4th Annual Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC 2010

Registration for Probability and Statistics Day 2010 has closed.
For any information regarding registration, please contact Dr. Sinha (sinha@umbc.edu)

It is with great pleasure that we announce organizing the 4th Annual Probability & Statistics Day at UMBC & Silver Jubilee Celebration of the Statistics Graduate Program at UMBC during April 23-24, 2010.

The Statistics Graduate Program at UMBC was established in the fall of 1985 when Professor Bimal Sinha was hired to lead the growth of this exciting discipline within the Department of Mathematics & Statistics. During the last twenty five (25) years the statistics graduate program has witnessed a phenomenal growth with more than fifty (50) students graduating with PhD degrees in statistics out of this program. Most of our alumni are well settled across the country in universities, government agencies, and private sectors.

Workshop on Adversarial Risk Analysis
Friday, April 23, 2010
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
7th floor, UMBC Library
Instructor: Professor David Banks, Duke University
To register for this workshop, click here

Workshop on Statistical Meta-Analysis with Applications
Friday, April 23, 2010
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
7th floor, UMBC Library
Instructor: Professor Guido Knapp, Technical University, Dortmund, Germany
To register for this workshop, click here

The Probability & Statistics Day at UMBC 2010 conference will continue on Saturday, April 24 with four internationally renowned statisticians as plenary speakers.

Professor Raymond Carroll, Texas A&M University
Title: Gene-Environment Interaction Studies
Professor Bruce Lindsay, Penn State University
Title: Mixture Models as a Tool in Nonparametrics
Professor Ronald Butler, Southern Methodist University
Title: A Modern View and Survey of Multivariate Testing
Dr. Nancy Geller, Director, Office of Biostatistics Research, NHLBI/NIH
Title: Confirmatory Clinical Trial Designs for Biomarkers

We also expect to arrange invited talks by UMBC alumni and statisticians from local universities & government agencies. A special feature of the Probability & Statistics Day will be oral and poster presentations by graduate students from UMBC and other local universities, and certificates and cash prizes will be awarded to three best oral and three best poster presentations by the graduate students. All our alumni will be recognized and presented with a memento!

Saturday evening's conference banquet speech will be delivered by Professor Sastry Pantula, ASA President.

This conference is open to all statistics graduate students from UMBC and local universities free of charge! Friday's workshops are free to all registered attendees except for lunch (on your own).

For more information, please contact any member of the organizing committee.

Bimal Sinha (Chair, sinha@umbc.edu, 410-455-2347)
Nagaraj Neerchal, nagaraj@umbc.edu
Anindya Roy, anindya@umbc.edu
Thomas Mathew, mathew@umbc.edu
Junyong Park, junpark@umbc.edu
Dohwan Park, dhpark@umbc.edu
Yi Huang, yihuang@umbc.edu

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