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