Seats are filled, and registration is closed for the Cornell Day of Statistics.
The conference will take place at the Statler Hotel in the J. Willard Marriott Executive Education Center (Breakfast & Refreshments will be served in the Conference Foyer; Talks will be in the Amphitheater).
Program Schedule
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8:30a - 9:00a – Breakfast/Registration
9:00a – Opening remarks from Computing and Information Science Dean Greg Morrisett
9:05a - 10:15a – Presentation of the Distinguished Alumni Award to Bruce Turnbull (Ph.D. ’71), who will follow with his talk “Sequential Statistics and Clinical Trials: From Biblical Times to Modern Day Adaptive Designs” Chair: David Ruppert, Cornell University.
10:15a - 10:30a – Refreshments
Session 1 – Chair: Florentina Bunea, Cornell University
10:30a - 11:00a – Chris Jennison, University of Bath, presents "A Search and Jump Algorithm for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling"
11:00a - 11:30a – Jun Liu, Harvard, presents "Detecting Relationships Via Slicing and Inverse Modeling"
11:30a - 11:45a – Q & A
Travel time to Physical Sciences Building
12:00p - 1:30p – Lunch @ Baker Portico; Poster Session @ Baker Atrium
Travel time to Statler
Session 2 – Chair: Jacob Bien, Cornell University
1:45p - 2:15p – Nancy Zhang, University of Pennsylvania, presents "Statistical Models for Single Cell RNA Sequencing"
2:15p - 2:45p – Iain Johnstone, Stanford, presents "Eigenvalues and Variance Components"
2:45p - 3:15p – Luc Devroye, McGill University, presents "Cellular Tree Classifiers"
3:15p - 3:30p – Q & A
3:30p - 3:50p - Refreshments
Session 3 – Chair: Yang Ning, Cornell University
3:50p - 4:20p – Alessandro Rinaldo, Carnegie Mellon University, presents "A Modern Look at Sample Splitting"
4:20p - 4:50p – Han Liu, Princeton, presents "Combinatorial Inference"
4:50p - 5:00p – Q & A
Parking
Day parking permits are available at on-campus information and parking booths for $10. For more information on on-campus parking, visit here. Booths can be found at these locations.
Places to Stay
A block of rooms has been booked at the Best Western University Inn, at 1020 Ellis Hollow Rd in Ithaca. To make a reservation, please call the Inn at 607-272-6100 and request the Cornell Day of Statistics rate, which is available until August 15.
The Statler Hotel offers beautiful rooms in the heart of Cornell's campus, with parking and dining options available.
Hotel Ithaca and Hilton Garden Inn are both located downtown, near the Commons, and are an easy bus ride from campus.
For other lodging options, see the list at VisitIthaca.com.
General Information
Dining on Campus or in nearby Collegetown
