Topics, invited talks and schedule
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Statistical Meeting Topics, invited talks and schedule ﹛ |
Last Update: July 18, 2003
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Topics |
Organizers |
Invited Speakers (Tentative) |
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Causal-Graphical Modeling |
Steffen Lauritzen (Aalborg) |
Vanessa Didelez (University College London) |
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Michael Eichler (U. Chicago) |
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Juni Palmgren (Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet) |
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Peter Spirtes (Dept. of Philosophy, CMU) |
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Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie-Mellon University) |
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Edward J. Vytlacil (Stanford) |
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Joe Whittaker (Lancaster, UK) |
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Mathias Drton(Washington) |
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Spatial Statistics |
Peter Green (Bristol) |
Susie Bayarri (Valencia, Spain) |
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Adrian Baddeley (Perth) |
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Brad Carlin (Biostat, Minnesota) |
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Arnoldo Frigessi (Norwegian Computing Centre) |
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Montserrat Fuentes (North Carolina State) |
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Jon Wakefield (Washington) |
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Rasmus Waagepetersen (Aalborg) |
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Doug Nychka(UCAR) |
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Analysis of Extremes |
Richard Smith (U. North Carolina) |
S. Coles (Bristol,UK) |
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Anthony Davison (SFIT, Switzerland) |
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S. Resnick (Cornell) |
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Jan Beirlant (Leuven, Belgium) |
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Holger Rootzen(Chalmers, Sweden) |
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Luis Pericchi(UPR-RP, Puerto Rico) |
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Andrea Tancredi(Padova, Italy) |
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Beatriz Mendes(Rio de Janeiro,Brasil) |
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2.Final schedule of the 1st IMS-ISBA Joint Meeting
To download the printable version of the schedule, click HERE.
JULY 22 TO JULY 23: SATELLITE MEETINGS.
Tuesday, July 22
15:00-19:30: Workshop in Model Selection. (Hotel Intercontinental)
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Time |
Presenter |
Title |
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15:00-17:00 |
Jim Berger |
Foundations of Model Selection |
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17:00-17:30 |
Coffee Break |
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17:30-19:30 |
Ed George |
Priors for model selection and their evaluation |
Wednesday, July 23
09:30-13:00 Workshop in Model Selection. (Hotel Intercontinental)
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Time |
Presenter |
Title |
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09:30-11:30 |
Merlise Clyde |
Search and computation strategies on model selection |
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11:30-12:00 |
Coffee Break |
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12:00-13:00 |
Susie Bayarri |
Speculative approaches |
08:30-12:00 Presentations by the US Bureau of Census. (UPR-Rio Piedras)
Chair: Carlos Toro
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Time |
Presenter |
Title |
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08:45-09:25 |
Dr. Tommy Wright |
Probability Sampling Concepts & Overview at the Census Bureau |
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09:30-10:00 |
Dr. Yves Thibaudeau |
Imputation Methods used by the Demographic, Decennial, Economic Areas |
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10:05-10:35 |
Dr. Matthew Christenson |
The Official Post-Census 2000 Population Estimates for the Municipios of PR: The Traditional Demographic Formula in the Context of Regression Estimation Techniques |
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10:35-10:50 |
David Waddington |
Small area income and poverty estimates(SAIPE) overview |
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10:50-11:20 |
Dr. William Bell |
Bayesian treatment of small area models for SAIPE state estimates |
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11:55-12:05 |
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Wrap-up: Question and ansers |
14:00-17:00 Introduction to Bayesian Methods. (UPR-Rio Piedras)
Chair: D. Reetz
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14:00 - 15:30 |
Prof J.M Bernardo |
Informacia Bayesiana Objectiva: Ananlisis de Referencia |
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15:45 - 17:15 |
Prof P. Green |
MCMC computation for Bayesian analysis |
JULY 23 TO JULY 26: MAIN MEETING
Wednesday, July 23
17:30 每 19:30 Reception (Rector House. UPR-Rio Piedras campus)
Thursday, July 24
Place: Hotel Intercontinental
09:30 - 10:00 Opening Ceremony
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09:30 每 09:45 |
Dr. Manuel Gomez (Director of Resources Center, Science and Engineering, UPR) |
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09:45 每 10:00 |
Dr. Brad Weiner (Dean of School Natural Sciences) |
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (C.B)
10:30 - 12:00 Overview Lecture 1
Chair: James Berger
Topic: Causal-Graphical Modeling
Speaker: Steffen Lauritzen
Title: Graphical models for causal inference
12:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00 Overview Lecture 2
Chair: Alicia Carriquiry
Topic: Spatial Statistics
Speaker: Peter Green
Title: Spatial processes and statistical modeling
16:00 - 16:30 C.B.
16:30 - 18:00 Overview Lecture 3
Chair: Elias Moreno
Topic: Analysis of Extremes
Speaker: Richard Smith
Title: Statistics of extremes, with applications in environmental science, insurance and finance.
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner
21:00 - 23:00 Poster Session
Friday, July 25
Place: Hotel Intercontinental
09:00 - 10:30
Salon 1: Topic: Spatial Statistics
Chair: Peter Green
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09:00 每 09:45 |
Brad Carlin |
Covariate-adjusted spatial and spatio-temporal CDF modeling, with application to air pollutant data |
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09:45 每 10:30 |
Jon Wakefield |
Spatial Modeling and the Ecological Fallacy |
Salon 2: Topic: Analysis of extremes
Chair: Richard Smith
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09:00 每 09:45 |
Sidney Resnick |
The Extremal Dependence Measure and Asymptotic Independence |
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09:45 每 10:15 |
Holger Rootzen |
Extreme value models for pitting corrosion |
10:30 - 10:45 C.B.
10:45 - 12:15
Salon 1: Topic: Spatial Statistics
Chair: Brad Carlin
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10:45 每 11:30 |
Montserrat Fuentes |
Bayesian entropy of spatial design of nonstationary air monitoring networks |
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11:30 每 12:15 |
Doug Nychka |
A filtering problem for forecasting the weather |
Salon 2: Topic: Causal-Graphical Modeling
Chair: Steffen Lauritzen
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10:45 每 11:30 |
Juni Palmgren |
Strategies for handling intermediate variables in the causal pathway from exposure to disease |
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11:30 每 12:15 |
Joseph Charles Whittaker |
Graphical models for components. |
12:15 - 15:45 Lunch Break
15:45 - 17:15
Salon 1: Topic: Analysis of extremes
Chair: Sidney Resnick
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15:45 每 16:30 |
Beatriz Mendes |
Assessing investment risk |
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16:30 - 17:15 |
Jan Beirlant |
Extreme value methods in insurance |
Salon 2: Topic: Causal-Graphical Modeling
Chair: Juni Palmgreen
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15:45 - 16:30 |
Vanessa Didelez |
Graphical models and the causal analysis of longitudinal data |
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16:30 - 17:15 |
Michael Eichler |
Grange causality and graphical time series model |
17:15 - 17:30 C.B.
17:30 - 19:00
Salon 1: Topic: Analysis of extremes
Chair: Beatriz Mendes
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17:30 每 18:15 |
Andrea Tancredi |
Accounting for threshold uncertainty in extreme value theory |
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18:15 每 19:00 |
A. C. Davison |
A mixture model for multivariate extremes |
Salon 2: Topic: Spatial Statistics
Chair: Doug Nychka
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17:30 每 18:15 |
M.J Bayarri |
Spatial statistics for validation of complex computer models |
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18:15 每 19:00 |
Arnoldo Frigessi |
Spatial localization of GSM mobile phones |
19:00 - 21:00 Beach Party
Saturday, July 26
Place: Hotel Intercontinental
09:00 - 10:30
Salon 1: Topic: Causal-Graphical Modeling
Chair: Joseph Whittaker
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09:00 每 09:45 |
Stephen Fienberg |
Bayesian Thinking About Causation: Can We Really Measure Discrimination? |
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09:45 每 10:30 |
Peter Spirtes |
Causal Inference in graphical models |
Salon 2: Topic: Analysis of extremes
Chair: A.C. Davison
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09:00 每 09:45 |
Stuart Coles |
Modelling Sea-Level Extremes |
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09:45 每 10:30 |
Luis Pericchi |
A case for a reassessment of the risk of extreme hydrological hazards in the Caribbean |
10:30 - 10:45 C.B.
10:45- 12:15
Salon 1: Topic: Causal-Graphical Modeling
Chair: Peter Spirtes
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10:45 每 11:30 |
Mathis Drton |
A New Algorithm for Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Gaussian Graphical Models for Marginal Independence |
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11:30 每 12:15 |
Edward Vytlacil |
Non parametric instrumental variables |
Salon 2: Topic: Spatial Statistics
Chair: Arnoldo Fregessi
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10:45 每 11:30 |
Rasmus Waagepeterson |
Bayesian analysis for spatial Poisson-log Gaussian models |
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11:30 每 12:15 |
Adrian Baddeley |
Diagnostics for Spatial Point Processes |
12:15 每 13:45 Lunch break
13:45 每 19:00 Excursion to Barcadi Rum Plant and Old San Juan
19:00 每 21:00 Farewell dinner in Old San Juan (Not included in registration)
(Overview talks are plenary and will be delivered by the organizer of each topic. These will last 1 hour, followed by 30＊ for floor discussion. Each of the six sessions is a parallel session with two legs. Each individual session has two talks about 35＊, followed by 10＊ for floor discussion. There will be total of eight talks for each topics.)
JULY 27: SATELLITE MEETING
Sunday, July 27
Satellite Meeting on Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Hotel Intercontinental, Isla Verde, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Bioinformatics and Biostatistics: Current Problems and Solutions.
A Satellite meeting on Bioinformatics and Biostatistcs will be held on Sunday, July 27 (from 9:00 to 4:30 pm)
The invited talks are:
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NAME |
AFFILIATION |
TITLE OF THE CONFERENCE |
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8:15 |
John Ambrossiano |
Los Alamos National Laboratories |
The Challenge of Reverse Engineering Dynamical Models in Systems Biology. |
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9:15 |
Nick Patterson |
Whitehead Institute, Massachusets Institute of Technology |
Statistical Issues in admixture mapping for disease. |
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10:15 |
Rafael Irizarry |
John Hopkins University |
Getting usable data from Microarrays: The role of Statisticians. |
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11:15 |
Oscar Moreno |
University of Puerto Rico, R赤o Piedras |
Reverse Engineering of Genetic Networks Including Clustering and Error Correction. |
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12:15 |
Manuel G車mez |
University of Puerto Rico CRCI |
Importance of Bioinformatics in the Biotechnology initiative of the University of Puerto Rico. |
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12:30 |
LUNCH |
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2:00 |
Mar赤a Gloria Dom赤nguez |
University of Puerto Rico, R赤o Piedras |
Phylogenetic Trees: a Biostatystical Approach. |
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2:20 |
Mar赤a A. Aviñ車 |
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey |
Dynamical Systems over different finite fields. |
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2:40 |
Luis R. Pericchi |
University of Puerto Rico, R赤o Piedras |
On the Applications of Objective Bayesian Model Selection in Statistical Analysis of Gene Expression Data and Phylogenetics. |
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3:00 |
Jaime Ram赤rez Vick |
University of Puerto Rico, Mayag邦ez |
Bioinformatics Management System to Integrate and Federate Heterogeneous Biological Databases. |
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3:20 |
Humberto Ortiz |
University of Puerto Rico, R赤o Piedras |
Gene Regulation Networks in Rat Emotional Learning. |
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3:40 |
Edusmildo Orozco |
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez |
Parallel Algorithmic Approach to the Reverse Engineering Problem. |
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