Frontiers of Statistical, Mathematical and Computational Sciences (SMCS)

PROGRAM

Wednesday, 1 September, 2010

0930-0945      Opening Remarks: Professor Pradeep Rau, Senior Associate Dean School of Business, GWU                 

0945-1215      Session I     Chair: Professor Reza Modarres, GWU
                        
0945-1045      How do we measure information in a prior, Jayanta Ghosh, Purdue University
 
1045-1115      Break

1115-1215     Systems of positively dependent components, Sheldon Ross, University of Southern California

1215-1345      Lunch Break

1345-1600      Session II   Chair: Professor Jonathan Stroud, GWU

1345-1445      The next generation of control system, P.R. Kumar, University of Illinois

1445-1500      Break

1500-1600      Modeling dynamic social networks, Anna Goldenberg, Univ. of Toronto

Thursday, 2 September, 2010

0930-1200    Session III   Chair: Professor Refik Soyer, GWU

0930-1030    Learning and nonlinear filtering in econometrics, Nicholas Polson, University of Chicago

1030-1100   Break

1100-1200    Expressing and solving variational models, Stephen Robinson, University Of Wisconsin (Madison)

1200-1330    Lunch

1330-1600   Session IV   Chair: Professor Tapan Nayak, GWU

1330-1430   Consensus and cooperation in multi-agent systems, Reza Olfati-Saber,  Dartmouth College

1430-1445   Break

1445- 1545  Decision making with effects of collusion and mutual attraction, Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas-El Paso

1545            Concluding Remarks/Adjourn