DIMACS Workshop on Complex Datasets and Inverse Problems: Tomography, Networks, and Beyond
A Conference in Memory of Yehuda Vardi

October 21 - 22, 2005
Lecture Hall 1/F, CoRE Bldg, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Regina Liu, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, rliu@stat.rutgers.edu

Bill Strawderman, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, straw@stat.rutgers.edu

Cun-Hui Zhang, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, czhang@stat.rutgers.edu

Workshop Program:

Friday, October 21, 2005
 
 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast

 9:00 -  9:15  Opening Remarks

 9:15 -  9:55  Deconvolution by simulation
               Colin Mallows, Avaya Labs

 9:55 - 10:35  Using Data Network Metrics with Graphics on the 
               Topology to Explore Network Characteristics
               Akshay Adhikari, Lorraine Denby, Jim Landwehr, and Jean Meloche, 
               Data Analysis Research Dept, Avaya Labs

10:35 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:40  Estimating Large Covariance Matrices
               Peter Bickel, University of California, Berkeley

11:40 - 12:20  Shape Restricted Regression with Random Bernstein
               Polynomials and Applications
               Chao A. Hsiung, Chi-Chung Wen, Yuh-Jenn Wu and I-Shou Chang, 
               National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

12:20 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00  - 2:40  A Restricted Minimax Determination Of the Initial Sample
               Joon Sang Lee and Michael Woodroofe, The University of Michigan 

 2:40 -  3:20  Some Recent Developments in the Theory of Fractional Factorial Design
               Ching-Shui Cheng, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and University of California, Berkeley

 3:20 -  3:50  Break

 3:50 -  4:30  Overview of Automatic Face Recognition
               Jonathon Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology

 4:30 -  5:10  Some Network Tomography and Species Problems
               Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers Unviersity

 6:00 -  8:00  Dinner

Saturday, October 22, 2005

 8:45 -  9:15  Breakfast

 9:15 -  9:55  Recent Development in Active Network Tomography
               Vijay Nair, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

 9:55 - 10:35  Network Tomography
               Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley

10:35 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:40  Nonparametric specifications tests for diffusions 
               models in financial econometrics
               Jianqing Fan, Princeton University

11:40 - 12:20  Analysis of Panel Duration Models with Fixed Effects
               Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University

12:20 -  2:00  Lunch
 
 2:00 -  2:40  Gaussian Measure and Geometric Convexity
               Rick Vitale, University of Connecticut

 2:40 -  3:20  Yacov Ritov, Hebrew University

 3:30 -  3:45  Break

 3:45 -  4:25  Biased Sampling Problems with Applications to Cross-Sectional Data
               Micha Mandel, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health

 4:25 -  5:05  Inference on multi-phase survival processes with incomplete data
               Yosi Rinott, Hebrew University

 5:05 -  5:45  Statistical Thinking: From Tukey to Vardi and Beyond
               Larry Shepp, Rutgers University

Previous: Participation

Workshop Index

DIMACS Homepage