CSI/Statistics Colloquium Series
10th Anniversary of the Center for Computational Statistics
Spring, 1997

Except as noted, seminars are generally held on Fridays at 10:45 a.m. in Assembly Room B of the George W. Johnson Center on the Fairfax Campus of George Mason University. Gourmet coffee and other tasty refreshments are served at 10:30 a.m. Please note this is a new new time.

Directions to the Fairfax Campus and a campus map are available. Visitors should use the visitor's parking area in the Parking Deck (near the middle of the map). Signs on campus point the way to the Parking Deck.


January 31, 1997

Greg Chirikjian, The Johns Hopkins University
"Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis in Robot Kinematics and Image Processing"
Abstract available (HTML)

February 7, 1997

Lyle Broemeling, George Washington University
"Bayesian Analysis for Longitudinal Studies"
Abstract available (Postscript)

February 14, 1997

Behrouz B. Aghevli, World Bank and Mark Spikell, George Mason University
"Dr. Super's Virtual Manipulatives"
Abstract available (HTML)

February 21, 1997

Lance James, The Johns Hopkins University
"Bootstrap Methods for the Aalen-Johansen Estimator for the Transition Matrix of a Inhomogeneous Finite State Markov Process"
Abstract available (HTML)

February 26, 1997

Glenn Stone, CSIRO, Australia
"Experiences in the Analysis of Large and Complex Datasets"
Abstract available (HTML)

February 28, 1997

J. D. Cooke, University of Western Ontario, Canada
"Predicting Movement Properties from Muscle Activation Patterns"
Abstract available (HTML)

March 7, 1997

John J. Miller and Donald T. Gantz, George Mason University
"A Case Study in Statistical Data Analysis: Salary Equity Data at GMU"
Abstract available (HTML)

March 21, 1997

Douglas Lake, Office of Naval Research
"Adaptive Signal Estimation using Projection Libraries"
Abstract available (HTML)

March 27, 1997

Shoudan Liang, Penn State
"Life at the Edge of Chaos: Analysis and Simulation of Kauffman Networks"
Abstract available (HTML)

March 28, 1997

Sam Lomonaco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"Recent Advances in Quantum Information Theory"
Abstract available (HTML)

April 4, 1997

Robert Rodriguez, SAS Insitute
"The Development of an Interface for Design and Analysis of Experiments"
Abstract available (HTML)
This seminar will be held in Room 320, Science-Technology II

April 18, 1997

Emanuel Parzen, Texas A & M University
"Statistical Methods Mining, Two Sample Data Analysis, Comparison Distributions, and Quantile Limit Theorems"
Abstract available (HTML)

April 25, 1997

Arnold Zellner, University of Chicago
"New Bayesian Method of Moments Results"
Abstract available (HTML)
This seminar is being jointly presented with the cooperation and support of George Washington University.

May 2, 1997

Walter Laws Smith, University of North Carolina
"Some Problems I Have Never Solved or A Visit to the Heartbreak Hotel"
Abstract available (HTML)

Past schedules are also available.

Ed Wegman, ewegman@gmu.edu