The Reception on March 13th will be held at Stark Galleries (The Link)
The Day Program for March 14th Wehner Building Room 114 (The Link)
The Dinner will be at Anneberg Center (next to the Bush Library) Room 1011c
BUS SCHEDULE: The link
Location: Stark Galleries
5:30pm-7:30pm Reception and Poster Session
Location: Wehner Building Room 114
7:30am-8:30am Registration check In and Continental Breakfast
8:30am - 8:45am Opening Remarks
Simon Sheather, Head of Statistics, Texas A&M University
H. Joseph Newton, Dean, College of Science, Texas A&M University
8:45am - 9:30am Keynote Presentation 1
Chair: Simon Sheather, Texas A&M University
Peter Hall, University of Melbourne, Australia - "Nonlinear Methods For Variable Selecton"
9:30am - 10:15am Keynote Presentation 2
Chair: Marie Davidian, North Carolina State University
Mitch Gail, National Cancer Institute - "The Value of Adding Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Data to a Model that Predicts Breast Cancer"
10:15am - 10:45am Break
10:45am - 12:15pm Session 1: Nonparametric and Semiparametric Regression
Chair: Jianhua Huang, Texas A&M University
10:45am-11:15am David Ruppert, Cornell University - "New Results on the Asymptotics of Penalized Splines"
11:15am-11:45am Naisyin Wang, Texas A&M University - "Functional Latent Feature Models for Data with Longitudinal Covariate Processes"
11:45am-12:15pm Jianqing Fan, Princeton University - "Nonparametric Estimation of Genewise Variance for Microarray Data"
12:15pm - 1:15pm Lunch
1:15pm - 1:45pm Session 2: R.J. Carroll Young Investigator Award Presentation
1:45pm - 2:00pm Break
2:00pm - 3:30pm Session 3: Measurement Error and Inverse Problems
Chair: Ciprian Crainiceanu, Johns Hopkins University
2:00pm - 2:30pm Larry Freedman, Sheba Medical Center, Israel - "Combining Self-Reports and Concentration Biomarkers in the Analysis of Nutritional Epidemiologic Studies"
2:30pm - 3:00pm Len Stefanski, North Carolina State University - "Measurement Error Models for Variance Predictors"
3:00pm - 3:30pm Victor Kipnis, National Cancer Institute - "Modeling Data with Excess Zeros and Measurement Error: Application to Evaluating Relationships Between Episodically Consumed Foods and Health Outcomes"
3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
4:00pm - 5:30pm Session 4: Statistical METHODS for Biology, Genetics and Population Sciences
Chair: Jeff Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center
4:00pm - 4:30pm Ross Prentice, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center - "On the Use of Biomarkers to Strengthen Diet and Disease Association Studies"
4:30pm - 5:00pm Joanne Lupton, Texas A&M University
5:00pm - 5:30pm Nilanjan Chatterjee, National Cancer Institute - "Detecting Gene-gene Interactions Using Genome-wide Association Studies in Presence of Population Stratification"
5:30pm - 5:35pm Closing remarks
6:00pm - 6:30pm Pre-Dinner Reception (Annenburg Center)
6:30pm-9:30pm Conference Dinner