Conference Schedule

Saturday, October 9, 2021 — Virtual Conference via Zoom

Note: The exact times and organization may change as necessary prior to the start of the conference.

  1. –

    Welcome and Opening Remarks

  2. –

    Sam Efromovich

    University of Texas, Dallas

    Missing and Modified Data in Nonparametric Statistics

  3. –

    Suneel Babu Chatla

    University of Texas, El Paso

    Nonparametric inference for additive models estimated via simplified smooth backfitting

  4. –

    Coffee Break

  5. –

    Swati Biswas

    University of Texas, Dallas

    Detecting Rare Haplotype Association with Two Correlated Phenotypes of Binary and Continuous Types

  6. –

    SPEED Poster Viewing

  7. –

    Lunch and Poster Viewing

  8. –

    Tony Ng

    Southern Methodist University

    Statistical Models and Algorithms for Assessing Robustness and Reliability of Networks with Applications in Cybersecurity Insurance

  9. –

    Sinead Williamson

    University of Texas, Austin

    Understanding collections of related datasets using dependent MMD coresets

  10. –

    Michael Gallaugher

    Baylor University

    Four Skewed Tensor Variate Distributions

  11. –

    Ruiqi Liu

    Texas Tech University

    A Computationally Efficient Classification Algorithm in Posterior Drift Model: Phase Transition and Minimax Adaptivity

  12. –

    Coffee Break

  13. –

    Suojin Wang

    Texas A&M University

    A new bootstrap assisted test for checking second order stationarity for nonlinear time series

  14. –

    Shuying Sun

    Texas State University

    Statistical analyses of breast cancer co-methylation patterns

  15. –

    Ryan Sun

    MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Inference for Set-Based Effects in Genetic Association Studies with Interval-Censored Outcomes

  16. –

    Break

  17. –

    Don Owen Award Talk and Student Poster Competition Awards Announced

  18. –

    Closing Remarks