| August 20 |
Andrew C. Thomas, Harvard University |
Hierarchical Models for Relational Data: An Example from Political Science |
| September 2 |
Herman Chernoff, Harvard University |
Discovering Influential Variables: A Method of Partitions |
| September 14 |
Daron Acemoglu, MIT |
Bayesian Learning in Social Networks |
| September 21 |
Josh Tenenbaum, MIT |
Bayesian Models of Human Learning and Inference |
| September 28 |
Adam Glynn, Harvard University |
Using Process Information to Assess the Effects of Registration Laws on Voter Turnout |
| October 5 |
David Blei, Princeton University |
Supervised and Relational Topic Models |
| October 19 |
Burton Singer, Princeton University |
Mixed Membership Models: Tradeoffs between Model Complexity and Interpretability of 'Shared Membership' |
| October 26 |
Stuart Geman, Brown University |
Stock Prices and the Peculiar Statistics of Rare Events |
| November 2 |
Lars Hansen, University of Chicago |
Beliefs, Doubts and Learning |
| November 9 |
Jiashun Jin, Carnegie Mellon University |
Higher Criticism Thresholding: Optimal Feature Selection when Useful Features are Rare and Weak |
| November 12 |
Jörg Drechsler, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany |
Data Wars - The Agency Strikes Back |
| November 16 |
Joseph Blitzstein, Harvard University |
Respondent-Driven Sampling: Degrees of Uncertainty with Uncertain Degrees |
| November 23 |
James Booth, Cornell University |
Simple Modeling Strategies for Micro-Array and Association Studies |
| November 30 |
Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve University |
U-Estimation for Measurement Error Problems |
| December 7 |
Giovanni Parmigiani, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard University |
Cross-Study Differential Gene Expression |
| December 14 |
Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University |
Geometric Representations for Categorical Data Structures: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, ... |
| January 25 |
Carl Morris, Harvard University |
| February 8 |
Kai-Tai Fang, Hong Kong Baptist University |
| April 19 |
Alan Karr, National Institute of Statistical Sciences |
