2011 IISA Conference on Probability, Statistics, and Data Analysis, April 21-24, 2011, Raleigh, NC, USA
 
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Plenary Speakers:

*Due to unavoidable reasons, Professor Peter Hall's plenary talk is canceled.



Sally Morton

University of Pittsburgh

http://www.biostat.pitt.edu/directory/bios/morton.asp

Sally Morton received her Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University. Her research interest is in biostatistics, comparative effectiveness and meta-analysis. She has authored more than 100 research articles. She worked in RAND corporation and RTI International in the past. She is currently the past-president of the American Statistical Association.



Michael Jordan

University of California, Berkeley

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan

Michael Jordan is a Professor of Statistics and Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1985 from University of California, San Diego in Cognitive Science. His research interest span over Bayesian nonparemetrics, machine learning, computational biology, graphical models and various other fields. He has advised over 40 Ph.D. students and mentored about 25 post-doctoral researchers, and served on numerous editorial boards. He has received numerous honors including membership of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Fellows of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, American Statistical Association, American Association of Advancement of Sciences, various distinguished professorship and best papers awards.



SRS Varadhan

New York University

http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/varadhan/

Srinivasa Varadhan obtained B.Sc. degree from Presidency College, Madras in 1959 and Ph.D. degree from Indian Statistical Institute in 1963. His research interest includes various branches of probability theory such as the theory of large deviations and diffusion processes. He has won numerous prizes including the famous Abel Prize (2007) and was awarded Padma Bhushan (2008) by the Government of India.