SiegmundFest24

This day-long symposium will celebrate Professor Siegmund on the occasion of his recent retirement. Friends and colleagues are invited to honor David’s contribution to our fields and to thank him for an enduring impact on our careers. We hope you can join us for this milestone event, sending David off onto his next adventures!

Confirmed speakers include:
 

• Rebecca Betensky, New York University [Congratulations to a new AAAS Fellow!]
  • "Design and analysis of N-of-1 trials that incorporate sequential monitoring"
• Louis Chen, National University of Singapore
  • "A probabilistic twist on the partition function and the Stirling numbers of the second kind"
• Xiao Fang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • "Normal approximation for exponential random graphs"
• Inchi Hu, George Mason University
  • "Maximally selected chi square statistics"
• Yajun Mei, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • "Sequential change-point detection: David Siegmund's unique contributions"
• Neil Risch, UC San Francisco
  • "Tales of Hardy Weinberg"
• I-Ping Tu, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica
  • "An empirical Bayesian method and application to cryo-EM analysis"
• Maggie Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • "A prism vote method for individualized risk prediction of traits in genotype data of multi-population"
• Benjamin Yakir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • "Measuring methylation in ancient DNA"

Lodging Options

Space is still available in the conference block at The Cardinal Hotel and reservations there should be made by May 1st. Resources to help find other accommodations near campus are found at Stanford's Visitor Information site.