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"A Celebration of Statistics" April 29,2010 Graduate Student Research Day at the Fields Institute (map to Fields) Organizing Committee: Statistics Graduate Student Union Department of Statistics

Department of Statistics, University of Toronto

OVERVIEW

The theme for the Graduate Students Research Day is "Complex Models for High-Dimensional Data".Technological advances have made possible the massive accumulation information while the statistical models required to handle such data are increasingly complex.

Program for Graduate Student Research Day

The program for the day will have keynote addresses by the invitees, talks given by four of the senior graduate students, and a panel discussion on success in research.

Invited speakers:
Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University,
Jim Ramsay, McGill University.
Radford Neal, University of Toronto

Schedule

MORNING AGENDA
8:30 a.m.
	Registration and Breakfast
8:50 a.m.	Welcome Address: Dr. James Stafford (Professor & Chair), Ramya Thinniyam (PhD Candidate & SGSU President)
9:00 a.m.	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. James Ramsay (Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, McGill University) TBA
10:00 a.m.	Madeleine Thompson (PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto) Using Correlation Length to Compare MCMC Methods Graphically
10:25 a.m.	Coffee Break (Fields Atrium)
11:00 a.m.	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Kathryn Roeder (Professor, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University) Finding rare variants affecting disease risk by genetic matching and a test for mixtures
AFTERNOON AGENDA
12:00 noon
	Billy Chang (PhD Candidate, Department of Public Health Science, University of Toronto) Statistical Approach to Transcript Quantification in RNA-Sequences
12:25 p.m.	LUNCH (Fields Atrium)
1:30 p.m.	Dr. Angel Valov (PhD Graduate, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto) First Passage Times for Brownian Motion with Applications
1:55 p.m.	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Radford Neal (Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto) TBA
2:55 p.m.	Coffee Break (Fields Atrium)
3:15 p.m.	Yan Bai (PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto) Region Adaptive algorithm with Online Recursion
3:40 p.m.	Panel Discussion: The Future of Statistics Drs. Radford Neal, James Ramsay, Kathryn Roeder, and Larry Wasserman
4:45 p.m.	Closing Remarks Dr. James Stafford (Professor & Chair), Ramya Thinniyam (PhD Candidate & SGSU President)

 

Final List of Participants:

Full Name	University Name
Acar, Elif Fidan	University of Toronto
Badescu, Andrei	University of Toronto
Bai, Yan
Baskurt, Zeynep	University of Toronto
Briollais, Laurent	Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
Cai, Tara	University of British Columbia
Chang, Billy	University of Toronto
Craiu, Radu	University of Toronto
Derkach, Andriy	University of Toronto
Du, Meng	University of Toronto
Evans, Mike	University of Toronto
Fan, Jing	University of Toronto
Feuerverger, Andrey	University of Toronto
Gibbs, Alison	University of Toronto
Gong, Lan	University of Toronto
Guo, Weiwei	University of Toronto
He, Yu	University of Toronto
Jaimungal, Sebastian	University of Toronto
Jang, Gun Ho	University of Toronto
Jin, Zi	University of British Columbia
Karamanov, Nikola	University of Toronto
Koudstaal, Mark	University of Toronto
Li, Li	University of Toronto
Li, Ye	University of Toronto
Lin, Sheldon	University of Toronto
Lin, Wei	University of Toronto
Mallo, Muz	University of Toronto
Neal, Radford	University of Toronto
Plante, Jean-Francois	HEC Montreal
Ramsay, Jim	McGill University
Rangrej, Jagadish	OICR Research
Reid, Nancy	University of Toronto
Roeder, Kathryn	Carnegie Mellon University
Sabeti, Avideh	University of Toronto
Shen, Jianping	University of Toronto
Shestopaloff, Alex	University of Toronto
Stafford, James	University of Toronto
Sue-Chee, Shivon	University of Toronto
Sun, Lei	University of Toronto
Thinniyam, Ramya	University of Toronto
Thompson, Madeleine	University of Toronto
Tritchler, David	University of Toronto
Valov, Angel	Scotiabank
Wang, Chunyi	University of Toronto
Wasserman, Lawrence	Carnegie Mellon University
Wu, Panpan	University of Toronto
Wu, Yan Yan	York University
Xu, Lizhen	University of Toronto
Xu, Ximing	University of Toronto
Yao, Fang	University of Toronto
Yu, Helen	University of Toronto
Zhou, Lutong	Cancer Care Ontario

 

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