Oct 22nd, 2010 at Princeton University Sherrerd Hall, Room 101 This is a one-day workshop on the various aspects of the frontiers of statistics. The workshop intends to bring top researchers together to define and expand the frontiers of statistics. It also provides a focal venue for senior and junior researchers to discuss and outline emerging problems in their fields and to lay the groundwork for future collaborations. The workshop is organized by Jianqing Fan (Princeton University). Please contact Carol Smith, Workshop Coordinator for more information. Invited Speakers and Discussants Bill Eddy (Carnegie Mellon University) Don Fraser (University of Toronto) Ed George (University of Pennsylvania) Marc Hallin (Université libre de Bruxelles) Mark Low (University of Pennsylvania) David Madigan (Columbia University) Nancy Reid (University of Toronto) David Tyler (Rutgers) Cun-Hui Zhang (Rutgers) Program Time Speaker or Event Topic or Activity 8:50 – 9:00 Jianqing Fan Opening Remarks 9:00 – 9:40 Donald Fraser Continuity and Statistical Methodology 9:40 – 10:20 David Tyler On the Inefficiency of the Spatial Median and Spatial Covariance Matrix 10:20 - 10:50 COFFEE BREAK 10:50 - 11:30 Mark Low Estimating The L1 Norm Of A Multivariate Mean Vector 11:30 - 12:10 Marc Hallin Local Bilinear Multiple-Output Quantile Regression 12:10 - 1:40 LUNCH Sherrerd Hall Atrium 1:40 - 2:20 William Eddy The Short-Time Fourier Transform and Reparameterization of ARMA Models 2:20 - 3:00 Edward George gBF: A Fully Bayes Factor Based on a Generalized g-Prior 3:00 - 3:30 COFFEE BREAK 3:30 - 4:10 Cun-Hui Zhang Penalized Convex Minimization: Estimation of Inverse Matrices 4:10 - 4:50 David Madigan Statistical Methods in Drug Safety 4:50 - 5:10 Nancy Reid Discussion 5:10 - 5:20 Jianqing Fan Closing Remarks Sponsors Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University National Science Foundation
