From jsalch@stat.rice.edu Mon Mar 21 17:48:43 1997 Status: RO X-Status: Received: from pearson.stat.rice.edu (pearson.stat.rice.edu [128.42.16.37]) by stat.rice.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA17614 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:48:43 -0600 (CST) Received: (from scottdw@localhost) by pearson.stat.rice.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA05202 for jsalch; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:48:42 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:48:42 -0600 (CST) From: David Scott Message-Id: <199703212348.RAA05202@pearson.stat.rice.edu> To: jsalch@pearson.stat.rice.edu Subject: two new files for interface97 Content-Type: X-sun-attachment ---------- X-Sun-Data-Type: text X-Sun-Data-Description: text X-Sun-Data-Name: text X-Sun-Charset: us-ascii X-Sun-Content-Lines: 15 John, I have updated the invited paper file; I have also made a flat file containing the contributed papers. Dump the "Contributed/Invited Paper Guidelines" button, and push down the others to make a new one called "Contributed Paper Program" just under the invited button. Perhaps you can pop these in tomorrow. Thanks! Dr. Scott ---------- X-Sun-Data-Type: default X-Sun-Data-Description: default X-Sun-Data-Name: master.list.html X-Sun-Charset: us-ascii X-Sun-Content-Lines: 329 INVITED PROGRAM PRELIMINARY LIST March 21, 1997 (last updated) March 3, 1997 (previous update) 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. (DATES AND SPEAKER ORDER TO BE DETERMINED LATER THIS MONTH) (THE NUMBERING SYSTEM IS ARBITRARY AND NOT CONSECUTIVE) (PLEASE SEND ANY ERRORS TO scottdw@rice.edu) 1. KEYNOTE ADDRESS Jerry Friedman "Data Mining and Statistics: What's the Connection?" 2. Plenary Address (luncheons) Thursday Bruce Nelson Cisco Friday TBA 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" 4. "Educational Issues and Examples" 1. Sandy Weisberg and Dennis Cook "Graphs in Statistical Data Analysis: Is the Medium the Message?" 2. R.W. Oldford "Hubs and Signposts: Incremental implementation of statistical strategy" 3. Adrian Bowman "Technology in the Teaching and Learning of Statistics" 6. "Neural Nets and Pattern Recognition" 1. John Elder "Fusing Diverse Algorithms" 2. Brian Ripley "Can Statistical Theory Help Us Use Neural Nets Better?" 3. Hastie "Polychotomus Classifiers and PACTS" 7. "New Directions for Statistical Packages/Environments" 1. John Sall "The Theme of 'Context" in Design Patterns for Statistics Software" 2. Leland Wilkinson and Laszlo Engelman "Adaptive Sampling for Smoothing Moderately Large Datasets" 3. Cleve Moler, Chairman and Chief Scientist, MathWorks "Matrix -- The Mother of all Data Structures" 8. "Visualization: Applications and Environments" Organizer/Session Chair: Sally C. Morton 1. Linda Clark, William S. Cleveland, Lorraine Denby (*), and Chuanhai Liu "Analyzing Complex Data Sets: Visualization and Modeling" 2. Steve Bankes "Visualizing Multi-Dimensional Spaces of Models" 3. Dan Rope "A Java Graphics Production Class Library" 10. "Massive Data Sets in an Industrial Setting and Finance" 1. Peter Rousseeuw "Applications of Positive-Breakdown Methods" 2. Richard A. Becker and Allan R. Wilks "War Stories from the Data Trenches" 3. R. Douglas Martin "Robust Statistics and Data Mining In Finance and Financial Engineering" 12. "Linking Software for Environmental and Spatial Data Sets" 1. Jerry Whittaker and David Scott "Applications of the Averaged Shifted Histogram in Environmental Economics" 2. Dan Carr, Tony Olsen, and Ann Carbonell "Linking Statistical Summaries and Maps: An Approach to Understanding Massive Spatial Data Sets" 3. Juergen Symanzik, Thomas Koetter, Swetlana Schmelzer, Sigbert Klinke, Dianne Cook, Debby Swayne "Spatial Data Analysis in the Dynamically Linked ArcView/XGobi/XploRe Environment" 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" 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) 16. "Computational Environmental Geostatistics" Organizers: Dennis Cox and Katherine Ensor 1. Don Myers 2. Steve Rathbun "Geostatistical Methods for Estimating the Total Mass of Mercury in the Waters of the Florida Everglades" 3. David A. Andrews & Dennis D. Cox "Statistical Modeling of Vector-Valued Spatial Data using Gradient Processes" 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" 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. TBN 19. "Dimension Reduction and Projection Pursuit" 1. Mark Marson and David Scott "Dimension Reduction Via Kernel Bias Decomposition" 2. Guy Nason "Functional Projection Pursuit" 3. Carey Priebe "Approximate Distance Clustering" 20. "Computational Biochemistry" Organizer: George Phillips 1. George Phillips "Computer Models of Proteins in Action" 2. TBN 3. TBN 21. "Business Data Mining: Methodological Viewpoints" Organizer: 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" 22. "Business Data Mining: Application Views" Organizer: 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" 23. "Bayesian Methods" 3 1. David M. Higdon "A process-convolution approach for spatial modeling" 2. Luke Tierney "Some Adaptive Monte Carlo Methods for Bayesian Inference" 3. Sid Chib "Analysis of High Frequency Data by Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods" 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" 25. "Numerical Methods for Large Problems" 1. Richard Tapia "Interior-Point Methods: New Algorithmic Methodology for Large-Scale Inequality Constrained Optimization" 2. Art Owen "Numerical integration in infinite and other high dimensions" 3. Bill Symes "Software and Algorithms for Estimation Problems in Reflection Seismology" 26. "Software for Data Mining and Data Warehousing" 1. Mario Schkolnick, SGI "TBA" 2. TBN 3. TBN 27. "Hardware Architectures and Networks to Support Data Mining Applications" Organizer: Willy Zwaenepoel 1. Alan Cox, Rice University 2. Arcot Rajasekar, San Diego Supercomputer Center (joint with Chaitan Baru, Richard Frost, Richard Marciano, Reagan Moore, Mike Wan) "MDAS- A Massive Data Analysis System" 3. TBN 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?" 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) 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" 32. "Math/Stat Massive Information Retrieval" Organizer: 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" 33. TBN 1. Siddartha Dalal, Susan Dumais, Jon Kettenring(*), Verghese Kurien, Allen McIntosh, Ranjan Maitra "Massive Data Sets, Data Mining, and Decision Support: Challenges and Experiences" 37. "Smoothing" 1. Jeff Simonoff "Three Sides of Smoothing: Categorical Data Smoothing, Nonparametric Regression, and Density Estimation" 2. Michael D. Lock, Douglas Haney, and Michael E. Tarter "Using Weighted, Smooth Quantile Estimates to Establish Medical Normal Ranges" 3. Lasse Holmstrom "The Error and the Computational Complexity of a Multivariate Binned Kernel Density Estimator" 38. "Imaging" 1. Wendy Poston, Thomas Holland, and Edward Wegman "Ultrasonic Imaging of Cast Ductile Iron Projectiles" 2. Ranjan Maitra "Synthetic Resampling Methods for Variability Estimation in Functional Images" 3. Jeff Solka, "Application of Statistical Visualization Techniques to SAR Derived Feature Sets" 39. "Sampling" 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. TBN 40. "Medical" 1. William M. Sallas and Jerry R. Nedelman "Selection of Covariates for Population Pharmacokineic Models" 2. Terry Therneau "Cox Models for Subsampled Data" 3. Babette A. Brumback and John A. Rice -- 2/13 yes "Smoothing Spline Models for Stratified Longitudinal Data" ---------- X-Sun-Data-Type: default X-Sun-Data-Description: default X-Sun-Data-Name: master.list.contrib.html X-Sun-Charset: us-ascii X-Sun-Content-Lines: 152 Last Updated: 3-21-97 CONTRIBUTED TALKS: (To be scheduled later this month.) 1. Michael Trosset 12/30 Rice University "Applications of Multidimensional Scaling to Molecular Conformation" 2. Jason Bond and George Michailidis 10/25 UCLA "A Software Package for Interactive Correspondence Analysis" 3. John E. Hinkle 11/26 GE Capital Mortgage Co "Reciptrocal Curves" 4. Todd Ogden 1/28 South Carolina TBA: On wavelet application 5. Gary D. Tasker, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 2/3 "Estimating Magnitude and Frequency of Flood Peaks at Ungaged Site Using Regression" 6. Jorge L. Romeu, SUNY Cortland 2/4 "Further Monte Carlo Investigations of a Model for Non Gaussian Radar Clutter Generation" 7. Martin Theus and Heike Hofmann 2/5 "Selection Sequences --- Interactive Analysis of Massive Data Sets" U. Augsburg 8. Danielle MIHRAM, USC & G. Arthur MIHRAM, Princeton 2/8 "On Rules For Conducting Statistically Analyzable Experiments with Seeds for Stochastic Simulation Models." 9. William C. Wojciechowski & E. James Harner, Stat& CS, W.Virginia U. 2/12 "Learning Statistical Concepts using Web-based Dynamic Graphics" 10. E. James Harner & William C. Wojciechowski, Stat& CS, W.Virginia U. 2/12 "A Web-enhanced Introductory Statistics Course" 11. Moved to sess 23 12. Jeffrey L. Solka & David J. Marchette, Naval Surface Warfare Center 2/13 "A New Data Driven Mixture Estimator for Spatially Dependent Observations" 13. Mark Farmen, Ohio State University 3/1 "A Smoothed Bootstrap Adaptive Density Estimator via The Fast Gauss Transform" 14. CANCELED 3/13 15. Aaron Aragaki & Naomi Altman (*), Cornell University 2/14 "Local Polynomial Regression for Binary Response" 16. Jose A. Lozano(*) & Pedro Larranaga, U Basque Country, San Sebastian,Spain 2/15 "Genetic Algorithms Applied to Partitional and Pyramidal Clustering" 17. CANCELED 2/15 18. Pedro Larranaga, Basilio Sierra, Ramon Etxeberria, Jose A. Lozano(*), U Basque Country, San Sebastian,Spain 2/15 "Triangulation, Structure Learning and Fusion of Bayesian networks by Genetic Algorithms" 19. Virginia Torczon & Michael W. Trosset, William & Mary/Rice U 2/17 "From Evolutionary Operation to Parallel Direct Search: Pattern Search gorithms for Numerical Optimization" 20. Rafiq I. Chowdhury, M. Ataharul Islam, M.A. Shah, Syed A. Mohsin 2/24 Kuwait University, Kuwait and others "Estimation of Multistate Survival Model" 21. Marina Vannucci and Fabio Corradi, U. Kent 2/24 "Some Findings on the Covariance Structure of Wavelet Coefficients: Theory and Models in a Bayesian Perspective" 22. Philip J. Brown, Marina Vannucci(*), and Tom Fearn 2/24 "Multivariate Bayesian variable selection and prediction" 23. Karen Kafadar & Markus Emsermann, U of Colorado-Denver 2/27 "The Effects of Non-Gaussian Noise and Different Boundary Rules on Two-Dimensional Linear and Nonlinear Smoothers" 24. Charles B. Roosen, MathSoft, Inc., Seattle, WA 2/28 "Bootstrapping for the Masses: User-Friendly Bootstrapping in S-PLUS" 25. Jose G. Ramirez & Isabel S. Llatas(*), Digital Semiconductors, Hudson, Ma 3/2 "Upper confidence bounds for Soft Error Rates in Integrated Circuits" 26. Robert Oehmke, Janis Hardwick(*), Quentin F. Stout, U Michigan 3/2 "A Parallel Program for 3-Arm Bandits" 27. Peter F. Thall, Kathy E. Russell and Richard M. Simon. M.D. Anderson 3/3 "Variable Selection in Regression Via Repeated Data Splitting" 28. Stephen Gulyas (*), Elizabeth Slate, and Bruce Turnbull, Cornell 3-4 "Fitting Latent Changepoint Models for Serial Biomarkers Using the EM Algorithm" 29. Sam Efromovich, University of New Mexico "Wavelet Estimation Based On Quasi-Linear Approximation" 30. C. Shane Reese, Texas A&M University 3/4 "Computing Cook's Distance for Nonlinear Regression in S-Plus" 31. Adalbert F.X. Wilhelm, U. Augsburg, Germany (George Mason visitor) 3/4 "Generalised Linking as a Means of Analysing Complex Data Sets" 32. J. Jack Lee, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center 3/5 "Applications of Spatial Statistics to the Quantitative Analysis of Genetic Instability in Carcinogenesis" 33. R. Webster West and R. Todd Ogden, U. South Carolina 3/5 "WebStat: An Environment for Statistical Analysis on the World Wide Web" 34. Donald R. Jensen and Donald E. Ramirez, VPI 3/5 OVERHEAD PROJ "Detecting Outliers in Statistical Data using Cook's D Statistic" 35. Joseph Ladalla, uis.edu 3/5 "Asymptotic Analysis in Bayesian Inference" 36. Anatoly A. Naumov, Novosibirsk State Technical University,Russia 3/5 "Robust Design of Experiments and Information Set of Experimenting" 37. Ken Hung and David Cheng, Western Washington U/Nat'l Dong Hwa U 3/11 "An Empirical Study on the Investment Risk of Taiwanese Stock Market" 38. W.D. Kaigh and E.F. Schuster (*) UT El Paso "Testing Partial Homogeneity for Multinomial Proportions" 39. Trong Wu, Southern Illinois University 3/11 "An Accurate Computation of the Gamma Distribution Function" 40. Dan Steinberg, San Diego State University 3/7 Richard Carson, UC San Diego Leo Breiman, UC "Missing value imputation with iterated binary Recursive Partitioning" 3/7 41. Mithat G\"{o}nen, Applied Logic Associates, Houston "Posterior Intervals for Random Effects Using the Griddy Gibbs Sampler" 42. Peter Hall and Berwin A. Turlach(*), ANU 3/8 "Bagging in the Presence of Outliers" 43. Humberto Vaquera, Colegio de Posgraduados, Mexico 3/10 Jose A. Villasenor, Colegio de Posgraduados, Mexico Janet Hughes, Tulane University "The use of threshold statistical methods for detecting long-term trends in urban ozone levels" 44. Mary C. Meyer, U Michigan 3/11 "An Extension of the Mixed Primal-Dual Bases Algorithm to the Case of More Constraints than Dimensions, with Applications to Nonparametric Shape Constrained Problems in Regression, Maximum Likelihood Density Estimation, and the Bioassay Problem" 45. George R. Terrell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute 3/11 "Gibbs Sampling for Estimating Linear Models for Ranks" 46. Aparna V. Huzurbazar, Dept. of Statistics, Univ of New Mexico 3/12 "Computational Aspects of Data Analysis using Flowgraph Methods" 47. David M. Rocke, UC Davis 3/7 "Partitioning and Subsampling to Uncover Subtle Structure in Massive Data Sets" 48. Michael C. Minnotte, Utah State University 3/10 David J. Marchette, NSWC Edward J. Wegman, George Mason "The Bumpy Road to the Mode Forest" 49. S. Huzurbazar & Canan Bilen, University of Wyoming 3/13 "Detection of Additive Outliers in Time Series data using Wavelets" 50. William D. Shannon, Washington U School of Medicine David Banks, Carnegie Mellon University "An MLE Strategy for Combining CART Models 51. Padraic G. Neville, SAS Institute, Inc. 3/14 "Evaluating Decision Trees Using Trade-offs" 52. Peter C. Wollan, Biostatistics Section, Mayo Clinic 3/14 "O'Brien's Extended t-test for Paired Observations" 53. Mark Fitzgerald, Los Alamos National Laboratory 3/14 "An Interactive Graphical Tool for Exploring Sequential Dependencies in Categorical Data" 54. Bradley C. Wallet, Naval Surface Warfare Center & GMU David J. Marchette, Naval Surface Warfare Center Edward J. Wegman, Center for Computational Statistics, George Mason U "Cooperative Coevolutionary Subspace Pursuit" 55. Alan Carle and Mike Fagan (*), Rice University A/V overhead "Derivatives of Fortran Programs, Automatically"