Schedule

• Date: Thursday, January 5, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Kjell Konis , University of Oxford Department of Satistics Graduate Student
  Place: BAG 261
  Title: Robust Pairwise Covariance Matrix Estimation
  Organizers: Christine Lind and Leah Jager
  


• Date: Thursday, January 12, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Kirsten Fagnan, UW Applied Mathematics Graduate Student
  Place: BAG 261
  Title: Numerical Modeling of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy Using Finite Volume Methods
  Organizers: Melissa Vellela and Matt Kahle
  


• Date: Thursday, January 19, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Tim Hesterberg , Insightful Corporation Research Scientist
  Place: BAG 261
  Title: Oil, Earthquakes, and Terrorism: some days in the life of a Statistician
  Organizers: Christine Lind and McLean Sloughter
  


• Date: Thursday, January 26, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Matthew Kahle, UW Mathematics Graduate Student
  Place: BAG 261
  Title: Sphere Packing and Error Correcting Codes
  Organizers: Matt Ballard and Davis Doherty
  


• Date: Thursday, February 2, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Toby White, UW Statistics Graduate Student
  Place: BAG 261
  Title: Becoming an Actuary
  Organizers: Matt Kahle and Matt Ballard
  


• Date: Thursday, February 9, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Brandon Bale, UW Applied Mathematics Graduate Student
  Place: BAG 261
  Title: Bose-Einstein Condensates: An Example of Nonlinearity
  Organizers: Melissa Vellela and McLean Sloughter
  


• Date: Thursday, February 16, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Christine Lind, UW Applied Mathematics Graduate Student
  Place: BAG 261
  Title: Modeling Cooperation Between Molecular Motors: Polymer Assembly Against a Force
  Organizers: Adam Glynn and Davis Doherty
  


• Date: Thursday, February 23, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Fritz Scholz, Boeing Company
  Place: BAG 261
  Title: A Career in Statistics
  Organizers: Leah Jager and Davis Doherty
  


• Date: Thursday, March 2, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Nayak Polissar, Statisical Consultant
  Place: BAG 261
  Title: Statistical Consulting - fighting discrimination, pollution and death
  Organizers: Christine Lind and Matt Ballard
  


• Date: Thursday, March 9, 12:30pm
  Speaker: Peter Hoff, UW Statistics Professor
  Place: BAG 261
  Title: TBA
  Organizers: Adam Glynn and Melissa Vellela
  Note: Final Papers Due for Registered Students