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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