2011 International Research Symposium
on Frontiers of Statistics

 July 13-18, 2011, Hefei, China
MGB2
Huangshan


Keynote speaker:    David Siegmund, (Member of the US National Academy of Sciences), Stanford  University.
                              Title: False Discovery Rates and Related Analyses of Scan Statistics.

Plenary speakers:   Jianqing Fan, Princeton University.
                                Title: Large Covariance Matrix Estimation in Approximate Factor Models

                             Peter Bulhmann, ETH Zürich.
                               Title: High-dimensional statistical inference based on  observational and interventional data.
                              
                            David X. Li, CICC
                               Title: Statistical problems in credit risk modeling

                           Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania
                               Title: Limiting Laws of Coherence of Random Matrices with Applications to
                                       Compressed Sensing and Testing Covariance Structure

USTC
AnhuiU
Scientific Program Committee:
Jianqing Fan (Chair), Princeton University, USA
Xuming He, University of Michigan, USA
Heping Zhang, Yale University, USA
Chunming Zhang, University of Wisconsin, USA
Min Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Organizing Committee:
Zhengjun Zhang (co-chair), Unviersity of Wisconsin, USA
Yaohua Wu (co-chair), University of Sciences and Technology of China, China

Sponsors:
The Center for Statistical Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
The University of Sciences and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China.
Anhui University, Hefei, China.


Invited speakers:   Heping Zhang, Yale University
                                 Title: A Forest Approach to Identification of Genes and Gene-Environment Interactions
                                         for Complex Diseases
                            Chunming Zhang, University of Wisconsin
                                  Title: Regularized estimation of hemodynamic response function for fMRI data
                            Hongtu Zhu, University of North Carolina
                                  Title: Statistical analysis of symmetric positive definite matrices
                            Jiashun Jin, Carnegie Mellon University   
                                  Title: UPS delivers optimal phase diagram in variable selection
                            Yazhen Wang, University of Wisconsin   
                                  Title: Large Density Matrix Estimation in Quantum Simulation
                            Jun Shao, University of Wisconsin   
                                  Title: Estimation in High-Dimensional Linear Models With Deterministic Design Matrices
                            Jinchi Lv, University of Southern California   
                                  Title: Non-Concave Penalized Likelihood with NP-Dimensionality
                            Yingying Fan, University of Southern California   
                                  Title: Functional Additive Regression
                            Ming-Yen Cheng, National University of Taiwan   
                                  Title: Nonparametric tests for distribution specification in multiparameter local likelihood models
                            Jin-Ting Zhang, National University of Singapore   
                                  Title: F-type Tests for Linear Models with Functional Responses
                            Tao Yu, National University of Singapore   
                                  Title: Spatial Shrinkage Diffusion Tensor Estimation on Diffusion Weighted Imaging Data
                            Zhengjun Zhang, University of Wisconsin   
                                 
Title: Tackling Extremes in High Dimensionality and Temporality
                            Yingying Li, Hong Kong University of Sci. & Tech   
                                 
Title: On the Estimation of Integrated Covariance Matrices of High Dimensional Diffusion Processes
                             Runze Li, Pennsylvania State University   

                                  Title:
Feature Screening via Distance Correlation Learning
                            Yichao Wu, North Carolina State University   
                                 
Title: Continuously Additive Models for Functional Regression Analysis
                            Tingting Zhang, University of Virginia   
                                 
Title: Nonparametric Inference of Hemodynamic Response for fMRI data with Inhomogeneous
                                          Variances through Kernel Smoothing
                            Feifang Hu, University of Virginia   
                                 
Title: Clinical Trial Designs for Personalized (Future) Medicine
                            Zhaohui Qin, Emory University   
                                 
Title: Bayesian model-based methods for analyzing RNA-Seq data

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