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Please see\u00a0Conference Program<\/a> for the bios of the plenary speakers<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Dr. C.S. Cheng<\/b>
\nInstitute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, and Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA
\nhttp:\/\/www.stat.sinica.edu.tw\/cheng\/<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Minimal Second-Order Saturated Designs<\/p>\n

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Dr. Marie Davidian<\/b>
\nWilliam Neal Reynolds Professor
\nDepartment of Statistics, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
\nASA President 2013
\nhttp:\/\/www4.stat.ncsu.edu\/~davidian\/<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Implementing Personalized Medicine: Estimation of Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes. Part I: Statistical Framework and Regression-based Estimato<\/p>\n

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Dr. Amy Herring<\/b>
\nDepartment of Biostatistics, UNC Chapel Hill
\nhttp:\/\/www2.sph.unc.edu\/index.php?option=com_profiles&Itemid=1867&profileAction=ProfDetail&pid=700198551<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Nonparametric Bayes models for modeling longitudinal change in association among categorical variables<\/p>\n

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Dr. Alan Karr<\/b>
\nDirector of the Center of Excellence for Complex Data Analysis (CoDA)
\nRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
\nhttp:\/\/www.niss.org\/content\/alan-f-karr-0<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Effects of Method Parameters and Ground Truth in the OMOP Results Database<\/p>\n

\n

Dr. Benjamin Kedem\u00a0<\/b>
\nDepartment of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
\nhttp:\/\/www2.math.umd.edu\/~bnk\/<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Repeated Out of Sample Fusion in Interval Estimation of Small Tail Probabilities in Food Safety<\/p>\n

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Dr. Richard Smith<\/b>
\nMark L. Reed III Distinguished Professor
\nDirector of SAMSI
\nDepartment of Statistics and Operations Research, UNC Chapel Hill
\nhttp:\/\/www.unc.edu\/~rls\/<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Influence of Climate Change on Extreme Weather Events<\/p>\n

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Dr. John Stufken<\/b>
\nCharles Wexler Professor in Statistics
\nSchool of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
\nhttp:\/\/math.asu.edu\/people\/john-stufken<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0On optimal designs for nonlinear mixed effects models<\/p>\n

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Dr. Anastasios Tsiatis<\/b>
\nGertrude M. Cox Distinguished Professor of Statistics
\nDepartment of Statistics, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
\nhttp:\/\/www4.stat.ncsu.edu\/~tsiatis\/\u00a0<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Implementing Personalized Medicine: Estimation of Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes. Part II: Value Search Estimators and Classification Perspective<\/p>\n

\n

Dr. Mike West<\/b>
\nThe Arts & Sciences Professor of Statistics & Decision Sciences
\nDepartment of Statistical Science, Duke University
\nhttp:\/\/www.isds.duke.edu\/~mw\/<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Sparsity in Multivariate Dynamic Models<\/p>\n

\n

Dr. Daniel Zelterman<\/b>
\nProfessor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
\nYale University
\nhttp:\/\/cira.yale.edu\/people\/daniel-zelterman-phd<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0A Two-Stage, Phase II Clinical Trial Design with Nested Criteria for Early Stopping and Efficacy<\/p>\n

\n

Plenary Speakers, Workshop on Big Data, October 10, 2014<\/h3>\n

Dr. Syed Ejaz Ahmed\u00a0<\/b>
\nDean, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Brock University, Canada
\nhttp:\/\/www.brocku.ca\/mathematics-science\/departments-and-centres\/mathematics\/people\/professors\/syed-ejaz-ahmed\u00a0<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Big Data Big Bias Small Surprise!<\/p>\n

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Dr. David B. Dunson<\/b>
\nArts and Sciences Distinguished Professor
\nDepartment of Statistic Science, Duke University
\nhttp:\/\/www.isds.duke.edu\/~dunson\/<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Bayesian inference on populations of networks<\/p>\n

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Dr. Sudipto Guha<\/b>
\nDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
\nhttp:\/\/www.cis.upenn.edu\/~sudipto\/<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Sampling, Sketching and Streaming: Designing Combinatorial Algorithms for BigData<\/p>\n

\n

Lexin Li<\/b>
\nDepartment of Statistics, North Carolina State University
\nhttp:\/\/www4.stat.ncsu.edu\/~li<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Two Years in Silicon Valley – Some experiences, stories, and thoughts about Big Data<\/p>\n

\n

Dr. Jerry Reiter<\/b>
\nMrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor of Statistical Science
\nDepartment of Statistic Science, Duke University
\nhttp:\/\/www.stat.duke.edu\/~jerry\/<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Protecting Confidentiality in an era with no Privacy<\/p>\n

\n

Dr. Ming Yuan<\/b>
\nDepartment of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison &
\nMedical Sciences Center
\nhttp:\/\/pages.stat.wisc.edu\/~myuan\/Site\/Welcome.html<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Detection of Very Short Signal Segments<\/p>\n

\n

Plenary Speakers, Workshop on Mathematical Biology \/ Game Theory, October 10, 2014<\/h3>\n

Dr. Benjamin Allen<\/b>
\nDepartment of Mathematics, Emanuel College, Boston, MA
\nhttp:\/\/www.people.fas.harvard.edu\/~ballen\/<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Spatial population structure affects the rate of neutral substitution<\/p>\n

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Dr. Mark Broom<\/b>
\nDepartment of Mathematics, City University London, United Kingdom
\nhttp:\/\/staff.city.ac.uk\/mark.broom\/index.html<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Asymmetric games in monomorphic and polymorphic populations<\/p>\n

\n

Dr. Ross Cressman<\/b>
\nDepartment of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
\nhttp:\/\/www.wlu.ca\/homepage.php?grp_id=136&f_id=43<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Game-theoretic methods for functional response and optimal foraging behavior<\/p>\n

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Dr. Vlastimil K\u0159ivan<\/b>
\nDepartment of Mathematics and Biomathematics, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
\nhttp:\/\/www.entu.cas.cz\/krivan\/<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0On Lotka-Volterra population games<\/p>\n

\n

Dr. Alun Lloyd<\/b>
\nMathematics Department, North Carolina State University
\nhttp:\/\/www4.ncsu.edu\/~allloyd\/<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Modeling Novel Strategies for Controlling Mosquito-Borne Diseases<\/p>\n

\n

Dr. Mike Mesterton-Gibbons<\/b>
\nDepartment of Mathematics, Florida State University
\nhttp:\/\/www.math.fsu.edu\/~mesterto\/<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Variation between Self- and Mutual Assessment in Animal Contests<\/p>\n

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Dr. Dmitri Zaykin<\/b>
\nNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
\nhttp:\/\/www.niehs.nih.gov\/research\/atniehs\/labs\/bb\/staff\/zaykin\/index.cfm<\/a>
\nTalk:<\/b>\u00a0Sorting out genuine and spurious discoveries in large scale genetic studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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