Agenda
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS 75th ANNIVERSARY RESEARCH CONFERENCE
September 29 – October 1, 2023
Register at: https://go.iastate.edu/ADX1IV
Abstract submission at: https://iastate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_exEHcCsoNUIDMjA
| Friday, September 29, 2023 | |
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| Venue: Great Hall of the Memorial Union | |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration and Continental Breakfast (Anteroom/Entrance to Great Hall) |
| 8:30 – 8:50 | Welcome and Opening |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | George W. Snedecor Memorial Distinguished Lecture Xiao-Li Meng, Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics, Harvard University Title: |
| 10:00 – 10:25 | Coffee/Tea Break (Anteroom/Entrance to Great Hall) |
Invited Session on Statistics in Technological Innovations |
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| 10:25 – 10:45 | Yili Hong, Virginia Tech Title: Reliability Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Systems Using Recurrent Events Data from Autonomous Vehicles |
| 10:47 – 11:07 | Andee Kaplan, Colorado State University Title: Improved Recursive Bayesian Inference with Streaming Data |
| 11:09 – 11:29 | Dan W. Adrian, Grand Valley State University Title: Improved Activation Detection from Magnitude and Phase functional MRI data |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | Buffet Lunch (Great Hall of the Memorial Union) |
| 12:15 – 1:15 | Henry A. Wallace Memorial Distinguished Lecture Karen Kafadar, Commonwealth Professor of Statistics, University of Virginia Title: Statistics in 2023: The critical role of Robust Statistical Methods for Big Data |
| 1:15 – 1:30 | Break |
Invited Session on Statistics in Society |
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| 1:30 – 1:50 | Adam Pintar, National Institute of Standards and Technology Title: Ranking of Communication Technologies by First Responders from a Nation Wide Survey |
| 1:52 – 2:12 | Anindya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Title: Utility-Preserving Privacy Mechanisms for Time Series Data |
| 2:14 – 2:34 | Melanie Wall, Columbia University Title: A Prediction Tool for Individual Outcome Trajectories across the next year in First Episode Psychosis in Coordinated Specialty Care |
| 2:35 – 3:00 | Coffee/Tea Break/Light Refreshments (Anteroom/Entrance of Great Hall) |
| 3:00 – 4:00 | Charles R. Henderson Memorial Distinguished Lecture Rina Foygel Barber, Louis Block Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago Title: Recent results in distribution-free predictive inference: the jackknife+ and algorithmic stability |
| Friday, September 29, 2023 | |
| Venue: Snedecor Hall | |
| 4:30 – 6:00 | Welcome Reception (Snedecor Hall) |
| 7:00 – 9:00 | Invited Panel on Research Careers in an Industrial Setting (3105, Snedecor Hall) Chair: STATers Graduate Students Group Speakers: Derek Blythe, Illumina Nick Larson, Mayo Clinic Ming Li, PetSmart |
| Saturday, September 30, 2023 | |
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| Venue: Alliant Energy – Lee Liu Auditorium of Howe Hall | |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration and Continental Breakfast (Howe Hall, first floor) |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Wayne A. Fuller Distinguished Lecture Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, University Professor of Biostatistics, Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania Title: Introducing the Forster-Warmuth Nonparametric Counterfactual Regression |
| 9:30 – 9:50 | Coffee/Tea Break (Howe Hall, first floor) |
Invited Session on Statistical Genetics |
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| 10:00 – 10:20 | Brooke Fridley, Moffit Cancer Center Title: spatialGE*: Understanding the Diversity of the Tumor Microenvironment using Spatial Transcriptomics |
| 10:22 – 10:42 | Emily A. King, AbbVie Title: Computational methodology for linking genetic associations to function |
| 10:44 – 11:04 | Kun Liang, University of Waterloo Title: RNA-Seq Analysis with Complex Auxiliary Data: Estimating & Controlling False Discovery Rates |
| 11:05 – 11:30 | Coffee/Tea Break (Howe Hall, first floor) |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Distinguished Alumnal Lecture Scott Vander Wiel, Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory Title: Functional Nuclear Data – Estimating and Propagating Uncertain Functions |
| 12:30 – 2:30 | Lunch and Contributed Poster Session (Howe Hall Atrium) |
Invited Session on Statistical Learning |
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| 2:30 – 2:50 | Tanzy Love, University of Rochester Title: Grafted and Vanishing Random Subspaces in Ensemble Classification |
| 2:52 – 3:12 | Hongmei Zhang, University of Memphis Title: Network comparisons with application to epigenetic studies |
| 3:14 – 3:34 | Wen Zhou, Colorado State University Title: Optimal nonparametric inference on network effects for relational data with dependent edges |
| 3:36 – 3:56 | Garrit L. Page, Brigham Young University Title: Informed Bayesian Finite Mixture Models via Asymmetric Dirichlet Priors |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Coffee/Tea Break/Light Refreshments (Howe Hall Atrium) |
| 4:30 – 5:30 | Herbert A. David Memorial Distinguished Lecture Soumendra N. Lahiri, Stanley A. Sawyer Professor in Mathematics and Statistics, Washington University Title: On the validity of the Central Limit Theorem in high dimensions |
| Saturday, September 30, 2023 | |
| Venue: Gateway Hotel | |
| 6:30 – 9:00 | Conference Banquet and 75th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture (Gateway Hotel) |
| Hal S. Stern, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, and Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine Title: A Rose by Any Other Name: Statistics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence |
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| Sunday, October 1, 2023 | |
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| Venue: Alliant Energy – Lee Liu Auditorium of Howe Hall | |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration and Continental Breakfast (Howe Hall, first floor) |
| Invited Session: Statistics in the National Laboratories |
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| 8:30 – 8:50 | Carlos Llosa-Vite, Sandia National Laboratories Title: Poisson Response Tensor-on-Tensor Regression and Applications |
| 8:52 – 9:12 | Emily M. Casleton, Los Alamos National Laboratory Title: The Statistician’s Role in the World of Foundation Models: A Case Study |
| 9:14-9:34 | Karl T. Pazdernik, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Title:Statistics in Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Opportunities |
| 9:35 – 10:00 | Coffee/Tea Break (Howe Hall, first floor) |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Laurence H. Baker Memorial Distinguished Lecture Kenneth L. Lange, Maxine and Eugene Rosenfeld Endowed Professor of Computational Genetics and Chair of the Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles Title: Examples of MM Algorithms |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee/Tea Break (Howe Hall, first floor) |
| 11:20 – 12:20 | George F. Zyskind Memorial Distinguished Lecture Emmanuel Candès, Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics, Stanford University Title: Model-free selective inference |
| 12:20 – 12:30 | Closing |