Conference Program

8:30am Registration and Coffee & Tea!
9:00am-10:00am Keynote Talk 1: Pretraining and the lasso
Robert Tibshirani, Standford University
10:00 - 10:45am Morning Break and Poster Session
10:45 - 11:00am Invited talk 1: Monitoring Track Irregularities for Highspeed Trains
Gemai Chen, University of Calgary
11:00 - 11:15am Invited talk 2
Grace S. Chiu, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
11:15 - 11:30am Invited talk 3: Estimating probabilities of errors; from particle physics to clinical trials
Shirin Golchi, McGill University
11:30 - 11:45am Invited talk 4
Zhiyang Zhou, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
11:45 - 12:00am Invited talk 5
William Ruth, Université de Montréal
12:00 - 2:00pm Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:00pm Round tables of Prof. Robert Tibshirani and Students
2:00 - 3:00pm Keynote talk 2: Old Friends, Asymptotics, And Data
Peter Guttorp, University of Washington
3:00 - 4:00pm Afternoon Break and Poster Session
4:00 - 4:15am Invited talk 3
Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University
4:15 - 4:30am Invited talk 4
Tim Swartz, Simon Fraser University
4:30 - 4:45pm Invited talk 5
Tom Loughin, Simon Fraser University
4:45 Announce of the Best Poster Award
Richard Lockhart, Simon Fraser University
5:00pm Dinner Celebration