ConferenceProgramCommittee

University of South Carolina, Department of Statistics

International Conference in

Reliability and Survival Analysis (ICRSA) 2003

May 21-24, 2003

Program Committee

Local Organizers

Prof. William J. Padgett (Program Co-Chair), Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina.

Prof. Edsel A. Pena (Program Co-Chair), Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina.

Prof. James Lynch, Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina.

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Henry Block, Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Prof. Myles Hollander, Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.

Prof. Jerry Lawless, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Prof. Ross Prentice, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington and Director of the Fred Hutchinson Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.

Prof. Nozer Singpurwalla, Institute for Reliability and Risk Analysis, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

Prof. Lee Jen Wei, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

Invited Sessions and Their Organizers

Prof. Terje Aven, Stavanger University, Norway, and Prof. Uwe Jensen, University of Ulm, Germany.

Prof. Odd Aalen, Section of Medical Statistics, University of Oslo, Norway.

Dr. Martin Crowder, Department of Mathematics, Huxley Building, Imperial College, London, UK.

Prof. Nader Ebrahimi, Department of Mathematics, Northern Illinois University, USA.

Prof. Luis Escobar, Department of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State University, USA.

Prof. Nancy Flournoy, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University, USA.

Prof. Niels Keiding, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Prof. John Klein, Department of Biostatistics, Medical University of Wisconsin, USA

Prof. Lynn Kuo, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, USA.

Dr. Robert Launer, Mathematical Sciences, US Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.

Prof. Mei-Ling Ting Lee, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, USA.

Dr. Sally Keller-McNulty, Los Alamos National Labs, USA.

Prof. Ian McKeague, Department of Statistics, Florida State University, USA.

Prof. William Q. Meeker, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, USA.

Prof. Min Xie, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Prof. David Oakes, Department of Biostatistics, University of Rochester, USA

Prof. Louise Ryan, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, USA.

Prof. Frank Samaniego, Department of Statistics, University of California at Davis, USA.

Prof. Tom Savits and Prof. Henry Block, Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Prof. Robert Strawderman, BSCB Department, Cornell University, USA.

Prof. Jane-Ling Wang, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.

Prof. Mei-Cheng Wang, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, USA.