MSRC Poster Session

To apply to present a poster, please email PDF(s) containing a CV, a well-written abstract, and a one-page outline of the results to Chris Hans at hans@stat.osu.edu.

The deadline for applications is February 16, 2012 (extended). Some of the best posters will receive a cash award of $200.00 each. Up to three of the submitted poster abstracts will be selected by the poster committee to be presented as invited talks (with partial reimbursement of travel costs).

Poster session winners for the 2012 conference were:
Shawn Mankad, University of Michigan
Yunzhang Zhu, University of Minnesota
Xinxin Shu, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
S. Castruccio, University of Chicago
Each were given at $200.00 award.

Poster session winners for the 2011 conference were:
Atul Mallik, University of Michigan
Mahbubul Majumder, Iowa State University
Ting Zhang, University of Chicago
Each were given at $100.00 award.

MSRC Program

Friday, March 16

12:30 Registration
WI Institute for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St.

1:00 Preliminary Remarks Hector DeLuca Forum

1:30 Session I Hector DeLuca Forum

Invited Talks: Statistical Theory

Bayesian Model Choice and Information Criteria
In Sparse Generalized Linear Models
Speaker: Mathias Drton, University of Chicago

Simultaneous Confidence Bands for Functional
Regression Curves
Speaker: Jing Wang, Univ. of IL-Chicago

3:00 Break Hector DeLuca Forum

3:30 Session II
WI Institute for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St.

Invited Talks: Statistical Computing

Bayesian Inference for Irreducible Diffusions
Speaker: Osnat Stramer, University of Iowa

Inference of functional clusters from non-functional data
Speaker: Long Nguyen, University of Michigan

5:00 Dinner (on your own)

7:30 Poster Session Hector DeLuca Forum

Saturday, March 18

9:00 Session III
WI Institute for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St.

Invited Talks: Applications of Statistics

Modeling the Longitudinal Change in Speech Recognition Ability of Cochlear Implant Users
Speaker: Jacob Oleson, University of Iowa

Quantile-based Permutation Thresholds for QTL Hotspots
Speaker: Brian Yandell, Univ. of Wisconsin

10:30 Break Hector DeLuca Forum

11:00 Session IV Hector DeLuca Forum

Invited Talks: Graduate Students

Envelope Models: Efficient Estimation in Multivariate Linear Regression
Speaker: Zhihua Su, Univ. of Minnesota

Efficient Moment Selection from High-Dimensional Moment Conditions
Speaker: Hyun Keon Cho, Univ. of IL, Urbana Champaign

Matrix Reconstruction with the Local Max Norm
Speaker: Rina Foygel, University of Chicago

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