STAR@Columbia 2004 Full Program

Friday, December 10th, 2004

Department of Statistics
Columbia University

Statistical
Teaching,
Application &
Research
at
Columbia

Conference 2004

 

Registration

Morning: 8:30-9:30
Afternoon:
1:30-2:30

10th Floor, Department of Statistics
1255 Amsterdam Avenue
(Between 121 and 122 st)

 

 


Talks and Discussions

 

Morning Talks

 

 

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Conference opening address

Margaret Edsall, Associate VP, GSAS

 

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Invited research talk
"Modeling Massive Dynamic Graphs"
Dr. Chris Volinsky, AT&T Research

Room 903 SSW

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Invited mini research talk series
"Statistical Research Across Columbia"

 

 

a. Statistics in functional brain imaging
Speaker: Dr. Tor Wager (Psychology)
Discussant: Dr. Martin Lindquist (Statistics)

b. Chains of collective reasoning in biology
Speaker: Dr. Andrey Rzhetsky (Biomedical Informatics, Columbia Genome center)
Discussant: Dr. Tian Zheng (Statistics)

c. Long term effects of an HIV sexual risk reduction intervention for heterosexual couples
Speaker: Dr. Nabila El-Bassel (Schl. of Social Work)
Discussant: Dr. Jennifer Hill (SIPA)

Room 903 SSW

Afternoon Talks

 

 

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Invited teaching talk
"Math is Music: Statistics is Literature"
Dr. Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College

Room 903 SSW

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Roundtable discussion
"Statistical Teaching Across Columbia"
Panelists: Drs. Richard D. De Veaux, David Epstein, Andrew Gelman

Room 903 SSW

 

 

 

 

Posters
10th floor, SSW

 

 

List of poster titles and abstracts

 

 

Socialization
10th floor, SSW

 

8:30 AM

Morning Coffee Mixer

 

1:30 PM

After-lunch break & Mixer

 

4:30 PM

Post-conference Mixer

 

STAR@ Columbia 2004 Organization and Program Committee: Tian Zheng, Regina Dolgoarshinnykh, Andrew Gelman, Jouni Kerman, Yu Liang

Last updated: December 2, 2004 2:42 PM