Tentative Program
| Topics | Time | Duration | Speakers | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continental Breakfast | 8:00 | 30 | ||
| Opening Remarks | 8:30 | 30 | Peter March | Director, NSF-DMS |
| Debbie Lockhart | Executive Officer, NSF-DMS | |||
| Iain Johnstone | Stanford University | |||
| 1. Statistics in Biological Sciences [Chair, Peter Bickel] |
9:00 | 25 | Wing Wong | Stanford
University |
| 25 | Xihong Lin | Harvard University | ||
| 15 | Sam Kou | Harvard University | ||
| 40 | Discussion | |||
| Break | 10:45 | 30 | ||
| 2. Sparsity [Chair, Iain Johnstone] |
11:15 | 25 | David Donoho | Stanford University |
| 35 | Discussion | |||
| Lunch Panel | 12:15 | Mary Ellen Bock | Purdue University | |
| Alan Karr | NISS | |||
| Bruce Lindsay | Penn State University | |||
| 3. Computer Models [Chair, Jim Berger] |
1:45 | 25 | Doug Nychka | NCAR |
| 15 | Chris Jones | UNC-Chapel Hill | ||
| 30 | Discussion | |||
| 4. Statistics in Particle
& Astro-physics [Chair, Tom Kurtz] |
2:55 | 25 | Harrison Prosper | Florida State University |
| 15 | Larry Wasserman | Carnegie Mellon Univ. | ||
| 30 | Discussion [Berger starts] | |||
| Break | 4:05 | 30 | ||
| 5. Economics/Finance/Risk
Management [Chair, Jianqing Fan] |
4:35 | 25 | Chris Sims | Princeton University |
| 25 | Paul Embrechts | ETH | ||
| 30 | Discussion | |||
| 5:55 | Adjourn | |||
| 6-7:15 |
Reception at the MAA | |||
| 7:30 | Dinner at the Dupont Grille | |||
| Topics | Time | Duration | Speakers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6. Machine Learning [Chair, Bin Yu] |
8:30 | 25 | Andrew Nobel | UNC-Chapel |
| 25 | Mike Jordan | UC-Berkeley | ||
| 40 | Discussion | |||
| Break | 10:00 | 30 | ||
| 7. Network Modeling | 10:30 | 25 | Mark Handcock | University of Washington |
| [Chair: Steve Fienberg] | 25 | David Blei | Princeton University | |
| 40 | Discussion | |||
| Lunch | 12:00 | |||
| Wrap-up Discussions | 1:30 | Led by: | ||
| Report outlining: introduction and themes | Session Chairs | |||
| 3:00 | Adjourn |