Puget Sound ASA Meeting
Wednesday, July 31, 2002.
Where: Hales Ales
(Directions to Hales at http://www.halesales.com/BrewPub.html)
Social time: 6:30 p.m.
Dinner: 7:00 p.m.
Cost: $10 students, $18 non-students
Speakers: Frank Block and Stephen Kaluzny, Insightful Corp.
Title: Data Mining: Leveraging Statistics in a Business Context
RSVP: psasa@u.washington.edu
Announcements:
Ron Irving has agreed to become the new Divisional Dean for the
Natural Sciences effective July 1. He is currently the Chair of the
Mathematics Department and a former UW Distinguished Teaching award winner.
Out of town:
Michael Perlman, 7/26 - 8/9, IMS Meeting, Banff
Thomas Richardson, 7/10 - 8/5, Europe, IMS Mtg Banff and UAI,
Edmonton
Paul Sampson, 7/9 - 7/30, vacation
Werner Stuetzle, 7/5 - 8/5, Germany, IMS Mtg, Banff
Elizabeth Thmpson, 7/12 - 7/21, IBC, Freiburg, Germany
Jon Wellner, 7/26 - 8/5, IMS Mtg, Banff; 8/12 - 8/23, Workshop,
Czech Republic and the European Mtg of Statisticians in Prague.
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Welcome:
Denis Allard, INRA Avignon in France, is visiting the department
until July 26th to do research with Adrian Raftery and Chris Fraley
Michael Baake, of Univ. of Greifswald, Germany, will be here from
Aug 1-4 to do research with Tilmann Gneiting.
Sandra Catlin, University of Nevada, will be here until Aug. 15th
to do research with Peter Guttorp.
Peter Clifford, Oxford, is here to teach Stat 593A Summer
quarter
Florence Forbes, INRIA, France, is visiting until September 9th
to do research with Adrian Raftery.
Sandra Freitag, University of Kiel will be here September 1-27 to
do research with Jon Wellner.
Daniela Golinelli, Univ of Southern California will be here until
Aug. 15 to do research with Peter Guttorp.
Sofia Olhede, Imperial College, UK is visiting until August 22nd
to do research with Don Percival.
David Rose, of Boeing is here to teach Statistics 390 Summer
quarter.
Diem-Thy Tran will be our student helper for a month while Na
Lin is on vacation in Thailand.
Aad van der Vaart, Free Univ. of Amsterdam will be here from July
19 to August 9 to do research with Jon Wellner.
Ronald Wehrens of the Netherlands will be visiting Chris Fraley
and Adrian Raftery from September-November 2002.
Out of town:
Judy McPhee, May 24-31, vacation.
Elizabeth Thompson, June 11-15, SCSU Summer Inst., Raleigh, NC;
July 12-21, IBC, Freiburg, Germany.
Congratulations:
Jerry Le Sun received hi Master's of Science Degree and is
continuing his education at the University of Rochester in New York.
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