Feature selection for high dimensional data

Organizer: Subhashis Ghoshal, North Carolina State University
Chair: Jyotishka Datta, Duke University.
Time: Friday, 10:30–12:00
Room: LInC 268

10:30-11:00

Structure identfiication from incomplete cryo-EM reconstructions

Kingshuk Roy Choudhury, Duke University

11:00-11:30

Penalized Euclidean Distance Regression

Tanujit Dey, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

11:30-12:00

Oracle convergence rates for Bayesian density regression in high dimensional spaces

Subhashis Ghoshal, North Carolina State University

Recent developments in nonparametric statistics and their applications

Organizer: Xiangrong Yin, University of Kentucky
Chair: Yuan Jiang, Oregon State University
Time: Friday, 10:30–12:00
Room: LInC 210

A nonparametric graphical model for functional data with application to  brain networks based on  fMRI

Bing Li, Penn State University

11:00-11:30

Matrix-variate regressions and envelope models

Shanshan Ding, University of Delaware

11:30-12:00

Pseudo sufficient dimension reduction and variable selection

Wenbo Wu, University of Oregon

Modeling and Analysis of Queueing Systems

Organizer: Arka Ghosh, Iowa State University
Chair: Srinivasan Balaji, George Washington University
Time: Friday, 10:30–12:00
Room: LInC 368

10:30-11:00

On the Control of Fork-Join Networks

Amy Ward, University of Southern California

11:00-11:30

Asymptotically Optimal Control of N-Systems with Many-Server and H_2^* Service Times

Arka Ghosh, Iowa State University

11:30-12:00

Diffusion Approximations for Double-ended Queues with Reneging in Heavy Traffic

Xin Liu, Clemson University

Ecological applications in statistics

Organizer: Leigh Ann Starcevich, Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc.
Chair: Sanjay Chaudhuri, National University of Singapore
Time: Friday, 10:30–12:00
Room: LInC 302

10:30-11:00

Estimating occupancy rates with imperfect detection under complex survey designs

Tony Olsen, EPA

11:00-11:30

Trend Analysis for Complex Survey Designs

Leigh Ann Starcevich, Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc.

11:30-12:00

Sampling Hidden Populations Using Respondent-Driven Sampling

Katherine McLaughlin, Oregon State University

Statistical analysis of biomedical data

Organizer: Lan Xue, Oregon State University
Chair: Lan Xue, Oregon State University
Time: Friday, 10:30–12:00
Room: LInC 314

10:30-11:00

A concave pairwise fusion approach to subgroup analysis

Shujie Ma, University of California at Riverside

11:00-11:30

Evaluation of Immune Biomarkers as Principal Surrogate Endpoints in Vaccine Trials under a Multi-phase Sampling Framework

Ying Huang, Fred Hutchison/University of Washington Cancer Consortium

11:30-12:00

Cluster Analysis of Longitudinal Profiles

Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Statistical methods for single-cell analysis

Organizer: Raphael Gottardo, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Chair: Duo Jiang, Oregon State University
Time: Friday, 10:30–12:00
Room: LInC 228

10:30-11:00

Statistical analysis of cellular heterogeneity using single-cell assays

Lynn Lin, Penn State University

11:00-11:30

Normalization, clustering, and differential expression of single-cell RNA-seq data

Davide Risso, Berkeley

11:30-12:00

MAST: A novel statistical framework for assessing transcriptional changes and characterizing heterogeneity in single-cell RNA-seq data

Raphael Gottardo, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center