SPES Sessions at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Atlanta, August 5-9, 2001

SPES Program Highlights for JSM 2001
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Schedule of SPES, Q&P and Co-Sponsored Activities at JSM 2001

SPES Program Highlights for JSM 2001

Joanne Wendelberger, 2001 JSM Program Chair

The theme for JSM 2001 Atlanta is “Statistical Science for the Information Age.” The SPES program includes a variety of sessions featuring innovative applications and methodological advances.

SPES will be the primary sponsor for 3 invited sessions:

• Dimension Reduction for Simulation Science Data - George Ostrouchov, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has put together an exciting session addressing the challenges associated with large datasets generated in simulation studies. Participants are Chao Yang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Edward Wegman, George Mason University, and Leslie Moore, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and discussant Val Fedorov, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals.
• Data Integration - Art Fries, Institute for Defense Analysis, has organized a session on the emerging area of Data Integration that will include presentations by Fred Hulting from Pillsbury, Alyson Wilson from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Hien Tran from the California Air Resources Board.
• Impact of Dispersion Effects in Analyzing Unreplicated Fractional Factorial Designs - Dennis Lin has organized this invited session in the ever important area of design and analysis of experiments where both location and dispersion are of interest. This session includes speakers William Brenneman, Procter and Gamble, Richard McGrath, Bowling Green State University, and discussant Guohua (James) Pan, Oakland University.

SPES is also cosponsoring the following invited sessions:

• The Technometrics Invited Session
• Generalized Linear Models in Industry: Design and Analysis, sponsored by Q&P
• Optimization in Statistics, sponsored by Q&P
• Applied Statistics for Microelectronics Industry, sponsored by Q&P

SPES will be hosting two topic contributed sessions:

• Topics in Sampling Solids, Liquids, and Gases - Organized by Patricia Smith, Alpha Stat Consulting, this session examines problems faced in a variety of physical sampling situations. Session participants include Patricia Smith, Jeffrey Myers, Richard Bilonick, Evan Englund, and Lynn Vanatta, Air Liquide
• Managing Variation in the Information Age - This session, organized by Todd Graves features innovative approaches to the statistical treatment of variation in a diverse set of applications. Speakers include Michael Wincek, Stacey Hartley, David Banaszak, Lorraine Denby, and Gennadiy Gorelik. SPES is cosponsoring a Q&P Topic Contributed Session on Robust Experimental Design.

The SPES contributed program features a session on Experimental Design Strategies dedicated to the memory of Oscar Kempthorne. Other contributed sessions include presentations on Modeling and Bounding Techniques, Analysis of Lifetime and Failure Data, Computational Experiments and Studies, and Wavelet and Time-Dependent Data Analysis. SPES is co-sponsoring Q&P contributed sessions on Reliability and Failure Analysis, Quality System Topics, and Model Building Tools

SPES poster presenters will be presenting their work in the 3 joint-sponsored poster sessions to be held on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 12:00 to 2:00. Be sure to take this opportunity for direct interaction with your SPES colleagues participating in the poster sessions.

The SPES Roundtable Luncheons and the SPES Mixer/Business Meeting provide additional opportunities to meet and eat with your SPES colleagues!

Roundtable Luncheons