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Thursday, May 14, 2009

6:30 - 8:30 pm -Reception
Department of Statistics
24 Hillhouse Avneue
New Haven, CT 06511

Friday, May 15, 2009

Morning Chair - Joseph Chang

8:25-8:30 am
Opening Remark by Joseph Chang

8:30-9:10 am
Jim Berger - Some Curiosities Arising in Objective Bayesian Analysis.

9:40-10:20 am
Peter Bickel - Banding & generalizations of banding with applications to covariance matrix estimation & strong mixing of Gaussian processes.

10:50-11:15 am
Werner Stuetzle - Generalized single linkage clustering.

11:15-11:40 am
Bin Yu - Spectral clustering and stochastic block models.

12:00-1:30 pm - Lunch

Afternoon Chair - Lisha Chen

1:30-2:10 pm
Bill Eddy - MEG, RFFT's and the Hunt for HFO's

2:40-3:05 pm
Deb Nolan - Communication in Statistics: The Role of reproducible research and dynamic documents.

3:05-3:30 pm
Gary Oehlert - Graphical methods for selecting effects in factorial models.

4:00-4:45 pm - Poster Session - Titles of Abstracts

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Morning Chair - Mokshay Madiman

8:30-9:10 am
Peter Hall - Concept of density for functional data.

9:40-10:20 am
Iain Johnstone -

10:50-11:15 am
Noureddine El Karoui - Estimation of large dimensional sparse covariance matrices.

11:15-11:40 am
Yazhen Wang - Volatility matrix estimation for high-frequency financial data.

12:00-1:30 pm - Lunch

Afternoon Chair - Heping Zhang

1:30-2:10 pm
Jianqing Fan - Ultrahigh dimensional variable selection: beyond the linear model.

2:40-3:05 pm
Donald Brown - Risk, Ambiguity and the Ellsberg Paradox.

3:05-3:30 pm
Tony Cai - Robust and Generalized Nonparametric Regression.

4:00-4:45 pm - Poster Session -Titles of Abstracts

Banquet Chair - David Pollard

6:30 pm - Banquet, Presidents Room, Woolsey Hall.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Morning Chair - Hongyu Zhao

8:30- 9:10am
Larry Brown - Non-parametric Empirical Bayes and Compound Bayes Estimation of Independent Normal Means.

9:40-10:05 am
Jiashun Jin - Higher Criticism Thresholding: Optimal Feature Selection when Useful Features are Rare and Weak.

10:05-10:30 am
Xihong Lin - Variable selection using the Dantzig Selection: Asymptotic properties and extensions.

11:00-11:25 am
Tianxi Cai - Personalized treatment selection based on randomized clinical trails.

11:25-11:50 am
Xiatong Shen - Grouping pursuit in regreession.

12:00-1:30 pm - Lunch

Afternoon Chair- Hannes Leeb

1:30-2:10 pm
David Donoho -

2:40-3:20 pm
Andrew Barron - Communication by Regression is Reliable at Rates up to Channel Capacity.