Alumni Workshop Preliminary Schedule

March 19, 2004

Eisenhower Auditorium Conference Room

9:00 – 9:05                   Welcome

                                                Dr. Jim Rosenberger, Head, Department of Statistics

9:05 – 10:05                 Keynote Address

                                                Dr. Barbara Ryan, Co-Founder and Owner of Minitab, Inc.

10:05 – 10:30   Morning Break

10:30 – 11:00   Barbara Scheffler, President

                                                The Scheffler Group, Inc.

11:00 – 11:30   Haiyan Wang, Ph.D. Candidate

                                                Penn State University Statistics Department

11:30 – 12:00   Dr. Hensiong Tan

                                                Minitab, Inc.

12:00 – 12:45   Lunch

12:50 – 1:20                 Dr. Madhu Mazumdar, Associate Attending Biostatistician

                                                Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

1:30 – 2:30                   Palmer Art Museum Tour / Afternoon Break

2:45 – 3:15                   Dr. Naomi Altman, Associate Professor of Statistics

                                                Penn State University

3:15                             Student Poster Competition

Thomas Building Third Floor

4:00 – 5:30                   Sherry Metzger, Human Resources Representative

Room 327                    Mathematica Policy Research

                                                Princeton, New Jersey

Afternoon Job Interviews:

Dr. John Peterson, Director of Statistics

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

Dr. Madhu Mazumdar, Associate Attending Biostatistician

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

Wartik Lab Fifth Floor

7:00 – 9:00                   Reception