University of Haifa

Statistics Seminar Schedule

Place and Time

Unless otherwise stated, the seminars start at 2:45 PM, and are held at Rabin Building, room 8068 or 7052 (noted in the announcement of each seminar).

How to get to the University of Haifa

Want to Give a Seminar?

Contact the seminar organizer, Dr. Yair Goldberg/a>.

SPRING 2012/13

June 2013
26	Ofer Harel Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	TBA
19	Nir Halman Jerusalem School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.	TBA
12	Michael Katehakis Management Science, Rutgers University	TBA
5	Pavel Chigansky Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University	TBA
May 2013
29	Yoav Kerner Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Ben-Gurion University	TBA
22	Franco Pellerey Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy	TBA
15		Shavuot, there will be no seminar
1 14:30	Koby Crammer Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion	Learning with Confidence Joint seminar with CS. Note the time and room.
April 2013
24		EMR-IBS at Tel-Aviv -- There will be no seminar
10	Anthea Monod Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion	Random Topology : A Survey Lunch at 13:00. Note room change.
March 2013
20 14:30	Aryeh Kontorovich Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University	Nearest Neighbors: Old and New Joint Seminar with CS. Note the time and room
13 14:15		Department Meeting

WINTER 2013/14

January 2013
30	Boaz Nadler Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science	Continuous Goodness of Fit Testing: Old Problem, New Ideas Room 7079
23	Esther Ezra Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, NYU	On Relative Approximations in Geometry and Their Variants. TIME 15:00, Room 7079,
16	Ruth Heller Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University	Discovering findings that replicate from a primary study of high dimension to a follow-up study ROOM 7079
9	Alexander Goldenshluger Haifa University	A unified framework for signal detection in Gaussian noise We will meet for lunch at 12:30
2	Anna Sikov	Imputation and Estimation under Nonignorable Unit Nonresponse Thesis Room 7079
December 2012
26	Boris Levit Queen'S University, Kingston, Canada	Some problems of best approximation and interpolation in the presence of random errors We will meet for lunch at 12:30
19	Yoni Nazarathy The University of Queensland	Scaling limits of cyclically varying birth-death processes ROOM 7079
12	Danny Vilenchik The Weizmann Institute of Science	Do Semi-definite Relaxations really solve Sparse PCA? We will meet for lunch at 12:30
5	Ohad Perry Northwestern University	Overflow Networks: Approximations and Implications to Call-Center Outsourcing Note the change in room: Rabin Complex, 7079 at 14:45
November 2012
21	Micha Mandel Hebrew U	Cross-Sectional Sampling, Bias, Dependence, and Composite Likelihood Room change: Rabin Complex, 7079
14 14:15	Department meeting	Department meeting There will be no seminar
7	Jonathan Rosenblatt Tel Aviv University	Revisiting random effect analysis of multisubject fMRI studies Note the change of room. We will meet for lunch at 12:30, y'all are invited.
October 2012
31	Anat Reiner-Benaim Haifa U	Statistical analysis of time-course tiling array data Note the room change

SPRING 2011/12

June 2012
27	Itai Gurvich Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA	Excursion-based universal approximations for the Erlang-A queue in steady state
May 2012
23	Yonit Barron Department of Statistics, University of Haifa	A Jump Fluid Production-Inventory Model with a Double Band Control (The seminar room of Psychology Department)
9	Marina Bogomolov Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, The Technion	Hierarchical Testing of Subsets of Hypotheses
April 2012
18	David Azriel Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, The Technion	Optimal allocation to maximize power of two-sample tests for binary response trials
March 2012
28	Murray Aitkin Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Australia	A Bayesian paradigm for finite population survey design and analysis This seminar is cancelled
21	Omer Moussaffi Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Israeli Open University	The curious incidence of the Gecko at winter-time
14	Boaz Nadler Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science	On the Distribution of Roy's Largest Root Test in Manova, Signal Detection in Noise and Canonical Correlation Analysis
7	Tal Raviv Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University	Optimal Control of Battery Switching Stations

WINTER 2011/12

January 2012
25	Iddo Eliazar Holon Institute of Technology	Anomalous is Ubiquitous
18	Danny Segav University of Haifa	An Approximate Dynamic-Programming Approach to the Joint Replenishment Problem
11	Marina Bogomolov The Technion	Hierarchical Testing of Subsets of Hypotheses This seminar is POSTPONED until further notice.
1	Galit Yom-Tov Columbia University, New York	TBA This seminar is POSTPONED until further notice.
December 2011
28	Ori Rosen University of Texas at El Paso	AdaptSPEC: Adaptive Spectral Estimation for Nonstationary Time Series
21	Ronny Luss University of California, Berkeley	Efficient Regularized Isotonic Regression via Partitioning and Lasso
14	Yair Goldberg University of Haifa	A (very) short introduction to support vector machines
November 2011
16	Yuval Nov University of Haifa	Protein Engineering By Means of Statistical Analysis

SUMMER 2011

September
21	Yoni Nazarathy Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia	The asymptotic variance of departures from critically loaded queues

SPRING 2010/11

June
29	Yaccov Salomon University of Melbourne, Australia	Using an information-theoretic approach to construct distributions for expert elicited data
1	Shelley Zacks Binghamton University, New York	Two-Stage and Sequential Estimation of the Scale Parameter of a Gamma Distribution with Fixed-Width Intervals
May
11	Shulamith Gross Baruch College of The City university of New York	Evaluating probability forecasts
April
13	Jan Dhaene Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Some model-free results on pricing and hedging index options
March
9	Illana Bendavid The Technion	Setting release gates for activities in projects with stochastic activity durations
2	Noam Goldberg The Technion	Sparse Weighted Voting Classifier Selection and its LP Relaxation

WINTER 2010/11

December
29	Yuval Nardi The Technion	Maxima of asymptotically Gaussian random fields
22	Ruth Heller The Technion	Sensitivity analysis for the cross-match test, with applications in genomics
1	Yair Goldberg UNC-Chapel Hill	Q-Learning with Censored Data
November
10	Julia Eisenberg Vienna University of Technology	Capital injections over reinsurance with constant rate of interest

SPRING 2009/10

June
9	Danny Segev University of Haifa	A Sublogarithmic Approximation for Highway and TollBooth Pricing
May
26	Yair Goldberg UNC-Chapel Hill	Censored quantile regression using inverse probability of censoring weighted average
25 2pm	Bert Zwart CWI, the Netherlands	Scheduling and large deviations
12	Ivo Adan Eindhoven University of Technology	The shortest queue problem
5	Itai Dattner University of Haifa	Adaptive deconvolution of distribution functions
April
14	Anat Reiner-Benaim University of Haifa	Multiple scan statistics based on Normal random processes with dependent variables
March
17	Gideon Weiss University of Haifa	Queuing systems with multi-type jobs and multi-type servers

SPRING 2008/9

June
24	Marianna Pensky University of Central Florida	A Bayesian Approach to Estimation and Testing in Time-course Microarray Experiments
10	Inbal Yahav University of Maryland	Combining Residuals and Control Charts for Detecting Outbreaks in Biosurveillance Data
May
18	Gary Rosner University of Texas	A Bayesian model for repeatedly-repeat binary data Notice the non-standard day (Monday)
6	Gideon Weiss University of Haifa	Optimal Control of Manufacturing Systems: Solution of Fluid Approximation and Tracking by Queueing Model
April
22	Abram Kagan University of Maryland	Contributions to the theory of Pitman estimators in small samples
1	Armin Schwartzman Harvard University	Inference for Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of Gaussian Symmetric Matrices
March
25	Ori Davidov University of Haifa	Semi and non parametric inference for ordered data
18	Michal Rosen-Zvi IBM Research	Probabilistic models for statically text analysis
11	Joseph Glaz University of Connecticut	Approximations for Two-Dimensional Variable Window Scan Statistics

WINTER 2008/9

January
21	Yaron Offir The Technion	Efficient Earthquake Vulnerability and Damage Assessment of Large Groups of Existing Residential Buildings
14	Joseph Glaz University of Connecticut	Approximations for Two-Dimensional Variable Window Scan Statistics The seminar was posponed until further notice.
8 12:15pm	Reuven Rubinstein The Technion	Why Classic Randomized Algorithms do not Work and How to Make them Work? A joint seminar with the CS department, held in room 205, Jacobs building, on Thursday, 12:15pm
7	Danny Segev MIT	Coping with Intractability in Deterministic and Stochastic Optimization: Some Recent Advances
1	Mike Pinedo New York University	Total Quality Management and Operational Risk in Financial Services Note - the talk is on Thursday
December
17	Gideon Weiss University of Haifa	FCFS Infinite Bipartite Matching of Servers and Customers
10	Yuval Nov University of Haifa	Minimum-Norm Estimation for Binormal Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves
November
26	Gerard Letac Universite Paul Sabatier, France	Wishart distributions on matrices with prescribed zeros
19	Yoni Nazarathy University of Haifa	On Control of Queueing Networks and the Asymptotic Variance Rate of Outputs
5	Saharon Rosset Tel Aviv University	Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Site-Specific Mutation Rates in Human Mitochondrial DNA from Partial Phylogenetic Classification
October
29	Onno Boxma Eindhoven University of Technology	A tax identity in risk theory The talk will be held at room 7038, Rabin complex

SPRING 2007/8

July
30	Itay Gurvich Columbia University	Scheduling Flexible Servers with Convex Delay Costs In Many-Server Service Systems
24	Opher Baron University of Toronto	Stochastic (s,S) Models for Managing Inventory of Perishable Items
23	Shai Rozenes Ruppin Academic Center	How to control a project - a multidimensional answer
16	Marshall Joffe University of Pennsylvania	Extended Instrumental Variables Estimation for Overall Effects
9	Tamir Tassa The Open University	Recent Advances in the Study of Anonymization of Tables
2	Ohad Perry Columbia University	A routing policy for the X call-center model designed to respond to unexpected overloads
June
25	Micha Mandel Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Estimating Hitting Times from Panel Data
17	Jan Kmenta University of Michigan	Econometrics: a failed science? The talk will take place at room 602, main building Notice the non-standard day (Tuesday)
4	No seminar - Israeli Statistical Association Metting	Program and registration
May
28	Hussein Naseraldin University of Toronto	A Probabilistic One-Time Special Purchasing Opportunity
22	Evsey Morozov Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk	Stability analysis of regenerative state-dependent queues Notice the non-standard day (Thursday)
14	Vladimir Griskin University of Haifa	Shrinkage Estimators for Measurement Error Models Seminar postponed to a later date, to be announced
5	Yoni Nazarathy University of Haifa	Positive Harris Recurrence and Diffusion Scale Analysis of a Push Pull Queueing Network Notice the non-standard day (Monday)

WINTER 2007/8

April
16	Natalie Shlomo University of Southampton, UK	Disclosure Risk Estimation in Sample Microdata
9	Itai Dattner University of Haifa	Statistical properties of the Hough transform estimator in the presence of measurement errors
2	Sagi Snir Netanya Academic College	Statistical Tools for Horizontal Gene Transfer Detection
March
26	Jeremie Guedj Bar Ilan University	Inference in dynamical population models: applications to HIV and HCV The seminar will take place at room 8068 (statistics seminar room)
12	Mahmut Parlar McMaster University, Canada	Operations Research with Maple: Methods and Models
5	Anita Winter Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany	Estimating the mutation rate under Fleming-Viot dynamics
February
27	Felix Abramovich Tel Aviv University	Prelude and Fugue in Bayesian testimation
20	Yoni Nazarathy University of Haifa	On the Asymptotic Variance Rate of the Output Process of Finite Capacity Queues
January
16	Wolfgang Stadje University of Osnabrueck	Markovian Growth-Collapse Processes
7 1pm	Ed Kaplan Yale University	Estimating HIV Incidence from HIV Reporting Data Note the non-standard day and time (Monday, 1pm)
2	Oded Berman University of Toronto	Optimizing Inventory-Location Decisions in the Presence of Time-Sensitive Consumer Demand
December
27	Option Pricing and Optimal Portfolio Management Conference	For details, click here
26	Thomas Trigano Hebrew University	Statistical signal processing for Gamma spectrometry: pileup correction for high counting rates
19	Mitja Stadje Princeton University	Backward Stochastic Differential Equations: Applications and Robustness
12	Yoni Nazarathy University of Haifa	On the Asymptotic Variance Rate of the Output Process of Finite Capacity Queues The seminar is postponed. A new date will be announced.
November
26 3pm	Nir Halman MIT	Nearly Optimal Solutions for Stochastic Dynamic Programs Note the non-standard day and time (Monday, 3pm)
21	Peter Sendfeld University of Osnabrueck	Two queues with weighted one-way overflow
14	Bernardo D'Auria Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	Propagation of chaos in discrete-time and symmetric closed networks
7	Michael Landsberger University of Haifa	�When� and �why� monotone equilibria do not exist in a large class of economic games
October
28 3pm	Onno Boxma Eindhoven University of Technology	Scheduling in polling systems The talk will be held at room 7037, Rabin complex Note the non-standard day and time (Sunday, 3pm)
24	David Steinberg Tel Aviv University	Bayesian Ideas in Experimental Design

SUMMER 2007

July
4	Opher Baron University of Toronto	Staffing to Maximize Profit for Call Centers with Alternate Service Level Agreements

SPRING 2007

June
20	Mor Armony New York University	Cross Selling in Call Centers
14	Fima Klebaner Monash University, Australia	Ruin Analysis in Constant Elasticity of Variance Model
13	Boris Tsirelson Tel Aviv University	Moderate deviations for random processes
6	Malka Gorfine The Technion	Challenges and Methods for Case-Control Survival Family-Studies
May
30	Ofer Harel University of Connecticut	Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias in estimating sensitivity and specificity
15	Shelly Zacks Binghamton University, New York	Distributions of Sequential and Two-Stage Stopping Times for Fixed-Width Confidence Intervals in Bernoulli Trials: Application in Reliability
9	Anatoly Lisnianski Israel Electric Company	Multi-state Extension of Classical Binary-state Reliability Theory
2	Zbigniew Jurek University of Wroclaw, Poland	Selfdecomposability of some basic statistics and tests
April
25	Ofer Levi Ben Gurion University	Matching Pursuit Under the Gown of Linear Regression
March
28	Ronen Fluss University of Haifa	Estimation of the ROC curve under verification bias
7	Haim Shore Ben Gurion University	Response Modeling Methodology (RMM) - The Fundamentals and Some Applications