CURRICULUM VITAE OF JAMES O. RAMSAY

PERSONAL

Date of birth: 5th September, 1942, Place of birth: Prince George, B.C., Canada Citizenship: Canadian Marital status: Married to Maureen Tighe, five children.

EDUCATION

B.Ed. University of Alberta at Edmonton, 1964. (Major in English Teaching, Minor in Mathematics Teaching)

Ph.D. Princeton University, 1966 (Psychology with specialization in Psychometrics)

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND APPOINTMENTS

1966-1967 Lecturer in Psychology, University College London 1967-1971 Assistant Professor of Psychology, McGill University 1971-1978 Associate Professor of Psychology, McGill University 1978-present Professor of Psychology, McGill University 1973-1974 Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge 1980-1981 Visiting Professor, University of Grenoble 1986-present Associate Member, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University 1989-90 Visiting Consultant, Educational Testing Service 1996-1997 Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

2004-2007 Adjunct Professor, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia

ACADEMIC HONOURS AND AWARDS

Alberta Hotel Association Scholarship University of Alberta Honour Prize University of Alberta First Class Standing Prize (3 times) James McNish Chalmers Memorial Prize (for student of outstanding promise in first-year statistics) Province of Alberta Undergraduate Scholarship (2 times)

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Educational Testing Service Psychometric Fellowship APA Creative Talent Award Program (Honourable Mention) Gold Medal, Statistical Society of Canada, 1998 David Johnston Award of Alma Mater Society

Canadian Journal of Statistics Award for Best Paper in 2000, Statistical Society of Canada National Council on Measurement and Evaluation: 2003 Technical Achievement Award

TEACHING

Undergraduate:

Introduction to Psychological Statistics Psychological Measurement Psychological Statistics Measurement of Psychological Processes Modern Psychology in Historical Perspective Statistical Analysis of Examination and Testing Data

Experimental Design Correlational Techniques

Graduate:

PSYCH 651B, Advanced Statistics I and II PSYCH 650A, Experimental Design Seminar on Multidimensional Scaling (also at U. of Chicago) Seminar on Loglinear Models Seminar on Functional Data Analysis (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Psychology)

Seminar on Test Theory Seminar on Multilevel Models

Ph.D. Students Graduated:

Lorcan Scanlon, Consultant Stuart McElvie, Bishops University Ruth Corbin, Statistics Canada Peter Pashley, Law School Admission Council Moo Chung, University of Wisconsin

Ph.D Theses examined as External Examiner:

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Ian Spence, University of Toronto Dennis Domoney, University of Toronto William Krane, York University Kyung Sun Bay, University of Alberta at Edmonton David Chan, University of Western Ontario Clement Dassa, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education James Goffin, University of Western Ontario Sonia Mazzi, University of British Columbia Cheikh Diack, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Herve Cardot, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Louis Ferre, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (habilitation) Jean-Francois Durand, Universite de Montpellier II, Montpellier (habilitation)

Masters Students Graduated:

Carl Brewer Marion McGlynn Timothy Hammond Xiaohui Wang

Nicole Malfait Natasha Rossi Szu-shen (Wen) Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Michal Abrahamowicz, McGill University Raymond Baillargeon, Universite de Montreal Nadia Ghazzali, Laval University Xiaochun Li, Eli Lilly Company

Regina Nuzzo Giles Hooker Theodoro Koulis

DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES

Psychology Department Chairman, 1986-1989 Psychology Department Director of Graduate Studies, 1984-1986 Psychology Department Curriculum Committee (Chairman) Psychology Department Graduate Program Committee Psychology Department Executive Committee (1976-1978, 1981-1983, 1984-1986) Committee on the Teaching of Statistics at McGill (Chairman) Computer Policy Committee Sub-Committee on Graduate Computing and Research

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Computer Users Committee (Chairman, 1971-1973) Executive Committee of Center for Developing Area Studies ELPSI Articulation Committee on Statistics (Chairman) Academic Committee of the Faculty of Science Tenure Committee of the Faculty of Education Senate Committee on Computing Faculty of Science Committee on Computing (Chairman) Committee on Timetabling and Scheduling Chair, Board of Directors, Gault Estate Chair, Cyclical Review Committee for Dept. of Meteorology Cyclical Review Committees, Dept. of Economics, Computing Centre, Department of

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Co-Chair, Faculty and Staff Fundraising Committee McGill Centraide Campaign Committee

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Psychometric Society (Board of Trustees, Editorial Board (Chair), Book Review Editor, President)

Canadian Psychological Association (Fellow) Classification Society (Editorial Board) Statistical Society of Canada (Board of Directors, President Elect, President, Past-Presdent) Society For Mathematical Psychology American Statistical Association American Psychological Association Institute of Mathematical Statistics Member, Centre de Recherche Mathematique, 2006-2011

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES OUTSIDE UNIVERSITY

Editorial Consultant:

Psychometrika Journal of the American Statistical Association Annals of Statistics Biometrika Educational and Psychological Measurement British Journal of Statistical and Mathematical Psychology Psychological Review Canadian Psychologist Canadian Journal of Psychology

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Chairman, Editorial Council, Psychometric Society Editorial Council, Classification Society Journal of Education Statistics

Grant Reviewer:

Canada Council National Research Council Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council National Science Foundation National Institute of Health Natural Sciences and Engineering Psychology Grant Selection Committee (1983-1985, Chairman, 1985-1986) American Mathematical Society

Consulting Activities:

Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada Datalabs Inc. Canadair Transport Development Agency Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry IBM Corporation Educational Testing Service International Paper

Canadian Securities Institute Ford Motor Company

MathSoft, Insightful Corp.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Analysis of functional data Multidimensional scaling Robust estimation Monotonic transformations in statistical analysis Fundamental measurement Bayesian estimation techniques Psychophysics Exploratory multivariate analysis History of Psychology Factor analysis Discrete data analysis

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Test theory Functional data analysis

RESEARCH GRANTS

NRC Interim Grant 1968 $600 Transportation Development Agency 1972 500 McGill Graduate Faculty 1972 500 NRC Operating Grant 1972-1975 4,500 p.a. NRC Travel Grant 1973 2,275 Canada Council Leave Fellowship 1973 NRC Operating Grant 1975-1978 6,000 p.a. NRC Operating Grant 1978-1980 12,000 p.a. SSHRC Leave Fellowship 1980-1981 18,500 NSERC Operating Grant 1981-1984 17,000 p.a. NSERC Operating Grant 1984-1987 29,000 p.a. NSERC Operating Grant 1987-1990 30,000 p.a. NSERC Equipment Grant 1986 57,312 FCAR Grant 1990-1993 40,000 NSERC Operating Grant 1990-1993 29,000 p.a. NSERC Operating Grant 1993-1996 29,000 p.a. FCAR Team Grant 1994-1996 38,000 p.a. NIH Grant 1994-1996 42,000 p.a. NSERC Operating Grant 1997-2000 31,000 p.a. FCAR Team Grant 1997-2000 38,000 p.a. NIH Grant 1998-2002 188,645

NSERC Operating Grant 2001-2005 38,000 p.a. MITACS Grant 2002-2003 15,000

FRSQ 2002-2003 66,000 p. a. NATEQ 2004-2005 66,000 p. a.

CIHR Operating Grant 2003-2006 65,000 p.a. MITACS Grant 2002-2005 15,000 p. a. MITACS Grant 2006-2009 56,000 NSERC Operating Grant 2006-2010 40,000 p.a.

PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Ramsay, J.O. (1966). The measurement of cognitive processes using the distance or curve-fitting model. Journal of General Psychology, 74, 39-44.

Ramsay, J.O. (1968). Economical method of analyzing perceived color differences,. Journal of

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the Optical Society of America, 58, 19-22.

Ramsay, J.O. (1968). A scoring system for multiple choice test items. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 21, 247-250.

Ramsay, J.O. (1969). Some statistical considerations in multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 34, 167-182.

Ramsay, J.O. and Case, B. (1970). Attitude measurement and the linear model. Psychological Bulletin, 74, 185-192.

Ramsay, J.O. (1970). A family of gradient methods for optimization. The Computer Journal, 13, 413-417.

Ramsay, J.O. (1971). True score theory: A paradox. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 31, 715-719.

Ramsay, J.O. (1973). The effect of number of categories in rating scales on precision of estimation of scale values. Psychometrika, 28, 513-532.

Ramsay, J.O. (1975). Implicit equations in psychological data analysis. Psychometrika, 40, 257-262.

Ramsay, J.O. (1976). Algebraic representation in the physical and behavioral sciences. Synthese, 33, 419-453.

Ramsay, J.O. (1977). A comparative study of several robust regression estimates. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 42, 241-266.

Ramsay, J.O. (1977). Maximum likelihood estimation in multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 42, 241-266.

Ramsay, J.O. (1977). Monotonic weighted power transformations to additivity. Psychometrika, 72, 83-109.

Ramsay, J.O. (1978). Confidence regions for multidimensional scaling analysis. Psychometrika, 43, 145-160.

Bruneau, T., Jorgenson, J., and Ramsay, J.O. (1978). C.I.D.A.: The Organization of Canadian Development Assistance. Center for Developing Area Studies Working Paper. McGill University.

Ramsay, J.O. (1979). Intra- and Inter-individual variation in the power law exponent for area

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summation. Perception & Psychophysics, 26, 495-500.

Ramsay, J.O. and Novick, M.R. (1980). PLU robust Bayesian decision theory: Point estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 75, 901-908.

Winsberg, S. and Ramsay, J.O. (1980). Monotonic transformations to additivity using splines. Biometrika, 67, 669-774.

Winsberg, S. and Ramsay, J.O. (1981). Analysis of pairwise preference data using integrated B-splines. Psychometrika, 46, 171-186.

Ramsay, J.O. (1980). Some small sample results for maximum likelihood estimation in multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 45, 139-144.

Ramsay, J.O. (1980). The joint analysis of direct ratings, pairwise preferences, and dissimilarities. Psychometrika, 45, 149-165.

Ramsay, J.O. (1982). Some statistical approaches to multidimensional scaling data (with discussion). The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 145, 285-312.

Ramsay, J.O. (1982). When the data are functions, Psychometrika, 47, 379-396.

Winsberg, S. and Ramsay, J.O. (1983). Monotonic spline transformations for dimension reduction, Psychometrika, 48, 575-595.

Ramsay, J.O. (1983). MULTISCALE: A multidimensional scaling program, American Statistician, 1983, 37, 326-327.

Ramsay, J.O., Styan, G.P.H., & ten Berge, J. (1984). Matrix correlation, Psychometrika, 49, 403-424.

Besse, P. & Ramsay, J.O. (1986). Principal components analysis of sampled functions. Psychometrika, 51, 285-311

Ramsay, J.O. (1986). A PROC MATRIX program for preference-dissimilarity multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 51, 163-170.

Ramsay, J.O. (1988). Monotone splines in action (with discussion). Statistical Science, 425-461.

Ramsay, J.O. (1989). A comparison of three simple test theory models. Psychometrika, 54, 487-499.

Ramsay, J.O. and Abrahamowicz, M. (1989). Bionomial regression with monotone splines: A

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psychometric application. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 84, 906-915.

Ramsay, J.O. (1990). MATFIT: A FORTRAN subroutine for comparing two matrices in a subspace. Psychometrika, 55, 551-553.

Ramsay, J.O. and Dalzell, C. (1991). Some tools for functional data analysis (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B,53, 539-572.

Ramsay, J.O. and Winsberg, S. (1991). Maximum marginal likelihood estimation in semiparametric data analysis. Psychometrika, 56, 365-380.

Abrahamowicz, M.; Tamblyn, R.M.; Ramsay, J.O.; Klass, D.K.; and Kopelow, M.L. (1990). Detecting and correcting for rater-induced differences in standardized patient tests of clinical competence. Academic Medicine, Vol. 65, 9, S25-S26.

Ramsay, J.O. (1991). Kernel smoothing approaches to nonparametric item characteristic curve estimation. Psychometrika, 56, 611-630.

Abrahamowicz, M. and Ramsay, J.O. (1992). Multicategorical spline model for item response theory. Psychometrika, 57, 5-28.

Abrahamowicz, M., Ciampi, A., & Ramsay, J.O. (1992). Density estimation for censored survival data: A regression spline approach, Canadian Journal of Statistics, 20, 171-185.

Dalzell, C. and Ramsay, J.O. (1993). Computing reproducing kernels with arbitrary boundary constraints. SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, 14, 511-518.

Ramsay, J.O., Altman, N. & Bock, R.D. (1994). Variation in height acceleration in the Fels growth data. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 22, 89-102.

Santor, D.A., Ramsay, J.O., & Zuroff, D.C. (1994). Nonparametric item analyses of the Beck Depression Inventory: Evaluating gender item bias and response option weights. Psychological Assessment, 6, 255-270.

Ramsay, J.O. (1995). A similarity-based smoothing approach to nondimensional item analysis. Psychometrika, 60, 323-339.

Ramsay, J.O., Flanagan, R. and Wang, X. (1995). The functional data analysis of pinch force. Applied Statistics, 44, 17-30.

Ramsay, J.O. (1995). Principal differential analysis: Data reduction by differential operators. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 58, 495-508.

Ramsay, J.O., Bock, R. Darrell, and Gasser, T. (1995). Comparison of height acceleration curves

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in the Fels, Zurich and Berkeley growth data. Annals of Human Biology, 22, 413-426.

Santor, D. A., Zuroff, D. C., Cervantes, P., Palacios, J, and Ramsay, J. O. (1995) Examining scale discriminability in the BDI and CES-D as a function of depressive severity. Psychological Assessment, 7, 131-139.

Ramsay, J.O., Munhall, K.G., Gracco, V.L. and Ostry, D.J. (1996). Functional data analyses of lip motion. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 23, 3718-3727.

Ramsay, J.O. (1996). A geometrical approach to item response theory. Behaviormetrika, 23, 3-17

Ramsay, J.O., Heckman, N. and Silverman, B. W. (1997) Spline smoothing with model-based penalties. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 29, 99-106.

Ramsay, J.O. and Li, X. (1998). Curve registration. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B., 60, 351-363.

Ramsay, J.O. (1998). Estimating smooth monotone functions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B., 60, 365-375.

Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (1998). Invited comment on: Brumbeck, B. A. and Rice, J. A. Smoothing spline models for the analysis of nested and crossed samples of curves. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93, 988-991.

Dechevsky, L., MacGibbon, B. and Ramsay, J. O. (1998). On smooth bijections between subsets of Rn. Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, CRM-2570.

Santor, D. A. and Ramsay, J. O. (1998). Progress in the technology of measurement: Applications of item response models. Psychological Assessment. 10, 345-359.

Ramsay, J. O. and Heckman, N. (2000). Some theory for L-spline smoothing. CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes, 18, 371-380.

Kneip, A., Li, X., MacGibbon, B. and Ramsay, J. O. (2000). Curve registration by local regression. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 28, 19-30.

Heckman, N. E. and Ramsay, J. O. (2000). Penalized regression with model-based penalties. Canadian Journal of Statistics. 28, 241-258.

Ramsay, J. O. (2000). Functional components of variation in handwriting. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95, 9-15.

Ramsay, J. O. (2000). Differential equation models for statistical functions. Canadian Journal of

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Statistics. 28, 225-240.

Sadeghi, H., Allard, P., Shafie, K., Mathieu, P. A., Sadeghi, S., Prince, F.and Ramsay, J. O. (2000) Reduction of gait data variability using curve registration. Gait and Posture. 12, 257-264.

Ramsay, J. O. and Ramsey, J. B. (2001) Functional data analysis of the dynamics of the monthly index of non-durable goods production. Journal of Econometrics, 107, 327-344.

Ramsay, J. O. and Ramsay, T. (2001) Invited comments on Glasbey, C. A. and Mardia, K. V. A penalized likelihood approach to image warping (with discussion.) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 63, 465-514.

Ramsay, J. O. (2001) Invited comments on Ke, C. and Wang, Y. Semiparametric nonlinear mixed-effects models and their applications. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96, 1272-1298.

Laurencelle, L., Ramsay, J.O. (2001). À la recherche de l' « unité de mesure » en psychométrie : réflexions sur la mesure en sciences humaines. Mesure et évaluation en éducation, 24, 41-52.

Samson, S., Zatorre, R. J. and Ramsay, J. O. (2002) Deficits of musical timbre perception after unilateral temporal-lobe lesion revealed with multidimensional scaling. Brain, 125, 511-523.

Rossi, N., Wang, X. and Ramsay, J. O. (2002) Nonparametric item response function estimates with the EM algorithm. Journal of the Behavioral and Educational Sciences, 27, 291-317.

Malfait, N. and Ramsay, J.O. (2004). The historical functional linear model, Canadian Journal of Statistics, 31, 115-128.

Hutchinson, R.A., P.J. McLellan, J.O. Ramsay, H. Sulieman, and D.W. Bacon, (2004). Investigating the impact of operating parameters on molecular weight distributions using functional regression, Macromolecular Symposia, Wiley, Weinheim, Germany, 495-508.

Poyton, A. A., Varziri, M. S., McAuley, K. B., McLellan, P. J. and Ramsay, J. O. (2006) Parameter estimation in continuous-time dynamic models using principal differential analysis. Computational Chemical Engineering. 30, 698-708.

BOOKS

Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (1997) Functional Data Analysis. New York: Springer.

Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (2002) Applied Functional Data Analysis. New York:

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Springer.

Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (2005) Functional Data Analysi. Second Edition. New York: Springer.

Clarkson, D. B., Fraley, C., Gu, C. C. and Ramsay, J. O. (2005) S+Functional Data Analysis User’s Guide. New York: Springer.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS

Ramsay (1977). Multidimensional scaling. International Encyclopedia of Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Ramsay (1981). MULTISCALE Schiffman, S. S., Reynolds, M. L., and Young, F.W. Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling: Theory, Methods, and Applications. New York: Academic Press.

Ramsay, J.O. (1988). The analysis of replicated spatial functions of time. Coppi, R., and Bolasco, S., (Eds.). Multiway Data Analysis. Elsevier Science Publishers.

Ramsay, J. O. (1989). The data analysis of vector-valued functions. E. Diday (Ed.) Data Analysis, Learning Symbolic and Numeric Knowledge. Commack, New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Ramsay, J.O. (1995). Some tools for the multivariate analysis of functional data. In W. Krzanowski (Ed.) Descriptive Multivariate Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ramsay, J.O. (1997). A functional approach to modeling test data. In W.J. van der Linden and R.K. Hambleton (Eds.) Handbook of Modern Item Response Theory, New York: Springer- Verlag, 381-394.

Ramsay, J.O. (1997). Functional data analysis. In S. Kotz, C.B. Read and D.L. Banks (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, New York: Wiley.

Ramsay, J.O. (1997). Principal differential analysis. In S. Kotz, C.B. Read and D.L. Banks (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, New York: Wiley.

Ramsay, J.O. and Gribble, P. (1999). Functional data analysis in action. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association. 30-36.

Ramsay, J. O. (2001) Psychometrics. In N. J. Smelser andP. B. Baltes (Eds) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

B. W. Silverman and Ramsay, J. O. (2001) Functional data analysis. In N. J. Smelser and P. B.

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Baltes (Eds) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Ramsay, J. O. (2002) Multilevel modeling of longitudinal and functional data. In D. S. Moskowitz and S. L. Hershberger (Eds.) Modeling Intraindividual Variability with Repeated Measures Data: Methods and Applications. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. 87-102.

Ramsay, J. O. (2005) The control of behavioral input/output systems. In J. L. Schafer and T. A. Walls (Eds.) Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

BOOK REVIEWS

D.H. Krantz, R.D. Luce. P. Suppes, and A. Tversky. (1975). Foundations of measurement, Vol. 1. In Psychometrika, 40, 257-262.

D.N.M. de Gruijter and L.J.T. van der Kamp. Advances in Psychological and Educational Measurement. In Psychometrika.

R. Gnanadesikan. (1977). Methods for Statistical Analysis of Multivariate Observations. In Psychometrika, 42, 455.

G.D. Bechtel (1978). Multidimensional Preference Scaling. In Psychometrika, 43, 585. J.W. Tukey. Exploratory Data Analysis. In Applied Psychological Measurement. (With J. de Leeuw) F. Cailliez and Pages, J.-P. (1983). Introduction a l'Analyse des Donnees. In Psychometrika, 48,147-151.

F.W. Young and R.M. Hamer (Editor). (1988). Multidimensional Scaling: History, Theory, and Applications. In Contemporary Psychology, 33, 874-875.

P. Suppes, D.H. Krantz, R.D. Luce and A. Tversky. (1991). Foundations of measurement. Volumes II and III. In Psychometrika, 56, 355-358.

A., Gifi. (1992). Nonlinear multivariate analysis. In Psychometrika, 57, 156-157.

T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman (2002) Elements of Statistical Learning. In Psychometrika, 68, 611.

L. Hubert, P. Arabie, J. Meulman. (2001) Combinatorial Data Analysis. In Psychometrika, 69, 499.

COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

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MLSCALE. Distributed by SAS Users Group International as part of the SAS Supplemental Library, 1986.

MULTISCALE. Distributed by International Educational Services, Chicago, Ill., 1978.

MLMDS1, MLMDS2 and MLMDS4. Distributed by McGill Computing Centre.

TESTGRAF. Distributed by author.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

J. O. Ramsay (2003) Matlab, R and S-PLUS Functions for Functional Data Analysis.

RECENT CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS

2001 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Osaka, Japan. Invited to present two talks:

Functional Data Analysis in PsychometricsNonparametric Item Response Theory

2002 Journees de Statistique of l’Association Francais de Statistique, l’Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, May 13-16, Invited plenary speaker to present a paper titled Curve Registration

2002 Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, June 20-23. Invited to present a full day work shop on Functional Data Analysis

16th Australian Statistical Conference, Canberra, Australia, July 7-12 2002. Invited as plenary speaker to present a paper titled Parameter Flow

65th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Banff Centre, July 28-31, Invited to Organize a session on Functional Data Analysis.

The 6th International Statists Conference, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran. August 26-28, 2002. Invited as a Special Invited Guest to present two talks:

Parameter FlowPrincipal Differential Analysis and Process Control

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Mini Meeting on Functional Data Analysis, Invited keynote speaker, Gainesville, Florida, January 12-13, 2003.

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The 2003 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Caia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy, July 7-10, 2003. Invited plenary speaker to present “Psychometrics, Dynamics, and Differential Equations.”

Banff International Research Station Workshop on Regularization Methods in Statistics, September 7-10, 2003. Invited participant, presented “From Data to Differential Equations.”

19th Workshop on Item Response Theory at the University of Twente, Netherlands, October 15-17, 2003, keynote invited international speaker to present three talks.

Meeting of the Vereniging Voor Statisiek en Operationele Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, October 20, 2003, keynote invited talk, “From Data to Differential Equations.”

Hutchinson, R.A., H. Sulieman, J.O. Ramsay and P.J. McLellan, “Investigating the Impact of Operating Parameters on Molecular Weight Distributions Using Functional Regression”, poster presented at the United Engineering Foundation Conference on Polymer Reaction Engineering V, Quebec City, May, 2003.  R.A. Hutchinson, McLellan, P.J. and J.O. Ramsay, “Empirical Polymer Process Investigation Using Functional Regression”, poster presented at the Jacques Cartier Conference on Polymer Reaction Engineering, Modeling, Optimization and Control, Lyon, France, December 2003.

J. O. Ramsay, “Estimating differential equations,” and invited conference at the Max Planck Institute for Applied Statistics, Berlin, German, 27 May, 2004.

J. O. Ramsay, “Statistical problems in the modeling of human growth”, a paper presented in a symposium organized by myself at the Meetings of the Statistical Society of Canada, Montreal, 31 May, 2004.

J. O. Ramsay, Workshop on Functional Data Analysis, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, 10-11 July, 2004.

J. O. Ramsay, “Estimating differential equations,” paper presented at the Canada-France Meeting of Mathematics, Toulouse, France, July 12-15, 2004.

J. O. Ramsay, “Estimating differential equations,” invited plenary opening address at the Meeting of the International Federation of Classification Societies, Chicago, July 15-18, 2004.

J. O. Ramsay, “From data to differential equations,” invited plenary address at the Compstat 2004 Meeting in Prague, August 23-27, 2004.

J. O. Ramsay, “From data to differential equations,” invited plenary address at the XXVIII Congreso Nacional de Estadistica e Investigacion Operativa in Cadiz, Spain, October 25-25, 2004.

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J. O. Ramsay, “Lectures on functional data analysis.” Invited lecturer at the 2005 Winter Statistics Conference, University of Umea, Sweden

J. O. Ramsay, “From data to differential equations,” invited plenary address at the 2005 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Tilburg, Netherlands, July 4-9, 2005.

J. O. Ramsay, Workshop on functional data analysis, Insightful Corporation, Seattle, Wash., September 15-16, 2005

J. O. Ramsay, “From data to differential equations,” invited address at the International Association for Statistical Computing 3rd World Conference on Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Limassol, Cyprus, October 28-31, 2005.

J. O. Ramsay, Workshop on functional data analysis, International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Montreal, Canada, June 13, 2006.

J. O. Ramsay, Invited Session on Dynamic Modelling in the Social Sciences, International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Montreal, Canada, June 14-17, 2006.

J. O. Ramsay, “Contributions of Functional Data Analysis to the Future of Statistics”, invited address to the BIRS Workshop on Statistics at the Frontiers of Science, June 25-29, 2006.

J. O. Ramsay, “From data to differential equations,” invited address to the KNEMO Conference, Anacapri, Italy, Sept. 6-8, 2006.

J. O. Ramsay, “From data to differential equations,” invited address to the International Biometrics Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 16-21, 2006.

J. O. Ramsay, Three Lectures on Functional Data Analysis, invited address to the Suisse Romande Summer Conference, Ovronnaz, Italy, Sept. 27-30, 2006.

Updated: October 2006

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