30AM Hoeffding Library


Spring 2003 Schedule

Date Speaker Title Time Place
Th 04/10/2003 Bret Hanlon Modeling and Simulation of the Spread Disease in an Office Building 12:30pm-1:30pm NW 104
Th 04/17/2003 No meeting      
Th 04/24/2003 Arka P. Ghosh Network Scheduling and Related Issues 11:30am-12:25pm Hoeffding Library
Th 05/01/2003 Faheem Mitha and Francisco Chamú Computing with Linux.   (Computing Links) 11:30am-12:25pm NW 212

Contact: Francisco Chamú
Last modified: 12/05/2003