A special feature of Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC 2017 is that the conference, including the workshop, is open to all statistics graduate students
from UMBC and local universites free of charge; however, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED! The deadline to register is Friday,
April 14, 2017. // REGISTER NOW
For more information, contact any member of the organizing committee:
Thomas Mathew
Conference Chair
410.455.2418
Bimal Sinha
443.538.3012
Kofi Adragni
410.455.2406
Yvonne Huang
410.455.2422
Yaakov Malinovsky
410.455.2968
Nagaraj Neerchal
410.455.2437
DoHwan Park
410.455.2408
Junyong Park
410.455.2407
Anindya Roy
410.455.2435
Elizabeth Stanwyck
410.455.5731
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UMBC will hold the 11th Annual Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC during April 21–22, 2017. The event is funded by the National Security Agency, and will consist of a half-day workshop on Friday afternoon and a full day conference on Saturday. Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC is open to statisticians from all local universities, government agencies, and private industries (registration required). The event is free for all statistics graduate students from UMBC and local universities (registration required).
Doug Nychka
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Our physical world: Finding the curves and surfaces
Alan Agresti
University of Florida, Gainesville
"Some perspectives about generalized linear modeling"
Susan Murphy
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Learning treatment policies in mobile health"
Nicholas Jewell
University of California, Berkeley
"Counting civilian casualties: Statistics and human rights problems"
Jan Hannig
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Generalized fiducial inference: A review
Eitan Greenshtein
Center of Statistical Bureau, Israel
Nonparametric empirical Bayes improvement of common shrinkage estimators
Gillian M Raab
Senior Research Fellow, Administrative Data Research Centre,University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Providing synthetic data for administrative data in the UK
Barry Nussbaum
President, American Statistical Association, Chief Statistician (retired), US EPA
