Tentative Program

(Oct.15, 2000)

IISA 2000 - 2001 - INDIA - JSM

Joint Statistical Meeting

December 30, 2000 - January 3, 2001

India International Centre, 40 Max Muller Marg

Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, India

Contact Address

Prof. Kanwar Sen
Organizing Secretary
Department of Statistics, University of Delhi
Delhi - 110007, India

Tel. : 091-11-7256617 (Off.)
       091-11-7257725/Ext. 1332 (Off)
       091-11-7231427 (Res.)
Fax : 091-11-7256617
       091-11-7256671

E-mail : ksen@del2.vsnl.net.in

Advisory Committee

Chairman : J. K. Ghosh, ISI, IISA

Secretary : Kanwar Sen, ISPS, IISA

Members : G. J. Babu, IISA; J. V. Deshpande, ISA, IISA; Subir Ghosh, IISA; A. P. Gore, ISA; K. V. Irniraya, GOI; S. G. Mohanty, IISA; S. P. Mukherjee, CSA, IAPQR; Prem Narain, ISAS; V. R. Panchmukhi, IES; S. B. Rao, ISI; N. S. Sastry, GOI; S. D. Sharma, IASRI; Padam Singh, IRMS, ISMS

Saturday, December 30, 2000

11a.m. - 1 p.m. : Inauguration

Speakers will include:

1. Arun Shourie, Minister of State for Statistics, Programme Implementation and Planning, Government of India

2. C. Rangarajan, Governer of Andhra Pradesh and Chairman, National Commission for Statistics, (formerly Governer, Reserve Bank of India).

Detailed program will be available later.

2 - 4 p.m. : Invited Sessions 1 (I-1).

(a) Topic: Probability and Stochastic Processes

Organizers : V. Mandrekar and U. V. Naik-Nimbalkar

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. B. S. Rajput 2. A. Bhatt 3. Y. Kondratiev

(b) Topic : Design of Experiments (I)

Organizer : M. L.Aggarwal / R. Parsad

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. D. K. J. Lin 2. R. Mukerjee 3. G. G. Vining 4. Sudhir Gupta

(c) Topic : Reliability (I)

Organizer(s) : S. C. Kochar

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. P. Boland 2. G. S. Mudholkar 3. R. C. Tiwari 4. S. C. Kochar

(d) Topic : Advances in Statistical Methods for Animal and Plant Genetic Improvement Methods

Organizer(s) : V. K. Bhatia

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. Srabashi Basu 2. P. N. Bhat 3. Ravindra Khattree 4. S. G. Mohanty 5. Prem Narain 6. G. K. Shukla

(e) Topic : Aplications of Statistics to Science

Organizer(s) : T. Banerjee

Chair : Partha Lahiri

Speakers : 1. Probal Chaudhari 2. K. Morales 3. D. Nettleton
Discussant 4. T. Bannerjee

4.30 - 6.00 p.m. Invited Sessions 2 (I-2).

(a) Topic : Semi and Non-parametric Methods

Organizer : H. L.Koul

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. M. Hallin 2. M. L. Puri 3. A. K. M. Saleh

(b) Topic : Inference in Stochastic Processes(I)

Organizer : I. V. Basawa

Chair : B. R. Bhat

Speakers : 1. I. V. Basawa 2. Somnath Datta 3. B. L. S. P. Rao

(c) Topic : Biostatistics (I)

Organizers : Ayan Basu, Srabashi Basu

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. D. Heitjan 2. Y. K. Truong 3. T. Yanagawa

(d) Topic : Shape Analysis

Organizer : K. V. Mardia

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. F. Bookstein 2. J. Kent 3. V. Petrangenaru

(e) Topic : Statistics in Industry and Technology

Organizer : B. Abraham

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. B. Abraham 2. D. Becroft 3. A. Prat 4. J. Chen

Sunday, December 31, 2000

9 - 11a.m. Invited Sessions 3 (I-3)

(a) Stochastic Processes (I)

Organizer : R. L. Karandikar

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. Sreela Gangopadhyay 2. A. Goswami 3. S. Iyer 4. TBA

(b) Topic : Recent Advances in Queuing Theory and Methods

Organizer : V. Ramaswami

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. M. L. Chaudhary 2. G. Latouche 3. V. Ramaswami 4. P. Taylor

(c) Topic : Linear Models and Multivariate Analysis

Organizer : T. Mathew

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. P. Bhimasankaran 2. K. Krishnamoorthy 3. D. Van Rosen 4. M. K. Sharma

(d) Topic : Clinical Trials

Organizers : G. Aras and C. Lele

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. M. Beltangdi 2. M. Huque 3. H. Patel 4. A. Shah

(e) Topic : Directional Data Analysis

Organizers : S. R. Jammalamadaka and A. Sengupta

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. Sujit Ghosh 2. K. V. Mardia 3. A. Munk 4. K. Shimizu 5. Harshinder Singh

11.30 - 1.00 p.m. Contributory Papers Session I(C-1)

TBA

2 - 4 p.m. Invited Sessions 4(I-4)

(a) Topic : Order Statistics and Extreme Values

Organizers : N. R. Mohan and H. N. Nagaraja

Chair : G. S. Mudholkar

Speakers : 1. B. C. Arnold 2. N. Balakrishnan 3. R. D. Reiss 4. H. N. Nagaraja

(b) Topic : Stochastic Models

Organizers : P. R. Parthasarathy

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. P. Jagers 2. J. S. Matis 3. R. F. Serfozo 4. W. Stadje

(c) Topic : Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods

Organizer : D. Dey

Chair : Bani Mallick

Speakers : 1. P. Mueller 2. S. S. Gupta 3. L. Kuo 4. D. Dey

(d) Topic : Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Agriculture

Organizer : Randhir Singh

Chair : R. S. Chhikara

Speakers : 1. R. S. Chikara 2. G. Haunschak 3. J. S. Parihar 4. Anil Rai 5. Randhir Singh 6. N. Velayathan

(e) Topic : Econometric Models for Financial Sector

Organizer : V. R. Panchmukhi

Chair : TBA

Speakers : TBA

4.30 - 6.30 p.m. (P-1) Plenary Session I

Speakers :
1. S. R. S. Vardhan - Chair : K.R.Parthasarathy
2. P.K. Sen - Chair : J. K. Ghosh

Monday, January 1, 2001

9 - 11 a.m. Invited Sessions 5 (I-5)

(a) Topic : Stochastic Processes (II)

Organizer : B. S. Rajput

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. K. B. Athreya 2. R. N. Bhattacharya 3. V. Mandrekar 4. Jie Xiong

(b) Topic : Time Series Analysis and Recent Developments

Organizer : T. Subba Rao

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. M. M. Gabr 2. D. J. Thomson 3. G. Terdik 4. Pham Dinh Tuan 5. T. Subba Rao

(c) Topic : Sampling Theory and Applications

Organizer : J. V. Deshpande

Chair : V. P. Godambe

Speakers : 1. J. N. K. Rao 2. T. J. Rao 3. Arijit Chaudhury 4. K. Vijayan

(d) Topic : Applied and Industrial Statistics

Organizer : B. Das

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. S. B. Bagchi 2. S. P. Das / B. Das 3. M. Mazumdar 4. M. S. Srivastava

(e) Topic : Economic reforms, Employment, Labour market and Poverty

Organizer : V. R. Panchmukhi

Chair : TBA

Speakers : TBA

11.30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Invited Sessions 6 (I-6)

(a) Topic : Reliability (II)

Organizer : N. D. Singpurwalla

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. E. Arjas 2. U. Jensen 3. T. Mazzuchi / R. Soyer

(b) Topic : Biostatistics (II)

Organizer : Debjyoti Sinha

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. M. Banerjee 2. M. Manutunga 3. B. Mullick 4. D. Sinha

(c) Topic : Astrostatistics

Organizer : G. J. Babu

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. David van Dyk 2. J. V. Narlikar 3. P. Sreekumar

(d) Topic : Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials and Drugs certification

Organizers : Padam Singh and G. Aras

Chair : Padam Singh

Speakers : 1. R. O'Neill 2. Padam Singh 3. TBA

(e) Topic : Large scale sample surveys (Panel discussion)

Organizer : N. S. S. Sastry

Chair : TBA

Participants : P. Bisaria, B. S. Minhas, V. R. Rao, J. Roy, S.D.Tendulkar, V. Varma

2 - 4 p.m. Invited Sessions 7 (I-7)

(a) Topic : Statistical Models in Ecology

Organizer : A. P. Gore

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. G. P. Patil 2. S. Lele 3. M..B. Rajarshi 4. A. Dewanji

(b) Inference in Stochastic Processes (II)

Organizers : M. B. Rajarshi and T. N. Sriram

Chair : S. R. Adke

Speakers : 1. A. K. Basu 2. Arup Bose 3. H. Koul 4. P. M. Robinson 5. T. N. Sriram

(c) Topic : Design of Experiments II

Organizers : R. Prasad and N.K. Mandal

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. A. C. Atkinson 2. Ashish Das 3. K. V. Prabhu 4. E. P. Liski 5. N. K. Mandal

(d) Topic : Statistical Approaches in Veterinary Sciences

Organizer : S. Huzurbazar

Chair : Gita Mishra

Speakers : 1. E. Bedrick 2. S. Huzurbazar 3. W. Johnson 4. P. Laud

(e) Topic : Empirical Issues in Economic Modelling

Organizer : A. Bera

Chair : A. Bera

Speakers : 1. S. Das 2. N. Datta Gupta 3. S. Sareen 4. N. Sarkar

4.30 to 6.30 p.m. Plenary Session 2 (P-2 )

Speakers :

1. C. R. Rao - Chair : P.K. Sen
2. G. Kallianpur - Chair : N. U. Prabhu
3. J. N. Srivastava - Chair : M. L. Puri

Tuesday, January 2, 2001

9 - 11 a.m. Invited Sessions 8 (I-8)

(a) Topic : Stochastic Processes (III)

Organizer : B. V. Rao

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. V. S. Borkar 2. K. Ramamoorthy 3. R. Ramasubramanian 4. Rahul Roy

(b) Topic : Special topics in Foundations of Statistics

Organizer: S. K. Upadhyaya

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. B. K. Kale 2. M. Delampady 3. W. J. Hall

(c) Topic : Genomics and Bioinformatics

Organizer : S. Adak

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. A. Krause 2. M. Wilcox 3. Rajani Joshi 4. Chandrika B. Rao

(d) Topic : Sequential Analysis

Organizer : N. Mukhopadhyay

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. M. Aoshima 2. A. C. Chaturvedi 3. T. K. S. Solanky 4. B. M. de Silva

(e) Topic : Issues in Testing and Estimation of Econometric Models

Organizer : A. Bera

Chair : A. Bera

Speaker : 1. A. Bera 2. H. D. Vinod 3. A. Ullah 4. A. Wan

11-30 a.m. - 1 p.m. C-2 Contributory Papers Session II

TBA

2.00 - 4.00 p.m. Invited Sessions 9 (I-9)

(a) Topic : Applied Probability Processes and Procedures

Organizer : U. N. Bhat

Chair : U. N. Bhat

Speakers : 1. N. U. Prabhu 2. Manju L. Agarwal 3. U. N. Bhat 4. C. R. Chakravarthy

(b) Topic : Environmental Statistics

Organizer : A. H. Elsharawi

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. A. L. Carriquiry 2. V. K. Jandhyala 3. S. R. Easterby 4. A. H. Elsharawi

(c) Topic : Design of Experiments (III)

Organizer : V. K. Gupta

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. A. Dey 2. Subir Ghosh 3. K. R. Shah 4. B. K. Sinha

(d) Topic : Multivariate Analysis

Organizer : Subir Ghosh

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. S. Das Gupta 2. K. C. Chanda 3. C. Mehta 4. D. Naik 5. B. Nandram

(e) Flow of funds and National Accounts

Organizer : Pradeep Maiti

Chair : TBA

Speakers : 1. Pradip Maiti 2. Mihir Rakshit 3. TBA

4.30 - 6 p.m. Memorial Session and Closure ceremony

Wednesday, January 3, 2001 Excursions

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