Overview of Schedule: PDF (with Abstracts)

Talks will be held in Baker Hall A51 (Giant Eagle Auditorium); registration will be in the Baker Lower Level lounge. Conference attendees may also use Baker Hall A53 (Steinberg Auditorium) for meetings, preparation, work, etc.

For those who are not able or comfortable walking between the campus and the hotel, there will be a hotel shuttle that will leave in the morning at 7:45am. The shuttle will also be arranged as needed for return trips.

Wednesday, June 15th

• Welcome Social, Bridges Lounge, Holiday Inn, 6-8pm

Thursday, June 16th

• 8:00-8:30am: Bagels, Pastries, Coffee, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 8:30-8:45am: Conference Welcome/Opening Remarks
  
  
• 8:45-10:15am: Classification Applications in Statistical Forensics
  Chair: Beth Ayers, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
  
  David Friedenberg, Battelle Memorial Institute
  Use of GCxGC-TOFMS and Pattern Recognition for Detection and Attribution {of Organophosphate Pesticide Signatures
  
  Jared Schuetter, Battelle Memorial Institute
  What Made This Hole? The Challenge of Image Analysis in Munition Forensics
  
  Jennifer Wightman, Battelle Memorial Institute
  A Classification Algorithm for the Detection of Chemicals Using Raman Spectroscopic Data
  
  
• 10:15-10:30am: Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 10:30-12:00pm: Classification Applications in Relational Data
  Chair: Rebecca Nugent, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  
  David Krackhardt, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University
  Efficient Extraction of Quality Subgraphs from Large Populations
  
  Pavel Krivitsky, Heinz College/iLab, Dept of Statistics,Carnegie Mellon University
  Latent Space Cluster Models for Social Networks
  
  Andrew Thomas, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  Friends and Enemies: The Classification of Social Network Ties by Antagonism
  
  
• 12:00-1:30pm: Lunch Break
  
  
• 1:30-2:15pm: Keynote Address
  Chair: Rebecca Nugent, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  
  Stephen E. Fienberg, Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University
  Mixed-Membership Models for Disability, Text, and Network Analysis
  
  
• 2:15-2:30pm: Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 2:30-4:00pm: Recent Work in Classification in Education
  Chair: Elizabeth Hohman, Naval Surface Warfare Center
  
  Elizabeth Ayers, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
  Analyzing the Learning Progressions in the Assessing Data Modeling and Statistical Reasoning Curriculum
  
  Tracy Sweet, Dept of Statistics/PIER, Carnegie Mellon University
  Latent Space Social Network Models for Interventions in Education
  
  Turadg Aleahmad, Human Computer Interaction/PIER, Carnegie Mellon University
  Automatic Rating of User-Generated Math Solutions
  
  
• 4:00-4:15pm: Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 4:15-5:30: Some Recent Work in Classification Methodology
  Chair: Beth Ayers, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
  
  Gabrielle Flynt, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  Clustering Trajectories in the Presence of Informative Patterns of Monotone Missingness
  
  Stephen France, Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Boosting Unsupervised Additive Clustering
  
  Daniel McDonald, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  Spectral Approximations in Machine Learning
  
  
• 5:30-7:30pm Reception (drink and light snacks), Phipps Conservatory

Friday, June 17th

• 8:00-9:00am Bagels, Pastries, Coffee, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 9:00-9:45am: Presidential Address
  Chair: Stan Sclove, Dept of Information and Decision Sciences, UIC
  
  William Shannon, Divisions of General Medical Sciences and Biostatistics, Washington University of St Louis School of Medicine
  Ranking Physicians, Hospitals, Teachers, Auto-Mechanics,...(or anything else that takes something, does something to it, and has a measurable outcome)
  
  
• 9:45-10:00am: Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 10:00-12:00pm: Classification Society Dissertation Award Finalists
  Chair: Samantha B. Prins, Dept of Mathematics & Statistics, James Madison University
  
  Frank Busing, Leiden University (WINNER)
  Advances in Multidimensional Scaling
  
  Hongxia Yang, Dept of Statistical Science, Duke University
  Nonparametric Bayes Models for High-Dimensional and Sparse Data
  
  Jorge Tendeiro, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Heijmans Institute
  Some Mathematical Results on Three-Way Component Analysis
  
  David Casado, Dept of Statisitcs, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  Classification Techniques for Time Series and Functional Data
  
  
• 12:00-1:30pm: Lunch Break (CS Board Meeting in Baker 154R)
  
  
• 1:30-3:15pm: Graphs, Risks, and Clusters: The Work of Bernie Harris
  A memorial session celebrating the life and work of Bernard Harris (1926-2011)
  Chair: Willem Heiser, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University
  
  Willem Heiser, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University
  Remembering Joseph Kruskal and Doug Carroll
  
  David Banks, Dept of Statistical Science, Duke University
  Adversarial Risk Analysis
  
  Mel Janowitz, DIMACS, Rutgers
  Continuity! To be or not to be! Is that even a question?
  
  Stan Sclove, Dept of Information and Decision Sciences, UIC
  Bernie Harris' Contributions to Cluster Analysis
  
  
• 3:15-3:30pm: Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 3:30-5:00pm: Combining Classification Trees and Regression Models
  Chair: TBA
  
  Yuning He, Dept of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, UC Santa Cruz
  Predicting Variable-Length Functional Outputs for Emulation of a NASA Flight Simulator
  
  Herbie Lee, Dept of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, UC Santa Cruz
  Optimization under Unknown Constraints
  
  Bobby Gramacy, Dept of Econometrics & Statistics, U of Chicago Booth School of Business
  Dynamic Trees for Response Surface Learning and Optimization
  
  
• 5:00-5:30pm: Classification Society General Meeting
  
  
• 7:00-10:00pm: Dinner Cruise on the Three Rivers, Station Square
  (Boarding starts at 6pm; more details in registration packet)

Saturday, June 18th

• 8:00-8:30am Bagels, Pastries, Coffee, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 8:30-10:00am: A Survey of Some Classification Applications
  Chair: TBA
  
  Elizabeth Hohman, Naval Surface Warfare Center
  Hypergraphs from Twitter Data
  
  Michael Kurtz, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  Using Multipartite Graphs for Recommendation and Discovery
  
  Tim Brennan, Northpoint Institute
  An Exploratory Taxonomic Study of Women's Pathways to Crime: From Qualitative to Quantitative Patterns
  
  
• 10:00-10:15am Coffee Break, Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 10:15-11:45am: How Can We Better Use Classification/Clustering?
  Chair: TBA
  
  Ahmed Albatineh, Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Florida International University
  Effects of Some Design Factors on the Shape of Similarity Indices in Cluster Analysis
  
  Shuai Sun, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  Classification Society Automated Search Service
  
  David Dubin, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UIUC
  Data Theory and Scientific Data Management
  
  
• 11:45-12:30pm Coffee/Lunch Break (sandwiches provided), Baker Coffee Lounge
  
  
• 12:30-2:00pm: Classification Applications in the Biological Sciences
  Chair: TBA
  
  Li Liu, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  Investigating New Typologies for Classifying Aphasia Patients
  
  Patricio La Rosa, Divisions of General Medical Sciences and Biostatistics, Washington University of St Louis School of Medicine
  Object Data Analysis of Taxonomic Trees from Human Microbiome Data
  
  William Shannon, Divisions of General Medical Sciences and Biostatistics, Washington University of St Louis School of Medicine
  Dirichlet-Multinomial Power Calculations And Statistical Tests For Microbiome Data
  
  
• 2:00pm Conference Closing Remarks