IISA Conference Draws Diverse Crowd
Nitis Mukhopadhyay, University of Connecticut-Storrs
Awards and
Winners
Lifetime Achievement Award,
S. R. S. Varadhan
Young Researcher Award,
Anindya Roy and Sujit K. Ghosh
(theory) and Sayan Mukherjee
(applications)
From left: Debanjan Bhattacharjee with Nitis, Ranjan, Mahua, and
Student Paper Competition,
Shankha Mukhopadhyay
Arnab Maity (theory) and Tyler
McCormick (applications)
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This stands out as the
most-attended IISA
reliability, machine learning, model diag-
conference held in
nostics and selection, optimal design,
North America
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order statistics and censoring, pharmaceu-
tical statistics, scan statistics, selection and
sequential estimation, semiparametric esti-
mation, small-area estimation, spatial and
From left: Dipak K. Dey, Suman Singha (vice provost,
spatio-temporal models, statistical analysis
University of Connecticut), Malay Ghosh, Subir Ghosh, Nalini
of biological data, summer undergraduate
Ravishanker, and Nitis Mukhopadhyay
mathematical sciences research institute,
and wildlife ecology. An editorial panel dis-
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early 180 participants attended guration taking place the following morn- cussion also was organized.
the International Indian Statistical ing. The technical program included ple- On the final day, more than 110 guests
Association (IISA) conference, nary lectures by Jayaram Sethuraman and attended the conference banquet. Local
sponsored and hosted by the Department Marvin Zelen. A special feature introduced statisticians with friends and families orga-
of Statistics at the University of during this conference was a series of lec- nized a pre-banquet cultural program (pro-
Connecticut-Storrs May 22–25, 2008. It tures named after R. R. Bahadur, D. Basu, duced and directed by Nitis and Mahua
was additionally sponsored and partly V. S. Huzurbazar, P. R. Krishnaiah, and Mukhopadhyay) with live Indian tradition-
funded by the American Statistical P. V. Sukhatme. Evarist Gine, Glen Meeden, al music and poetry recitations. Graduate
Association and a number of partners from L. J. Wei, Barry Arnold, and Sanat Sarkar students Rohini Sen and Vishal Thapar
business and industry. This stands out as presented these specially named lectures. emceed the evening’s program, while a com-
the most-attended IISA conference held in Additionally, there were 45 invited mittee of graduate students—Balaji Raman,
North America. Participants came from all paper sessions on numerous topics, includ- Rohini Sen, and Jeffrey Stratton—helped.
over the world, including Bangladesh, ing adaptive sample size determination, The local organizing committee members
Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Egypt, France, advances in statistical genomics, applied for this conference were Dipak K. Dey,
Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, probability, associations and approxima- Mukhopadhyay, and Nalini Ravishanker.
and Sweden. They represented academia, tions, Bayesian analysis, bioinformatics, IISA is a nonprofit organization open to
centers and institutes, government, and biomedical research, competing risks, anyone interested in the association’s objec-
industry. Additionally, there was a large emerging issues in drug development, tives. For more information, visit www.
group of student participants. financial statistics, generalized linear and stat.osu.edu/~hnn/IISA.html. For details
The conference began with an evening time series models, high-dimensional about the conference, visit www.stat.uconn.
reception/registration/mixer, with the inau- data analysis, inference, life-testing and edu/~nitis/IISA2008/index.htm. n
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