The University of North Carolina at Greensboro International Conference on Advances in
Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics
(October 12-14, 2007)
   
 
 
Academic Sessions



The following represents only a partial list of sessions to be organized during the conference. If
you have a network of researchers and would like to organize a session, please contact Dr Sat
Gupta at sngupta@uncg.edu. All sessions will be of two-hour duration and will feature 4-6 talks.
Time allocation to individual talks in a session will be decided by the session chair(s). The invited
lead talks may be allotted more time and contributed talks may be allotted lesser amount of time.

Abstracts should be submitted online by going to the website (to be added soon). Completed
registration form and payments should be submitted directly to Sat Gupta. If you wish your talk
to be scheduled in a particular session, please mention that at the bottom of your registration
form.
 
 

List of Academic Sessions
 
 
  Design of Experiments
Chair: M. L. Aggarwal
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Memphis, TN, USA,
Email: maggarwl@memphis.edu

 
  Search Theory
Chair: G. O. H. Katona
Renyi Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Email: ohkatona@renyi.hu

 
  Modern Goodness of Fit Methods
Co-Chairs:
John Rayner
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Email: John.Rayner@newcastle.edu.au

Olivier Thas
Ghent University, Belgium
Email: Olivier.Thas@UGent.be

 
  Interdisciplinary Research Projects for Undergraduates
Co-Chairs:
Jan Rychtar
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Email: j_rychta@uncg.edu

Petr Girg
University of West Bohemia, Chez Republic
Email: pgirg@kma.zcu.cz

 
  Ethical and Technical Limits to using Statistics in Medicine
and Public Health Research

Chair: Beverly Levine
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Email: beverly_rockhill@uncg.edu


 
  Statistics in Anthropological Research
Chair: Arthur D. Murphy
Email: admurphy@uncg.edu
Organizer: Eric C. Jones
Email: ecojones@uncg.edu

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 
  Statistical Techniques for Network Modeling and Security
Co-Chairs:
Shan Suthaharan
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Email: ssuthaharan@uncg.edu

Zhongwei Zhang
University of Southern Queensland
Email: zhongwei@usq.edu.au

 
  Coding, Cryptography and Infocom Technology
Co-Chairs:
B. K. Dass
University of Delhi
Email: dassbk@rediffmail.com

E. Foundas
University of Piraeus, Greece
Email: efountas@unipi.gr

 
  Mixed Models
Chair: Joćo Tiago Mexia
New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Contact Person: Miguel Fonseca, Email: fmig@fct.unl.pt

 
  Statistical Techniques in Experimental Fatigue Studies
Co-Chairs:
Dr. Jitendra S. Tate
Department Engineering and Technology,
Texas State University
Email: jt31@txstate.edu

Dr. Ajit D. Kelkar
Director, Computational Science and Engineering
North Carolina A&T State University
Email: kelkar@ncat.edu

 
  Combinatorial aspects of Coding and Cryptography
Co-Chairs:
Michele Elia
Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Email: eliamike@tin.it

Carmelo Interlando
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
San Diego State University
Email: carmelo.interlando@sdsu.edu

 
  Skills Assessment Models in Education
Chair and Moderator: Terry Ackerman
Education Research Methodology Department,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Email: taackerm@uncg.edu

 
  Survey Methodology and Related Issues
Chair: Pedro Corte Real
New University of Lisbon &
National Institute of Statistics, Lisbon, Portugal
Email: parcr@fct.unl.pt

 
  Bayesian methods in biomedical applications
Chair: Sujit Ghosh
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University
Email: ghosh@stat.ncsu.edu

 
  Multivariate Analysis
Chair: Ravi Khattree
Oakland University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Email: khattree@oakland.edu

 
  Inference for Length and Area Biased Data
Chair: Yogendra Chaubey
Department of Statistics
Concordia University
Email: chaubey@alcor.concordia.ca

 
  Bioinformatics
Chair: Sunil Mathur
University of Mississippi
Email: skmathur@olemiss.edu

 
  Advances in statistical Techniques for Genetic Analysis
Co-Chairs:
David Remington
Department of Biology,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Email: dlreming@uncg.edu

Olav Rueppell
Department of Biology,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Email: olav_rueppell@uncg.edu

 
  Software Solutions in Statistics
Chair: Ashok Kumar
Division of Computer and Technical Sciences,
Kentucky State University
Email: ashok.kumar@kysu.edu

 
  Statistical Methods in Information Systems Research
Chair: Prashant Palvia
Department of Information Systems and Operations Management,
University of North carolina at Greensboro
Email: pcpalvia@uncg.edu

 
  Estimation, Algorithms and Simulation: Applications in Mathematical Finance
Chair: Manuel L. Esquivel
New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Email: mle@fct.unl.pt