Program
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8:30am-9:00am: Registration/Breakfast
9:00am-9:10am: Opening Remarks
Regina Liu, Chair, Department of Statistics & Biostatistics, Rutgers University
Ronald Ransome, Dean of Math & Physical Sciences, SAS, Rutgers University
9:10am-10:10am:
Chair: Minge Xie, Rutgers University
Speaker: David Madigan, Columbia University
"Are Observational Studies Any Good?"
Discussant: Donald Hoover, Rutgers University
Slides: Talk, Discussion
(10:10am-10:30am: Break)
10:30am-11:30am:
Chair: Steve Buyske, Rutgers University
Speaker: Giovanni Parmigiani, Harvard University
"Reproducibility and Cross-Study Replicability of Prognostic Signatures from High Throughput Genomic Data"
Discussant: Lee Dicker, Rutgers University
Slides: Talk, Discussion
11:30am-12:30pm:
Chair: Arthur Cohen, Rutgers University
Speaker: Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago
"Survival Models and Health Sequences"
Discussant: John Kolassa, Rutgers University
Slides: Talk, Discussion
(12:30pm-2:00pm: Poster Session & Lunch Break)
2:00pm-3:00pm:
Chair: William Strawderman, Rutgers University
Speaker: Jianqing Fan, Princeton University
"Robust Sparse Quadratic Discrimination"
Discussant: Han Xiao, Rutgers University
Slides: Talk, Discussion
3:00pm-4:00pm:
Chair: Harold Sackrowitz, Rutgers University
Speaker: Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley
"Modeling Visual Cortex V4 in Naturalistic Conditions with Invariant Sparse Image Representations"
Discussant: Ping Li, Rutgers University
Slides: Talk, Discussion
(4:00pm-4:20pm: Break)
4:20pm-5:20pm: Keynote
Chair: Regina Liu, Rutgers University
Speaker: David Donoho, Stanford University
"'Big Data' Asymptotics via Approximate Message Passing"
Discussant: Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University
Slides: Talk, Discussion
5:20pm-5:25pm:
Award - Student Poster Competition
5:25pm-6:25pm: Wine and Cheese Reception