PROGRAM INFORMATION

April 21, 1997 (last updated)

4/3, 3/21 (previous updates)

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS (Please advise of any mistakes or omissions)

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
		"An Empirical Approach to Estimate Unimodal Density Functions"
        Shean-Tsong Chiu, Colorado State University
                "On the Practical Advantage of Higher Order Kernels"
	Olga Cordero-Brana, American University
		"Bayesian Restoration Maximization Algorithm for
		 Estimation in Mixture Models"
	Mark Farmen, Ohio State University (joint with J. Fan and I. Gijbels)
		"Local Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference"
	John Hartigan, Yale University
		"Modelets"
	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
		"Identification of Outliers and Clusters using
		 Weighted Likelihood Methodology"
	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
		"Wavelets in Bayesian Change-point Analysis"  new 4/21
	Wolfgang Polonik, Heidelberg, Germany
		"Using Level Set Estimators in Statistical Analysis"
	Brian Ripley, Oxford
	        "Mixtures in Supervised Classification"
	Steve Sain, Southern Methodist University
                "Exploring the Potential of Locally Adaptive
		 Density Estimation"
	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"


Short Talks

	Ernan Haruvy, University of Texas
		"Testing Modes in the Population Distribution
		 of Beliefs From Experimental Games"
	David W. Scott and W. Szewczyk, Rice and DoD, TBA

Other Participants: (growing list)

	Dennis Cox, Rice University
	James Garrett, Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems
	Pat Gerard, Mississippi State University (co-author Schucany)
	Birgit Grund, University of Minnesota
	Ernan Haruvy, Dept econ, UTexas haruvy@mundo.eco.utexas.edu
	Lasse Holmstrom, University of Helsinki
	Atsuyuki Kogure, Chiba University
	Michael Lock, Becton Dickinson
	Kevin Lynch, U of Pittsburgh
	Judy Palmer, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
	Emanuel Parzen, Texas A&M
	Carey Priebe, Johns Hopkins University
	John Salch, Rice University
	Michael Schimek, Graz, Austria
	William Szewczyk, DOD
	Michael Trosset, U. Arizona
	Berwin Turlach, ANU
	Bradley C. Wallet, NSWC
	Ed Wegman, George Mason University


Young Researchers:

        David Andrews, Rice University
        Nancy Glenn, Rice University
	Pat King, Rice University
	Chad Shaw, Rice University
	John Venier, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
	
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Note:  Kathryn Roeder, one of our able organizers, cannot
       attend due to other commitments.  Thanks for all
       your help.