INVITED PROGRAM WITH TIMESCHEDULE

FINAL LIST              April  4, 1997
                	April  1, 1997 (last updated)
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SCHEDULE:  Conference registration begins on Wednesday afternoon.
The first official conference event is a Wednesday evening mixer.
Technical sessions will be held on Thursday and Friday from
8:15 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. and from 8:15 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
An exhibition hall will be open during those hours.

	(PLEASE CHECK THE PROGRAM FOR ANY ERRORS OR CONFLICTS)
	(INDIVIDUAL SESSION NUMBERS HAVE NO SPECIAL MEANING)
	(PLEASE SEND ANY ERRORS TO scottdw@rice.edu)

WEDNESDAY  May 14, 1997

Registration and Evening Mixer

THURSDAY   May 15, 1997

T-A1 8:15 - 9:45

    1.  KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Welcome, Opening, President Malcolm Gillis)
	Jerry Friedman, Stanford University
	"Data Mining and Statistics:  What's the Connection?"

T-A2 10:15 - 12:00

   24. "Uncertainty Analysis for Computer Modeling Systems"
	Organizer:  Al Liebetrau, Battelle Labs Northwest

		1. Albert M. Liebetrau, Guang Chen, Feng Gao, PNNL
		   "Uncertainty Analysis for Computer Modeling Systems"
		2. Michael D. McKay and John D. Morrison, LANL
		   "Structural Model Uncertainty in Stochastic
		    Simulation Models"
		3. Jim Koehler, UCol.Denver
		   "Estimating the Response, Derivatives and Transmitted
		    Variance using Computer Experiments"

    7.  "New Directions for Statistical Packages/Environments"
		1. John Sall, SAS
			"The Theme of 'Context" in Design
			 Patterns for Statistics Software"
		2. Cleve Moler, Chairman and Chief Scientist, MathWorks
			"Matrix -- The Mother of all Data Structures"
		3. Leland Wilkinson and Laszlo Engelman, SPSS
			"Adaptive Sampling for Smoothing Moderately
			 Large Datasets"

   16.  "Computational Environmental Geostatistics"
	Organizers:  Dennis Cox and Katherine Ensor

		1. Don Myers, U. Arizona
		        TBA
		2. Steve Rathbun, U. Georgia
			"Geostatistical Methods for Estimating the Total
			 Mass of Mercury in the Waters of the Florida
			 Everglades"
		3. David A. Andrews & Dennis D. Cox, Rice University
			"Statistical Modeling of Vector-Valued Spatial
			 Data using Gradient Processes"

T-Lunch 12:15 - 1:00   (Box lunch furnished; courtesy of SAS, Inc)

    2.  Plenary Address (luncheons)

		Bruce Nelson, Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Systems
			"The User's View on Technology Trends"


T-P1 1:30 - 3:15

   25.  "Numerical Methods for Large Problems"
		1. Richard Tapia, Rice University
			"Interior-Point Methods:  New Algorithmic
			 Methodology for Large-Scale Inequality
			 Constrained Optimization"
		2. Bill Symes, Rice University
			"Software and Algorithms for Estimation Problems
			in Reflection Seismology"
		3. Art Owen, Stanford University
			"Numerical integration in infinite
			 and other high dimensions"

    4.  "Educational Issues and Examples"
		1. Sandy Weisberg and Dennis Cook, U. Minnesota
			"Graphs in Statistical Data Analysis:  Is the
			 Medium the Message?"
		2. Adrian Bowman, University of Glasgow
			"Technology in the Teaching and Learning of Statistics"
		3. R.W. Oldford, University of Waterloo
			"Hubs and Signposts: Incremental implementation
			 of statistical strategy"

   21.  "Business Data Mining:  Methodological Viewpoints"
	Organizer/Chair:  Clark R. Abrahams, NationsBank Consumer Credit Policy

		1.  Kenneth L. Reed and John Gins, HyperParallel
			"A Systems Approach to Knowledge Discovery"
		2.  Troy Haines, Amer Management Systems
			"The Importance of Preprocessing in Data Mining"
		3.  Jim Sattler, Saber Consulting Services
			"Operational Data Considerations in Data Mining"

T-P2 3:45 - 5:30

    8.  "Visualization:  Applications and Environments"
	Organizer/Session Chair:  Sally C. Morton, RAND Corp

		1.  Linda Clark, William S. Cleveland, Lorraine Denby (*),
				and Chuanhai Liu, AT&T Bell Labs
			"Analyzing Complex Data Sets:  Visualization
			 and Modeling"
		2.  Steve Bankes, RAND Corp
			"Visualizing Multi-Dimensional Spaces of Models"
		3.  Dan Rope, Bureau of Labor Statistics
			"A Java Graphics Production Class Library"

   26.  "Software for Data Mining and Data Warehousing"
		Organizer:  Willy Zwaenepoel and Tony Elam, Rice University
		1.  Mario Schkolnick, SGI
			"Mineset"
		2.  Alan Cox, Rice University
			"Treadmarks"
		3.  David Wolpert, IBM
			TBA

   40.  "Topics in Biomathematics and Biostatistics"
		1. Terry Therneau
			"Cox Models for Subsampled Data"
		2.  Babette A. Brumback and John A. Rice -- 2/13 yes
			"Smoothing Spline Models for Stratified
			 Longitudinal Data"
		3. William M. Sallas and Jerry R. Nedelman
			"Selection of Covariates for Population
			 Pharmacokineic Models"

BANQUET -- 6:30 - 10:30

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FRIDAY   May 16, 1997

F-A1 8:15 - 10:00

   18.  "Wavelets and Image Processing"
		1. Andrew Bruce, Sylvain Sardy, and Paul Tseng
			"Alternative to	the Basis Pursuit
			 Algorithm for Wavelet Denoising"
		2. C. Sidney Burrus and Jan E. Odegard
			"Generalized Coiflets, A New Wavelet
			 System for DSP"
		3. Richard Baraniuk, Rice University

    3.  "Virtual Reality and Data Analysis"
		1. Ed Wegman
			"Immersive Methods for Exploratory Analysis"
		2. Dianne Cook, Laura Nelson, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Juergen
		   Symanzik, Anthony Olsen, Sue Pierson, and Noel Cressie
			"Exploring Associations Among Mid-Atlantic Stream
			 Indicators Using Dynamic Multivariate Graphics and
			 Geographic Mapping In A Highly Immersive Virtual
			 Reality Environment"
		3. A.J. Rossini and R.W. West
			"Virtual Reality as a Tool for Statistical Research"

   30.  "Semi-Parametric Modeling - State of the Art and Computational Issues"
	Organizer:  Michael Schimek  (with discussions)
		1.  Marlene Mueller
			"Computer--assisted Semiparametric Generalized
			 Linear Models" (Disc:  Joan Staniswalis)
		2.  Joan Staniswalis, Peter F. Thall, John Salch 
			"Semiparametric Regression Analysis for
			 Recurrent Event Interval Counts" (Disc: Randy Eubank)
		3.  Robert Kohn and Mike Smith
			"A Bayesian Approach to Bivariate Nonparametric
			 Regression"  (Disc: Michael Schimek/Knorr-Held)

F-A2 10:30 - 12:15

   17.  "Computing Issues in Environmental Statistics"
	Organizer:  Peter Guttorp
		1. T.J. Moore and Tim Nyerges
			"Uncovering Uncertainties and Mining Meanings
			 with Geographic Information Systems for
			 Collaborative Risk Evaluation"
		2. Wendy Meiring, Peter Guttorp, and Paul Sampson
			"Computational Issues in Fitting Spatial Deformation
			 Models for Heterogeneous Spatial Correlation"
		3. Doug Nychka and Nancy Saltzman
			"Design and Evaluation of Networks
			   for Monitoring Air Quality"

   32.	"Math/Stat Massive Information Retrieval"
	Organizer/Chair:  Jim Maar

		1. Michael W. Berry
			"Intelligent Information Management using
			 Latent Semantic Indexing"
		2. Samuel Kaski
			"Statistical Aspects of the WEBSOM System
			 in Organizing Document Collections"
		3. Jan Pedersen
			"Document Routing and Filtering:  Experiments
			 in the Application of Classification
			 to Textual Documents"

   38.  "Imaging"
		1. Wendy Poston, Thomas Holland, and Edward Wegman, NSWC/GMU
			"Ultrasonic Imaging of Cast Ductile Iron Projectiles"
		2. J.L. Solka, G.W. Rogers, and W.L. Poston, NSWC
			"Application of Statistical Visualization Techniques
			 to SAR Derived Feature Sets"
		3. Ranjan Maitra
			"Synthetic Resampling Methods for Variability
			 Estimation in Functional Images"

F-Lunch 12:30 - 1:15   (Box lunch furnished; courtesy of VNI, Inc)

    2.  Plenary Addresses (luncheons)

           1. "Computational Biochemistry"

		George Phillips, Rice University
			"Computer Models of Proteins in Action"

	   2.  "Grand Challenges and Massive Data Sets"

	         Siddartha Dalal, Susan Dumais, Jon Kettenring(*),
		   Verghese Kurien, Allen McIntosh, Ranjan Maitra
			"Massive Data Sets, Data Mining, and Decision
			 Support:  Challenges and Experiences"

F-P1 1:30 - 3:15

   19.  "Dimension Reduction and Projection Pursuit"
		1. Guy Nason 
			"Functional Projection Pursuit"
		2. Carey Priebe
			"Approximate Distance Clustering"
		3. Mark Marson and David Scott
			"Dimension Reduction Via Kernel Bias Decomposition"

   22.   "Business Data Mining:  Application Views"
	Organizer/Chair:  Clark R. Abrahams, NationsBank Consumer Credit Policy

		1.  Michael Berry and Gordon Linoff, MRJ Technology Solutions
			"Business Data Mining in Practice"
		2.  Marc Goodman, Continuum Software Inc
			"Data Mining for Simulation in a
			 Process-Control Domain"
		3.  Robert Singer, CMS
			"Strategic Integration:  Utilizing Data Mining to
			 Create Intelligent Customer Communication Programs"

   31.  "Statistics and Statisticians in the 21st Century"
	Organizer: Arnie Goodman

		1.  Emanuel Parzen
			"Statisticians!  Plan Your Future With History"
		2.  Anne Petersen
		3.  Arnie Goodman
			"Career Insurance for the 21st Century"

   39.  "Sampling and Time Series"
		1. David F. Findley and Bor-Chung Chen
			"Novel Methods and Features in the Census Bureau's
			 X-12-ARIMA Seasonal Adjustment Program"
		2. Vicki Lancaster and Sallie Keller-McNulty
			"The Use of Weighing Designs and Inverse Theory
			 on Composite Sampling Problems"
		3. Rong Chen and Thomas B. Fomby, Texas A&M University & SMU
			"Forecasting with Stable Seasonal Pattern Models with
			 an Application of Hawaiian Tourist Data"

F-P2 3:45 - 5:30

   15.  "National Research Center on Statistics and the Environment"
	Organizer: Peter Guttorp

		1. Peter Guttorp
			"NRCES: The University of Washington Vision"
		2. Larry Cox
		3. Abdel El-Shaarawi (Discussant)

   29.  "Virtual Departments"
	Organizer:  Jan deLeeuw
		1.  Balasubramanian Narasimhan
			"How To Set It Up"
		2.  Jan deLeeuw
			"What Is There In Teaching?"
		3.  Tony Rossini
			"What Is There In Research?"

   27. "Hardware Architectures and Networks to Support Data Mining Applications"
	      Organizer:  Tony Elam and David Scott
		1. Arcot Rajasekar, San Diego Supercomputer Center
			(joint with Chaitan Baru, Richard Frost,
			 Richard Marciano, Reagan Moore, Mike Wan)
			"MDAS- A Massive Data Analysis System"
		2.  Robert Hollebeek, U. Pennsylvania
			"Data Engines for Large Scale Mining"
		3.  Denise Moreau -- Baylor College of Medicine
			TBA

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SATURDAY   May 17, 1997

S-A1 8:15 - 10:00

   13.  "Highlights of JCGS"
	Organizer: Bill Kennedy
	Session Chair:  Sallie Keller-McNulty

		1. David Marchette and Ed Wegman
			"Finding Modes with the Filtered Kernel Estimator"
		2. Michael O'Connell and Russell Wolfinger
			"Flexible Response Surface Methods via Spatial
			Regression and EBLUPS"
		3. Russell Almond and David Madigan
			"Visual Explanation Tools for Graphical Models"

   10. "Massive Data Sets in an Industrial Setting and Finance"
		1. R. Douglas Martin
			"Robust Statistics and Data Mining In Finance
			 and Financial Engineering"
		2. Peter Rousseeuw
			"Applications of Positive-Breakdown Methods"
		3. Richard A. Becker and Allan R. Wilks
			"War Stories from the Data Trenches"

   37.   "Smoothing"
		1. Jeff Simonoff
			"Three Sides of Smoothing:  Categorical Data Smoothing,
			 Nonparametric Regression, and Density Estimation"
		2.  Lasse Holmstrom
			"The Error and the Computational Complexity of
			 a Multivariate Binned Kernel Density Estimator"
		3.  Michael D. Lock, Douglas Haney, and Michael E. Tarter
			"Using Weighted, Smooth Quantile Estimates to
			 Establish Medical Normal Ranges"
S-A2 10:30 - 12:15

   23.  "Bayesian Methods"
		1. Sid Chib
			"Analysis of High Frequency Data by
			 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods"
		2. Luke Tierney
			"Some Adaptive Monte Carlo Methods
			 for Bayesian Inference"
		3. David M. Higdon
			"A process-convolution approach for spatial modeling"

    6.  "Neural Nets and Pattern Recognition"
		1. Trevor Hastie
			"Polychotomus Classifiers and PACTS"
		2. John Elder
			"Fusing Diverse Algorithms"
		3. Brian Ripley
			"Can Statistical Theory Help Us
			 Use Neural Nets Better?"

   12.  "Linking Software for Environmental and Spatial Data Sets"
		1. Dan Carr, Tony Olsen, and Ann Carbonell
			"Linking Statistical Summaries and Maps:  An
			 Approach to Understanding Massive Spatial Data Sets"
		2.  Juergen Symanzik, Thomas Koetter, Swetlana Schmelzer, 
		     Sigbert Klinke, Dianne Cook, Debby Swayne
			"Spatial Data Analysis in the Dynamically Linked
			 ArcView/XGobi/XploRe Environment"
		3. Jerry Whittaker and David Scott
			"Applications of the Averaged Shifted Histogram
			in Environmental Economics"