July, 2008.
XXIV International Biometric Conference, Dublin.
Invited discussant in Invited Session on
Critical Evaluation of Statistical Methods Proposed for Microarray
Analysis.
September 2007.
Annual meeting of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operational
Research (SEIO), Valladolid, Spain.
Statistical Analysis of Microarray Data.
September 2007.
Opening statistics seminar of the academic year (with discussion),
Department of Statistics, University of Bologna.
Large-Scale Simultaneous Inference with Applications to the
Detection of Differential Expression with Microarray Data.
June, 2007.
2007 Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology,
ARC Centre in Bioinformatics and Institute for Molecular Bioscience,
University of Queensland.
Large-Scale Simultaneous Inference for the Detection
of Differential Expression with Microarray Data.
November, 2006.
Bioinformatics Australia 2006, Sydney.
Finding Differentially Expressed Genes in Multiclass
Microarrays Using a Mixture Model Approach
(contributed talk).
September, 2006.
Macquarie University, Sydney.
Microarray Data Classification.
August, 2006.
One-Day Workshop at the Joint Statistical Meetings 2006.
Methods and Computational Tools for the Screening
and Classification of Microarray Gene Expression Data
(joint with Kim-Anh Do and Keith Baggerly), Seattle.
February, 2006.
Meeting of the Canberra Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia,
Canberra.
Some Applications of Statistics in Bioinformatics.
December, 2005.
International Conference in Statistics,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Some Applications of Mixture Models to Microarray Data in
Bioinformatics (plenary talk).
July, 2005.
Bioinformatics Symposium 2005,
HELP University College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
An Introduction to the Statistical Analysis of Microarray
Gene-Expression Data (keynote talk).
June, 2005.
Joint Annual Meeting of the Interface and Classification Society of
North America, St. Louis, Missouri.
Model-Based Clustering of High-Dimensional Data in
session on Model-Based Clustering/Classification in High-Dimensional
Data and
A Model-Based Approach to Multiple Hypothesis Testing via Mixture
Models in session on Model Building with Applications to Mixtures
and Bioinformatics.
May, 2005.
Workshop on Oncogenetics, Florence.
Invited discussion of paper
by Professor Lucio Luzzatto (Tuscany Cancer Institute),
titled The Molecular Basis of Cancer.
May, 2005.
Statistics for Functional Genomicists and Functional Genomics for
Statisticians, Florence.
Sponsored by the Nutrigenomics Organization (a European Union
VI Framework Network of Excellence) and the Tuscany Cancer Institute.
Class Discovery and Class Prediction:
Unsupervised and Supervised Clustering Probabilistic Models
(joint with C. Romualdi et al.).
May, 2005.
Meeting of the Statistical Society of Australia (Queensland Branch),
Brisbane.
The Role of Statistics in Bioinformatics.
November, 2004.
Department of Statistics and Operations Research,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Discriminant Analysis of Microarray Gene-Expression Data.
February, 2004.
New Zealand Summer School of Bioinformatics, Auckland.
Multivariate Techniques in the Statistical Analysis of
Gene-Expression Data.
November-December, 2003. Invited lecturer at the winter school
jointly sponsored by the universities in the French-speaking part of
Switzerland, Villars-Sur-Ollon, Switzerland.
Lectures on Finite Mixture Models
and The EM Algortihm.
September, 2003. Opening address at the
5th Congresso Nazionale of the Italian Region of the
International Biometric Society, Marina di Massa.
Some Applications of Mixture Models
August, 2002.
Workshop: Perspectives in Modern Statistical Inference II,
Brno, Czech Republic.
On Variants of the EM Algorithm for the Fitting of Finite
Mixture Models.
December, 2001.
International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics
and Related Areas on the 25th anniversary of the Forum
for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, University of Wollongong.
Clustering of Directional Data.
July, 2001.
Mixtures 2001 - Recent Developments in Mixture Modelling, Hamburg.
Modelling High-Dimensional Data by Mixtures of Factor Analyzers.
March, 2001.
25th Annual Conference of the German Classification Conference - GfKl (2001),
Munich.
On Clustering by Mixture Models.
March, 2001.
Workshop in Statistical Mixtures and Latent-Structure Modelling,
Edinburgh.
On the Incremental EM Algorithm for Speeding Up the Fitting of
Finite Mixture Models.
November, 2000.
Seminar at University of California Irvine.
Applying Mixture Models to Data.
November, 2000.
Seminar at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston.
Role of Mixture Models in Survival Analysis.
November, 2000.
Seminar at Rice University, Houston.
On Some Computational Aspects of the Fitting of Normal Mixtue Models.
November, 2000.
Seminar at the SAS Institute, Cary, North Caroilina.
Finite Mixture Models.
August, 2000. ASA Invited Session on Bayesian
Statistics, Joint Statistical Meetings, Indianapolis.
On Computational Aspects of Clustering via Mixtures of Normal and t
Components.
September, 1999.
Symposium on Chaos and Non-Linear Time Series, Kyushu University, Fukuoka,
Japan.
Modelling Nonlinearity by Mixtures of Factor Analyzers via Extensions
of the EM Algorithm.
June, 1999. 31st Symposium on the Interface, Chicago.
Computing Issues for the EM Algortihm in Mixture Models.
February, 1999. Information, Decision and Control - 99, Adelaide.
Vector Quantization, Clustering, and Data Compression via
Finite Mixture Models.