PROGRAM INFORMATION

March 21, 1997 (last updated)

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS (Please advise of errors)

Organizer:

	David W. Scott


Program Committee:

	David W. Scott, Rice University
	Wendy Poston, NSWC
	Steve Marron, UNC Chapel Hill
	Joan Staniswalis, UT El Paso
	Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie-Mellon

Keynote Speaker:

	John Hartigan, Yale University
		"Looking for Modes --- An Overview"

Other Leaders/Speakers:

	Hans-Georg Mueller, UC Davis
		"The Emergence of Non-Smoothness"

Invited Speakers:

	Adrian Bowman, U. of Glasgow (joint with M.C. Jones and I. Gijbels)
		"Testing Monotonicity of Regression"
	Ming-Yen Cheng, ANU
		TBA
	Olga Cordero-Brana, American University
                TBA
	Mark Farmen, Ohio State University (joint with J. Fan)
		"Local Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference"
	John Hartigan, Yale University
		"Mode-lets"
	Nancy Heckman, British Columbia
		"Bump Hunting Using Model-Based Penalized Least Squares"
	Alfred Lin(*), Catherine A. Sugar(*), Stanford University
	             (joint work with Richard A. Olshen)
		"Medical Applications of Cluster Analysis"
	David Marchette, Naval Surface Warfare Center
		"Visualizing Structure With Trees and Forests"
	Marianthi Markatou, Columbia University
		TBA
	Steve Marron, UNC Chapel Hill, (joint with P. Chaudhuri)
		"Structure Exploration in Smoothing and 
		 Scale Space Theory from Computer Vision"
	Michael Minnotte, Utah State University
		"Local Testing of Mode Existence"
	Todd Ogden, South Carolina
		"Singularity Detection and Estimation Using Wavelets"
	Wolfgang Polonik, Heidelberg, Germany
		"Using Level Set Estimators in Statistical Analysis"
	Steve Sain, Southern Methodist University
		TBA
	Bill Schucany, Southern Methodist University (joint with Pat Gerard)
		"Using local polynomials to identify jumps, troughs,
		 and shoulders: An application to cold tolerance
		 features of plants"
	Jeff Solka, Naval Surface Warfare Center
		"Techniques for Mixture Structure Analysis
		 Using Adaptive Mixtures Density Estimation"
	Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve
		"Bump Hunting Problems:  A New Test"
	George Terrell (joint work with Donggeon Kim)
		"Least-Squares Mixture Decomposition"
	Frederic Udina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
			(joint work with Enno Mammen and Steve Marron)
		"Interactive Mode Testing"
	Yazhen Wang, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia:
		 "Rough Function Estimation via Wavelets"


Other Participants: (preliminary list)

	Pat Gerard, Mississippi State University (co-author Schucany)
	Emanuel Parzen, Texas A&M
	William Szewczyk, DOD
	Berwin Turlach, ANU
	Ed Wegman, George Mason University