AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:10

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday April 8, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, I
Room 216, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Marlos Viana, University of Illinois, Chicago viana@uic.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Evolution Equations on Lie Groups and Stochastic Processes.
  Philip Feinsilver*, Southern Illinois University
  Jerzy Kocik, Southern Illinois University
  (953-60-85)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Deconvolution on compact Lie groups.
  Peter T Kim*, University of Guelph
  (953-62-53)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some moment properties of the multivariate Dirichlet distributions.
  Rameshwar Gupta, University of New Brunswick
  Donald Richards*, University of Virginia
  (953-62-81)

Saturday April 8, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, II
Room 216, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Marlos Viana, University of Illinois, Chicago viana@uic.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Normal Forms and Exponential Generating Functions for the Hypergeometric Distribution.
  Ian H Dinwoodie*, Tulane University
  (953-62-82)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Algebraic Systems of Generating Functions in Random Walk Problems.
  Steven P Lalley*, University of Chicago
  (953-60-92)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Statistical models and category representations.
  Peter McCullagh*, University of Chicago
  (953-62-07)

Sunday April 9, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, III
Room 216, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Marlos Viana, University of Illinois, Chicago viana@uic.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the general Wishart distribution on homogeneous cones.
  Steen A. Andersson*, Indiana University
  (953-62-131)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some moments of the Wishart distribution.
  Helene M Massam*, University of Virginia
  (953-62-73)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Maximum covariance difference test for equality of two covariance matrices.
  Akimichi Takemura*, University of Tokyo
  Satoshi Kuriki, Ths Institute of Statistical Mathematics
  (953-62-80)

Sunday April 9, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, IV
Room 216, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Marlos Viana, University of Illinois, Chicago viana@uic.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Stiefel manifolds, moving frames of reference, and vector cardiograms.
  Ted C Chang*, University of Virginia
  (953-62-122)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Some Results on Patterned Matrices.
  Dietrich von Rosen*, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  Tonu Kollo, University of Tartu
  (953-62-46)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The covariance structure of random permutation matrices.
  Marlos Viana*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (953-62-60)

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