\documentclass[11pt]{article} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0truein} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.0truein} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5truein} \setlength{\topmargin}{0.0truein} \setlength{\textheight}{9.0truein} \setlength{\headsep}{0.0truein} \setlength{\headheight}{0.0truein} \setlength{\topskip}{10.0pt} \setlength{\parskip}{5mm} \usepackage{url} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amssymb} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begin{center} \textbf{\Large{\textsc{STANFORD UNIVERSITY}}}\\[5pt] \textbf{\Large{\textsc{DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS}}}\\[5pt] \Large{\textsc{DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR}} \end{center} % In the following statements, replace "Time of talk", % "Weekday", and "Date of talk". An example is provided. % If you are not sure about this, just skip this part. \begin{center} 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, October 16, 2007\\ %% Example: 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, February 13, 2007\\ Sequoia Hall Room 200\\ (Cookies at 3:45 in 1st Floor Lounge) \end{center} % In the following statements, replace "Name of the speaker" with your % name, "Department Affiliation" with your department affiliation, and %"University Affiliation" with your university affiliation. \begin{center} \textsl{Yuguo Chen} \\ Department of Statistics\\ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign \end{center} % In the following statements, replace "Title of the talk" % with your title of the talk. \begin{center} \subsection*{A New Data Augmentation Scheme} \end{center} % In the following statements, replace "Abstract of the talk" % with your abstract. \noindent Motivated by the statistical inference problem in population genetics, we present a new data augmentation scheme which leads to a more efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. We show that the new algorithm converges to the target distribution faster than the standard MCMC algorithm. We apply our method to examples from population genetics to demonstrate its efficiency. \end{document}