Richard Tweedie: Invited Papers 1974-1981 (while at CSIRO) Invited Speaker, 6th Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1976. Invited Lecturer, First Tuusula Summer School in Probability, Helsinki, Finland, June, 1976. Invited Discussant, 42nd Session of the ISI, Manila, December 1979. Visiting Professor, Third Interim Session on Probability and Statistics, Colorado State University, January 1981. 1982-1987 (while at SIROMATH) Invited Speaker, 1982 Australian Applied Mathematics Conference, Bundanoon. Invited Speaker, 1983 Australian Applied Mathematics Conference, Perth. Invited Speaker, 1985 Conference of the Australian Operations Research Society, Adelaide. Invited Speaker on Statistical Methods in Total Quality Control, Australia for Quality Executive Symposia, Sydney-Melbourne-Adelaide-Brisbane, October 1985. Knibbs Lecturer, Statistical Society of Australia, Canberra, November 1985. Invited Speaker, DATA86, Sydney, May 1986. Invited Speaker, Statistical Society Symposium on Small-Area Forecasting, Brisbane, July 1986. Presidential Address, Statistical Society of Australia, Adelaide, August 1986. 1988-1991 (while at Bond University) Invited Speaker, Arthur Andersen Business Seminar for Academics, "Bond University and Its Influence on Higher Education in Australia," Melbourne, February 1988. Invited Speaker, Toshiba, Product Presentation "Coping with the Information Explosion," Sydney, 18 February 1988; Brisbane, 23 February 1988, Melbourne, 25 February 1988. Invited Speaker, Australian Institute of Management, "The Information Explosion in Business," Gold Coast, March 1988. Invited Speaker, Total Quality Management Institute, "Statistics and Measurement in TQM," Burnham Beeches, November 1987, Bowral, May 1988. Invited Speaker, Bond University Distinguished Lecture Series, "Educatingthe Students of the Gold Coast," Gold Coast, July 1988. Artist in Residence, Somerset College, Gold Coast, August 1988. Invited Speaker, Butler Cox Conference, "I. T. Opportunities," Gold Coast, December 1988. Invited Speaker, Bond Technologies Conference, "TQM&IT," Gold Coast, February 1989. Invited Speaker, Australian Computer Society Annual Conference (Queensland Branch), "Survival in the 90's: The Need for a Wider Interpretation of Business Analysis," Gold Coast, April 1989. Invited Speaker, Shaping Organizations Shaping Technology Conference (SOST), "Shaping Tomorrow's University," May 1989. Keynote Speaker, International Accounting Seminar, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, August 1989. Invited Speaker, ANZ Forensic Science Society, "The Use and Abuse of Statistical Expert Evidence," 27 September 1989. Invited Speaker, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Applied Probability in Science and Engineering, "Stability Conditions for Continuous Time Processes," New Orleans, 5-7 March 1990. Invited Speaker, ANU Workshop on Stochastic Models, "The links between sampled and continuous time processes" and "Foster-Lyapunov criteria for stability of continuous time processes," 13-17 May 1990. 1991-1999 (while at Colorado State University) Invited Speaker, Conference on the 50th Anniversary of Doeblin's Death: "The Doeblin Decomposition," Ulm, 5-10 November 1991. Invited Speaker, Teletra, Conference, "Conditions for Ergodicity of Continuous Time Markov Processes," Boca Raton, March 1992. Invited speaker, TIMS/ORSA Conference, "State-Dependent Ergodicity Conditions for Markov Chains," Helsinki, 29 June - 2 July 1992. Plenary Speaker, 11th Australian Statistics Conference, "The Stability of Markov Chains and Processes," Perth, 6-10 July 1992. Invited Speaker, Stochastic Processes Meeting, "Applications of the Ergodic Structure of Markov Chains and Processes," Montreal, November 1992. Invited Speaker, CDC and ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods, "Meta-analysis approaches to dose-response relationships, with application in studies of lung cancer and passive smoking," Atlanta, Georgia, January 1993. Invited Speaker, 31st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication Control and Computing, "Computable convergence rates and geometric ergodicity for Markovian queueing systems," Allerton, Illinois, September 1993. Invited Speaker, Workshop on Stability and Geometric Ergodicity, "Sub-geometric convergence of Markov chains," Leiden Holland, April 1994. Invited Speaker, IMS Workshop on MCMC, "Convergence of Hastings-Metropolis algorithms," Mt Holyoke, July 1994. Invited Speaker, Meeting on Markov chains and Markov decision processes, "Rates of convergence of MCMC algorithms," Oberwolfach Germany, November 1994. Invited Speaker, International Meeting on Lifestyle Factors and Lung Cancer in Humans, "Bayesian meta-analysis, with application to studies of ETS and lung cancer," Guangzhou China, December 1994. Invited Speaker, Conference on Applied Probability and Time Series Analysis, "Explicit rates of convergence of stochastically ordered Markov chains," Athens Greece, April 1995. Invited Speaker, Research Seminar on Meta-analysis and Combing Informatjon, "Graphical methods in meta-analysis" and "Inference for random effects models in meta-analysis," Sydney Australia, May 1995. Invited Speaker, Workshop on Stability and Geometric Ergodicity, "Convergence of Markov chains with applications in MCMC and MDP models," Adelaide Australia, June 1995. Keynote Speaker, INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, "Stability of Markov chains and processes," Atlanta GA, July 1995. Invited Speaker, Peter Ney Birthday Meeting, "Convergence of Langevin models in Markov chain Monte Carlo," Madison USA, July 1995. Invited Speaker, IMS/WNAR Regional Meeting, "Consulting to the Tax Office," Pullman, WA USA, June 1996. Invited Speaker, Sydney International Statistical Congress, ``Diffusion Models in Markov chain Monte Carlo,'' Sydney Australia, July 1996. Invited Speaker, Network Analysis Symposium, "Convergence rates in networks and queues," Sydney Australia, July 1996. Invited Speaker, INFORMS Applied Probablity Section, "Perfect and Imperfect Sampling," Boston, July 1997. Invited Speaker, 51st Session of the ISI, "Problems and Solutions in Meta-Analysis," Istanbul, August 1997. Invited Speaker, INFORMS Applied Probability Section, "MCMC and Perfect Sampling," Dallas, October 1997. Invited Lecturer, Istituto per le Applicazioni della Matematica e dell'Informatica, "Fundamentals of Markov Chains and MCMC (ten lectures)," Milan, Italy, September 1997. Invited Speaker, Spatial and Computational Statistics Workshop, "Langevin Algorithms," Aussois, January 1998. Invited Speaker, Pacific Northwest Statistics Meeting, "Trim and Fill: A Simple Funnel Plot Based Method of Adjusting for the Effect of Publication Bias in Meta-analysis," Seattle, April 1998. Invited Lecturer, "Markov Chains and MCMC" (ten lectures, joint with Gareth Roberts), Kastel de Berckt Meetins, Holland, June 1998. Invited Speaker, ICOTS-5, "The Role of Societies in Statistical Education," Singapore, June 1998. Keynote Speaker, Warwick Randomised Algorithms and Stochastic Simulation Tutorials and Workshop, "Stability of Markov Chains" and "Perfect Sampling of Harris Chains," Warwick England August 1998. Invited Speaker, 1998 Joint Statistical Meetings, "Perfect and Imperfect Sampling," Dallas TX, August 1998. 1999- (while at University of Minnesota) President's Invited Speaker, 52nd Session of the ISI, ``Publication Bias in Meta-analysis,'' Helsinki, August 1999. Invited Speaker, 946th AMS Meeting, ``Langevin diffusions and their role in MCMC,'' Salt Lake City, September 1999. Invited Speaker, Canadian Statistics Society Meeting, ``Drift Conditions and Markov Chains,'' Ottawa, June 2000. Invited Speaker, First European Meeting on Spatial and Computational Statistics, ``Perfect Sampling: Some Implementations,'' Ambleside, UK, September 2000 Invited Speaker, 38th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, ``Perfect Sampling and Queueing Systems,'' Champaigne-Urbana, October 2000