IMS New Researchers Conference Program
July 28th - July 31st, 2009
Arrival July 27th
2:00--4:00pm Check into Charles Commons
3301 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218
Scientific Sessions will take place in Maryland Hall 110
This can be located on the campus map
Schedule July 28th -- Maryland Hall 110
- 8:00-8:45 Breakfast at Nolan's Cafe
- 8:45-9:00 Introductory Remarks
- 9:00-10:20 Scientific Session on Spatial-temporal data
- Farouk Nathoo, University of Victoria
Joint Spatial Modelling of Recurrent Infection and Growth with Processes Under Intermittent Observation
- Jing Zhang, Miami University
Zero-inflated Bayesian spatial models with repeated measurements
- Pál Rakonczai, Eötvöos Loránd University, Hungary
Modeling Multivariate Extremes for Wind Speed Data
- Debashis Mondal, University of Chicago
De Wijs Process and Modeling Disease Risk
- Guilherme Rocha, Indiana University
Monitoring Civil Structures Using Restricted Auto Regressive Models and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)
- 10:20-10:40 Break
- 10:40-12:00 Scientific Session on Spatial-temporal data
- Lily Wang, University of Georgia
Spline-Backfitted Kernel Smoothing of Additive Models in Time Series
- Jin-Hong Park, College of Charleston
Central Mean Subspace in Time Series
- Peng Zhang, University of Alberta
Joint Mean-covariance Modeling with Nonlinear Random Mean Models for Longitudinal Data Analysis
- Rongning Wu, Baruch College
A Negative Binomial Model for Time Series of Counts
- Olu Awosoga, Western Michigan University
Meta Analyses of Multiple Baseline Time Series Design Intervention Models for Dependent and Independent Series
- 12:00-1:45 Lunch at Nolan's Cafe
- 1:45-2:50 Scientific Session on Bayesian Inference
- Kshitij Deepak Khare and Bala Rajaratnam, Stanford University
Inference in Gaussian Covariance Graph Models
- Weixin Yao, Kansas State University
Bayesian Mixture Labeling by Highest Posterior Density
- James Flegal, University of California, Riverside
Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Can We Trust the Third Significant Figure?
- 2:50-3:15 Break
- 3:15-4:30 Tweedie Award Speaker
Jiashun Jin, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
Higher Criticism Thresholding: Optimal Feature Selection when Useful Features are Rare and Weak
- 5:00-- ? Social outing in Baltimore -- take the Hopkins shuttle bus to Peabody
Restaurants in Mt Vernon:
Schedule July 29th -- Maryland Hall 110
- 8:00-8:45 Breakfast at Nolan's Cafe
- 8:45-9:00 Introductory Remarks
- 9:00-10:20 Scientific Session on Experimental Design
- Tirthankar Dasgupta, Harvard University
D-Optimal and Sequential Designs for Estimating Parameters of the Linear-Exponential Growth Curve of Nanowires
- Ying Hung, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments with Branching and Nested Factors
- Edgard Maboudou-Tchao, University of Central Florida
Some Theoretical properties of the Multivariate Exponentially Weighted Moving Covariance Matrix
- Vincent Agboto, Meharry Medical College
A Bayesian Approach to Model Robust Designs
- Jingchen Liu, Columbia University
Statistics Can Lie But Can Also Correct for Lies: Reducing Response Bias in NLAAS via Bayesian Imputation
- 10:20-10:40 Break
- 10:40-11:45 Scientific Session on Count Data
- ChengYong Tang, National University of Singapore
Local Post-Stratification in Dual System Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation for US Census
- Wanhua Su, University of Alberta
Statistical Inference on Recall, Precision and Average Precision
- Hyokyoung Hong, Baruch College
Prediction of Conditional Quantiles Based on a New Ordinal Regression Model
- Xiaofeng Wang, Case Western Reserve University
Spatial models for replicated regional count data in neuroscience
- 12:00-1:30 Lunch at Nolan's Cafe
- 1:30-2:35 Scientific Session on Model Selection
- Sonja Greven, Johns Hopkins University
On the Behavior of Marginal and Conditional Akaike Information Criteria in Linear Mixed Models
- Qin Wang, University of Georgia
Sufficient Dimension Reduction and Variable Selection: A Localized Approach
- Julia Salzman, Stanford University
Detecting Multivariate Dependencies in High Dimensional Data
- Hugh Miller, University of Melbourne
Local polynomial regression incorporating variable selection
- 2:35-3:00 Break
- 3:00--4:00 Mentoring Panel
- 5:00--7:30 Dinner Banquet with Speaker Karen Bandeen-Roche, "Latent Variables and Your Future"
Salon C in Charles Commons
NIH/NCI schedule July 30th -- NIH campus
- 6:45-7:00 Board the Broadway Shuttle bus in front of Charles Commons
- 7:00-8:00 Commute to Bethesda
- 8:00-8:30 Arrive at NIH, pass through security (everyone will require a driver's license or passport)
- 8:30-8:45 Coffee and Breakfast
- 8:45-9:00 Introduction by Nilanjan Chatterjee, Chief of the DCEG Biostatistics Branch
- 9:00-9:50 Scientific Session on Biostatistics
- Chiung-Yu Huang, Mathematical Statistician, Biostatistics Research Branch, NIAID, NIH
Analysis for recurrent event data with informative censoring
- Ju Hyun Park, Visiting Fellow, Biostatistics Branch, DCEG, NCI
Evaluation of power and & Risk prediction utility of future genome-wide association studies
- 9:50-10:10 Break
- 10:10-11:15
- Hormuzd Katki, Tenure-Track P.I., Biostatistics Branch, DCEG, NCI
Insights into p-values and Bayes Factors from False Positive and False Negative Bayes Factors
- Norou Diawara, Old Dominion University
Mixture of Bivariate Exponential Distributions
- Rajeshwari Sundaram, Tenure Track PI, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch, DESPR, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Statistical challenges in modeling human fecundity
- 11:15-12:00 NIH Branch Chief Panel:
- 1. Paul Albert, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch, NICHD
- 2. Eric (Rocky) Feuer, Statistical Research and Applications Branch, NCI
- 3. Gang Zheng, Office of Biostatistics Research, NHLBI
- 4. Edward Korn, Biometric Research Branch, NCI
- 12:00-1:30 Lunch with Speaker Kai Yu, Tenure-Track Principal Investigator, Biostatistics Branch, DCEG, NCI, "Statistical Challenges in Gene Mapping"
- 1:40-2:45 Scientific Session on Statistical Genetics
- Huilin Li, Research fellow, DCEG, NCI
Finding SNP Associations with a Secondary Phenotype in Genetic Association Studies
- Dawei Liu, University of Iowa
Estimation and Testing for the Effect of a Genetic Pathway on a Disease Outcome Using Logistic Kernel Machine Regression via Logistic Mixed Models
- Jason Wilson, Biola University
Evidence that Oligonucleotide Expression Values Are Not Normally Distributed
- Arabin Kumar Dey, IIT Kanpur
Discriminating between two Bivariate Survival Models: Bivariate Weibull and Bivariate Generalized Exponential distribution
- 2:45-3:10 Break
- 3:10-4:00
- Samsiddhi Bhattacharjee, Research Fellow, Biostatistics Branch, DCEG, NCI
Robust Detection of Gene-Gene Interactions in Presence of Hidden Stratification.
- Nak-Kyeong Kim, Old Dominion University
Finding Sequence Motifs with Bayesian Models Incorporating Positional Information
- Qunhua Li, University of California, Berkeley
Measuring the consistency of high-throughput biological experiments
- 4:00-4:45 Panel of NIH Grant Agencies
- 1. Michelle Dunn, Statistican Research and Applications Branch, NCI: "Grant Opportunities for New Researchers"
- 2. Misrak Gezmu, Biostatistics Research Branch, NIAID: "NIH grant mechanisms and funding process"
- 5:00-? Head to downtown Bethesda for dinner
Schedule July 31st -- Maryland Hall 110
- 8:00-8:45 Breakfast at Nolan's Cafe
- 8:45-9:00 Introductory Remarks
- 9:00-10:05 Scientific Session 9
- Jiguo Cao, Simon Fraser Univeristy
Statistical Inference for Dynamic models with the Generalized Profiling Method
- Zi Jin, University of Toronto
Efficiency of Composite Likelihoods
- Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University
Bootstrap in some Non-standard Problems
- Yuefeng Wu, North Carolina State University
Posterior Consistency for some Semi-parametric Problems
- 10:05-10:25 Break
- 10:25-11:45 Scientific Session 10
- Ahmad Yasamin, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
On Existence of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Gaussian Graphical Models
- Yanping Xia, Southeast Missouri State University
Generalized Variable Approach for Correlation Analysis
- Jason Morton, Stanford University
Algebraic Models for Multilinear Dependence
- David King, Arizona State University
Topics in Functional Canonical Correlation
- Andrada Ivanescu, East Carolina University
Adaptive Inference for Sparse Signals in Functional Data
- 12:00-2:00 Lunch Banquet with Speaker Nanny Wermuth, "The development of graphical Markov models: some history and some personal experiences."
Salon B in Charles Commons
- 2:00-3:30 Journal Panel -- Maryland Hall 110
Bernard Silverman - Annals of Statistics ed., Thomas Louis - Biometrics ed.