Statistics Department 2007 Alumni Workshop

March 29-30^th, 2007

Time: 9 a.m to 4 p.m.

Place: Eisenhower Auditorium Conference Room

Alumni Workshop Preliminary Schedule
March 29-30, 2007

Eisenhower Auditorium Conference Room

      8:30                       Coffee

      9:00 – 9:05                Welcome
                                 Dr. Bruce  Lindsay
                                 Department Head
                                 Penn State University

      9:05-10:05                 Keynote Address
                                 Duanli Yan
                                 Educational Testing Services
 				 What does Statistics have to do with  Testing?

     10:05-10:30                 Morning break

     10:30-11:00                 Dr. Murali Haran
                                 Assistant Professor of Statistics
                                 Spatiotemporal Modeling,
                                 Computation and Crop Epidemics

     11:00-11:30                 Shayne Noyes
                                 HSBC Bank
                                 Analytics, Statistics & The Data
                                 Driven Organization

     11:30-12:00                 Dr. Joseph Kang
                                 Post Doc Methodology Center
                                 Penn State University+
                                 Causal inference by Semiparametric Imputation


     12:00-1:00                  Lunch

      1:00-1:30                  Michael Springer
                                 Census Bureau
                                 Overview of the U.S. Census Bureau

      1:30-2:00                  Dr. Yu Zhang
                                 Assistant Professor of Statistics


      2:00-2:30                  Dr. John Dziak
                                 Post Doc Methodology Center
                                 Penn State University
                                 Extending Classical Model Fit Criteria to Semiparametric Contexts

      2:30-3:30                  Afternoon break and  Creamery tour

      3:30-4:15                  Duanli Yan
                                 Keynote Speaker
                                 Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment

      6:00-8:00                  Reception (Life Sciences Gateway)