OlshenFest 2010

A Statistics Department Special Seminar Series
in Honor of Richard A. Olshen

Tuesday, October 5th
CIS-X Auditorium

Emceed by Philip Lavori, Stanford University Health Research and Policy

1:15 to 1:45pm
Jerome Friedman
Stanford University Department of Statistics
Richard, BFOS, and CART

1:50 to 2:20pm
John Rice
UC Berkeley Department of Statistics
Richard at UCSD

2:30 to 3pm
Refreshments

3:05 to 3:35pm
Iain Johnstone
Stanford University Department of Statistics
Richard and the analysis of gaits

3:40 to 4:10pm
Robert Gray
Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering
Richard Olshen and the Stanford Compression Group: Trees, quantization and classification, & quality and utility in digital mammography

4:15 to 5pm
Informal speeches, stories, and anecdotes offered by Richard's colleagues and family members