Statistics
Research Seminar Program 2009

Statistics research seminars are held on the 4th Friday of the month (plus additional seminars as noted) from 3:15pm to 4:30pm in Room V103 of the Mathematics Building, unless otherwise specified. If you have questions about any events listed, or wish to enquire about future seminars on particular topics, please contact the Research Seminar Program Coordinator.

Visitors are welcome and anyone is invited to subscribe to our mailing list to receive regular announcements about upcoming events.

Additonal Access Grid Room (AGR) seminars from other Universities are also held on a regular basis. These will only be shown if enough interest has been expressed in advance. Notices about relevant upcoming AGR seminars will be included below and sent out via the mailing list, inviting you to confirm your interest in specific seminars to the coordinator. Full information about the AGR seminar program, including abstracts, is published in the Access Grid Seminars page of the ICE-EM website.

Semester 1
Date Presenter Title Abstract
30 Jan Paul Rippon
The University of Newcastle		 A Cynic's Guide to eLearning abstract
FYI 2pm Wednesday March 4th in Room L326 of the Auchmuty Library the Biostatistics group will be running a seminar series with several speakers on the theme "The analysis of correlated data"
15 Apr
WED
10:00am		 Maureen Townley-Jones
The University of Newcastle		 "I Hate Maths!" Students perceptions of maths and challenges of teaching quantitative courses abstract
15 Apr
WED
10:00am		 Peter Howley
The University of Newcastle		 Report on efforts in Statistical Education abstract
15 Apr
WED
3:15pm		 A/Prof Olivier Thas
Ghent University		 A semiparametric approach to the detection of differentially expressed genes using microarray data abstract
24 Apr Murray Aitkin
University of Melbourne		 New Bayesian methods for assessing goodness of fit of statistical models abstract
1 May

Ben Dean                                                PhD upgrade seminar              

 Applications of the Generalized Lambda Distribution  abstract
15 May A/Prof Stefan Steiner
University of Waterloo 		Teaching Applied Statistics Using a Virual Manufacturing Process  abstract
5 Jun A/Prof Uschi Mueller-Harknett
Texas A&M University 		Semiparametric regression with missing responses abstract
 
 

Semester 2
Date Presenter Title Abstract
10 JUL Almah Saaid
PhD Confirmation seminar 		Demand Forecast with Time Series Data Mining Approach abstract
24 JUL Bob Gibberd
University of Newcastle 		Monitoring hospital performance using control charts, CUSUM plots and Funnell plots abstract
28 AUG Barrie Stokes
University of Newcastle 		Continuous MaxEnt Distributions in Mathematica:  a 'Parameter-Free' Approach abstract
14 SEP Dr Louise Ryan
Chief of CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences		 Computationally efficient methods for the analysis of spatially varying disease rates  abstract
25 SEP Jonathan Keith
Queensland University of Technology		 Finding Functional Regions in Eukaryotic Genomes  abstract
9 OCT Gopalan Nair          University of Western Australia Ballot Theorem & Analysis of M=G=1 Type Queues abstract
22 OCT Almah Saaid
PhD Confirmation seminar 		Detecting Telecommunications Fraud using Time Series Data Mining abstract
3 NOV 2David Matthews       University of Waterloo Confidence Intervals and Regions for Diagnostic Test Likelihood Ratios abstract