Chin Long Chiang Memorial Celebration Workshop

 

Location:

University Club at the California Memorial Stadium, 2227 Piedmont Ave, 
Berkeley

Date/Time:

Saturday, November 15, 2014 | 10:00am-6:00pm

Organized by:

The Graduate Group in Biostatistics at UC Berkeley, the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) and the ASA San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (SFASA).

Event website:     http://www.sfasa.org/DrChiangWorkshop/index.html

Registration

 

Program:

9:30—10:00am:  Registration and snack

 

Welcome

10:00—10:05am:  Introduction by Nick Jewell (UC Berkeley) and Ying Lu (Stanford)

10:05—10:20am:  Welcome from Dean Bertozzi (UC Berkeley)

 

Memories of Chin Long Chiang

Chair: Juliet P. Shaffer (UC Bekeley)

10:20­—10:40am:  Family: Harriet Chiang (SF State U)

10:40—11:00am:  UCB Division of Biostatistics: Steve Selvin (UC Berkeley)

 

Stochastic Processes

Chair: Ruixiao Lu (Genomic Health Inc.)

11:00—11:30am:  Grace Yang (UMD) – ChiangÕs work in Stochastic Processes

11:30—12:00pm:  David Brillinger (UC Berkeley)

 

12:00—1:00pm   Lunch

 

Survival Analysis/Competing Risks

Chair: Kjell Doksum (U Wisc)

1:00—1:30pm:      Alice Whittemore (Stanford) – Good Health: Statistical Challenges in Personalizing Disease Prevention

1:30—2:00pm:      Mei-Ling Ting Lee (UMD) – Threshold Regressions for Lifetime Data: Modeling Event Times by a Stochastic Process Reaching a Threshold

 

Applications

Chair: Robert Hiatt (UCSF)

2:00—2:30pm:      Colin Wu (NHLBI) – Measuring Dynamic-Tracking Abilities with Longitudinal Data: Two Examples of NIH Studies

2:30—3:00pm:      Brad Biggerstaff  (CDC) – E pluribus unum:  CL ChiangÕs contribution to entomology, public health, and beyond

 

Break

3:00—3:10pm

 

Future of Biostatistics

Chair: Jianqing Fan (Princeton)

3:10—3:30pm:  Ji-Qian Fang (Sun Yet-Sen U) – Chin Long ChiangÕs Impact on Biostatistics in China

3:30—3:50pm:  Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard)

3:50—4:10pm:  Nicholas P. Jewell (UC Berkeley)

4:10—4:30pm:  Panel Discussions

 

4:30—6:00pm Wine and Cheese Reception

 

We reserved the Prospect Court Lot for this event (a permit to park will cost guest approx. 12.00).  The Prospect Court Lot is adjacent to the southern edge of California Memorial Stadium - - see campus parking map at http://publicsafetyandtransportation.berkeley.edu/PDFs/PadMap2005.pdf and general driving directions are pasted below.

 

From the Prospect Court lot, guests will enter the Stadium through Gate 6. From the Concourse Level take Elevator #1 to the University Club.

 

GENERAL DIRECTIONS FROM INTERSTATE 580/I-80:

 

Heading North on Interstate 580/I-80

EXIT Ashby Ave/Shellmound Street

Keep Left at the fork, follow signs for Ashby Avenue/ CA-13 (1.4 mi)

Keep Left to continue of Adeline Street (0.4 mi)

Slight Left onto Shattuck Ave (0.3 mi)

Right onto Channing Way (1.0 mi)

At the traffic circle, continue straight to stay on Channing Way

Left onto Prospect Street (0.2mi)

continue on Prospect Street to the Prospect Court Lot

 

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