FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2011

PRELIMINARY REMARKS

1:30 PM–2:00 PM

SESSION I Invited Talks, Statistical Theory

2:00 PM–3:30 PM

• 2:00 PM–2:45 PM, Michael Levine, Purdue University
  
  • "Maximum smoothed likelihood for multivariate mixtures"
• 2:45 PM–3:30 PM, Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota
  
  • "On high-dimensional feature selection"

COFFEE BREAK: 3:30 PM–4: 00 PM

SESSION II Invited Talks, Statistical Computing

4:00 PM–5:30 PM

• 4:00 PM–4:45 PM, Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin
  
  • "Connecting functional and experimental data in genome-wide studies"
• 4:45 PM–5:30 PM, Aixin Tan, University of Iowa
  
  • "Importance sampling with Markov chain Monte Carlo"

DINNER BREAK AT LOCAL RESTAURANTS: 5:30 PM–7:30 PM

POSTER SESSION

7:30 PM–9:00 PM

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2011

SESSION III Invited Talks, Applications of Statistics

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• 9:00 AM–9:45 AM, Sarat Dass, Michigan State University
  
  • "Point Processes with Spatially Dependent Marks: A Case Study in Fingerprint Analysis"
• 9:45 AM–10:30 AM, Naisyin Wang, University of Michigan
  
  • "Functional Linear Model with Zero-value Coefficient Function at Sub-regions"

COFFEE BREAK: 10:30 AM–11:00 AM

SESSION IV Invited Talks, Graduate Student Talks

11:00 AM–12:30 PM

• 11:00 AM–11:30 AM, Dongjun Chung, University of Wisconsin
  
  • "Statistical Modeling of Multi-reads in ChIP-Seq Analysis for Accurate Identification of Protein Binding Sites"
• 11:30 AM–12:00 PM, Joseph Guinness, University of Chicago
  • "Likelihood Approximation for Nonstationary Gaussian Processess"
• 12:00–12:30 PM, Harry Crane, University of Chicago
  
  • "A Consistent Markov Partition Process Generated from The Paintbox Process"

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