| 12/17 (Monday) | |
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| 08:00-08:50 | Registration |
| 08:50-09:10 |  Opening Remarks: Chen-Hsin Chen |
| 09:10-10:30 | Session 1 Chair:
Yi-Ching Yao |
| 09:10-09:50 |
Qiwei Yao Title: Matching Quantiles Estimation |
| 09:50-10:30 |
Hani Doss Title: Hyperparameter and Model Selection for Nonparametric Bayes Problems via Radon-Nikodym Derivatives |
| 10:30-10:50 | Break |
| 10:50-12:10 | Session 2 Chair: Jing-Shiang Hwang |
| 10:50-11:30 | Garry Robins Title: New Developments in Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks: Multilevel Network Models |
| 11:30-12:10 | Ying-Nian Wu Title: Unsupervised Learning of Compositional Sparse Code for Natural Image Representation |
| 12:10-13:40 | Lunch Break |
| 13:40-15:40 | Session 3 Chair:
Mei-Ling Ting Lee |
| 13:40-14:20 | Shein-Chung Chow Title: Scientific Factors for Assessing Biosimilarity and Interchangeability of Follow-on Biologics |
| 14:20-15:00 | George C. Tseng Title: Some New Developments in Genomic Meta-Analysis |
| 15:00-15:40 | Chiung-Yu Huang Title: Composite Partial Likelihood Estimation Under Length-Biased Sampling, With Application to a Prevalent Cohort Study of Dementia |
| 15:40-16:00 | Break |
| 16:00-17:20 | Session 4 Chair:
Paula Brito |
| 16:00-16:40 | Hao Zhang Title: Statistical Inferences for Massive Multivariate Spatial Data |
| 16:40-17:20 | Yanyuan Ma Title: A Semiparametric View to Dimension Reduction |
| 12/18 (Tuesday) | |
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| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote Speech Chair: George C. Tiao Xiao-Li Meng Title: I Got More Data, My Model Is More Refined, But My Estimator Is Getting Worse! Am I Just Dumb? |
| 10:00-10:20 | Break |
| 10:20-11:00 | |
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Session 5 Chair:
Ker-Chau Li T. Tony Cai Title: A Framework for Shape Constrained Inference |
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| 11:00-12:00 | Special Lecturer
Chair:
Ker-Chau Li Donald Ylvisaker Title: 
How to Write a (Journal) Paper |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30-15:30 | Session 6 Chair:
Ying-Nian Wu |
| 13:30-14:10 | |
| Jay Breidt Title: Time Series Methods for Describing Structure and Uncertainty in Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Experiments |
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| 14:10-14:50 | Wei Biao Wu Title: Covariance and Precision Matrix Estimation for High- Dimensional Time Series |
| 14:50-15:30 | Mohsen Pourahmadi Title: Sparse Graphical Models for Multivariate Time Series |
| 15:30-15:50 | Break |
| 15:50-17:10 | Session 7 Chair:
Wei-Yann Tsai |
| 15:50-16:30 | |
| Anthony Y. C. Kuk Title: An EM Algorithm Based on an Internal List for Estimating Haplotype Distributions of Rare Variants from Pooled Genotype Data |
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| 16:30-17:10 | Jordan Stoyanov Title: Recent Results in Moment Analysis of Distributions |
| Closing Remarks |
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| Banquet |
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