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Saturday May 24
18:00 - 23:30  Executive Committee 1, Intercontinental Toronto Yorkville Hotel, Maifair room
 
Sunday May 25
8:00 - 16:30  Registration, Stone Lobby, Medical Sciences Building

9:00 - 16:30  Applied Analysis of Survey Data, Fitzgerald Building 139
9:00 - 16:30  Probabilistic Simulation via Distributed Algorithms, Fitzgerald Building 129
9:00 - 16:30  Spatial-Temporal Models in Epidemiology, MedSci 3163
9:00 - 16:30  Statistical Learning Methods in Data Mining, MedSci 2172
9:00 - 16:30  Using WeBWorK for On-line Homework in Statistics Courses, MedSci 3153

9:30 - 12:00  Department Heads Meeting, South Sitting Room, Hart House

10:20 - 10:40  Coffee break, Stone Lobby, Medical Sciences Building

12:00 - 17:00  Board of Directors 1, South Dining Room, Hart House

14:50 - 15:10  Coffee break, Stone Lobby, Medical Sciences Building

17:00 - 18:00  Information on 2014 NSERC Discovery Grant Competition, South Sitting Room, Hart House

18:30 - 21:00  Opening Reception, Royal Ontario Museum
18:30 - 19:30  Registration, Royal Ontario Museum
 
Monday May 26
7:30 - 17:00  Registration, Hart House Great Hall

8:30 - 8:45  1A-A1: Inaugural Session, MedSci Auditorium

8:45 - 9:50  1A-A2: SSC Presidential Invited Address, MedSci Auditorium

9:50 - 10:20  Coffee break, Great Hall

10:20 - 11:50  1B-I1: Big Data, Hart House - Debates Rm
10:20 - 11:50  1B-I2: Machine Learning, Hart House - East Common
10:20 - 11:50  1B-I3: Recent Developments in Finite Mixture Models, Hart House - Music Rm
10:20 - 11:50  1B-I4: Statistical Genetic and Genomic Modeling and Analysis of Complex Traits, UC - 140
10:20 - 11:50  1B-I5: Statistical Issues in Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, UC - 163
10:20 - 11:50  1B-I6: Statistical Methods in Actuarial Science, UC - 179
10:20 - 11:50  1B-C1: Biostatistics - New Estimation Methods, UC - 161
10:20 - 11:35  1B-C2: Probability Theory and Applications, UC - A101
10:20 - 11:50  1B-C3: Statistical Inference and Applications 1, UC - Croft House
10:20 - 11:50  1B-C4: Survey Methodology 2, Hart House - South Dining

12:00 - 13:30  Actuarial Science Section Executive Committee 1, UC 248
12:00 - 18:00  Award for Case Studies in Data Analysis Committee 1, South Sitting Room, Hart House
12:00 - 13:30  Biostatistics Section Executive Committee 1, UC 255
12:00 - 13:30  Business and Industrial Statistics Section Executive Committee, UC 55
12:00 - 13:30  Committee on SSC Bylaws, UC 328
12:00 - 13:30  Probability Section Executive Committee 1, UC 257
12:00 - 13:30  Research Committee, South Dining Room, Hart House
12:00 - 13:30  Statistical Education Section Executive Committee 1, UC 244
12:00 - 13:30  Strategic Planning Committee, UC 52
12:00 - 17:30  1C-D1: Case Study 1, Great Hall
12:00 - 17:30  1C-D2: Case Study 2, Great Hall

13:00 - 14:30  New Investigators lunch, Hart House Circle

13:30 - 15:00  1D-I1: Opportunities and Challenges in the First Years of an Academic Career (A Panel Discussion), UC - 163
13:30 - 15:00  1D-I2: Optimal Design of Experiments, UC - 140
13:30 - 15:00  1D-I3: Recent Advances in Spatial Statistics, Hart House - Debates Rm
13:30 - 15:00  1D-I4: Statistical Analysis with Data Complications, Hart House - East Common
13:30 - 15:00  1D-I5: Stochastic Spatial Processes, UC - 179
13:30 - 15:00  1D-I6: Teaching Introductory Statistics with R, UC - 161
13:30 - 15:00  1D-C1: Actuarial Science and Finance 1, UC - A101
13:30 - 15:00  1D-C2: Biostatistics - Applications 1, Hart House - Music Rm
13:30 - 15:00  1D-C3: Biostatistics - Bayesian Analysis, UC - Croft House
13:30 - 15:00  1D-C4: Statistical Inference and Applications 2, UC - 144
13:30 - 14:45  1D-C5: Survey Methodology 1, Hart House - South Dining

15:00 - 15:30  Coffee break, Great Hall

15:30 - 17:00  1E-I1: Delivering a Successful Introductory Stats Service Course, Hart House - Debates Rm
15:30 - 17:00  1E-I2: Financial Mathematics, Hart House - East Common
15:30 - 17:00  1E-I3: New Developments in Nonlinear Time Series Modelling and Robust Methods in Time Series Analysis with Applications, Hart House - Music Rm
15:30 - 17:00  1E-I4: Publishing and Reproducible Research (A Panel Discussion), Hart House - South Dining
15:30 - 17:00  1E-I5: Recent Developments in Small Area Estimation, UC - A101
15:30 - 17:00  1E-I6: Survival Methods in Genetics, UC - 161
15:30 - 17:00  1E-C1: Biostatistics - Applications 2, UC - 179
15:30 - 17:00  1E-C2: Biostatistics - Clinical Trials and Diagnostic Protocols, UC - 163
15:30 - 17:00  1E-C3: Clustering, Classification and Dimension Reduction, UC - 144
15:30 - 17:00  1E-C4: Probability Theory and Estimation, UC - Croft House
15:30 - 17:00  1E-C5: Statistical Inference and Applications 5, UC - 244

17:00 - 18:00  SSC Annual General Meeting, East Common Room, Hart House

18:00 - 20:00  Student BBQ, Great Hall
18:00 - 20:00  U of T Alumni reception, South Dining Room, Hart House

19:00 - 21:00  COWIS dinner, Bedford Academy under the name "SSC", 36 Prince Arthur Ave, Toronto
 
Tuesday May 27
8:15 - 17:00  Registration, Hart House Great Hall

8:45 - 9:50  2A-A: Gold Medal Address, MedSci Auditorium

9:50 - 10:20  Coffee break, Great Hall

10:20 - 11:50  2B-I1: Actuarial Finance, Hart House - South Dining
10:20 - 11:50  2B-I2: New Developments in High Dimensional Data Analysis, Hart House - East Common
10:20 - 11:50  2B-I3: New Directions in Causal Inference, Hart House - Debates Rm
10:20 - 11:50  2B-I4: Semi and Unsupervised Learning, Hart House - Music Rm
10:20 - 11:50  2B-I5: Shape-Constrained Maximum Likelihood: Methods and Applications, UC - 140
10:20 - 11:50  2B-I6: Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, UC - 161
10:20 - 11:50  2B-C1: Biostatistics - Measurement Errors and Prediction Errors, UC - 179
10:20 - 11:50  2B-C2: Empirical and Composite Likelihood and Higher Order Asymptotics, UC - A101
10:20 - 11:50  2B-C3: Nonregular Statistical Test Problems, UC - 244
10:20 - 11:50  2B-C4: Statistical Inference and Applications 3, UC - Croft House

12:00 - 13:30  Accreditation General Meeting, UC 256
12:00 - 18:00  Award for Case Studies in Data Analysis Committee 2, South Sitting Room, Hart House
12:00 - 13:30  Biostatistics Section Executive Committee 2, UC 53
12:00 - 13:30  CJS Editorial Board, UC 244
12:00 - 13:30  Census at School Committee, UC 52
12:00 - 13:30  Committee on New Investigators, UC 248 (Rain location)
12:00 - 13:30  Office Committee, UC 257
12:00 - 13:30  Public Relations Committee, UC 255
12:00 - 13:30  Statistical Education Committee, UC 144
12:00 - 17:30  2C-P1: Actuarial Science Poster Session, Great Hall
12:00 - 17:30  2C-P2: Poster Session, Great Hall
12:00 - 17:30  2C-P3: Probability Student Poster Session, Great Hall

13:30 - 15:00  2D-I1: David Binder Memorial Session, Hart House - South Dining
13:30 - 15:00  2D-I2: Gaussian Process Regression: Innovations and Applications, Hart House - East Common
13:30 - 15:00  2D-I3: Graduate Student Presentations in Actuarial Science, Hart House - Debates Rm
13:30 - 15:00  2D-I4: New Methods for Analyzing Brain Imaging data, Hart House - Music Rm
13:30 - 15:00  2D-I5: Statistical Challenges in High-Throughput Genomic Data, UC - 140
13:30 - 15:00  2D-I6: Weakly Interacting Processes in Finance and Economics, UC - 179
13:30 - 15:00  2D-C1: Biostatistics - Applications 3, UC - 52
13:30 - 15:00  2D-C2: Biostatistics - Association Studies and Correlation Structure, UC - 244
13:30 - 15:00  2D-C3: Business and Industrial Statistics 1, UC - A101
13:30 - 15:00  2D-C4: Quantile, Spatial and Logistic Regression, UC - Croft House
13:30 - 15:00  2D-C5: Statistical Inference and Applications 4, UC - 144

15:00 - 15:30  Coffee break, Great Hall

15:30 - 17:00  2E-I1: Bridging the Gap between Methods Development and Implementation in Biostatistics (A Panel Discussion), Hart House - Debates Rm
15:30 - 17:00  2E-I2: Challenges and New Developments in Complex Multiple Comparison Procedures, Hart House - Music Rm
15:30 - 17:00  2E-I3: Copula Theory and Methods, Hart House - South Dining
15:30 - 17:00  2E-I4: Recent Advances in the Analysis of Complex Surveys, Hart House - East Common
15:30 - 17:00  2E-I5: Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy, UC - 140
15:30 - 17:00  2E-I6: Statistics of Sea Surface Winds and Non-Gaussianity in Climate Variability, UC - 179
15:30 - 16:45  2E-C1: Actuarial Science and Finance 2, UC - 152
15:30 - 17:00  2E-C2: Biostatistics - New Inferential Strategies, UC - 244
15:30 - 16:45  2E-C3: Business and Industrial Statistics 2, UC - 256
15:30 - 17:00  2E-C4: Probability Theory and Finance, UC - Croft House
15:30 - 16:30  2E-C5: Robust and Shrinkage Estimation, UC - 144

17:00 - 18:00  NSERC Discovery Grant Application Workshop, UC 256
17:00 - 18:00  Actuarial Science Section General Meeting, South Dining Room, Hart House
17:00 - 18:00  Biostatistics Section General Meeting, East Common Room, Hart House
17:00 - 18:00  Business and Industrial Statistics Section General Meeting, Debates Room, Hart House
17:00 - 18:00  Probability Section General Meeting, Music Room, Hart House
17:00 - 18:00  Statistical Education Section General Meeting, UC 144
17:00 - 18:00  Student Research Presentation Award Committee, UC 152
17:00 - 18:00  Survey Methods Section General Meeting, UC 52

18:00 - 22:00  Banquet, Board busses in Hart House Circle
 
Wednesday May 28
8:45 - 9:50  3A-A1: CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics Address, Hart House - Music Rm
8:45 - 9:50  3A-A2: SSC Impact Award Address, Hart House - Debates Rm

9:50 - 10:20  Coffee break, Great Hall

10:20 - 11:50  3B-I1: Bioinformatics and Copula Models, Hart House - East Common
10:20 - 11:48  3B-I2: Modern Statistical Methods for Complex Health Data, Hart House - Debates Rm
10:20 - 11:50  3B-I3: New Challenges and Developments in Survival Analysis and its Applications, Hart House - Music Rm
10:20 - 11:50  3B-I4: New Developments in Statistical Neuroscience, Hart House - South Dining
10:20 - 11:50  3B-I5: Statistical Education in Light of Philosophy of Science (A Panel Discussion), UC - Croft House
10:20 - 11:50  3B-I6: Stochastic Modelling in Industry, UC - 179
10:20 - 11:50  3B-C1: Actuarial Science and Finance 3, UC - 161
10:20 - 11:50  3B-C2: Biostatistics - Survival, Longitudinal and Event History Analysis, UC - 140
10:20 - 11:50  3B-C3: Some Specific Issues in Modelling and Estimation, UC - A101

12:00 - 13:30  Accreditation Committee, UC 256
12:00 - 13:30  Actuarial Science Section Executive Committee 2, UC 248
12:00 - 13:30  Probability Section Executive Committee 2, UC 257
12:00 - 13:30  Program Committee, UC 53
12:00 - 13:30  Statistical Education Section Executive Committee 2, UC 244
12:00 - 13:30  Student and Recent Graduate Committee, UC 257
12:00 - 13:30  Treasurers, UC 52

13:30 - 14:30  3C-A1: CJS Award Address, Hart House - Debates Rm
13:30 - 14:30  3C-A2: Isobel Loutit Invited Address, Hart House - Music Rm
13:30 - 14:30  3C-A3: Pierre Robillard Award Address, Hart House - East Common
13:30 - 14:30  3C-A4: Survey Methods Section Presidential Invited Address, UC - 140

14:30 - 15:00  Coffee break, Great Hall

15:00 - 16:30  3D-I1: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in Statistics, Hart House - South Dining
15:00 - 16:30  3D-I2: Business Analytics: Where does the Statistician Fit?, Hart House - East Common
15:00 - 16:30  3D-I3: Evaluating the Effectiveness of our Introductory Courses, UC - 163
15:00 - 16:30  3D-I4: Levy Processes and Applications, UC - 179
15:00 - 16:30  3D-I5: Predictive Density Estimation, UC - 161
15:00 - 16:30  3D-I6: Statistical Analysis for Infectious Diseases, Hart House - Music Rm
15:00 - 16:30  3D-C1: Actuarial Science and Finance 4, UC - A101
15:00 - 16:15  3D-C2: Biostatistics - Variable Selection, Hart House - Debates Rm

16:45 - 18:00  Board of Directors 2, UC - Croft Chaprter House

18:00 - 19:00  Executive Committee 2, UC - Croft Chapter House