01/12/2001 INVITED SESSION SUBMISSIONS 1
Wald Lecture I
Chair: Mary Sara McPeek, University of Chicago
Speaker: Presentation Title: Meiosis Presenting Author: Terry Speed, UC Berkeley and Hall Institute of Medical Research
Wald Lecture II
Chair: John Rice, University of California at Berkeley
Speaker: Presentation Title: Biological Sequences Presenting Author: Terry Speed, UC Berkeley and Hall Institute of Medical Research
Wald Lecture III
Chair: Honggyu Zhao, Yale University
Speaker: Presentation Title: Gene Expression Presenting Author: Terry Speed, UC Berkeley and Hall Institute of Medical Research
Rietz Lecture
Chair: Susan Murphy, University of Michigan
Speaker: Presentation Title: Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow... Statistics as a sequential game Presenting Author: A.P. Dawid, University College London, UK
President's Address
Speaker: Presentation Title: Are probabilists more of a community than statisticians? Presenting Author: Bernard Silverman, University of Bristol, UK
Special Invited Paper
Chair: Soumendra Lahiri, Iowa State University
Speaker: Presentation Title: Hierarchical Modeling in the Analysis of Spatial Data Presenting Author: Alan Gelfand, University of Connecticut
Discussant: Mark Handcock, University of Washington
Special Invited Paper
Chair: Steven Lalley, University of Chicago
Speaker: Presentation Title: Random Processes with Reinforcement Presenting Author: Robin Pemantle, Ohio State University 01/12/2001 INVITED SESSION SUBMISSIONS 2
Discussant: Thomas Sellke, Purdue University
Special Invited Paper
Chair: Jim Berger, Duke University
Speaker: Presentation Title: Improved Estimation of a multivariate mean Presenting Author: William Strawderman, Rutgers University
Discussant: George Casella, University of Florida Discussant: Ed George, University of Texas at Austin
Special Invited Paper
Chair: Mark Handcock
Speakers: Presentation Title: Dependency Networks for Inference, Collaborative Filtering, and Data Visualization Presenting Author: David Heckerman, Microsoft
Discussant: Christopher Raphael, University of Massachusetts
Wavelets and Statistics
Organizer: Bernard W. Silverman, Universtiy of Bristol, UK
Chair: Bernard W. Silverman, Universtiy of Bristol, UK
Speakers: Presentation Title: Wavelet Analysis of Spherical Data Presenting Author: Pierre Vandergheynst, Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Presentation Title: Curvelets and Statistical Linear Inverse Problems Presenting Author: Emmanuel Candes, California Institute of Technology
Presentation Title: Smoothing Nonequidistant Data using Thresholds for Second Generation Wavelets Presenting Author: Maarten Jensen, Rice University
Statistical Climatology
Organizer: Robert Lund, University of Georgia
Chair: Lynne Seymour, University of Georgia
Speakers: Presentation Title: Bayesian Modeling of Climate and Weather Presenting Author: Mark Berliner, The Ohio State University
Presentation Title: Bayesian Climate Change Assessment Presenting Author: Richard A. Levine, University of California - Davis
Presentation Title: Using Spatial Fields as the Input for Numerical Models: Global Warming and Agricultural Impacts Presenting Author: Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research 01/12/2001 INVITED SESSION SUBMISSIONS 3
Semiparametric and nonparametric inferences
Organizer: Xiaotong Shen, Ohio State University
Chair: Xiaotong Shen, Ohio State University
Speakers: Presentation Title: A Topic in Nonparametric Function Estimation Presenting Author: Larry Brown, University of Pennsylvania
Presentation Title: Estimation in very high dimensional models with factorized likelihoods Presenting Author: James Robins, Harvard School of Public Health
Presentation Title: Likelihood Inference when High Dimensional Information is Needed to Make "Missing at Random" Plausible Presenting Author: Susan Murphy, University of Michigan
Neuroscience
Organizer: Valerie Ventura, Carnegie Mellon University
Chair: Valerie Ventura, Carnegie Mellon University
Speakers: Presentation Title: Spectral analysis as a general framework for reading so called "neuronal codes" Presenting Author: Partha Mitra, Bell Labs
Presentation Title: Dynamic Analysis of Hippocampal Information Encoding Presenting Author: Emery N. Brown, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Presentation Title: Statistical analysis of multiple nonstationary point processes: tools for analyzing neuron spike-train data Presenting Author: Valerie Ventura, Carnegie Mellon University
Exact Stimulation
Organizer: James Fill, Johns Hopkins University
Chair: James Fill, Johns Hopkins University
Speakers: Presentation Title: The Randomness Recycler: A new technique for generating perfect samples from difficult distributions Presenting Author: Mark Huber, Stanford University
Presentation Title: Exact simulation of a conditional Boolean model Presenting Author: Marie-Colette van Lieshout, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
Presentation Title: Perfect sampling for queueing and network models Presenting Author: Duncan Murdoch, University of Western Ontario
Spatial Statistics
Organizer: Marie-Colette van Lieshout, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science 01/12/2001 INVITED SESSION SUBMISSIONS 4
Chair: Marie-Colette van Lieshout, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
Speakers: Presentation Title: Spectral methods for spatial nonstationary processes Presenting Author: Montserrat Fuentes, North Carolina State University
Presentation Title: Modelling of clustered point patterns in seismology Presenting Author: Yosihiko Ogata, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Presentation Title: Practical pseudo-likelihood estimation Presenting Author: Adrian Baddeley, University of Western Australia
Particle Systems and Applications I
Organizer: Greg Lawler, Duke University
Chair: Greg Lawler, Duke University
Speakers: Presentation Title: Brownian beads Presenting Author: Ba'lint Vira'g, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presentation Title: Mutually catalytic branching: finite vs. infinite systems Presenting Author: J. Theodore Cox, Syracuse University
Presentation Title: Stochastic growth models on trees and hyperbolic graphs Presenting Author: Steven Lalley, University of Chicago
Presentation Title: Tagged particle distributions Presenting Author: Thomas Liggett, University of California-Los Angeles
Particle Systems and Applications II Organizer: Greg Lawler, Duke University
Chair: Greg Lawler, Duke University
Speakers: Presentation Title: The contact process on graphs Presenting Author: Roberto Schonmann, UCLA
Presentation Title: A Property of a class of reinforced walks Presenting Author: Vlada Limic, Cornell University
Presentation Title: On the critical behavior of the length of shortest paths in regular and invasion percolation Presenting Author: Agoston Pisztora, Carnegie Mellon University
Presentation Title: Ordering of phase transitions in the random-cluster model Presenting Author: Russ Lyons, Georgia Institute of Technology
Bootstrapping for dependent data
Organizer: Michael L. Stein, University of Chicago 01/12/2001 INVITED SESSION SUBMISSIONS 5
Chair: Michael L. Stein, University of Chicago
Speakers: Presentation Title: Three variations on the block-bootstrap theme Presenting Author: Efstathios Paparoditis, University of Cyprus
Presentation Title: Intensity-based bootstrapping for point processes Presenting Author: John Braun, University of Western Ontario
Presentation Title: Higher order properties of block bootstrap confidence intervals Presenting Author: Soumendra Lahiri, Iowa State University
Combinatorial aspects of probability I
Organizer: Jeffrey Steif, Georgia Tech
Chair: TBA
Speakers: Presentation Title: Combinatorial/probabilistic analysis of a class of search-tree functionals Presenting Author: James Allen Fill, The Johns Hopkins University
Presentation Title: Singularity probabilities for random discrete matrices Presenting Author: Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University
Presentation Title: Self-Avoiding Walks on Hyperbolic Graphs Presenting Author: Neal Madras, York University
Combinatorial aspects of probability II
Organizer: Jeffrey Steif, Georgia Tech
Chair: TBA
Speakers: Presentation Title: Random Geometric Graphs Presenting Author: Mathew Penrose, University of Durham
Presentation Title: Particle Systems and Path-Counting Presenting Author: Alan Stacey, University of Cambridge
Presentation Title: Critical resonance for non-intersecting lattice paths Presenting Author: David B. Wilson, Microsoft Research
Nonlinear Time Series
Organizer: Richard A. Davis, Colorado State University
Chair: Richard A. Davis, Colorado State University
Speakers: Presentation Title: Adaptive Estimation Equations for Time Series 01/12/2001 INVITED SESSION SUBMISSIONS 6
Presenting Author: Zonggwu Cai, University of North Carolina
Presentation Title: Stability of Threshold Bilinear and ARCH Models Presenting Author: Daren Cline, Texas A&M
Presentation Title: Reconstructing Time Series from Observed Point Processes Presenting Author: Colleen Cutler, University of Waterloo
Astrostatistics
Organizer: Larry A. Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon
Chair: Larry A. Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon
Speakers: Presentation Title: Statistics for variable stars Presenting Author: John Rice, UC Berkeley
Presentation Title: Estimating lage-scale structure of the universe from QSO absorber catalogs Presenting Author: Michael L. Stein, University of Chicago
Presentation Title: Bayesian interence in astronomy Presenting Author: Tom Loredo, Cornell University
Stochastic Calculus with Long-Memory Processes
Organizer: Jay Breidt, Iowa State University
Chair: Jay Breidt, Iowa State University
Speakers: Presentation Title: Stochastic equations with fractional Brownian motion and applications Presenting Author: Tyrone Duncan, University of Kansas
Presentation Title: Risky asset modeling with non-semimartingale activity times Presenting Author: Chris Heyde, Columbia University
Presentation Title: Stochastic integration with respect to Volterra type processes Presenting Author: Laurent Decreusefond
Statistical Genetics Organizer: Terry Speed, UC Berkeley and Hall Institute of Medical Research
Chair: Terry Speed, UC Berkeley and Hall Institute of Medical Research
Speakers: Presentation Title: Inferring Relationships between multiple individuals Presenting Author: Sharon Browning, North Carolina State University
Presentation Title: Linkage Detection Adaptive to Linkage Disequilibrium Presenting Author: Jian Huang, University of Iowa 01/12/2001 INVITED SESSION SUBMISSIONS 7
Presentation Title: A statistical method for identification of a functional polymorphism in a gene Presenting Author: Mary Sara McPeek, University of Chicago
Discussant: Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
An Appreciation of Lucien Le Cam
Organizer: Grace Yang, University of Maryland
Chair: Grace Yang, University of Maryland
Speakers: Presentation Title: Lucien and semiparametric models Presenting Author: Peter Bickel, UC-Berkeley
Presentation Title: Rates of convergence and metric demension Presenting Author: Lucien Birge, University of Paris VI
Presentation Title: Le Cam's Surprising Foresight Presenting Author: David Donoho, Stanford University
Presentation Title: Lucien Le Cam's mathematical framework: abstract nonsense, or an inspired simplification? Presenting Author: David Pollard, Yale University
Presentation Title: Le Cam and Limits of Experiments Presenting Author: Aad van der Vaart, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam