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,

Special Invited Paper

Chair: Jim Berger, Duke University

Speaker: Presentation Title: Improved Estimation of a multivariate mean Presenting Author: William Strawderman,

Discussant: George Casella, 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,

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