BNR Seminar List

for period 30 July to 24 August 2007

Monday 06 August
09:00-10:30	Ghoshal, S (North Carolina State)
	Dirichlet process, related priors and posterior asymptotics	Sem 1
11:00-12:30	Lijoi, A (Pavia)
	Models beyond the Dirichlet process	Sem 1
14:00-15:30	Dunson, D (Duke)
	Applications to biostatistics	Sem 1
16:00-17:30	Teh, Y (UCL)
	Applications to machine learning	Sem 1

Tuesday 07 August
09:00-10:00	Kim, Y (Seoul)
	Posterior consisteny of logistic random effect models	Sem 1
09:00-09:30	Mukherjee, B (Michigan)
	Bayesian semiparametric analysis of gene-environment interactionn unde conditional gene-environment independence (Venue: GH seminar RM2)	Sem 2
09:30-10:00	Ruggiero, M (Torino)
	Bayesian countable representation of some population genetics diffusions (Venue: GH seminar RM2)	Sem 2
10:00-11:00	Nieto-Barajas, LE (ITAM)
	Some good news about nonparametric priors in density estimation	Sem 1
11:30-12:30	Johnson, W (UC at Irvine)
	Semi-parametric survival analysis with time dependent covariates	Sem 1
14:00-15:00	Laud, P (Wisconsin)
	Genetic association studies in the presence of population structure and admixture	Sem 1
15:30-16:30	Cox, D (Rice)
	Useful priors for covariance operators	Sem 1
16:30-17:00	Kalli, M (Kent)
	Bayesian nonparametrics and variance regression-: mixtures of Dirichlet processes and the slice sampler	Sem 1
17:00-17:30	Spano, D (Oxford)
	Canonical representations for dependent Dirichlet populations	Sem 1
17:30-18:30	MacEachern, SN (Ohio State)
	Minimally informative nonparametric Bayesian procedures	Sem 1

Wednesday 08 August
09:00-10:00	Guglielmi, A (Polytec - Milan)
	Semiparametric inference for the accelerated failure time model using hierarchical mixtures with generalised gamma processes	Sem 1
09:00-09:30	Pruenster, I (Turin)
	On the posterior structure of NRMI (Venue: GH seminar RM2)	Sem 2
09:30-10:00	Herring, A (North Carolina)
	Semiparametric bayes joint modeling with functional predictors (Venue: GH seminar RM2)	Sem 2
10:00-11:00	De Iorio, M (Imperial)
	A DDP model for survival regression	Sem 1
11:30-12:30	Petrone, S (Bocconi)
	Hybrid Dirichlet processes for functional data	Sem 1
14:00-15:00	Simoni, A (Toulouse 1)
	Regularised posteriors in linear ill-posed inverse problems	Sem 1
15:30-16:30	Popova, E (Texas at Austin)
	Bayesian semiparametric analysis for a single item maintenance optimis	Sem 1
16:30-17:30	House, L (Durham)
	Functional data analysis using a levy random fields model for multi-spectra peak identification and classification	Sem 1
17:30-18:30	Steel, M (Warwick)
	Bayesian nonparametric modelling with the Dirichlet process regression smoother	Sem 1

Thursday 09 August
09:00-10:00	Kohn, R (New South Wales)
	Flexibly modelling conditional distributions in regression	Sem 1
09:00-09:30	Yin, G (Texas)
	Bayesian semiparametic cure rate model with an unknown threshold (Venue: GH seminar RM2)	Sem 2
09:30-10:00	Yu, K (Brunel)
	Bayesian inference for quantile regression, expectile regression and M-quantile regression (Venue: GH seminar RM2)	Sem 2
10:00-11:00	Arjas, E (Helsinki)
	Postulating monotonicity in nonparametric Bayesian regression	Sem 1
11:30-12:30	Dunson, D (Duke)
	The matrix stick-breaking process: flexible Bayes meta analysis	Sem 1
14:00-15:00	Williams, CKI (Edinburgh)
	Gaussian processes for machine learning	Sem 1
15:30-16:30	Karabatsos, G (Illinois at Chicago)
	Bayesian nonparametric single-index regression	Sem 1
16:30-17:00	Ho, MW (Singapore)
	A Bayes method for a monotone hazard rate via ${S}$-paths	Sem 1
17:00-17:30	Choi, T (Maryland)
	Alternative posterior consisteency results in nonparametric binary regression using Gaussian process priors	Sem 1

Friday 10 August
09:00-10:00	Quintana, FA (Catolica de Chile)
	Bayesian clustering with regression	Sem 1
09:00-09:30	De Blasi, P (Turin)
	Asymptotics for posterior hazards (Venue: GH seminar RM2)	Sem 2
09:30-10:00	Mena, R (IIMAS, UNAM)
	Bayesian nonparametric methods for prediction in EST analysis (Venue: GH seminar RM2)	Sem 2
10:00-11:00	Basu, S (Northern Illinois)
	Double Dirichlet process mixtures	Sem 1
11:30-12:30	Griffin, J (Warwick)
	Normalised kernel-weighted random measures	Sem 1
14:00-15:00	Kokolakis, G (Athens)
	Convexification and multimodality of random probability measures	Sem 1
15:30-16:30	Lee, J (Seoul)
	Posterior consistency of species sampling priors	Sem 1
16:30-17:30	James, L (Hong Kong)
	Some new identities for Dirichlet means and implications	Sem 1

Wednesday 15 August
15:45-16:45	Lijoi, A (Universita' degli Studi di Pavia)
	Distributions of linear functionals of the two parameter Poisson-Dirichlet process	Sem 2

Thursday 16 August
11:00-12:00	Ghoshal, S (North Carolina State)
	Rates of convergence and related issues in nonparametrics Bayesian inference	Sem 2

Tuesday 21 August
11:15-12:15	Hjort, N (Oslo)
	Nonparametric envelopes around parametric families	Sem 2

Thursday 23 August
11:15-12:15	de Blasi, P (Turin)
	Semiparametric models for regression analysis of competing risk data	Sem 2

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