Kick-off Program

9:00 - 9:45 a.m. Check-in, Continental Breakfast, and Late Registration,

Founders Room, Bauer Center, Claremont McKenna College

10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Welcome and Introductions, Bauer Forum, Claremont

McKenna College

10:15 - 11:00 a.m. University of California, Riverside*

11:00 - 11:15 a.m. Break, Founders Room, Bauer Center

11:15 - 12:15 p.m. Jan de Leeuw, UCLA, Bauer Forum, “Gifi goes Logistic”, Albert Gifi, in Nonlinear Multivariate Analysis (1990), outlines a system of descriptive multivariate analysis techniques based on least squares loss functions and alternating least squares algorithms. I discuss an alternative system of the same level of generality based on logistic likelihood’s and majorization algorithms.

12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Lunch, Business Meeting, Founders Room

2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Invited lecturer, Jan de Leeuw, UCLA, Bauer Forum, “Building a Statistics Department”, The UCLA Statistics Department was started in 1998 by combining programs from Mathematics and from the Social Sciences. Despite budgetary problems we have experienced fast growth. I discuss the models we have used to organize our research and teaching, and the ways in which we have imbedded the new department in the existing campus structure.

3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Reception and Poster Session**

Poster Session: $100 prize in each of the following categories: High School, Undergraduate and Graduate

*Statistical computer games and survey modules for H.S. students and teachers.

**Poster Session guide: Single poster size 24” x 36”, tri-fold poster, centerboard 24” x 36”, sideboards 12” x 36”.