Slides from Invited Sessions

The following people presented research talks at the Plenary and Invited Sessions of the conference:

Note that the session listing below now reflects the actual order of the Invited Sessions.

Plenary Speakers:

  • Pranab K. Sen, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Biostatistics
  • Jianqing Fan, Princeton University, Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering (slides)
  • Jana Jureckova, Charles University, Jaroslav Hájek Center for Theoretical and Applied Statistics and Department of Statistics
  • Raymond Carroll, Texas A&M University, Department of Statistics

    Thursday Morning Session, Room 1: Recent Developments in Semiparametrics
    Michael Kosorok, University of North Carolina
    Alexander Tsodikov, University of Michigan
    Yi Li, Harvard University
    Bin Nan, University of Michigan

    Thursday Morning Session, Room 2: Nonparametrics and Bioinformatics
    Peter Müller, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
    Jeffrey S. Morris, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
    Wei Pan, University of Minnesota
    Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University

    Thursday Morning Session, Room 3: Nonparametrics: General & Pedagogical
    Paul Kvam, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Michael Chernick, United BioSource Corporation, Biotechnology Solutions (slides)
    Ehsanes Saleh, Carleton University (Canada) (slides) (additional slide)
    Michael J. Schell, University of South Florida (slides)

    Thursday Morning Session, Room 4: Nonparametric Constrained Inference
    Mary Meyer, Colorado State University
    Christopher Carolan, East Carolina University
    Hammou El Barmi, Baruch College
    Gregg Dinse & Shyamal Peddada, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

    Thursday Afternoon Session, Room 1: A Session in Honor of Pranab Kumar Sen
    Joseph Gardiner, Michigan State University
    Gauri Datta, University of Georgia
    Mervyn Silvapulle, Monash University (Australia)
    Yogendra Chaubey, Concordia University (Montreal) (paper)

    Thursday Afternoon Session, Room 2: Nonparametric Regression and Density Estimation
    Jeff Hart, Texas A & M University
    Cheolwoo Park, University of Georgia
    K.B. Kulasekera, Clemson University
    Michael Minnotte, University of North Dakota

    Thursday Afternoon Session, Room 3: Recent Developments in Nonparametrics
    Ron Randles, University of Florida
    Reza Modarres, The George Washington University
    Robert Mnatsakanov, West Virginia University
    Doug Wolfe, The Ohio State University

    Thursday Afternoon Session, Room 4: Nonparametric Statistics on Manifolds and Applications
    Rabi N. Bhattacharya, University of Arizona
    Frits Ruymgaart, Texas Tech University (No electronic slides available, but please note: The paper "The one-and multi-sample problem for functional data with application to image analysis" by A. Munk, R. Paige, J. Pang, and V. Patrangenaru and F. Ruymgaart will appear in Journal of Multivariate Analysis.)
    Rima Izem, Harvard University
    Peter T. Kim, University of Guelph (Canada)

    Friday Morning Session, Room 1: Rank-based Methods
    Tom Hettmansperger, Penn State University (slides)
    Denis Larocque, HEC Montreal
    Joe McKean, Western Michigan University
    William Schucany, Southern Methodist University

    Friday Morning Session, Room 2: Nonparametric and Semiparametric Modeling and Inference
    Wenbin Lu, North Carolina State University
    Guang Cheng, Duke University
    Jianhua Huang, Texas A & M University
    Yuedong Wang, University of California-Santa Barbara (slides)

    Friday Morning Session, Room 3: Nonparametrics in Reliability and Survival Analysis
    Russell Stocker, Mississippi State University
    David Collins, University of New Mexico & Aparna Huzurbazar, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Sunil Mathur, University of Mississippi
    Zhezhen Jin, Columbia University

    Friday Morning Session, Room 4: Empirical Likelihood
    Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University
    John Fresen, University of Missouri
    Mi-Ok Kim, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Mai Zhou, University of Kentucky

    Friday Afternoon Session, Room 1: Bayesian Nonparametrics
    Jayaram Sethuraman, Florida State University
    Dipak K. Dey, University of Connecticut (slides)
    Debajyoti Sinha, Medical University of South Carolina & Florida State University
    Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan

    Friday Afternoon Session, Room 2: Recent Advances in Non- and Semi-parametrics
    Tian Zheng, Columbia University
    Todd Ogden, Columbia University
    Tanya Apanasovich, Cornell University
    Yulia Gel, University of Waterloo

    Friday Afternoon Session, Room 3: Nonparametrics in Biomedical Settings
    Mengling Liu, New York University
    Elizabeth Slate, Medical University of South Carolina
    Susanne May, University of California, San Diego (slides)
    Micha Mandel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (slides)

    Friday Afternoon Session, Room 4: Nonparametrics from the Younger Generation
    Lexin Li, North Carolina State University
    Lan Wang, University of Minnesota
    David Hitchcock, University of South Carolina (slides)
    Ryan Elmore, Colorado State University