November 2009              Date: Friday, November 06, 2009 Start Time: 16:00 End time: 17:00 Location: Humanities 428 Title: A stochastic partitioning method to associate high-dimensional datasets Speaker: Mahlet Tadesse Affiliation: Georgetown University, DC Contact Person: Michele Guindani Comment: Mahlet Tadesse is Assistant Professor at the Mathematics Department of Georgetown University, DC. She received her doctorate in Biostatistics from Harvard University. Prior to joining the Department of Mathematics at Georgetown University, she served on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania as Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. Show Abstract Date: Friday, November 13, 2009 Start Time: 16:00 End time: 17:00 Location: Humanities 428 Title: Bayesian Lasso for the study of Financial Contagion Speaker: Alan Lenaric Affiliation: Harvard University Contact Person: Michele Guindani Comment: Alan Lenarcic is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where he graduated under the supervision of Carl N. Morris, with a thesis on Bayesian Two-Lasso prior/penalty and corresponding use on the Glasso algorithm for Financial Contagion matrices. Show Abstract Date: Friday, November 20, 2009 Start Time: 12:00 End time: 13:00 Location: Humanities 428 Title: Transdimensional Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers Speaker: Giovanni Petris Affiliation: University of Arkansas Comment: Giovanni Petris is a Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Show Abstract Date: Friday, November 20, 2009 Start Time: 16:00 End time: 17:00 Location: Humanities 428 Title: Recursive algorithms for efficient identification of smoothing spline ANOVA models Speaker: Marco Ratto and Stefano Tarantola Affiliation: Joint Research Center, The European Commission, Ispra Italy Contact Person: Michele Guindani/Curtis Storlie Show Abstract