Featured Plenary Speakers for the 2008 Spring Research Conference
Peter Bickel
Professor of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
Peter Bickel is past President of the Bernoulli Society and of the
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a MacArthur Fellow, a COPSS
prize winner, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Bickel uses
asymptotic theory to guide the development and assessment of
semiparametric models. His studies of hidden Markov models are
directed toward understanding how well the method of maximum
likelihood performs. He is also interested in the bootstrap, in
particular in constructing diagnostic measures to detect malfunction
of this technique. Recently he has become involved in developing
empirical statistical models for genomic sequences.
James Glimm
Distinguished Professor,
Dept of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
University at Stony Brook
James Glimm has been noted for contributions to C*-algebras, quantum
field theory, partial differential equations, fluid dynamics,
scientific computing,the modeling of petroleum reservoirs, and
geometric models for structural biology. Dr. Glimm received a 2002
National Medal of Science. The honor - one of the most prestigious in
academia for researchers who make major impacts in fields of science
and engineering through career-long, ground-breaking achievements -
is given for work that spawned many advances in scientific theory and
developments leading to new technologies. Glimm was honored for his
work in shock wave theory and other cross-disciplinary fields in
mathematical physics.
Zhong Lin Wang
Regents' Professor
Director, Center for Nanostructure Characterization
Georgia Tech
Dr. Wang received his Ph.D in Physics from Arizona State University
in 1987. After a year of post-doctoral in the State University of New
York at Stony Brook in 1988, Dr. Wang was awarded a Research
Fellowship by the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge,
England. He received a U.S. Department of Energy Research Fellowship
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1989, and one year later he was
appointed as a Research Associate Professor by the University of
Tennessee. In 1993, he moved to the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) to set up the microscopy facility. He joined
Georgia Tech in 1995.
Max Morris
Professor of Statistics & Professor of Industrial Engineering
Iowa State University
Max Morris has a joint appointment at Iowa State University as Professor of Statistics, and Professor of Industrial Engineering. He held previous positions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Mississippi State University, and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio. He became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1994, and served as Editor for Technometrics from 1996 to 1998. Professor Morris has earned numerous awards, including the ASQ Jack Youden Prize (2001), NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research (2002) and the Iowa STAT-ers Teacher of the Year Award (2004).
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