Program Schedule
Besides the reception and banquet, the conference provides
three breakfasts and two lunches. Breakfast times are
from 7:00am to 8:30am on May 27, from 8:00am to 9:00am on May 28,
and from 7:30am to 8:30am on May 29. All breakfasts and lunches
are served in the Ballroom Foyer.
May 26 Tuesday, Day 0
5:30pm - 8:00 pm
Reception and Registration
Room Aspen Birch
May 27 Wednesday, Day 1
8:30am - 9:00 am
Welcome Remarks
Boxin Tang, SRC 2009 Organizing Committee
Andrew Booker, SRC Management Committee
Richard Lockhart, Simon Fraser University
9:00am - 10:00 am
Plenary Session - Statistical Research in Nanotechnology
Chair: Boxin Tang, Simon Fraser University
Speaker: Jeff Wu, Georgia Tech
10:00am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30am - 12:00 pm
Invited Session 1 - Experimental Design
Chair: Sue Lewis, University of Southampton
Speakers: Lisa Moore, Dave Woods, Huaiqing Wu
Invited Session 2 - Modern Statistical Machine Learning
Organizer: Yufeng Liu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chair: Runze Li, Penn State
Speakers: Xiaotong Shen, Hao Helen Zhang, Ji Zhu
Contributed Session 1 - Imputation, Estimation and Sampling Methods
Chair: Wilson Lu, Acadia University
Speakers: Qi Tang, Saumen Mandal, Lenna House, Chunyan Yang
12:00pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch Break
1:30pm - 3:00 pm
Invited Session 3 - Fractional Factorial Designs
Chair: Jason Loeppky, University of British Columbia - Okanagan
Speakers: Bradley Jones, Harvey Qu, Julie Zhou
Invited Session 4 - Geosciences and Computer Models
Organizer and Chair: Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University
James Gattiker, Cari Kaufman, Stephan R. Sain
Contributed Session 2 - Analysis of Counts, Degradation, Lifetime Data
and Nonlinear Models
Chair: Andrew Booker, Boeing Company
Speakers: Subrata Kundu, Yang Yang, Hon Keung Tony Ng, A.H.M. Mahbub Latif
3:00pm - 3:30 pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm - 5:00 pm
Invited Session 5 - The Randy Sitter Technometrics Session
Organizer: David Steinberg, Tel Aviv University
Chair: Jonathan Rougier, University of Bristol
Speakers: Chris Gotwalt, Ying Hung
Contributed Session 3 - Reliability and Quality
Chair: Gemai Chen, University of Calgary
Speakers: Aparna V. Huzurbazar, Jaiwook Baik, Peter W. Hovey, Stefano Barone
May 28 Thursday, Day 2
9:00am - 10:00 am
Plenary Session - The what, why, and how of multivariate emulation
Chair: Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University
Speaker: Jonathan Rougier, University of Bristol
10:00am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30am - 12:00 pm
Invited Session 6 - Field Reliability: Analyses of Warranty Data
Organizer and Chair: Joan Hu, Simon Fraser University
Speakers: Jeff Robinson, Kazuyuki Suzuki, Jerry Lawless
Invited Session 7 - Industrial statistics
Chair: Peter Qian, University of Wisconsin
Speakers: Christine Anderson-Cook, Gemai Chen, William Li
Contributed Session 4 - Fractional Factorial Designs
Chair: Arden Miller, University of Auckland
Speakers: Weiming Ke, C. Devon Lin, Robert McLeod, Po Yang
12:00pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch Break
1:30pm - 3:00 pm
Invited Session 8: Analysis of Industrial Experiments
Organizer and Chair: Tom Loughin, Simon Fraser University
Speakers: Tim Robinson, Jorge Rodriguez, Geoff Vining
Invited Session 9: Drug Discovery
Organizer and Chair: Will Welch, University of British Columbia
Speakers: Jackie Hughes-Oliver, Abhyuday Mandal, Kerby Shedden
Contributed Session 5 -
Modeling and Design of Experiments
Chair: Chunfang Lin, Queen's University
Speakers: Lulu Kang, Ben M. Parker, Deepa Kapoor, Peter Z. G. Qian
3:00pm - 3:30 pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm - 5:00 pm
Invited Session 10 - Computer Experiments
Organizer and Chair: Abhyuday Mandal, University of Georgia
Speakers: Roshan Joseph, Pritam Ranjan, Will Welch
Contributed Session 6 - Optimal, Robust and Repeated Measurement Designs
Chair: Dave Woods, University of Southampton
Speakers: Li Zhu, Wai Kong Yuen, Asokan Mulayath Variyath, Shi Zhao
Contributed Session 7 - Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Data
Chair: Hugh Chipman, Acadia University
Speakers: Xinwei Deng, Chunfeng Huang, N. Mamode Khan, Zhigang Yao
7:00pm - 9:00 pm
Banquet
Ballroom AB
Speaker: Tom Loughin
May 29 Friday, Day 3
8:30am - 10:00 am
Invited Session 11 - Problems in Sampling Survey Practice
Organizer and Chair: Jiahua Chen, University of British Columbia
Speakers: Jae-Kwang Kim, Jon Rao, Jun Shao
Invited Session 12 -
Data Mining: dimension reduction and variable selection
Organizer and Chair: Xiangrong Yin, University of Georgia
Speakers: Bing Li, Runze Li, George Ostrouchov, Hui Zou
Contributed Session 8 - Analysis of Computer Experiments and Variable
Selection
Chair: Pritam Ranjan, Acadia University
Speakers: Matthew T. Pratola, Huizhi Xie, Frederick K.H. Phoa, Michael Yu Zhu
10:00am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30am - 12:00 pm
Invited Session 13 - Design Theory
Chair: Kenny Ye, Albert Einstein College
Speakers: Arden Miller, John Stufken, Hongquan Xu
Contributed Session 9 - Statistical Methods in Networks,
Finance and Pharmaceutical Industry
Chair: Rob Easterling, Sandia National Laboratories, Retired
Speakers: Hugh Chipman, Gracie-Xiaojuan Ma, Xiao-Qing Tang, Balazs Banfai
12:00 pm
Conference Ends