Industrial Affiliates Annual Conference

Friday April 24, 2009

9:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Conference Rooms 102/103, Physics and Astrophysics Building

Conference Program

9:00 a.m. Opening: Trevor Hastie, Statistics Department Chair, Co-Director Industrial Affiliates

9:15 a.m. Session 1. Chair: Art Owen, Co-Director, Industrial Affiliates

• Ya Xu, Doctoral student
• Jerry Shan, HP Labs
• Gen Nowak, Doctoral student

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. Session 2. Chair: Guenther Walther, Co-Director, Industrial Affiliates

• Yuxue Jin, Doctoral student
• George Chang, Morgan Stanley
• Donal McMahon, Doctoral student

12:15 p.m. Lunch arranged by Angie Martinez

1:15 p.m. Session 3. Chair: Art Owen

• Yi-Fang Chen, Doctoral student
• Mee-Young Park, Google
• Baiyu Zhou, Doctoral student

2:30 p.m. Coffee Break

3:00 p.m. Session 4. Chair: Trevor Hastie

• Li Ma, Doctoral student
• Austin Foley, Boston Scientific
• Genevera Allen, Doctoral student

4:15 p.m. Closing: Art Owen