GEOMETRY, STATISTICS AND IMAGE ANALYSIS. (DEDICATED TO FRITS RUYMGAART) 5th Annual Red Raider Mini-symposium November 17-19, 2005

MISSION

• To provide a forum for advancing the interface between geometry, statistics and image analysis.
• To train individuals in interdisciplinary aspects of problem solving
  
• To provide a forum for mathematical and statistical communities, especially early-career researchers and graduate students to interact with outstanding scholars and learn about new research venues and open problems.
• To encourage women and under-represented minorities to pursue careers in areas that bridge geometry, statistics and image analysis.

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

• Prof. Rudy Beran, University of California, Davis. Professor Beran is internationally renowned for his contributions to robust statistics, directional data analysis, and bootstrapping.
  

• Prof. Rabi Bhattacharya, University of Arizona. Professor  Bhattacharya is internationally renowned for his contributions to large sample theory, Edgeworth expansions and bootstrapping, statistics on manifolds and stochastic partial differential equations.

• Prof. Ronald Butler, Colorado State University. Professor Butler is internationally renowned for his contributions to saddlepoint methods, systems theory and stochastic networks, special function approximations, robustness and likelihood inference.

• Prof. Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut. Professor Dey is internationally renowed for his contributions to Bayesian modeling , computational statistics, cecision theory, multivariate analysis, reliability and survival analysis, statistical shape analysis, and statistical genetics.

• Prof. John Kent, University of Leeds. Professor Kent  is internationally renowned for his contributions to multivariate statistics, shape analysis and stochastic models for protein structure, robustness, spatial statistics, tomography.
  

• Prof. Peter Kim, University of Guelph. Professor Kim is internationally renowned for his contributions to the interface between geometry and statistics, density estimation on Riemannian manifolds and applications of statistics to image acquisition.

• Prof. Madan Puri, Indiana University. Professor Puri is internationally renowned for his contributions to nonparametric statistics, splines, tests of normality, fuzzy sets and measures, stochastic processes, statistics of directional data, random sets, and time series.

OUTSTANDING EARLY-CAREER SPEAKERS

• Dr.Stephan Huckemann, Goettingen University. Dr Huckemann is a member of the Institute for Mathematical Stochastics at the Goettingen University.  His research concerns principal component analysis for shape spaces.

• Dr. Kathryn Leonard, Caltech and MSRI (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute). Dr. Leonard is presently a von Karman instructor in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech. Her research interests include efficient coverings of spaces of two-dimensional shapes using a Cą-type metric, and in particular, in comparing the efficiency of representing a 2D shape by its medial axis with efficiency of direct representation of the boundary curve.

• Prof. Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University. Dr. Srivastava is the coordinator of the laboratory for computational vision at Florida State University.
His research concerns "image understanding" which aims to develop automated systems that can match human abilities in analyzing images.

CVIAL INVITED SPEAKER

• Dr. Hilary Thompson, Lousiana State University, New Orleans. Dr. Thompson is member of the Biological Computation and Visualization Center at the Lousiana State University Eye Center. His research concerns statistical analysis of hyperspectral biomedical images.

GRADUATE STUDENT/YOUNG RESEARCHER POSTER SESSION

CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

The mini-symposium is primarily sponsored with the generous support from Prof. Frits Ruymgaart's Paul Whitfield Endowed Horn Professorship and by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Horn Professor Sunanda D. Mitra is providing support for the CVIAL invited speaker. The National Science Foundation is providing travel support for junior participants. The material presented is based upon work partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0541993.

SOCIAL PROGRAM

On Saturday (November 19), a local sight-seeing tour is arranged to Palo Duro Canyon State Park , approximately two hours away from Lubbock. In this social session the participants, especially the graduate students and early-career researchers, will have the opportunity to visit and interact with the speakers in an informal atmosphere.

CONFERENCE FEES

TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION

Flying to Lubbock : Service to Lubbock International Airport include Southwest Airlines, Continental Airlines, American Airlines, and Delta Airlines. For more information on LIA or the City of Lubbock, visit the Lubbock Convention & Tourism Bureau . Available transportation service from LIA, located approximately 15 minutes from the conference hotels, includes City Cab (806) 765-7474, Yellow Cab (806) 765-7777, Royal Cab (806) 749 5333, VIP Royal coach Private Service (806) 795 3888, Limousines of Lubbock (806) 743 5466, Lone Star Limousine (888) 286 5466, White Knights Limousines (806) 799 3366.

Driving to Lubbock : Centrally located between Dallas, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, Interstate 27 connects the city of Lubbock with two east-west interstate systems, I-20 and I-40. State highways 82, 84, 87, and 114 also provide easy access to cities throughout the region. The following numbers may also provide more information: Emergency Road Conditions - (806) 745-4411, Texas Department of Transportation - (806) 745-4411, Tourist Information - (800) 452-9292.

Hotel Information : A block of non-smoking, double-bed rooms with special conference room rates ($65 + Taxes) has been negotiated for the participants at:

Four Points Hotel-Sheraton
505 Avenue Q
Lubbock, Texas - 79401
Telephone: (806) 747-0171
Fax: (806)-747-9243

Participants should make their hotel reservation as soon as possible. Please make sure to mention "RedRaider 2005 Minisymposium" when making reservations. Note that the Four Points Hotel-Sheraton  provides free shuttle service to and  from Texas Tech University.

Things to do in Lubbock :From dinner and drinks on neon-lined Buddy Holly Avenue to family entertainment at the the Science Spectrum and Omnimax Theater you may be surprised to find all there is to see and do in Lubbock, Texas. Lubbock has a rich musical history and you are sure to find fantastic local talent any night of the week. And don't miss the chance to learn about the history of the region at the National Ranching Heritage Center. So come to Lubbock, open your mind and expect the unexpected!

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