Biostatistics

During the Fall and Spring semesters, the Department of Biostatistics holds seminars on a wide variety of topics which are of interest to both students and faculty.  The speakers are occasionally departmental faculty members themselves but very often invited guests who spend the day of their seminar discussing their research with Biostatistics faculty and students.  Each year a member of the faculty serves as Seminar Coordinator. Yuanjia Wang, PhD, assistant professor of Biostatistics (in Psychiatry), is the Seminar Coordinator for the 2010-2011 academic year.

Seminars are held on Thursday afternoons at 4:00 p.m. in the Biostatistics Computer Lab, room R656.  An informal departmental tea for students and faculty precedes the colloquium at 3:40 p.m.  A schedule of speakers and topics is available each semester.  

Please check back for topics and abstracts of upcoming seminars.

2010-2011 SEMINAR SPEAKERS: BIOSTATISTICS COLLOQUIUM

Yuanjia Wang, Coordinator

Donglin Zeng, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
September 23, 2010

Philippe Barbe, Ph.D.
CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), France
Department of Mathematics, Université de Cergy-Pontoise / Saint-Martin
Cergy-Pontoise, France
October 7, 2010

Nilanjan Chatterjee, Ph.D.
Chief of the Biostatistics Branch
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics
NIH/NCI
October 14, 2010-CANCELLED-

Janice Derr, Ph.D.
Mathematical Statistician
Office of Biostatistics
FDA/CDER (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)
November 4, 2010

Susan A. Murphy, Ph.D.
H.E. Robbins Professor of Statistics/
 Research Professor Institute for Social Research,
 and Professor of Psychiatry
University of Michigan
** Joint Biostatistics/Statistics Seminar on Monday, November 8, 2010**

Ciprian Crainiceanu, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
November 11, 2010

Glen A. Satten, Ph.D.
Molecular Biology Branch
Division of Laboratory Sciences
CDC
December 9, 2010

Hector Corrada Bravo, Ph.D.
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
 and Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
 December 16, 2010

Spring 2011

Karl W. Broman, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
School of Medicine and Public Health
University of Wisconsin, Madison
January 27, 2011

Michael L. Littman, Ph.D.
Professor  & Chair, Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University
February 10, 2011

Lan Wang, Ph.D.
School of Statistics
University of Minnesota
February 24, 2011

Jiashun Jin, Ph.D.
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
March 10, 2011

Brian S. Caffo, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
March 24, 2011

Lexin Li, Ph.D.
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University
April 7, 2011

Jason C. Hsu, Ph.D.
Department of Statistics
Ohio State University
April 21, 2011

Cun-hui Zhang, Ph.D.
Department of Statistics
Rutgers University
May 5, 2011

Grace Wahba, Ph.D.
Department of Statistics/Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Date TBD

Speakers confirmed as of 8/20/10

For information on previous years, visit Past Seminars.