36-835 PhD Seminar, Spring 2004
Research Seminar in Statistics

The regular meeting time and place for the seminar is

   232Q Baker Hall Conference Room
   1:45-3:00pm Tuesdays

Some sessions will be held at other times, as indicated below.

Approximately one week before each research seminar I will distribute
a paper or other materials, supplied by the speaker, to regular
seminar participants.  

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TUESDAY SCHEDULE:

Tue Jan 20  BJ, writing a vita, writing a referee report

Tue Jan 27  [bj gone] 

Fri Jan 30  Rob/Bill, reading and responding to referee reports, 
            3-4pm, 232Q.

Tue Feb 3   Chris/Larry, nonparam fcn est [sent statsci draft pdf]

Tue Feb 10  Howard, genetics              [e-paper TBA]

Tue Feb 17  Bill, fMRI and Football       [survey paper, hardcopy]

Tue Feb 24  Rob, BARS                     [Statsci paper; also TR716[bmka]]

Tue Mar 2   Teddy, Incoherence            [TR # 760 [2001]]

Tue Mar 23  Kim, Proteomic Image Data     [Stat Dept TR # 796]

Thu Mar 25  Cari/Valerie, TBA             [Brockwell, Rojas and Kass paper]

Tue Mar 30  [off... take a bus downtown and crash ENAR!!!]

Tue Apr 6   Vera, TBA                     [paper/slides TBA]

Tue Apr 13  [bj gone all week]

Tue Apr 20  Anthony, TBA                  [paper/slides TBA]

Tue Apr 27  Lan, TBA                      [paper/slides TBA]

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SCHEDULE OF OTHER TOPICS:

Several other topics were requested in our initial meetings.  For
example:

* Using TeXPoint (http://raw.cs.berkeley.edu/texpoint/) with PowerPoint

* Writing a CV (Tue Jan 20) 
  - Acad vs nonacad jobs
  - cv vs resume
  - what should you have on it?

* Writing referee reports (Tues Jan 20)

* Reading and responding to referee reports (Fri Jan 30)

* Writing letters of recommendation (Fri Feb 13)

* Some ideas about writing          (Fri Mar 5)
  o A paper
  o A research proposal
  o A conference talk

The following were also requested by various people (in no particular
order); we need to decide what would be interesting to pursue and set
dates for these topics (likely Fri's at 1200 or 1230).

* Writing a paper

* Conferences
  - preparing a talk
  - preparing a poster

* Proposal writing
  - grants
  - fellowships

* Tufte stuff (power point, graphical presentation; see also
  e.g. editorial stmt of the Journal of Educational and Behavioral
  Statistics)

* Efron's article "STATISTICS AS A UNIFIED DISCIPLINE" panel
  discussion

* What are the "hot topics" in Statistics?

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