Date
Tue May 28th 2024, 8:30am - 5:00pm
Location
Gunn Rotunda at ChEM-H/Neuro (2nd floor east)
Event Sponsor
The organizers gratefully acknowledge Citadel for co-sponsoring this event.
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. Please join us for this milestone event, sending David off onto his next adventures!
Agenda
| Time | speaker | talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 0850 | Welcome & Opening Remarks | |
| 0900 | Louis Chen, National University of Singapore | "A probabilistic twist on the partition function and the Stirling numbers of the second kind" |
| 0930 | Inchi Hu, George Mason University | "Maximally selected chi square statistics" |
| 1000 | Morning Break | |
| 1030 | Rebecca Betensky, New York University | "Design and analysis of N-of-1 trials that incorporate sequential monitoring" |
| 1100 | Yajun Mei, Georgia Institute of Technology | "Sequential change-point detection: David Siegmund's unique contributions" |
| 1130 | Xiao Fang, Chinese University of Hong Kong | "Normal approximation for exponential random graphs" |
| 1200 | Group Photo & Lunch | |
| 1330 | Benjamin Yakir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | "Measuring methylation in ancient DNA" |
| 1400 | Maggie Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong | "A prism vote method for individualized risk prediction of traits in genotype data of multi-population" |
| 1430 | Afternoon Break | |
| 1500 | I-Ping Tu, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica | "An empirical hierarchical Bayesian method and application to cryo-EM analysis" |
| 1530 | Neil Risch, UC San Francisco | "Tales of Hardy–Weinberg" |
| 1600 | Open Forum for SiegmundFans |
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