Statistics 50th Anniversary Talks
Below are the talks presented at our anniversary (see
Complete Program and Amstat News article). Please respect the authors and properly cite work if you use this material.
A videotape of George Box's talk is being prepared. In addition, a collection of photographs is being organized and will be displayed in the near future. If you wish to add material to our anniversary collection, please email 50th@stat.wisc.edu. As always, monetary contributions to the department fund are greatly appreciated.
Thursday, 3 June 2010
8:30 Invited Session 1
Chair, Andrew Jaworski, 3M
- George Box, Emeritus, University of WI-Madison
- An Accidental Statistician
- Finbarr O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland
- Statistical Aspects of Imaging Cellular Proliferation
with Positron Emission Tomography
- Lee-Jen Wei, Harvard School of Public Health
- Association vs. Prediction
10:30 Invited Session 2
Chair, Richard Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Bin Yu, University of California-Berkeley
- Sparse modeling: some unifying theory and "word-imaging"
- Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Kriging and Alternatives in Computer Experiments
- Dennis K.J. Lin, Penn State University
- Recent Advances on Computer Experiments
1:15 Invited Session 3
Chair, Nancy Gracia, IMECC/UNICAMP
- George Tiao, University of Chicago
- Early Years of the Statistics Department
- Michael Akritas, Penn State University
- On Goodness-of-Fit Testing
- George Roussas, University of California-Davis
- Probability and Statistics Throughout the Centuries:
A Brief Account
3:15 Invited Session 4
Chair, Bruce Craig, Purdue University
- Anastasios A. Tsiatis, North Carolina State Univ.
- Improving efficiency of inferences in randomized
clinical trials using auxiliary covariates
- R. Daniel Meyer, Pfizer, Inc.
- Statistical Models to Optimize Chemical Structure
- Douglas Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
- There is lots of room left in Hilbert Space
5:00 Reception Pyle Center: Roof Top Terrace
6:00 Banquet Pyle Center
- Stephen Stigler, University of Chicago
- Wisconsin at Age 50
Friday, 4 June 2010
8:30 Invited Session 5
Chair, Sung Ahn, Washington State University
- Donald Rubin, Harvard University
- The Crucial Role of Design for Causal Inference
- Alan Agresti, University of Florida
- Some historical highlights in the development of
categorical data methodology
9:45 Break
10:15 Invited Session 6
Chair, Yoonkyung Lee, Ohio State University
- Wing H. Wong, Stanford University
- Optional Polya Tree and Bayesian Inference
- Michael R. Kosorok, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Personalized Medicine and Clinical Trials
- Ronald Brookmeyer, University of California-Los Angeles
- Measuring the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Approaches and
Challenges
Last modified: Mon Jul 12 08:47:23 CDT 2010