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1st
IMS-ISBA joint
Statistical Meeting Topics, invited talks and schedule ﹛ |
Last Update: July 18, 2003
Topics |
Organizers |
Invited Speakers (Tentative) |
Causal-Graphical Modeling |
Steffen Lauritzen (Aalborg) |
Vanessa Didelez (University College London) |
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) |
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) |
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)
Time |
Presenter |
Title |
15:00-17:00 |
Jim Berger |
Foundations of Model Selection |
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)
Time |
Presenter |
Title |
09:30-11:30 |
Merlise Clyde |
Search and computation strategies on model selection |
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
Time |
Presenter |
Title |
08:45-09:25 |
Dr. Tommy Wright |
Probability Sampling Concepts & Overview at the Census Bureau |
09:30-10:00 |
Dr. Yves Thibaudeau |
Imputation Methods used by the Demographic, Decennial, Economic Areas |
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 |
10:35-10:50 |
David Waddington |
Small area income and poverty estimates(SAIPE) overview |
10:50-11:20 |
Dr. William Bell |
Bayesian treatment of small area models for SAIPE state estimates |
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
14:00 - 15:30 |
Prof J.M Bernardo |
Informacia Bayesiana Objectiva: Ananlisis de Referencia |
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
09:30 每 09:45 |
Dr. Manuel Gomez (Director of Resources Center, Science and Engineering, UPR) |
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
09:00 每 09:45 |
Brad Carlin |
Covariate-adjusted spatial and spatio-temporal CDF modeling, with application to air pollutant data |
09:45 每 10:30 |
Jon Wakefield |
Spatial Modeling and the Ecological Fallacy |
Salon 2: Topic: Analysis of extremes
Chair: Richard Smith
09:00 每 09:45 |
Sidney Resnick |
The Extremal Dependence Measure and Asymptotic Independence |
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
10:45 每 11:30 |
Montserrat Fuentes |
Bayesian entropy of spatial design of nonstationary air monitoring networks |
11:30 每 12:15 |
Doug Nychka |
A filtering problem for forecasting the weather |
Salon 2: Topic: Causal-Graphical Modeling
Chair: Steffen Lauritzen
10:45 每 11:30 |
Juni Palmgren |
Strategies for handling intermediate variables in the causal pathway from exposure to disease |
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
15:45 每 16:30 |
Beatriz Mendes |
Assessing investment risk |
16:30 - 17:15 |
Jan Beirlant |
Extreme value methods in insurance |
Salon 2: Topic: Causal-Graphical Modeling
Chair: Juni Palmgreen
15:45 - 16:30 |
Vanessa Didelez |
Graphical models and the causal analysis of longitudinal data |
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
17:30 每 18:15 |
Andrea Tancredi |
Accounting for threshold uncertainty in extreme value theory |
18:15 每 19:00 |
A. C. Davison |
A mixture model for multivariate extremes |
Salon 2: Topic: Spatial Statistics
Chair: Doug Nychka
17:30 每 18:15 |
M.J Bayarri |
Spatial statistics for validation of complex computer models |
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
09:00 每 09:45 |
Stephen Fienberg |
Bayesian Thinking About Causation: Can We Really Measure Discrimination? |
09:45 每 10:30 |
Peter Spirtes |
Causal Inference in graphical models |
Salon 2: Topic: Analysis of extremes
Chair: A.C. Davison
09:00 每 09:45 |
Stuart Coles |
Modelling Sea-Level Extremes |
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
10:45 每 11:30 |
Mathis Drton |
A New Algorithm for Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Gaussian Graphical Models for Marginal Independence |
11:30 每 12:15 |
Edward Vytlacil |
Non parametric instrumental variables |
Salon 2: Topic: Spatial Statistics
Chair: Arnoldo Fregessi
10:45 每 11:30 |
Rasmus Waagepeterson |
Bayesian analysis for spatial Poisson-log Gaussian models |
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:
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. |
9:15 |
Nick Patterson |
Whitehead Institute, Massachusets Institute of Technology |
Statistical Issues in admixture mapping for disease. |
10:15 |
Rafael Irizarry |
John Hopkins University |
Getting usable data from Microarrays: The role of Statisticians. |
11:15 |
Oscar Moreno |
University of Puerto Rico, R赤o Piedras |
Reverse Engineering of Genetic Networks Including Clustering and Error Correction. |
12:15 |
Manuel G車mez |
University of Puerto Rico CRCI |
Importance of Bioinformatics in the Biotechnology initiative of the University of Puerto Rico. |
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. |
2:20 |
Mar赤a A. Aviñ車 |
University of Puerto Rico, Cayey |
Dynamical Systems over different finite fields. |
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. |
3:00 |
Jaime Ram赤rez Vick |
University of Puerto Rico, Mayag邦ez |
Bioinformatics Management System to Integrate and Federate Heterogeneous Biological Databases. |
3:20 |
Humberto Ortiz |
University of Puerto Rico, R赤o Piedras |
Gene Regulation Networks in Rat Emotional Learning. |
3:40 |
Edusmildo Orozco |
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez |
Parallel Algorithmic Approach to the Reverse Engineering Problem. |
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