March 12, 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: Ming-Yen Cheng, ANU 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" 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" 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" Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve "Bump Hunting Problems: A New Test" George Terrell (joint work with Donggeon Kim) "Least-Squares Mixture Decomposition" Other Invited Participants: (preliminary list) Pat Gerard, Mississippi State University (co-author Schucany) Emanuel Parzen, Texas A&M Berwin Turlach, ANU Frederic Udina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Ed Wegman, George Mason
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