50th Anniversary Celebration & Symposium

Program

Time	Session	Speaker(s)
8:30-9:00 AM	Registration
9:00-9:45	Opening remarks	Dean Jeremy Bloxham, Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust, Department Chair Xiao-Li Meng et alia
9:45-10:45	Perspectives on Statistical Inference I-The Past 50 Years	Herman Chernoff and Howard Raiffa
11:00-12:30 PM	Bayesian Computation and Hierarchical Modeling	Andrew Gelman, Jun Liu, Carl Morris
12:30-1:30	Lunch/Poster Session of research by current students
1:30-3:00	In memory of William Cochran	Sir David Cox, S.R.S. Rao Poduri, Donald Rubin
3:15-4:45	In memory of Frederick Mosteller	Stephen Fienberg, Janet Norwood, Judith Singer
6:00-7:00	Cocktail Reception
7:00-	Banquet	Stephen Stigler

Time	Session	Speaker(s)
9:00-10:30 AM	Perspectives on Statistics and its Interfaces	Persi Diaconis, David Donoho, Louise Ryan
10:45-12:15 PM	Perspectives on Statistical Inference II-Building on the Past	Arthur Dempster, Chuanhai Liu, Glenn Shafer
12:30-1:30	Lunch/Poster Session of research by current students
1:30-3:00	Thirty years of the EM Algorithm and Beyond	Nan Laird, Xiao-Li Meng, David van Dyk

Speakers above organized alphabetically.

Symposium located at Gutman Conference Center,
Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA.

Celebratory events at Harvard Club of Boston-Downtown,
One Federal Street, 38th floor, Boston, MA.

Transportation provided between Gutman and the Club.