8:30-9:30 

Continental Breakfast

9:30-9:45

Welcome

Dr. Bruce Lindsay

Department Head of Statistics

Penn State University

9:45-10:15

Dr. Trent Gaugler

Research Associate/Asst. Professor of Statistics

Penn State University

“Fully Nonparametric Mixed Effects Models: Testing for the Fixed Main Effect”

10:20-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

ENAR Fest: Session 1 (chaired by Dr. William Harkness)

10:30-10:45

Yeojing Chung (advisors Dr. Bruce Lindsay and Dr. Jia Li)

“A Multivariate Likelihood-Tuned Density Estimator”

10:50-11:05

Yuexiao Dong (advisor Bing Li)

“Dimension Reduction for Non-Elliptically Distributed Predictors”

 11:10-11:25

Yijia Feng (advisor Runze Li)

“Stopping Boundaries of Flexible Sample Size Design with Flexible Trial Monitoring – A Unified Approach”

 11:30-11:45

Sasiprapa Hiriote (advisor Dr. Vernon Chinchilli)

“Multivariate Concordance Correlation Coefficient”

11:50-12:05

Bo Kai (advisors Dr. Runze Li and Dr. David Hunter)

“Local Rank Inference for Varying Coefficient Models”

12:10-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:45

ENAR Fest: Session 2 (chaired by Dr. Debashis Ghosh)

 1:30-1:45

Juyoun Lee (advisor Dr. Aleksandra Slavkovic)

“Sampling Tables Given a Set of Conditionals”

 1:50-2:05

Jianping Sun (advisor Dr. Bruce Lindsay)

“Composite Likelihood: Issues in Efficiency”

2:10-2:25

Huei-wen Teng (Dr. John Liechty)

“State Price Density Estimation from a Bayesian Perspective”

2:30-2:45

Lu Zhang (advisor Dr. John Liechty)

“A Non-Parametric Approach to Pair-Wise Dynamic Topic Correlation Detection”

 2:50-3:20

Anthony Homer and Kerry Go

Sanofi Pasteur

“How Significant is the Statistician's Role on the Research Process in the Pharmaceutical/Vaccines Industry?”

3:30-4:00

Coffee/Cookie Break

4:00-5:00

Keynote Address

Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar

Statistician, RAND Corporation

“Statistics in Public Policy”

5:30-7:30

Dinner Reception