The Department of Information and Computer Science and the newly-forming Department of Statistics at UC Irvine are starting a joint monthly seminar series in the 2002-2003 academic year, the Large-Scale Data Analysis Seminar Series. The goal is to present new research ideas related to methods for the analysis of large or otherwise complex data sets.

Confirmed seminar speakers include

• Speaker: Brad Carlin (University of Minnesota)
  • Title: Covariate-Adjusted and Bivariate Spatial CDF Modeling, with Application to Air Pollutant Data
  • Thursday, November 14th, CS 432, 11am
• Speaker: Robert Kass (Carnegie Mellon),
• Title: Bayesian Curve Fitting and Neuron Firing Patterns
• Tuesday, December 10th, 11am, CS 432
• Speaker: Peter Rossi (University of Chicago). 
  
  • Title: to be announced
  • Friday, January 10th, 11am, CS 432
• Speaker: Daphne Koller (Stanford),
• Title: Learning Probabilistic Models of Relational Data
• Friday, February 14th, 11am, CS 432.
• Speaker: Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley),
• Title: To be announced
• Friday, March 14th, 11am, McDonnell Douglas Auditorium
• Speaker: Andrew Moore (Carnegie Mellon),
• Title: Statistical Data Mining
• Friday, April 11th, 11am, CS 432
• Speaker: Jon Kleinberg (Cornell),
• Title: To be announced
• Monday, May 12th, 11am, CS 432