SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

"A Celebration of Statistics" April 30-May 1, 2010 Research Workshop on Data Analysis and Statistical Foundations (Home page link for this workshop) Friday April 30 AM Talks will be in Room 230 at Fields (map to Fields) Friday April 30 PM Talks will in Bahen Room 1180 Saturday May 1, Talks will be in Room 230 at Fields	Department of Statistics, University of Toronto
Organizing Committee: Radu Craiu, Graduate Chair, Department of Statistics Mike Evans, Department of Statistics and UTSC Sheldon Lin, Department of Statistics Nancy Reid, Department of Statistics James Stafford, Department of Statistics (Chair)

Affiliated Activities

April 29,2010
Graduate Student Research Day

May 3-4, 2010
Distinguished Lecture Series on Statistical Science
Jianqing Fan, Princeton University

Research Workshop

The theme of the workshop is to highlight the interactive loop that enriches statistical foundations through the needs of applications, and the role of foundations on bringing structure to the approaches needed for new applications. The focus of the talks will be the interaction between foundations and application.

Invited Speakers:
Naomi Altman, Penn State University;
David Brillinger, UC Berkeley;
Arthur Dempster, Harvard University;
Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University;
Jerry Lawless, U Waterloo;
Richard Lockhart, Simon Fraser University;
Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago;
Kai Ng, Hong Kong University;
Jon Rao, Carleton University;
Ana-Maria Staicu, North Carolina State University;
Larry Wasserman, Carnegie-Mellon University.

Accomodation

There is a block booking of hotel rooms being held until March 28 at the Holiday Inn (280 Bloor St. West) at $129.99/night. When booking please use the code "DAS". For additional accomodation options please visit the Institute's housing resource page.

Final List of Participants:

Full Name	University Name
Abebe, Fisseha	Clark Atlanta University
Acar, Elif Fidan	University of Toronto
Ahmed, Ejaz	U of Windsor
Altman, Naomi S.	Pennsylvania State University
Andrews, D.F.	University of Toronto
Asllani, Eriola	Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Badescu, Andrei	University of Toronto
Baskurt, Zeynep	University of Toronto
Beyene, Joseph	McMaster University
Brenner, David	University of Toronto
Brillinger, David	University of California, Berkeley
Briollais, Laurent	Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
Cai, Tara	University of British Columbia
Chong, Yuxiang	University of Toronto
Craiu, Radu	University of Toronto
Dean, Charmaine	Simon Fraser University
Dempster, Arthur P.	Harvard University
Evans, Mike	University of Toronto
Fan, Jianqing	Princeton University
Fan, Jing	University of Toronto
Feng, Yang	Princeton University
Feuerverger, Andrey	University of Toronto
Fienberg, Stephen	Carnegie Mellon University
Fraser, Don	University of Toronto
Gibbs, Alison	University of Toronto
Guo, Weiwei	University of Toronto
Guttman, Irwin	State University of New York at Buffalo
He, Yu	University of Toronto
Jang, Gun Ho	University of Toronto
Jarrell, Janet	no affiliation
Jin, Zi	University of British Columbia
Knight, Keith	University of Toronto
Koudstaal, Mark	University of Toronto
Lawless, Jerry F.	University of Waterloo
Lebovic, Gerald	University of Toronto
Levenbach, Hans	Delphus, Inc.
Li, Li	University of Toronto
Lin, Sheldon	University of Toronto
Lin, Wei	University of Toronto
Liu, Amy	McMaster University
Lockhart, Richard	Simon Fraser University
Lu, Hong	University of Toronto
Macdonald, Peter	McMaster University
McCullagh, Peter	University of Chicago
Mojirsheibani, Majid	Carleton University
Monette, Georges	York University
Neal, Radford	University of Toronto
Ng, Kai	The University of Hong Kong
Niederhausen, Heinrich	Florida Atlantic University
O'Rourke, Keith	University of Ottawa
Plantre, Jean-François	HEC Montréal
Ramsay, Jim	McGill University
Reid, Nancy	University of Toronto
Roeder, Kathryn	Carnegie Mellon University
Sabeti, Avideh	University of Toronto
Saleh, A.K.Md. Ehsanes	Carleton University
Seifu, Yodit	Novartis
Shestopaloff, Alex	University of Toronto
Stafford, James	University of Toronto
Staicu, Ana-Maria	North Carolina State University
Su, Jie	University of Toronto
Sun, Lei	University of Toronto
Swartz, Tim	Simon Fraser University
Thinniyam, Ramya	University of Toronto
Thompson, Madeleine	University of Toronto
Thompson, Mary	University of Waterloo
Tilahun, Gelila	University of Toronto
Tong, Xin	Princeton University
Tritchler, David	University of Toronto
Viraswami-Appanna, Kalyanee	Novartis Oncology
Wang, Xuesong	The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
Wasserman, Lawrence	Carnegie Mellon University
Wu, Changbao	University of Waterloo
Wu, Yan Yan	York University
Xu, Lizhen	University of Toronto
Xu, Ximing	University of Toronto
Yao, Fang	University of Toronto
Yi, Grace	University of Waterloo
Yilmaz, Yildiz	Mount Sinai Hospital
Zhou, Zhou	University of Toronto

 

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