JSM 2016 Online Program

Sessions Were Renumbered as of May 19.

Legend:
CC-W = McCormick Place Convention Center, West Building,   CC-N = McCormick Place Convention Center, North Building
H = Hilton Chicago,   UC= Conference Chicago at University Center
* = applied session       ! = JSM meeting theme

Activity Details

24 * !	Sun, 7/31/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W176b
Statistical and Computational Challenges and Opportunities in Forensic Science — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security
Organizer(s): Lingling An, University of Arizona
Chair(s): Lingling An, University of Arizona
2:05 PM	On the Different Classes of Forensic Identification of Source Problems — Christopher Saunders, MITRE/South Dakota State University ; Cedric Neumann, San Diego State University ; Danica Ommen, South Dakota State University
2:25 PM	Utility of Minority Variant Calling for Microbial Forensics: Challenges and Successes — Viacheslav Fofanov, Northern Arizona University
2:45 PM	Microbial DNA for Forensic Identification and Environmental Source Tracking — Dan Knights, University of Minnesota
3:05 PM	A Hybrid Machine-Learning Approach for DNA Mixture Interpretation — Michael Marciano, Syracuse University ; Jonathan Adelman, Syracuse University
3:25 PM	Discussant: Hongmei Jiang, Northwestern University
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

213640	Mon, 8/1/2016, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM	Off site
Statistics in Defense and National Security Section Executive Board Meeting — Other Cmte/Business
Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security
Chair(s): Alyson Wilson, North Carolina State University

121 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W192b
The Policy Landscape for Statistics in the UK and U.S. — Topic Contributed Panel
Royal Statistical Society , Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee
Organizer(s): Hetan Shah, RSS
Chair(s): Katherine K. Wallman, Office of Management and Budget
8:35 AM	The Policy Landscape for Statistics in the UK and the U.S.
Panelists:	Hetan Shah, RSS Steve Pierson, ASA Brian Harris-Kojetin, Committee on National Statistics
8:55 AM	Floor Discussion

152 * !	Mon, 8/1/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W176a
Cyber Security in Support of National Defense and Global Security — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security
Organizer(s): Katherine B. Ensor, Rice University
Chair(s): Yeshaya Adler, Rice University
10:35 AM	Estimation of True Quantiles from Quantitative Data Obfuscated with Additive Noise — Bimal Roy, R.C. Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security
11:00 AM	Enabling Privacy Preserving Machine Learning at Scale — Farinaz Koushanfar, UCSD
11:25 AM	Discussant: David Marchette, Naval Surface Warfare Center
11:50 AM	Floor Discussion

316 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W186a
Modern Statistics and Policy in Defense — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security , Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee
Chair(s): David Marchette, Naval Surface Warfare Center
8:35 AM	How Modern Statistical Techniques Have Influenced DoD Policy and Guidance — Kelly McGinnity, Institute for Defense Analyses
8:50 AM	Probabilistic Graphical Model for Cyber Defensive Policy Assessment and Facilitation of Intuitive Optimal Policy Selection — Pranab Banerjee, Boston Fusion Corp. ; Thomas Allen, Boston Fusion Corp.
9:05 AM	Crime Linkage with Self-Exciting Point Process Models — Michael D. Porter, University of Alabama
9:20 AM	Improving Operational Reliability Estimates in the Department of Defense with Bayesian Statistics (Part 1) — Rebecca Dickinson, Institute for Defense Analyses ; Kassie Froncyzk, IDA
9:35 AM	Improving Operational Reliability Estimates in the Department of Defense with Bayesian Statistics (Part 2) — Kassie Fronczyk ; Rebecca Dickinson, Institute for Defense Analyses
9:50 AM	Applications of Modern Statistical Techniques to Operational Testing — Matthew Avery
10:05 AM	The U.S. Marine Corps' Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force: Experimental Design, Analysis, and Selected Results — Yevgeniya Pinelis ; Paul Johnson, Marine Corps Operational Test and Evaluation Activity

333 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W180
Quality of Alternative Sources for Social, Economic, and Health Data — Invited Papers
Government Statistics Section , Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee
Organizer(s): John Eltinge, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair(s): John Eltinge, Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:35 AM	Quality of Alternative Sources for Social, Economic, and Health Data — Rachel Harter, RTI International
11:00 AM	On the Quality and Utility of Alternative Auxiliary Data Sources Used in the National Survey of Family Growth — Brady West, University of Michigan
11:25 AM	Progressive Data Modeling — Zahoor Ahmad, University of Southampton ; Li-Chun Zhang, University of Southampton
11:50 AM	Interpreting Administrative Data from Intuit Business Services — Susan Woodward, Sand Hill Econometrics
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

342 * !	Tue, 8/2/2016, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-W185d
Algorithms for Detecting Defense and Intelligence Threats — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security , Section on Risk Analysis
Organizer(s): Nicole Mendoza, University of California at Santa Cruz
Chair(s): Abel Rodriguez, University of California at Santa Cruz
10:35 AM	Bayesian Spatial Model Selection Using Mixtures of G-Priors and Markov Random Field Priors for Identifying Gas Plumes in Hyperspectral Data — Nicole Mendoza, University of California at Santa Cruz ; Abel Rodriguez, University of California at Santa Cruz
10:55 AM	Hyperspectral Video Analysis Using Graph-Clustering Methods — Zhaoyi Meng
11:15 AM	Quantifying Quality and Uncertainty in Forensic Pattern Matching — Lucas Mentch, North Carolina State University ; Duy Thai, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
11:35 AM	Information Criteria Approximations to the Value of Evidence for Forensic Identification of Source Problems — Danica Ommen, South Dakota State University ; Christopher Saunders, MITRE/South Dakota State University
11:55 AM	A Kernel-Based Method for the Forensic Inference of the Source of Small Particles Characterized Using Compositional Data — Douglas Armstrong, San Diego State University ; Cedric Neumann, San Diego State University ; Christopher Saunders, MITRE/South Dakota State University ; David Stoney, Stoney Forensic
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

467 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W175a
Using the Extraordinary Power of Statistics for Transportation Safety Research at the Federal Highway Administration — Invited Papers
Transportation Statistics Interest Group , Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee , Section on Risk Analysis
Organizer(s): Matthew J. Heaton, Brigham Young University
Chair(s): David Banks, Duke University
8:35 AM	The Naturalistic Driving Study and Statistical Modeling Challenges — Feng Guo, Virginia Tech
9:00 AM	Spatial Modeling of Highway Crash Risk — Matthew J. Heaton, Brigham Young University
9:25 AM	Causal Inference Methods in Traffic Safety Research — Fan Li, Duke University
9:50 AM	Discussant: Carol Tan, Federal Highway Administration
10:10 AM	Floor Discussion

475 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W196c
Reproducibility in Statistics and Data Science — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security , Section on Statistical Computing , Caucus for Women in Statistics , Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee
Organizer(s): Ben Baumer, Smith College
Chair(s): Ben Baumer, Smith College
8:35 AM	Reproducibility for All and Our Love/Hate Relationship with Spreadsheets — Jennifer Bryan, University of British Columbia
8:55 AM	Steps Toward Reproducible Research — Karl W. Broman, University of Wisconsin - Madison
9:15 AM	Enough with Trickle-Down Reproducibility: Scientists, Open This Gate! Scientists, Tear Down This Wall! — Karthik Ram, University of California at Berkeley
9:35 AM	Integrating Reproducibility into the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum — Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Duke University
9:55 AM	Discussant: Yihui Xie, RStudio
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

610 * !	Wed, 8/3/2016, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-W178b
Applications and Methods in Defense and National Security: Multivariate Methods, Applications, and Sensitivity Tests — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security
Chair(s): Viacheslav Fofanov, Northern Arizona University
2:05 PM	Modeling the Upper Tail of the Distribution of Facial Recognition Non-Match Scores — Brett Hunter ; Dan Cooley, Colorado State University ; Geof Givens, Colorado State University ; J. Ross Beveridge, Colorado State University
2:20 PM	Construction of Tolerance Bounds for a Multivariate Response Associated with a Covariate: A Case Study — Caleb King, Sandia National Laboratories ; Edward Thomas, Sandia National Laboratories ; Jerome Cap, Sandia National Laboratories ; Angela Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories
2:35 PM	Selecting an Informative/Discriminating Multivariate Response for Inverse Prediction — John Lewis, Sandia National Laboratories ; Edward Thomas, Sandia National Laboratories ; Christine Anderson-Cook, Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Tom Burr, International Atomic Energy Agency ; Michael S. Hamada, Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Adah Zhang, Sandia National Laboratories
2:50 PM	An Accurate Method in Predicting Postmortem Interval Using Microbial Community Dynamics — Meng Lu, University of Arizona ; Hongmei Jiang, Northwestern University ; Lingling An, University of Arizona
3:05 PM	Trace Evidence in Forensic Study Through Cluster Analysis — Kyle Carter, University of Arizona ; Brooke A. Rabe, University of Arizona ; Lingling An, University of Arizona
3:20 PM	Enhancing the Precision of Small-Sample Sensitivity Tests — David H. Collins, Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Michael S. Hamada, Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Brian Phillip Weaver, Los Alamos National Laboratory
3:35 PM	A Conjugate Model for Dimensional Analysis — Weijie Shen, Google ; Dennis K. J. Lin, Penn State University

634 * !	Thu, 8/4/2016, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-W179a
Analysis, Storage, and Privacy for Big Data — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security , Section on Statistical Computing
Organizer(s): Joanne Wendelberger, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Chair(s): Joanne Wendelberger, Los Alamos National Laboratory
8:35 AM	Distributed Data Analysis at Scale — Tom Peterka, Argonne National Lab
9:10 AM	Storage Issues and Assessment Arising from Large-Scale Simulations — Emily Casleton, Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Joanne Wendelberger, Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Jonathan Woodring, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:45 AM	Differentially Private Data Synthesis Partitioning for Big Data — Claire McKay Bowen, University of Notre Dame ; Fang Liu, University of Notre Dame

JSM 2016 Online Program

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