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Seminar Schedule

Spring 2008
Location: 182 Farber Hall
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Organizer: Lili Tian

DATE
SPEAKER
TOPIC
January 29th (Zebro Room 2-3 pm) Speaker: Dr. Song Liu From Parts to Systems
January 31st (Zebro Room 4-5 pm) Speaker: Dr. Xutao Deng (UCLA) Interpreting Gene Expression Profiles: From Single Gene Analysis to System Biology
February 28th Speaker: Alan Hutson, Ph.D. (Chair, University at Buffalo) The Tail Extrapolation Quantile Function Estimator
March 6th Speaker: Kobby Owusu Asubonteng (PhD Thesis Proposal) Data Tansformations in Statistics
March 20th Speaker: Dr. Colin Begg (Sloan-Kettering) Statistical Methods for Differential Diagnosis of Second Primary Cancers frm Metastases
March 27th Speaker: Dr. Shi Zhixin (Center of Excellence for Document Analysis & Recognition - CEDAR) Use of Extreme Value Statistics in Modeling Systems
April 3rd Speaker: Dr. Jiping Wang (University at Buffalo) The Role of Lymph Nodes in Breast and Colon Cancer
April 10th Speaker: Yu Jihnhee, Ph.D. (University at Buffalo) Analyzing Incomplete Data Subject to a Threshold Using Empirical Likelihood Methods: An Application to a Pneumonia Risk Study in an ICU Setting
April 17th Speaker: Dr. Haikady Nagaraja (Ohio State University) Stochastic Modeling of Sleep-Wake Process
April 24th Speaker: Hu Zihua, Ph.D. (University at Buffalo) Bioinformatics for Biomedical Research: From Gene Expression to Regulatory Networks
April 30th (180 Farber Hall at 2:00 p.m.) Jonathan Dare, UB Biostatistics PhD Masters Project Presentation Ovarian Cancer Survival Analysis and Missing Data
May 5th (10:00 a.m.) Usha Thamattoor UB Biostatistics Masters Project Presentation Statistical Analysis of Revascularization Data and Power Calculations Based on Bootstrap and Jackknife Methodologies
May 7th (10:00 a.m.) Ryan Danison, UB Biostatistics Masters Project Presentation Influence of Race and Gender on Cyclosporine Pharmacokinetics and MDR1 Gene Expression in Renal Transplant Recipients
May 7th (3:40 p.m.) Rameela Chandrasekhar, UB Biostatistics Masters Project Presentation Linkage Analysis for Missclassified Markers
May 8th (3:30 p.m.) Vincent Girardi, UB Biostatistics Masters Project Presentation Empirical Likelihood Ratio Forms of Tests for Normality
June 19th Xueya Cai, Biostatistics PhD Project Presentation Generalized Linear Model Approach for Estimating and Testing Equality of Conditional Correlations

Archive

Dr. Schmidt and Wei Deng at the Perry Lecture Awards Ceremony

Other News

Richard Schmidt Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Student 2007 goes to Wei Deng

Sidney Addelman Award for Outstanding Master's Student 2007 goes to Qianqian Zhu

The 2007 Francis J. Hanavan Award goes to Austin Miller

Chong Wang is a 2007 J. Waren Perry poster winner