Terry SpeedProfessor of Statistics
“Extracting More Information Out of Data”
Monday, March 19, 2012
4—5 p.m. Free to the public.
International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.
Terry Speed splits his time between the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley and the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. Originally trained in mathematics and statistics, he has had a lifelong interest in genetics. After teaching mathematics and statistics in universities in Australia and the United Kingdom, and a spell in Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, he came to Berkeley 25 years ago. Since that time, his research and teaching interests have concerned the application of statistics to genetics and molecular biology. Within that subfield, eventually to be named bioinformatics, his interests are broad, including biomolecular sequence analysis, the mapping of genes in experimental animals and humans, and functional genomics. He has been particularly involved in the low-level analysis of microarray data, and more recently, next-generation DNA sequence analysis.
Jan de VriesProfessor of History and Economics
“The Modern Consumer in Historical Perspective”
Monday, April 2, 2012
4—5 p.m. Free to the public.
International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.
Jan de Vries is a professor of history and a professor of economics. He also has served as chair of UC Berkeley’s history department, dean of social sciences in the College of Letters & Science, and as vice provost for academic affairs. His research interests have ranged from European agrarian history and historical demography and urbanization, and environmental and climate history to the history of consumer behavior. He has written six books and many articles, most recently The Industrious Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2008). His current interests include the history of consumer behavior and topics in global history. De Vries is a past president of the Economic History Association and served as editor of the Journal of Economic History. He is the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson and Guggenheim fellowships and has held grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. He also has held visiting fellowships to the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, and All Souls College at Oxford University. He has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the British Academy, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He is the 2000 recipient of the A.H. Heineken Prize in History.
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