Current List of Invited Sessions and Speakers

The following people have agreed to present their research at the Invited Sessions of the conference:

Note that the session numbering below does not necessarily reflect the actual order of the sessions.

Session 1: Recent Developments in Semiparametrics
Michael Kosorok, University of North Carolina (abstract)
Alexander Tsodikov, University of Michigan (abstract)
Yi Li, Harvard University (abstract)
Bin Nan, University of Michigan (abstract)

Session 2: Recent Advances in Nonparametrics
Tian Zheng, Columbia University (abstract)
Todd Ogden, Columbia University (abstract)
Tanya Apanasovich, Cornell University (abstract)
Yulia Gel, University of Waterloo (abstract)

Session 3: Rank-based Methods
Tom Hettmansperger, Penn State University (abstract)
Denis Larocque, HEC Montreal (abstract)
Joe McKean, Western Michigan University (abstract)
William Schucany, Southern Methodist University (abstract)

Session 4: Nonparametric Regression and Density Estimation
Jeff Hart, Texas A & M University (abstract)
Cheolwoo Park, University of Georgia (abstract)
K.B. Kulasekera, Clemson University (abstract)
Michael Minnotte, University of North Dakota (abstract)

Session 5: Nonparametric Constrained Inference
Mary Meyer, Colorado State University (abstract)
Christopher Carolan, East Carolina University (abstract)
Hammou El Barmi, Baruch College (abstract)
Gregg Dinse & Shyamal Peddada, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (abstract)

Session 6: Nonparametrics and Bioinformatics
Peter Müller, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (abstract)
Jeffrey S. Morris, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (abstract)
Wei Pan, University of Minnesota (abstract)
Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University (abstract)

Session 7: Nonparametrics from the Younger Generation
Lexin Li, North Carolina State University (abstract)
Lan Wang, University of Minnesota (abstract)
David Hitchcock, University of South Carolina (abstract)
Ryan Elmore, Colorado State University (abstract)

Session 8: Nonparametric and Semiparametric Modeling and Inference
Wenbin Lu, North Carolina State University (abstract)
Guang Cheng, Duke University (abstract)
Jianhua Huang, Texas A & M University (abstract)
Yuedong Wang, University of California-Santa Barbara (abstract)

Session 9: Bayesian Nonparametrics
Jayaram Sethuraman, Florida State University (abstract)
Dipak K. Dey, University of Connecticut (abstract)
Debajyoti Sinha, Medical University of South Carolina & Florida State University (abstract)
Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan (abstract)

Session 10: A Session in Honor of Pranab Kumar Sen
Joseph Gardiner, Michigan State University (abstract)
Gauri Datta, University of Georgia (abstract)
Mervyn Silvapulle, Monash University (Australia) (abstract)
Yogendra Chaubey, Concordia University (Montreal) (abstract)

Session 11: Nonparametrics in Reliability and Survival Analysis
Russell Stocker, Mississippi State University (abstract)
David Collins, University of New Mexico & Aparna Huzurbazar, Los Alamos National Laboratory (abstract)
Robert Mnatsakanov, West Virginia University (abstract)
Zhezhen Jin, Columbia University (abstract)

Session 12: Nonparametrics: General & Pedagogical
Doug Wolfe, The Ohio State University (abstract)
Paul Kvam, Georgia Institute of Technology (abstract)
Michael Chernick, United BioSource Corporation, Biotechnology Solutions (abstract)
Ehsanes Saleh, Carleton University (Canada) (abstract)

Session 13: Nonparametrics in Biostatistics
Mengling Liu, New York University (abstract)
Elizabeth Slate, Medical University of South Carolina (abstract)
Susanne May, University of California, San Diego (abstract)
Micha Mandel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (abstract)

Session 14: Empirical Likelihood
Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University (abstract)
John Fresen, University of Missouri (abstract)
Mi-Ok Kim, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (abstract)
Mai Zhou, University of Kentucky (abstract)

Session 15: Nonparametric Statistics on Manifolds and Applications
Rabi N. Bhattacharya, University of Arizona (abstract)
Frits Ruymgaart, Texas Tech University (abstract)
Rima Izem, Harvard University (abstract)
Peter T. Kim, University of Guelph (Canada) (abstract)

Session 16
Ron Randles, University of Florida (abstract)
Reza Modarres, The George Washington University (abstract)
Sunil Mathur, University of Mississippi (abstract)
Michael J. Schell, University of South Florida