DIMACS Workshop on Complex Datasets and Inverse Problems:
Tomography, Networks, and Beyond
A Conference in Memory of Yehuda Vardi
October 21 - 22, 2005
Lecture Hall 1/F, CoRE Bldg, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
- Organizers:
- Regina Liu, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, rliu@stat.rutgers.edu
- Bill Strawderman, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, straw@stat.rutgers.edu
- Cun-Hui Zhang, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, czhang@stat.rutgers.edu
This conference is co-sponsored by NSF, NISS, DIMACS and Rutgers University.
Workshop Program:
Friday, October 21, 2005
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks
9:15 - 9:55 Deconvolution by simulation
Colin Mallows, Avaya Labs
9:55 - 10:35 Using Data Network Metrics with Graphics on the
Topology to Explore Network Characteristics
Akshay Adhikari, Lorraine Denby, Jim Landwehr, and Jean Meloche,
Data Analysis Research Dept, Avaya Labs
10:35 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:40 Estimating Large Covariance Matrices
Peter Bickel, University of California, Berkeley
11:40 - 12:20 Shape Restricted Regression with Random Bernstein
Polynomials and Applications
Chao A. Hsiung, Chi-Chung Wen, Yuh-Jenn Wu and I-Shou Chang,
National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
12:20 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:40 A Restricted Minimax Determination Of the Initial Sample
Joon Sang Lee and Michael Woodroofe, The University of Michigan
2:40 - 3:20 Some Recent Developments in the Theory of Fractional Factorial Design
Ching-Shui Cheng, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and University of California, Berkeley
3:20 - 3:50 Break
3:50 - 4:30 Overview of Automatic Face Recognition
Jonathon Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology
4:30 - 5:10 Some Network Tomography and Species Problems
Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers Unviersity
6:00 - 8:00 Dinner
Saturday, October 22, 2005
8:45 - 9:15 Breakfast
9:15 - 9:55 Recent Development in Active Network Tomography
Vijay Nair, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
9:55 - 10:35 Network Tomography
Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley
10:35 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:40 Nonparametric specifications tests for diffusions
models in financial econometrics
Jianqing Fan, Princeton University
11:40 - 12:20 Analysis of Panel Duration Models with Fixed Effects
Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University
12:20 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:40 Gaussian Measure and Geometric Convexity
Rick Vitale, University of Connecticut
2:40 - 3:20 Yacov Ritov, Hebrew University
3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:25 Biased Sampling Problems with Applications to Cross-Sectional Data
Micha Mandel, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
4:25 - 5:05 Inference on multi-phase survival processes with incomplete data
Yosi Rinott, Hebrew University
5:05 - 5:45 Statistical Thinking: From Tukey to Vardi and Beyond
Larry Shepp, Rutgers University
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