Thursday, May 14, 2015 | |
8:30-9:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
9:00-9:30 am | |
9:30-10:10 am | "On the Detection of Non-Independence" Jun Liu, Harvard |
10:10-10:50 am |
"Little Data: How Traditional Statistical Ideas Remain Relevant in a Big-Data World; or, The Statistical Crisis in Science; or, Open Problems in Bayesian Data Analysis" |
10:50-11:05 am | Break in Atrium |
11:05-11:45 am | "Statistical Thinking in Neuroscience" Rob Kass, Carnegie Mellon |
11:45-1:00 pm | Working Lunch in Atrium |
1:00-1:40 pm |
"Statistical Analysis Inside and Outside Economic Models" |
1:40-2:20 pm | "Micro-Randomized Trials & mHealth" Susan Murphy, University of Michigan |
2:20-2:40 pm | Break in Atrium |
2:40-3:20 pm | "Statistics and Computation in Graph Estimation Problems" Andrea Montanari, Stanford |
3:20-4:00 pm | "Bayes, De Fenetti, and the Challenges of Statistical Inference for Documents" Michael Jordan, Berkeley |
4:00-4:10 pm | Break in Atrium |
4:10-4:50 pm |
"What Can We Learn From Asymptotic Properties of the Posterior |
5:30-7:30 pm | Dinner (By Invitation) “What Advice Can History Give Us?” Stephen Stigler, University of Chicago |
Friday, May 15, 2015 | |
8:30-9:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
9:00-9:20 am | Summary of Day One, Organizers |
9:20-10:00 am | "Every Parameter Would Like to Grow Up to Be a Distribution" Roger Koenker, University of Illinois |
10:00-10:40 am | "Data Driven Decision Making in Industry: Some Open Questions" Patrick Bajari, Amazon |
10:40-10:50 am | Break in Atrium |
10:50-11:30 am | "Statistics, the Transfer Science, and the Challenge of Networks" Peter Bickel, UC Berkeley |
11:30-12:10 pm | "The Lasso: An Application to Cancer Detection and Some New Tools for Selective Inference" Rob Tibshirani, Stanford |
12:10-1:15 pm | Lunch in Atrium |
1:15-3:15 pm | Discussion of Statistics at MIT: Challenges and Opportunities |