BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
          DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS CALENDAR
 
                       Week of October 13 - 17

Monday, October 13

 3:30 INVITED STATISTICS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Lev Klebanov, BGSU and St. Petersburg State University
                             for Architecture and Civil Engineering
      Model Construction in Statistical Estimation Theory

Tuesday, October 14

 2:30 ANALYSIS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Kit Chan, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Generalized Backward Shifts"
      Abstract: We study some recent results on a class of bounded
        linear operators on a Banach space that possess important
        properties of the unilateral backward shift on $\ell^2$.

 3:30 FACULTY MEETING  - Room 459 MSC
      Discussion of promotion documents.

Thursday, October 16

 3:30 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      So-Hsiang Chou, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Superconvergence theory for finite element methods"

Friday, October 17

 3:30 Coffee
 3:45 COLLOQUIUM  - Room 459 MSC
      Jim Albert, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Bayes for Beginners?"
      Abstract: The teaching of an introductory college statistics
        course from a Bayesian perspective is discussed.  The goals of
        an elementary statistics course are discussed, and I contrast
        the frequentist and Bayesian approaches to statistical
        inference.  Simple methods of introducing inference from a
        Bayesian perspective are described.  A "Bayes box" is used in
        introducing inference about categorical models, and a discrete
        prior is used in teaching inference about a population
        proportion.  I summarize pros and cons of teaching elementary
        Bayesian statistics.  Much of the discussion is contained in a
        recent series of papers published in The American
        Statistician.

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