Important Dates

Programs and Schedules

Call for Contributed Papers

Local Information

Registration and Hotel Forms

Organizers

IMPORTANT DATES for IMS session organizers and speakers

• Nov 1 - nomination for a Student Award is due

• Nov 15 - abstracts (contributed and invited) due to ENAR online (IMS presenters check the IMS box under "Scheduling") -- there is NO LONGER the need to submit abstracts to both ENAR and IMS as it was last year.

• Dec 1 - applications for Workshop on Junior Researcher s is due

• Jan/Feb - final program available

• Feb 10 - cutoff date for early bird registration fee

• Feb 22 - cutoff date for hotel registration

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PROGRAM

• IMS Special Invited Papers Session (1)
• IMS Invited Papers Sessions (8)
• IMS Contributed Papers Sessions (2)
• ENAR Sessions Co-sponsored by IMS (3)

• ENAR Sessions
• Sections of ASA Sessions

• IMS Abstracts and Session Schedules

IMS SPECIAL INVITED PAPER SESSION:
Chair/Introducer: Nozer D. Singpurwalla, George Washington University.

Speakers:	1. Rob Kass, Carnegie Mellon University
	Title: Bayesian Curve-Fitting and Neuron Firing Patterns:
	The Problem of Neural Coding From a Statistician's Perspective
	2. Robert L Wolpert, Duke University
	Title : L'evy Random Fields and Statistical Inverse Problems

IMS INVITED PAPER SESSIONS:

Session 1: Clustering and Mixture Modeling Applications
Organizer and Chair: David W. Scott, Rice University

Speakers:	1. Bruce Lindsay, Penn State University
	Co-author: Changxuan Mao, Penn State U.
	Title: Heterogeneity in population size models
	2. Carey Priebe, The Johns Hopkins University
	Title: Class Cover Catch Digraphs for Latent Class
	Discovery in Gene Expression Monitoring
	3. Guenther Walther, Stanford University
	Title: Mixture Analysis for Flow Cytometry
Discussant:	David Scott, Rice University

Session 2: Recent Advances in Dimension Reduction for Regression
Organizer: Dennis Cook, University of Minnesota
Chair: Efstathia Bura, George Washington University

Speakers:	1. Dennis Cook, University of Minnesota
	Title: Overview of Dimension Reduction Ideas and Methods for Regression
	2. Bing Li, Penn State University
	Title: Statistical Inference for the Central Mean Space
	3. Francesca Chiaromonte, Penn State University
	Title: Extending Dimension Reduction to Regressions with Categorical Predictors

Session 3: Semiparametric models in survival analysis
Organizer and Chair: Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University

Speakers:	1. Alex Tsodikov, University of Utah
	Title: A generalized self-consistency approach to semiparametric survival models
	2. Jason Fine, University of Wisconsin
	Title: Comparing non-nested Cox models
	3. Kani Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
	Title: Semiparametric analysis of transformation models

Session 4: Some Recent Developments and Applications of Random Partition Distributions
Organizer and Chair: Hemant Ishwaran, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Speakers:	1. Simon Tavare, University of Southern California
	Title: Poisson-Dirichlet approximations for random permutations:
	a tale of three couplings
	2. Fred M. Hoppe, McMaster University
	Title: Continuous time processes, Bayesian models, and partition structures
	3. Lancelot F. James, Johns Hopkins University
	Title: Random partition structures and Bayesian models

Session 5: Applications of Function Estimation
Organizer and Chair: Catherine Loader, Bell Lab, Lucent

Speakers:	1. Colin Wu, Johns Hopkins University
	Title: Covariate centering and scaling in varying-coefficient models
	with repeated measurements
	2. Lyndia C. Brumback and Mary J. Lindstrom, U of Wisconsin
	Title: Self-modeling with flexible, random time transformations
	3. Jianqing Fan and Run-Ze Li, UNC and Penn State U
	Title: Variable selection for Cox's proportional hazards model and frailty model

Session 6: Monte Carlo In Action
Organizer: Jun Liu, Harvard University
Chair: Scott Schmidler, Duke University
(ENAR co-sponsors this IMS session)

Speakers:	1. Rong Chen, The University of Illinois at Chicago
	Title: Advance Sequential Monte Carlo and their Applications
	in Nonlinear/Non-Gaussian Dynamic Systems
	2. John Huelsenbeck, University of Rochester
	Title: Bayesian inference of phylogeny using Markov chain Monte Carlo
	3. Matthew Stephens, University of Washington
	Title: The haplotyping problem - a Bayesian method

Session 7: New Software
Organizer and Chair: Heping Zhang, Yale University
Chair: Hongtu Zhu, Yale University

Speakers:	1. Catherine Loader, Bell Lab, Lucent
	Title: Simultaneous Confidence Bands
	2. Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve University
	Title: Interactive Projection Pursuit
	3. Charles Kooperberg, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle WA
	Co-author: Ingo Ruczinski, Johns Hopkins University
	Title: Logic Regression

Session 8: Statistics in Brain Mapping
Organizer: Keith Worsley, McGill University
Chair: Nidhan Choudhuri, Case Western Reserve University

Speakers:	1. Moo K. Chung, McGill University
	Title: Statistical morphometry in neuroanatomy
	2. Chris Genovese, Carnegie Mellon University
	Title: Bayesian analysis of fMRI time series
	3. Ziad S. Saad, NIMH
	Title: Estimating the Variability of BOLD-FMRI Response Delays

IMS CONTRIBUTED PAPERS SESSIONS

Session 1: Images, Genetics and Statistical Methodology
Chair: Jun Zhu, University of Wisconsin

Speakers:	1. Yi Li, Harvard School of Public Health
	Title: The Use of Frailty Hazard Models for Unrecognized Heterogeneity that Interacts with Treatment: Considerations of Efficiency and Power
	2. Vera L. Bulaevskaya, University of Minnesota
	Title: A Bayesian Approach to MRI Image Reconstruction
	3. Jorg Rahnenfuhrer, Nebraska Informatics Center for the Life Sciences
	Title: Robust Microarray Image Analysis Through Pixel Clustering
	4. Samuel S. Wu, University of Florida
	Title: A Multivalent Pairing Model of Linkage Analysis in Autotetraploids
	Title: A General Class of Models for Recurrent Events
	5. Song Yang, Texas Tech University
	Title: Combining Asymptotically Normal Tests
	2. John E Kolassa, Rutgers University
	Title: Small Sample Confidence Regions for Exponential Families

Session 2: Statistical Designs and Models
Chair: Song Yang, Texas Tec. U.

Speakers:	1. Samad Hedayat, University of Illinois at Chicago
	Title: Adding More Observations to Saturated D-optimal Resolution III Two-level Factorial Designs
	2. Heng Li, University of Rochester
	Title: Constrained Linear Group Symmetry Models
	3. Edsel A Pena, University of South Carolina, Columbia
	Title: A General Class of Models for Recurrent Events

Contributed Posters (will be combined with ENAR's)

Authors:	1. Jianwei Chen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	Title: Nonparametric Modeling of Auxiliary Covariate Data in the Generalized Linear Mixed Models

ENAR Sessions Co-sponsored by IMS

• Session 1: The Use of Hypolotyes in Genetic Epidemiology
  Organizer: Kathryn Roeder, CMU
  

• Session 2: Statistical Applications with Microarray Data
  Organizer: Wei Pan, University of Minnesota
  

• Session 3: Semiparametric Mixed Effects Regression Models
  Organizer: Paul Rathouz, University of Chicago
  

  See abstracts here -- start from the 2nd page

ENAR SESSIONS

• See ENAR Meetings Webpage

Section of ASA Sessions

• See ENAR Meetings Webpage

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ABSTRACTS

All contributed papers will be accepted. The IMS contributed abstract deadline i s November 15, 2001.

Regular contributed paper presentations are 15 minute presentations. The title of the contributed paper with speakers' names, affiliations, addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses along with the abstract must be submitted by November 15 to ENAR online (check IMS box there). You also need register for the conference when submitting your abstract. Abstracts must be less than 150 words.

Topic contributed sessions are welcome; the abstracts are subject to the same submission requirement and deadline. In addition, topic contributed session organizers must send the IMS contributed papers chair, Nidhan Choudhuri, the information of a session title, organizer and affiliation, and a list of speakers and their affiliations, by the same deadline. Topic contributed presentations can be 20 minutes presentations.

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REGISTRATION AND HOTEL FORMS

• Online Abstract Form    (**available until Nov. 15, 2001)

• Online Registration Form

• Downloadable Registration Form

• Hotel Reservation Form -- part of the Meeting Information Brochure from ENAR.

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All contributed papers will be accepted. The IMS contributed abstract deadline i s November 15, 2001.

Regular contributed paper presentations are 15 minute presentations. The title of the contributed paper with speakers' names, affiliations, addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses along with the abstract must be submitted by November 15 to ENAR online (check IMS box there). You also need register for the conf erence when submitting your abstract. Abstracts must be less than 150 words.

Topic contributed sessions are welcome; the abstracts are subject to the same submission requirement and deadline. In addition, topic contributed session organizers must send the IMS contributed papers chair, Nidhan Choudhuri, the information of a session title, organizer and affiliation, and a list of speakers and their affiliations, by the same deadline. Topic contributed presentations can be 20 minutes presentations.

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IMS Program Chair:
Jiayang Sun
Department of Statistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
E-mail: jiayang@sun.cwru.edu, Phone: 216-368-0630, Fax: 216-368-0252

IMS Contributed Papers Coordinator:
Nidhan Choudhuri
Department of Statistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
E-mail: nidhan@nidhan.cwru.edu, Phone: 216-368-6013, Fax: 216-368-0252


IMS Local Arrangements Chair:
Colin Wu
Dept of Mathematical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
E-mail: colin@mts.jhu.edu, Phone: 410-516-7201, Fax: 410-516-7459

ENAR Program Chair:
Joanna Shih
National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
E-mail: ShihJ@NHLBI.NIH.GOV, Phone: 301-435-0440, Fax: 301-480-1862

ENAR Local Arrangements Chair:
Kathryn Hirst
Biostatistics Center, George Washington University, Rockville, MD
E-mail:khirst@biostat.bsc.gwu.edu

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For more information, check Hirst's description or Information from Yahoo or contact IMS and ENAR local arrangement chairs.

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