February 21, 2014, Boston University
Cosponsored by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Boston University.
Friday, February 21, 2014
10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Photonics Center, 9th Floor Colloquium Room (Rm 906)
8 St. Mary’s Street
10 a.m.–noon
-Computational Challenges in Genomic Medicine
Jill Mesirov Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Broad Institute
-Selection, Significance, and Signification: Issues in High Energy Physics
Kent Staley Philosophy, Saint Louis University
1:30–5:30 p.m.
-Multi-Resolution Inference: An Engineering (Engineered?) Foundation of Statistical Inference
Xiao-Li Meng Statistics, Harvard University
-Is the Philosophy of Probabilism an Obstacle to Statistical Fraud Busting?
Deborah Mayo Philosophy, Virginia Tech
Targeted Learning from Big Data
Mark van der Laan Biostatistics and Statistics, UC Berkeley
Panel Discussion
Posted: February 12, 2014