Program Committee: Co-Chairs Mike Daniels (UT) and Timothy Hanson (USC); Mike Kutner (Emory); Jane Harvill (Baylor), President, SRCOS; Don Edwards (USC), Past-President, SRCOS. Kathy Ensor (Rice), local arrangements.

50th Anniversary Summer Research Conference
2014 SRC Program

Sunday, June 1, 2014
5:00 – 7:00pm – Registration/West Promenade & Mixer/East Parlor

Monday, June 2, 2014
7:00 – 7:45am – Registration/West Promenade
7:45 – 8:00am – Welcome / Music Hall
David Scott, Chair Department of Statistics, Rice University
Jane Harvill, President, Southern Regional Council on Statistics

8:00 – 9:55am – SESSION I: CAUSAL INFERENCE

          Chair: Michael Daniels, The University of Texas at Austin

          Speakers:
          Brent Johnson, Emory University, (Slides)
          Chenguang Wang, Johns Hopkins University, (Slides)
          Marie Davidian, North Carolina State University, (Slides)

9:55 – 10:10am – Coffee Break

10:10 – 12:05pm – PLENARY SESSION I: 

Chair: Michael Daniels, The University of Texas at Austin, (Slides)
Anastasios (Butch) Tsiatis North Carolina State University, (Slides)
Discussant: Bibhas Chakraborty, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School & Columbia University, (Slides)

12:10 – 1:30pm – ASA/Kutner Faculty Invited Paper and Poster Session/East Parlor
Lunch/Veranda

7:00 – 9:00pm – SESSION II: HISTORY OF SRCOS / Music Hall

Chair: Jane Harvill, Baylor University

Speakers:
Robert L. Taylor, Clemson University
W. J. Padgett, University of South Carolina
Michael Kutner, Emory University

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

8:00 – 9:55am – SESSION III: COMPLEX LONGITUDINAL DATA / Music Hall

          Chair: Genevera Allen, Rice University

           Speakers:
           Michael J. Daniels, University of Texas
           Jonathan Schildcrout, Vanderbilt University, (Slides)
           Jeremy Gaskins, University of Louisville, (Slides)

9:55 – 10:10am – Coffee Break

10:10 – 12:05pm – PLENARY SESSION II: 

Chair: Don Edwards, University of South Carolina

Peter Mueller, University of Texas at Austin, (Slides)
Discussant: Wenyi Wang, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, (Slides)

12:10 – 2:00pm – NSF/ANDERSON STUDENT POSTER SESSION (boxed lunch)/East Parlor
Lunch/Music Hall

5:00 – 6:00pm – Reception (cash bar)/Terrace
6:00 – 7:00pm – Banquet /Veranda
7:00 – 7:45pm – Banquet Speaker Simon Sheather
7:45 – 8:30pm – Awards Ceremony and Pictures

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

8:00 – 9:55am – SESSION IV: SURVIVAL ANALYSIS / Music Hall

          Chair: Yichao Wu, North Carolina State University, (Slides)

Speakers:
Xuelin Huang, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, (Slides)
Lianming Wang, University of South Carolina, (Slides)
Akim Adekpedjou, Missouri University of Science and Technology

9:55 – 10:10am – Coffee Break

10:10 – 12:05pm – SESSION V: BIG DATA

Chair: Lianming Wang, University of South Carolina

Speakers:
Jianhua Huang, Texas A&M University, (Slides)
Yichao Wu, North Carolina State University
Genevera Allen, Rice University, (Slides)