Time: 4-5:00 pm Thursdays
Place: 1011 Evans Hall

September 5: Statistics of Freeway Traffic Flow.
John Rice. Professor, Department of Statistics, UCB

September 19: Analysis of an Environmental Hazard, from Raw Data through Policy Recommendations
Phillip N Price, Scientist, Environmental Energy Technologies Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

September 26: Eliminating Junk Mail: Early Progress in Transitioning Direct Marketing to an Engineering Science
William Kahn, Senior Vice President, Managed Analytics, Seurat Company.

October 3: The Role of a Statistician in Industry
Barathi Sethuraman, Senior Biostatistician. St. Jude Medical.

October 10: Statistical Issues in Molecular Sequence Analysis
Katerina Kechris. Graduate Student, Department of Statistics, UCB

October 17: Some Applications of Statistics to Substantive Fields
David Brillinger, Professor, Department of Statistics, UCB

October 24: Does It Work? Is It Safe? Biostatisticians in Pharmaceutical Development
James Reimann. Scientist, Genentech.

October 31: Reconstruction Problems on Trees: Where Statistical Physics, Genetics, and Noisy Computation Meet
Yuval Peres. Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, UCB.

November 7: Classification of Pixels from Hyperspectral Satellite Imangs
David Graham-Squire, Graduate Student, Department of Statistics, UCB

November 12: How many times do you need to shuffle a deck of cards?
David Revelle. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, UCB.

November 21: Waking and Sleeping: How Statisticians Analyze Gene Activity
Julia Brettschneider. Neyman Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, UCB

December 5: New Ideas About Weight Control
Seth Roberts, Professor, Department of Pschology, UCB