International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

(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: João 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