AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 4, 2009 00:27:23

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics and Probability, I
Room 204, Noyes Lab
Organizers:
Marlos A. G. Viana, University of Illinois at Chicago viana@uic.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Self-avoiding generating sequences for Fourier lattice designs.
  Henry P Wynn*, London School of Economics
  (1047-03-64)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Kiefer-complete classes of designs for cubic mixture models.
  Thomas Klein*, Technische Universität München, Germany
  (1047-62-44)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Non-Parametric Modeling and Survey Design for Censored Preference Data.
  Paul Kidwell*, Purdue University
  Yi Mao, Purdue University
  Guy Lebanon, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1047-62-21)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dihedral Fourier Analysis in Statistical Optics.
  Marlos A.G. Viana*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
  (1047-42-180)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics and Probability, II
Room 204, Noyes Lab
Organizers:
Marlos A. G. Viana, University of Illinois at Chicago viana@uic.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Riesz and Wishart Distributions associated with decomposable undirected graphs.
  Steen Andersson*, Indiana University
  Thomas Klein, Zentrum Mathematik, Munich, Germany
  (1047-62-115)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some results on connectivity of fibers with a subset of a Markov basis.
  Akimichi Takemura*, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
  Hisayuki Hara, Department of Technology Management for Innovation, University of Tokyo
  (1047-62-50)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Maximal Invariants Over Symmetric Cones.
  Ahmad Saeid Yasamin*, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
  (1047-62-27)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Smoothness of Gaussian conditional independence models.
  Mathias Drton, University of Chicago
  Han Xiao*, University of Chicago
  (1047-62-188)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics and Probability, III
Room 204, Noyes Lab
Organizers:
Marlos A. G. Viana, University of Illinois at Chicago viana@uic.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Alternative parametrizations and reference priors for decomposable discrete graphical models.
  Helene M Massam*, York University, Toronto, Canada
  (1047-62-24)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Qualitative inequalities for squared partial correlations of a Gaussian random vector.
  Sanjay Chaudhuri*, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore
  (1047-62-203)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Trek separation for Gaussian graphical models.
  Seth Sullivant*, North Carolina State University
  Kelli Talaska, University of Michigan
  (1047-62-49)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Algebraic statistics of p1 random graph models.
  Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
  Sonja Petrović*, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago
  Alessandro Rinaldo, Carnegie Mellon University
  (1047-13-163)

Sunday March 29, 2009, 10:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics and Probability, IV
Room 204, Noyes Lab
Organizers:
Marlos A. G. Viana, University of Illinois at Chicago viana@uic.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Minimal Ideal of the Semigroup of Probability Measures on a Compact Semigroup with applications to Random Measures.
  Gregory Budzban*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  Goran Hognas, Abo Akademi
  (1047-60-74)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Combinatorial Local-to-Global PCA and an Application to Statistical Analysis of the Human Auditory Evoked Response.
  Amir H Assadi*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Hesam Torabi Dashti, Tehran University
  Fatemeh Miri, Tehran University
  (1047-62-15)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org