All activities will be in H.F. DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID) (Street Address: 330 N. Orchard, Madison 53715 check campus map)
Madison airport: Dane County regional airport (airport code: MSN) Street Address: 4000 International Lane Madison, WI 53704
Close International Airport: Chicago O'Hare International Airport (airport code: ORD) Street Address: 10000 W O'Hare Ave, Chicago, IL 60666
There is shuttle bus between O'Hare International Airport and Madison campus (about 4 blocks from the bus stop to hotels)
Wisconsin Union Hotel University of Wisconsin-Madison (in Union South cross street from WID) Street Address: 1308 W. Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53715 Phone: (608) 263-2600
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Madison
Lot 20 (University Avenue Ramp) Lot 17 (Engineering Ramp) Lot 80 (Union South Garage)
Monday, June 1, 2015
8:00-9:00 Registration and Refreshment
Welcome Session: Chair Yazhen Wang
9:00-9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks by Brad Schwartz, CEO Morgridge Institute for Research
Session 1: Chair Grace Wahba
9:15-10:00 Peter Bickel University of California at Berkeley
Fitting Block Models and Approximating General Exchangeable Models
10:00-10:45 Tony Cai University of Pennsylvania
Confidence Intervals for High-Dimensional Linear Regression: Minimaxity and Adaptability
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
Session 2: Chair Bruce Hansen
11:15-12:00 Xiaohong Chen Yale University
Optimal Sup-norm Rates, Adaptivity and Inference in Nonparametric Instrumental Variables Regression
12:00-1:30 Lunch(catering)
Session 3: Chair Ming Yuan
1:30-2:15 Richard Samworth Cambridge University
Random Projection Ensemble Classification
2:15-3:00 Harrison Zhou Yale University
Achieving Optimal Misclassification Proportion in Stochastic Block Model
3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
Session 4: Chair Karl Rohe
3:15-4:00 Dennis Cook University of Minnesota
Envelopes: Methods for Improving Efficiency in Multivariate Statistics
4:00-4:45 Xuming He University of Michigan
Bivariate Quantile and Statistical Downscaling for Climate Projections
5:00-5:45 Poster Session Preparation
6:00-7:00 Conference Banquet
7:00-8:30 Poster Session
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
8:30-9:00 Refreshment
Session 5: Chair Christina Kendziorski
9:00-9:45 Brad Carlin University of Minnesota
Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trial Methods for Incorporating Auxiliary Data and Identifying Interesting Subgroups, with Application to Orphan Diseases
9:45-10:30 Samuel Kou Havard University
Fast Analysis of Dynamic Systems via Gaussian Emulator
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
Session 6: Chair Chunming Zhang
10:45-11:30 Boaz Nadler Weizmann Institute of Science
Unsupervised Ranking and Ensemble Learning
11:30-12:15 Rebecca Willett University of Wisconsin-Madison
Minimax Rates for Poisson Compressed Sensing
12:15-1:30 Lunch(catering)
Session 7: Chair Michael Newton
1:30-2:15 Jianqing Fan Princeton University
TAC for General Sparse Learning: Simultaneous Control of Algorithmic Complexity and Statistical Error
2:15-3:00 Richard Davis Columbia University
Theory and Inference for a Class of Nonlinear Models with Application to Time Series of Counts
3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
Session 8: Chair Sunduz Keles
3:15-4:00 Cun-Hui Zhang University of Rutgers
Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test for Normal Means
4:00-4:45 Johannes Schmidt-Hieber University of Leiden
Frequentist Properties of the Posterior for High-Dimensional Regression