University of Wisconsin-Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics

Biostatistics & Medical Informatics General Departmental Seminar Schedule
Academic Year 2008-2009

All seminars meet on Fridays at 5275 MSC, 12-1pm, unless otherwise noted.

Fall Semester 2008
Date	Time	Presenter	Abstract
September 12	12:00 PM	Ying Wei Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University	To be announced...
September 26	12:00 PM	Debashis Ghosh Department of Statistics & Huck Institute of Life Sciences Penn State University	To be announced...
October 3	12:00 PM	Hongtu Zhu University of North Carolina	To be announced...
October 10	12:00 PM	Xihong Lin Department of Biostatistics Harvard University	To be announced...
October 22	4:00 PM 140 Bardeen	Joint Seminar Fei Zhou University of North Carolina	To be announced...
November 14	12:00 PM	William Friedewald Columbia University	To be announced...
Spring/Summer Semester 2008
July 8	12:00 PM 1420 WARF	Guan-Hua Huang, PhD Associate Professor Institute of Statistics National Chiao Tung University	Special Seminar: Statistical Validation of Endophenotypes Using a Surrogate Endpoint Analytic Analogue
July 8	2:00 PM 140 Bardeen	Ken Cheung, PhD Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics Columbia University	Adaptive designs, treatment selection, and blinding in placebocontrolled randomized clinical trials
May 2	12:00 PM 5275 MSC	Julie Schneider Assistant Director for Scholarly Communications	NIH Public Access Policy : copyright, submissions & how librarians can help
May 9	12:00 PM	BMI Trainee Seminars Elizabeth Esterberg Ben Haaland Darlene Lu	Elizabeth Esterberg: Meta-Analysis for Gene Association Network Reconstruction Ben Haaland: Interpolation Methods for Large Datasets Darlene Lu: Effects of Viral Integration of Human Papillomavirus in Patients with Head/Neck and Cervical Cancers
May 12	11:00 AM 3265 MSC	Eagu Kim Computer Science Department, University of Arizona	Learning Parameters for Sequence Alignment from Examples with Missing Data
May 19	11:00 AM 3310 CS	Ashish Raj University of California San Francisco	How To Solve Challenging Bayesian Problems in MR? A: Graph Cuts!

Seminar Location Addresses (campus map)

CSC = Clinical Sciences Center, 600 Highland Ave.

Comp Sci = Computer Sciences, 1210 West Dayton St.

Bardeen, MSC = Medical Sciences Center, 1300 University Ave.

WARF = Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation office building, 610 Walnut St.

Previous Academic Year Departmental Seminars
2007-2008
2006-2007	2004-2005	2002-2003	2000-2001
2005-2006	2003-2004	2001-2002	1999-2000