Spline Smoothing and Nonparametric Regression
(students research seminar)
Fall 2006
The meetings of the Seminar will be held on alternating Thursdays,
from 12:30 till 2pm, in room Jeffery 222.
Scheduled talks:
Sept. 21, 2006
Speaker: Boris Levit (Math&Stat)
Title: Introduction: Interpolating splines and smoothing splines.
Oct. 5, 2006
Speaker: Saeed Varziri (Chemical Engineering)
Title: Penalized Least-Squares Smoothing, Generalized Smoothing Splines and
their application to state and parameter estimation in dynamic systems
Oct. 19, 2006
Speaker: Jaerin Cho (Math&Stat)
Title: An application of the method of generalized cross-validation to
cardinal splines.
Nov. 2, 2006
Speaker: Karim Rahim (Math&Stat)
Title: Introduction to Thin Plate Splines.
Nov. 16, 2006
Speaker: Dongsheng Tu (NCIC Clinical Trials Group)
Title: Spline Smoothing and Nonparametric Regression in Survival Analysis.