Colloquium

2016

Jan. 27: Semiparametric modeling of variations in income-related health inequalities (Martin Siegel, Department of Health Care Mangagement, TU Berlin)
Feb. 03: Regression with Functional Data: with Applications in Bioprocess Monitoring & Pig Sensor Data (Fabian Scheipl, Department of Statistics, LMU Munich)
March 09: Testing the information content and scale-dependence of phylogenetic data for inferring ecological assembly mechanisms (Florian Hartig, Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg)
April 20: High-dimensional approaches for heterogeneous data (Sach Mukherjee, Group Leader, Statistics and Machine Learning, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany)
April 27: Elastic maps and non-linear statistics in genomic studies (Michael Sadovsky, Department of Computational Mathematics, Institute of Computational Modeling, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
May 25: Joint Spatial Modelling of Misaligned Exposure and Health Outcome Data (Katja Ickstadt, Faculty of Statistics, University of Dortmund)
July 06: Recasting the competitive exclusion principle: using exclusion rate to unify neutral and niche perspectives (Johay Carmel, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Isreal Institute of Technology)
July 13: Clustering of big data in bioinformatics: new approaches (Leonid Brodsky, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel)
August 17: A Statistical Perspective on the Analysis of Complex Network Data with Interdisciplinary Applications (Juliane Manitz, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Boston, USA)

2015

Jan. 08: Classification based on machine-learning approaches: practical aspects (Inke König, University of Lübeck)
Jan. 14: Marginal Functional Regression Models for Analyzing the Feeding Behavior of Pigs (Jan Gertheiss, University of Göttingen)
Jan. 21: Lungfunction Decline in Cystic Fibrosis Patients with Pulmonary Infections (Elisabeth Waldmann, University of Liverpool, UK)
Jan. 28: Scales in ecohydrology of drylands: Modelling feedbacks between water and vegetation at different scales (Britta Tietjen, FU Berlin)

Feb. 18: A General Framework for Regression with Functional Data (Sonja Greven, LMU Munich)

Apr. 22: Sparse Bayesian Modeling with Spike and Slab Priors (Helga Wagner, University of Linz, Austria)

May 05: Testing and comparing models with virtual ecologists (Damaris Zurell, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland)

June 24: Building Personalized Bioinformatics Solutions with R-Shiny (Saskia Freytag, Walter + Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia)

Aug. 04: A Unified Modeling Approach to Estimating HIV Prevalence in Sub-Saharan African Countries (Rosalba Radice & Giampiero Marra, University College London, UK)

Nov. 04: An intuitive Bayesian spatial model for disease mapping that accounts for scalings (Andrea Riebler, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)

Dec. 09: How to write a good statistics paper ? Some (very personal) comments (Göran Kauermann, Institute for Statistics, LMU Munich)

Dec. 14: Spatial synchrony in forest insect outbreaks (Andrew Liebhold, US Forest Service Northern Research Station, Morgantown, USA)

2014

Feb. 5: Penalising model component complexity: A principled practical approach to constructing priors (Håvard Rue, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway).
Feb. 26: BAMLSS, Bayesian Additive Models for Location Scale and Shape (Nikolaus Umlauf, Department of Statistics, University of Innsbruck, Austria).
March 10: Statistical Analysis of Network Data (Eric Kolaczyk, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, USA)
March 10: Design of a LiDAR Sample for Estimating Aboveground Forest Biomass (Timothy Gregoire, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, USA)
May 7: Unimodal spline regression in various application areas (Claudia Köllmann, Faculty of Statistics, TU Darmstadt)
March 19: Spatio-temporal gene expression analysis of the human brain (Saskia Freytag, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia)
May 28: Fixed Count Sampling for density estimation: A review (Steen Magnussen, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, Canada)
June 19: Prediction with kernel methods in quantitative genetics: what have we learned? (Daniel Gianola, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
June : (John Fox, McMaster University Hamilton, Canada)
Nov. 12: Discovering main genetic interactions with LABNet LAsso-Based Network Inference (Francesco Gadaleta, University of Liège, Belgium)
Dec. 12: Single-step models in genomic prediction (Ignacy Misztal, University of Geogia, USA)

2013

Jan. 16: Scale in ecology: Measurement, management and prediction. (Brody Sandel, Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity Group, Aarhus University, Denmark)
Jan. 23: Convergence of Agricultural Income and Total Factor Productivity across EU countries. (Alfons Lansink, Business Economics, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands)
May 15: A non-technical introduction to boosting generalized additive models for location, scale and shape. (Andreas Mayr, Institut für Medizininformatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie; University Erlangen-Nürnberg).
May 22, 2013: Making and evaluating point forecasts. (Tilman Gneiting, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Heidelberg University)
June 12, 2013: Latent-state modeling in ecology. (Roland Langrock, Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, University of St. Andrews, UK)
June 26: SCALES project: overview and some outcomes on connectivity, population viability, and species' range shifts. (Guy Pe'er, Department of Conservation Biology, UFZ Leipzig)
Nov. 13: Stable computation of additive models beyond exponential family. (Simon Wood, University of Bath, UK)

2012

Jan. 11: Exploring phylogenetic structure in fully mapped tropical forest using mark-correlation functions. (Thorsten Wiegand, Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany)
Feb. 1: Economic factors affecting the prevalence of obesity in Spain. (José M. Gil, Roigm CREDA Research Centre for Agri-Food Economy & Development, Barcelona, Spain)
April 18: Bayesian Variable Selection, Model Choice and Regularization for Generalized Additive Mixed Models. (Fabian Scheipl, Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany)
May 2: Meta-modelling from local to larger scales: Using mortality models as an example. (Valerie LeMay, Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada).
June 27: Why I became a Bayesian – or did I? (Marc Kéry, Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, Switzerland)
June 29: Bacterial colonization of plant leaf surfaces: of communities and single cells. (Johan Leveau, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California at Davis, USA)
July 10: Mathematical and statistical models of animal movement. (Otso Ovaskainen, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Dec. 5: Scale Problems in Model-Based Boosting: A Journey to Unbiased Variable Selection and Model Choice. Benjamin Hofner, Institut für Medizininformatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
Dec. 12: Importance of habitat heterogeneity and biotic processes in the spatial distribution of a riparian herb (Carex remota L.): a point process approach. (Jaime Uria Diez)

2011

April 29: Genomic analysis of neuroblastoma. (Marcella Devoto, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
April 29: Statistical genetics: an editor perspective. (Marcella Devoto, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
May 4: Regularization Methods in Statistical Model Building. (Grace Wahba, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) download talk
July 19: How reliable are model-derived reliabilities? (Daniel Gianola, Animal Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) download talk
June 15: A network perspetive on global disease dynamics. (Dirk Brockmann, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA)
July 20: Three forms of spatial analysis and how they can be used in ecology. (Kirk Moloney, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, USA)
Dec. 7: Parasitoid-mediated biocontrol services: what are the relevant spatial and temporal scales. (Felix Bianchi, Soil Biology and Biological Soil Quality Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Dec. 14: Shape Constraints, Compound Decisions and Empirical Bayes Rules. (Roger Koenker, Department of Economics, University of Illinois, USA. Dec. 12 - Dec. 14)

2010

Nov. 22: Data transformation and Estimation. (Manfred Denker, Mathematics Department, Penn State University, USA)
Nov. 30: Analysis of longitudinal data. (Špela Malovrh, Animal Science Department, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)