In This Issue:

A Message from the Department Head 3 From the Director of Graduate Studies 5 From the Director of Undergraduate Program 6 Selected Faculty Activities 6 The Pfizer Colloquium 14 IWAP 2006 15 ICSA 2006 16 Sequential Methodologies 2007 18 Employee Recognition 19 Colloquia 19 Alumni News 20 Student News 20 Alumni Reply Form 24

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A Message from the Department Head

Welcome to the ninth issue of our “Newsletter”. There have been many exciting developments during the past year.

I am extremely happy to mention that Nalini Ravishanker and Yazhen Wang became Fellows of the American Statistical Association. Nalini Ravishanker has also received the UConn Outstanding Faculty Advising Award. I received the Research Excellence Award from the University of Connecticut Alumni Association. I am also happy to inform you that David Kenny, Board of Trustees, Distinguished Professor of Psychology has become an adjunct faculty in our department.

The research initiatives and the quality of output of the department continue to soar. We enjoy research funding from a variety of sources including NSF, NIH, AOFSR and private companies. Several research proposals are currently under review for extramural funding. International and national visibility of the department also continues to grow with our faculty’s participation and visits at conferences and other universities all over the world. This year we hosted two major conferences, the International Workshop in Applied Probability and the International Chinese Statistical Association Meeting.

The faculty members continue to develop and maintain significant collaborative research programs with colleagues from other departments, universities, and organizations. Within UConn, we maintain strong ties with Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Finance, Geography, Mathematics, Molecular and Cell Biology, Nutrition, Pathobiology, Pharmacy, Psychiatry and Natural Resources Management. We are committed to strengthening our interdisciplinary research component. Faculty members and graduate students from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and from Statistics meet regularly to further collaborative research on Statistical Genetics. Faculty from Genetics and Developmental Biology at UCHC, Computer Science, and Statistics meet periodically for collaborative research in Bioinformatics. Some faculty members are also involved with various interdisciplinary programs within the university, including Teachers for New Era, Center for Public Health and Health PolicyCenter for Health Communication and Marketing, Center for Internet Data and Research Intelligence Services, Center for

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Environmental Sciences and Engineering and Center for Health/HIV Intervention and Prevention. Outside UConn, we collaborate with research groups at the American University, University of Binghampton, University of Chicago, Harvard Medical School, Division of Biostatistics at the University of Minnesota, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, Medical University of South Carolina, University of New Orleans and the University of Washington. At the international level, we are collaborating with faculty members from the Federal University of Rio di Janero, Brazil, Myongji University, South Korea, National University of Singapore, Singapore, and RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. The internship programs with the UConn Health Center is flourishing and our students continue to enjoy the practical experience we offer them. The UConn Health Center has continued to support our students both from joint research grants as well as from internship programs. We thank Drs. Nick Warren and Martin Cherniack at the Health Center for their continued support during the past year. We are developing more projects through the Center for Applied Statistics (CAS). Currently we are running our internship program through the CAS. The list of clients is quite impressive.

On the instructional side, the enrollment in our service courses continues to climb, reflecting substantially increased demand for statistical expertise in a multitude of disciplines. The graduate level seminar courses in survival analysis, statistical consulting, Bioinformatics, longitudinal data analysis and clinical trials were also well received. The number and quality of majors in Statistics and Mathematics/Statistics continue to grow. We are working with ACES and other groups towards strengthening our undergraduate major. The Field Study Internship and Undergraduate Research initiatives will aid in our effort. We have established a Minor in Statistics which attracts students from other disciplines, and we continue to foster our High School Coop program to attract students into majors and minors in Statistics.

Professor Chris Heyde from Columbia University and the Australian National University was the 19th Pfizer Colloquium presenter in the Department. The Pfizer Colloquium titled “A Futuristic View on a Half-Century of Statistics and Applied Probability”, was professionally videotaped under the auspices of Filming of Distinguished Statisticians for the Archive of the American Statistical Association.

The Joint UConn-UMass colloquia have been held every semester for a number of years. In Fall 2005, our own Zhiyi Chi presented a seminar at UMass. During the Spring 2006 semester, we hosted the seminar and our invited colloquium speaker was Recai Yucel from UMass.

I am very proud of our accomplishments and would like to thank our faculty, staff, alumni and professional friends for their commitment to the department.

- Dipak K. Dey (Phone: (860) 486-4196, e-mail: dipak.dey@uconn.edu

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From the Director of Graduate Studies

The graduate program continues to flourish. Through a creative mix of funding sources, this year we supported more than two dozen students. We continue to offer a very vibrant and modern set of courses exposing our students to the most exciting and active research areas in the field. The job market in statistics remains excellent. We graduated 4 Ph.D.’s and 7 Masters students this year. They are working in academia, pharmaceutical industry, and financial institutes. Some of our current MS students find jobs in the industry several months before graduating.

We recruited ten new students with financial support. Seven of them have MS degrees in math or statistics. They are from the University of Vermont, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northern Illinois University, University of Rhode Island, Central Connecticut State University, the University of Mumbai in India, and our department’s MS program. The other three are math or math-stat-economics majors from UMASS Amherst, Nanjing University in China, and from our department. We are very proud of their accomplishments. The graduate students form a truly international group. A majority of them are interested in the biostatistics concentration. Some of the others are interested in financial statistics.

An updated Graduate Brochure, providing information about the Department and the Graduate Program, and containing application material is available upon request.

- Lynn Kuo (Phone: (860) 486-2951, e-mail: lynn@stat.uconn.edu)

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From the Director of Undergraduate Program

We continue to attract a good cohort of able and motivated Statistics and Mathematics-Statistics majors in our undergraduate program, as well as minors. We have a versatile course offering, including Field Study Internship, Undergraduate Research, and Undergraduate Seminar I and II to serve the Writing in the Major component.

Many of our undergraduate majors pursue graduate studies in Statistics, either in our department or elsewhere. Between December 2005 and May 2006, 1 major in Statistics and 4 majors in Mathematics-Statistics were awarded degrees. Our department is active in the UConn Early College Experience (previously called the UConn High School Coop) Program, an outreach program which now includes over 30 high school teachers from 18 schools in CT offering STAT110 at their high schools.

- Nalini Ravishanker (Phone: (860)486-4760; e-mail: nalini@stat.uconn.edu)

Selected Faculty Activities

Editorial Boards

Ming-Hui Chen is Associate Editor of Lifetime Data Analysis, Co-Editor of Sankhya, Associate Editor of Bayesian Analysis and Associate Editor of Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.

Joseph Glaz is the Editor-in-Chief of Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, and Sequential Analysis.

Lynn Kuo is the Associate Editor of the Journal of American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods.

Nitis Mukhopadhyay is the Editor of Sequential Analysis (2005-). He is also an Associate Editor of the Communications in Statistics, Statistical Methodology and the Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin.

Nalini Ravishanker is an Associate Editor of The American Statistician, the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Statistics and Systems.

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Rick Vitale is Editor of the Lecture Notes and Monograph Series of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and serves on the Editorial Boards of Advances in Applied Probability and Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability.

Yazhen Wang is an Associate Editor of Statistica Sinica and International Journal of Statistics and Systems (IJSS).

Selected Invited Faculty Talks

Enrique Alvarez presented invited talks at the Seventh International Conference in Teaching Statistics (ICOTS7) and at the University CEMA (Argentina).

Ming-Hui Chen was the invited speakers at The 2005 International Chinese Statistical Association Applied Statistics Symposium, Bethesda, MD, June 2005; Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, July 2005; The Joint Meeting of CSPS and IMS, July 2005, Beijing, China; The PAREXEL International Corporation, Waltham, MA, May 2006; Department of Methodology and Statistics, University Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 2006; and The 2006 International Chinese Statistical Association Applied Statistics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, June 2006. He also gave a one-day short course on "Bayesian Methods for Survival and Longitudinal Data" at the 2006 International Chinese Statistical Association Applied Statistics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, June 2006.

Zhiyi Chi was invited to give lectures at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins Unversity, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He also organized and chaired sessions in IWAP 06 and ICSA 06 Conference.

Dipak K. Dey presented invited talks in the Department of Mathematics, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China, July, 2005, the Joint Meeting of the Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Beijing, China, July 2005, the Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, MN, August 2005, Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical School, Rochester, NY, September 2005, Fifth Annual Red Raider Mini-Symposium on “Geometry, Statistics and Image Analysis” at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, November, 2005, International Conference in Statistics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December, 2005, the Department of Genetics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, January 2006, and in the International Chinese Statistical Association meeting at the University of Connecticut, June 2006.

Joseph Glaz presented an invited lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Minneapolis, August 2005. He was a co-author on two invited papers presented at the International Workshop in Applied Probability, University of Connecticut, May 2006.

Ofer Harel presented invited talks in the Department of Nutrition, University of Connecticut November 2005, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, December 2005, NIH/NICHD Rockville, MD January 2006, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO March 2006. He also presented at the Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) Seminar Series On Methods in Clinical Research University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, March 2006.

Lynn Kuo gave one lecture on the software BUGS (Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling) for the Roper Center Methods

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Group meeting on campus. She also gave two lectures on the statistical analysis for microarray data at the workshop on profiling the murine osteoprogenitor lineage held in Farmington and Storrs in May, 2006. She also gave a talk on calibrated Bayes factors for selecting differentially expressed genes at the International Workshop of Applied Probability in Storrs, May 2006 and a talk on the comparison of statistical methods for identifying differentially expressed genes in the ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium in Storrs, June 2006.

Nitis Mukhopadhyay Gave an invited lecture at the special symposium in memory of Bechhofer-Gupta-Sobel at Auburn University in October 2005. Also was an invited panelist for the Editor’s Panel Discussion at the same conference. Gave an invited interdisciplinary lecture at Syracuse University in April 2006. This coincided with the local ASA Chapter meeting. He organized and chaired two invited paper sessions on Sequential Methodology at the Hawaii Conference in January 2006. He gave an invited lecture in the same conference. Organized and chaired a session at the IWAP 2006 in Storrs in May 2006.

Vladimir Pozdnyakov presented a talk on Sufficient Condition for Eurodollar Futures Convexity Bias, 2006 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, June 2006, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. He also presented a talk on the Occurrence of Patterns: Martingale Technique and Applications to Scans, 2006 International Workshop on Applied Probability, May, 2006, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Nalini Ravishanker presented a talk at the University of Texas at San Antonio in April 2005 on multivariate times-to-events modeling, and on statistical models for software reliability in the Topics Contributed Session at JSM Toronto in August 2004.

Rick Vitale presented an invited lecture at the Vardi Memorial Conference, Rutgers, October 2005 and the AMS Section Meeting, University of New Hampshire, April 2006.

Yazhen Wang presented invited talks at the Joint Statistical Meetings(JSM), Minneapolis, August 2005; the Workshop on Frontiers of Statistics, Princeton University, May 2006; the Graybill Conference 2006, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, June; Banff workshop on "Statistics at the Frontier of Science", Banff, Canada, June 2006; the 2006 International Symposium on Financial Engineering and Risk Management", Amoy University, China, July 2006, and the International Conference of DOE and Its Applications, Nankai University, China, July. He also gave a talk at the colloquium in Department of Statistics, at Stern Business School, New York University, November 2005.

Grants

Enrique Alvarez received a Large Faculty Grant from the Uconn Research Foundation for his project on Studies in Labor Dynamics via Marked Point Processes. He has also received a teaching grant from Pearson Publishing – Prentice Hall in order to fund a pilot experience for teaching statistics with a personal response system (clickers).

Ming-Hui Chen is the P.I. on the subcontract of an NIH R01 grant for 2006-2009, an NIH R01 grant for 2005-2008, an NIH R01 grant for 2003-2006, and another NIH R01 grant for 2002-2005. He is the P.I. on a grant from the Brigham and Women's Hospital on “Statistical Research for Prostate Cancer Study”. He serves as a Statistics Consultant on an NIH SBIR grant with the Cytel Software Corporation for 2003-2006.

Zhiyi Chi is the co-P.I. on an NIH R01 grant for 2001-2006. He is also a co-PI of another NIH R01 grant for 2005-2010. Under both grants, he will develop statistical methods for

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neuroscience.

Dipak K. Dey is continuing a five year National Institute of Health grant, Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Polymorphisms, 2003 ­2007 (Co-PI with D. Grant, School of Pharmacy, UConn). U.S. Department of Defense, Storage Efficient Data Mining for High-Speed Data Streams, Phase II, 2005 ­2006. STTR grant with Sonalysts Inc., National Institute of Health, Bayesian Methods for Analysis of Genetic Diversity (Co-PI with K. Holsinger, EEB), 2004-2007. 2004 Provost’s Grant Competition, University of Connecticut. Center for Internet Data and Research Intelligence Services (CIDRIS), (Co-PI with P.Goes, School of Business). Faculty Large Grant Competetion , Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Education, University of Connecticut, 2005.

Joseph Glaz received grants from Office of Naval Research, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, IBM Research, Taylor and Francis Group and University of Connecticut to support the International Workshop in Applied Probability, IWAP 2006, at the University of Connecticut.

Lynn Kuo is an investigator of the grant NIH/NIDDK Expression Profiling the Osteoprogenitor Lineage (Workshop Support), 2004-2006 (David Rowe-Principal Investigator) R13 DK070516-01. She is also an investigator of the NIH/NIGMS Integrated Bioinformatics Center for Cellular Biology, 2002-2006 (Donguk Shin-Principal Investigator) P20 GM5764-01. This grant supports half time two of her current advisees.

Nitis Mukhopadhyay received UCRF Travel Grants to partially fund participation at the JSM in Minneapolis, the Hawaii International Conference and the Conference at Auburn University.

Vladimir Pozdnyakov received an IMS

travel award to attend the IMS New Researchers Conference 2003.

Yazhen Wang is PI for a NSF grant from 2005 to 2008 and Co-PI for a NIH grant.

Outreach

Enrique Alvarez served as referee for Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability and for the National Science Foundation

Ming-Hui Chen presented the Section on Bayesian Statistical Sciences as Program Chair for the 2005 JSM and he is a member of the Board of Directors, International Chinese Statistical Association (Elected in 2003, Serving for 2004-2006). He served the Chair of the Local Organizing committee of the 2006 International Chinese Statistical Association Applied Statistics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, June 2006. He was a member of the committee to evaluate the SBSS student papers, Spring 2006. He is also an active Biostatistics reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Dipak K. Dey. Member NIH research panel on “Clinical Proteomics”, 2005. Member NIH research panel on “Bioinformatics”, 2005. Member, Savage Award committee, International Society of Bayesian Analysis, 2005-2006. Co-chair, Biostatistics Task Force Committee, Center for Public Health and Health Policy. Member Assessment Committee, Neag School of Education. Member, Committee on Selection of Editors of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2003 - 2005. Chair during 2005. Member, Archive and Historical Committee, American Statistical Association, 2003 - 2005. Member, Core Research Group of the Center for Health Communication and Marketing. Member, Advisory Committee of the Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Fellow, Center for Internet Data and Research

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Intelligence Services (CIDRIS). Chair, Young Researcher Award Committee, International Indian Statistical Association, 2006-2007.

Joseph Glaz served as a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews. He co-chaired and co­organized the International Workshop in Applied Probability at the University of Connecticut, May 2006. IWAP 2006 was co­sponsored by the Bernoulli Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Office of Naval Research, IBM Research, Taylor and Francis Group and the University of Connecticut.

Ofer Harel is a member of the Planning/Advisory Committee: Pre-doctoral (T32) training program in clinical and tranlational research, University of Connecticut.

Lynn Kuo is a member of the Nominating Committee for the President and Council Members for the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). She is the Treasurer and Registrar of the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) 2006 Applied Statistics Symposium; also a member of the Fund Raising Committee and local Organizing Committee for the ICSA 2006 Applied Statistics Symposium. She organized a topic contributed session in for the joint statistical meetings in August 2006 in Seattle, an invited paper session for IWAP May 2006, and an invited paper session for the ICSA, June 2006, all three are in the area of bioinformatics.

Nitis Mukhopadhyay is the chair on the Committee of Filming Distinguished Statisticians of the American Statistical Association In November 2005, Professor Chris Heyde, Australian National University and Columbia University, was videotaped at the University of Connecticut under this program. Liaison for the invited paper session

at the JSM 2005 organized on behalf of the Friends of ISI.

Nalini Ravishanker is active in the UConn High School Program. She is actively involved with joint research with faculty in the departments of Civil Engineering, Marketing, and the Department of Community Medicine at UCHC, as well as with researchers at IBM Watson Research Center. She received the UConn Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2006. UConn Early College Experience (previously called the UConn High School Coop Program). This is a UConn outreach program and now includes over 30 high school teachers from 18 schools in CT offering STAT110 at their high schools. An annual workshop for high school teachers participating in the UConn ECE Program in Statistics was conducted by her on May 8, 2006. She has been selected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association, August 2006.

Rick Vitale is an advisor for the UConn Wrestling Club.

Yazhen Wang is a guest professor at Shanghai University of Economics and Finance and has a joint research with Research Institute of Econometrics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He has been selected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association, August, 2006.

Selected Publications

Enrique Alvarez 2005. Smoothed nonparametric estimation in window censored semi markov processes. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 131, 209-229.

2005. Estimation in stationary markov renewal processes with application to earthquake forecasting in Turkey. Methodol. Comput. Appl. Probab. 7, 119-130.

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2006. Maximum likelihood estimation in alternating renewal processes under window censoring. Stochastic Models, 22, 55-76.

Ming-Hui Chen (with L. Huang and J.G. Ibrahim) 2005. Bayesian Analysis for General ized Linear Models with Nonignorably Missing Covariates. Biometrics, 61, 767-780.

(With A.V. D'Amico, A.A. Renshaw and B. Sussman) 2005. Pre-treatment PSA Velocity and the Risk of Death from Prostate Cancer Following External Beam Radiation Therapy. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 294, 440-447.

(With J.G. Ibrahim, S.R. Lipsitz and A.H. Herring) 2005. Missing Data Methods in Regression Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100, 332-346.

(With J.G. Ibrahim) 2006. The Relationship Between the Power Prior and Hierarchical Models. Bayesian Analysis, 1, 551-574.

Dipak K. Dey (with A. Micheas) 2005. Modeling shape distribution and inferences for assessing differences in shapes. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 92, 257-280.

(With J. Liu) 2005. A new constructions for skew multivariate distributions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 95, 323-344.

(With S. Nadarajah) 2005. Multitude of multivariate t distributions. Statistics, 39, 149­181.

(With S. Song and K. Holsinger) 2006. Differentiation among populations with migration, mutation, and drift: implications for genetic inference. Evolution, 60, 1-12.

Joseph Glaz (with J. Naus) 2005. Scan Statistics and Applications. Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, 2nd Edition, S. Kotz, N.

Balakrishnan, C. B. Read and B. Vidacovic, eds., 7463-7471, Wiley, NY.

(With M. Kulldorff, V. Pozdnyakov and M. Steele) 2006. Gambling teams and waiting times for patterns in two-state Markov chains. J. Appl. Probab., 43, no. 1, 127-140.

(With V. Pozdnyakov) 2006. A nonparametric sequential test for distributions with heavy tails. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, in press.

(With Z. Zhang) 2006. Bayesian variable window scan statistics. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, in press.

Ofer Harel (with A.J. Heinrichs, B.S. Heinrichs, G.W. Rogers and N.T.) 2005. A prospective study of calf factors affecting age, body size, and body condition score at first calving of Holstein dairy heifers. Journal of Dairy Science, 88, 2828-2835.

Lynn Kuo (with I. Kalajzic, A. Staal, W-P Yang, Y. Wu, S. E. Johnson, J. H. M. Feyen, W. Krueger, P. Maye, F. Yu, Y. Zhao, R. Gupta, L.E.K. Achenie, H-W Wang, D-G Shin, and D. W. Rowe) 2005. Expression profile of osteoblast lineage at defined stages of differentiation, Journal of Biological Chemistry, July, V. 280, 24618-24626.

(With T. Yang) 2006. An improved collapsed Gibbs sampler for Dirichlet process mixing models, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, V.50, 659-674.

(With C. A. Hermandez-Avila, C. Song, H.Tennen, S. Armeli, and H. R. Kranzler) 2006. Targeted vs. daily Naltrexone: secondary analysis of effects on average daily drinking. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, V. 30, No 5, 860-865.

2006. Software reliability, in Handbook of Statistics 25: Bayesian Thinking: Modeling

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and Computation, Eds D. K. Dey and C. R. Rao, Elsevier, pp. 929-963.

Cyr M’lan (with S.R. Kahn, D.L. Lamping, X. Kurz, A. Bedard, L.A. Abenhaim) 2004. Relationship Between Clinical Severity of Chronic Disease and Patient-Reported Quality of Life: Results from an International Cohort Study. Journal of Vascular Surgery, 39, 4, 823-828.

(With S.R. Kahn, D.L. Lamping, X. Kurz, A. Bedard, L.A. Abenhaim) 2004. The influence of venous thromboembolism on quality of life and severity of chronic venous disease: Results from the VEINES international cohort study. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2: 2146-2151.

(With L. Joseph and D.B. Wolfson) 2006. Bayesian Sample Size Determination for Case-Control Studies. J of the American Statistical Association - Theory and Methods, Vol 101, 760-772.

(With M.O. Orlova, K.B. Majorov, I.V. Lyadova , E.B. Eruslanov, C.M.T. Greenwood, E. Schurr and A.S. Apt. "Constitutive differences in gene expression profiles parallel genetic pattern of susceptibility to tuberculosis in mice". Infection and Immunity, (in press).

Nitis Mukhopadhyay (with M. S. Son and Y. C. Ko.) 2004. A new two-stage sampling design for estimating the maximum average time to flower. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 9, 479-514.

(With B. M. de Silva) 2005. Two-stage estimation of mean in a negative binomial distribution with applications to Mexican bean beetle data. Sequential Analysis, 24, 99-137.

2005. On some one-parameter families where maximal invariants do not distinguish

hypothesized models. Communications in Statistics, Theory & Methodology, 34, 23-36.

(With W. Pepe) 2006. Exact bounded risk estimation when the terminal sample size and estimator are dependent: The exponential case. Sequential Analysis, 25, 85-101.

Vladimir Pozdnyakov (with J.M. Steele) 2004. On the Martingale Framework for Futures Prices. , Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, 109, 69-77.

(With J. Glaz, M. Kulldorf and J.M. Steele) 2005. A Martingale Approach to Scan Statistics. Annals of The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 57, 21-37.

(With J. Glaz) 2005. A Repeated Significance Test for Distributions with Heavy Tails, Sequential Analysis, 24, 77–98.

(With J. Glaz , M. Kulldorff and J.M. Steele) 2006. Gambling Teams and Waiting Times for Patterns in Two-state Markov Chains. Journal of Applied Probability, 43, 127-140.

Nalini Ravishanker (with Z. Liu and B.K. Ray) 2005. NHPP Models for Categorized Software Defects. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 21, 509-524.

(With X. Qin, J.N. Ivan and J. Liu) 2005. Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation of Safety Performance Functions for Two-Lane Highways Using MCMC Modeling. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 131, 345-351.

(With B.K. Ray and Z. Liu) 2006. Dynamic Reliability Models for Software using Time-dependent Covariates. Technometrics, 1, 1-10.

Rick Vitale (with M. Bonetti) 2000. Asymptotic behavior of a set statistic. Discrete Computational Geometry, 23, 333­341.

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(With F. Gao) 2001. Intrinsic volumes of the Brownian motion body. Discrete Computational Geometry, 26, 41-50.

2002. Intrinsic volumes and Gaussian processes. Advanced Applied Probability, 33, 354-364.

2004. A question of geometry and probability. In: A Festschift for Herman Rubin (A. DasGupta, editor). IMS Lecture Notes -­Monograph Series, 45, 337—341.

Yazhen Wang 2002. Asymptotic nonequivalence of GARCH models and diffusions. Annals of Statistics, 30, 754-783.

(With L.D. Brown and L.H. Zhao) 2003. Statistical equivalence at suitable frequencies of GARCH and stochastic volatility models with the corresponding diffusion model. Statistica Sinica, 13, 993-1013.

(With D.K. Dey) 2004. Wavelet modeling of priors on triangles. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 89, 338-350.

(With A.M. Kenny, A. Kleppinger and K. Prestwood) 2005. Effects of ultra-low dose estrogen therapy on muscle and physical function in older women. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 53, 1973-1977.

Published Books

Ming-Hui Chen (with Q.-M. Shao and J.G. Ibrahim) 2000. Monte Carlo Methods in Bayesian Computation. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-98935-8.

(With J.G. Ibrahim and D. Sinha) 2001. Bayesian Survival Analysis. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-95277-2.

Dipak K. Dey (with C.R. Rao) 2005. Handbook of Statistics Vol. 25 : Bayesian

Thinking, Modeling and Computation. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam.

2006. Bayesian Statistics and its Application. Proceedings of the International Conference on Bayesian Statistics, Varanasi, India. Eds. with U. Singh and S.K. Upadhyaya.

Joseph Glaz (with R. Baeza-Yates, H. Gzyl,

J. Huesler and J.L. Palacios) 2005. Recent Advances in Applied Probability. Springer Science and Business Media, NY.

Nitis Mukhopadhyay. Probability and Statistical Inference (ISBN #0-8247-0379-0). Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, in March, 2000.

(With S. Datta and S. Chattopadhyay) 2004. Applications of Sequential Methodologies. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.

(With Basil M. de Silva) 2004. Proceedings of the International Sri Lankan Statistical Conference: Visions of Futuristic Methodologies. Postgraduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, December 28-30, 2004, ISBN 0 86459 339 2.

2006. Introductory Statistical Inference. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.

Nalini Ravishanker (with D.K. Dey) 2002. A First Course in Linear Model Theory. Chapman Hall, CRC.

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The Pfizer Colloquium and Filming of Distinguished Statisticians for the Archive

Professor C. C. Heyde from Columbia University, New York and the

Australian National University, Canberra, Australia was chosen as the 19th

Pfizer Colloquium presenter in the Department of Statistics, University of

Connecticut-Storrs.

The Pfizer Colloquium titled

“A Futuristic View on a Half-Century of Statistics and Applied Probability”

(Duration: 55 minutes)

was professionally filmed on November 4, 2005, under the auspices of Filming of Distinguished Statisticians

for the Archive of the American Statistical Association. The project was directed by Professor Nitis

Mukhopadhyay, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

In this film, Professor Heyde eloquently explains his views and impressions about how our

profession has grown and where it may be heading. He touches upon delicate issues including important

aspects of preparing manuscripts for journal submission, declining and aging membership population in

international societies across the globe, journal editing, and mentoring. He talks about the history and

mentions major influences on shaping his statistical thinking in a non-technical fashion. One will find the

vintage Chris Heyde in this film.

Professor Sidney Resnick from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and Professor Steven Kou

from Columbia University, New York were both on hand as invited guests. During this memorable occasion,

“A Conversation with C. C. Heyde”

(Duration: 56 minutes)

was also professionally filmed. In this conversation piece, Professors Resnick and Kou discuss many facets

of Professor Heyde’s life, work, and interests. In this film one will see both the serious and lighter sides of

Professor Heyde. This ought to be a ‘must see’ for all statisticians.

Both films open with a welcoming note from Professor Mukhopadhyay. Professor Kou has

introduced Professor Heyde in both pieces.

These films were sponsored and made possible by the funding received from Pfizer Global Research

and Development, the American Statistical Association, and the Department of Statistics at the University

of Connecticut-Storrs. These invaluable supports are gratefully acknowledged.

Heart felt thanks go to the members of the national committee and the local organizing committee

(Professors Ming-Hui Chen, Dipak K. Dey, Nitis Mukhopadhyay - Chair) for years of dedication and

continued support.

Prepared by:

Nitis Mukhopadhyay

University of Connecticut-Storrs

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International Workshop in Applied Probability at the University of Connecticut

The third International Workshop in Applied Probability, IWAP 2006, was hosted by our department on May 15-18, 2006. Bernoulli Society, IBM Research, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Office of Naval Research, Taylor & Francis Group and the University of Connecticut sponsored the workshop.

IWAP 2006 is the third international workshop in applied probability. The first International Workshop in Applied Probability, IWAP 2002, took place at the University of Simon Bolivar, Venezuela, on January 14–17, 2002 and the second International Workshop in Applied Probability, IWAP 2004, took place at the University of Piraeus, Greece, on March 25-18, 2004. It is planned to have additional workshops every two years. The workshop chairs for the IWAP series are Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile, Chile, Joseph Glaz, University of Connecticut, USA, Henryk Gzyl, University of Simor Bolivar, Venezuela, Juerg Huesler, University of Bern, Switzerland, Markos V. Koutras, University of Piraeus, Greece, and Jose Luis Palacios, Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela.

About 200 participants from 26 countries have taken part in IWAP 2006. During the conference 160 invited talks were presented in 40 parallel sessions, and 8 plenary lectures were delivered by Louis H. Y. Chen, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Robert J. Elliott, University of Calgary, Canada, Alan E. Gelfand, Duke University, Steven Haberman, City University, London, UK, Nikolaos Limnios, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France, Hosam M. Mahmoud, George Washington University, Servet Martinez, University of Chile, Chile, and Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University.

Besides the interesting lectures the participants at this workshop enjoyed half a day tour at Mystic Village or Mohegan Sun and Resort Casino. The workshop concluded with a Gala Dinner at the Rome Hall on Thursday, May 18.

Faculty members from our own department had a strong participation at the workshop by serving on the scientific committee, local organizing committee, organizing invited sessions and presenting invited talks. For more details about this exciting workshop please visit the website: www.stat.uconn.edu/IWAP2006.

Moshe Shaked, Marco Scarsini, Alan Gelfand and Lynn Kuo at the reception of IWAP.

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Sheldon Ross and Vladimir Pozdnyakov at the reception of IWAP.

ICSA 2006

The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) 2006 Applied Statistics

Symposium was held from June 14 – 17 at University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. This annual statistics symposium featured three keynote talks by Professors Xiao-Li Meng of Harvard University, James O. Berger of Duke University and SAMSI, and Terry P. Speed of the University of California at Berkeley and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Australia, and two plenary talks given by Professors Kung-Yee Liang of the National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, R. O. C. and Johns Hopkins University and Jun S. Liu of Harvard University. Their talks on “Life becomes more colorful when you know EM, Bayes, and Wavelets ...”, “Some Recent Developments in Bayesian Model Selection”, “Measuring and utilizing efficiency in quantitative real-time polymerase chain reactions”, “Statistics in Actions: Misuses and Alternatives”, and “Sequence information, histone acetylation, and gene expression” are a great reflection of the recent development of the modern statistics. All five talks were very interesting and well attended by the symposium participants.

Four half-day and three full-day short courses were offered: “Statistical Analysis of Financial Data” by Professor Yazhen Wang, University of Connecticut, “Contributions to Discrete Distributions” by Professor Daniel Zelterman, Yale University, “Design and Analysis of Dose Response Trials” by Dr. Naitee Ting, Pfizer Global Research Development and Dr. James MacDougall, Bristol-Myers Squibb, “Active Controlled Trials” by Dr. Yi Tsong, CDER, Food and Drug Administration, “Bayesian Methods for Survival and Longitudinal Data” by Professor Joseph G. Ibrahim, University of North Carolina and Professor Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut, “Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics” by Professor Jun Liu, Harvard University, and “Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Principles for Modeling and Simulation Based Drug Development” by Dr. Marc R. Gastonguay, Metrum Research Group, LLC. We had 71 people registered for the short courses on Wednesday, June 14, 2006, prior to the technical sessions.

In addition to three keynote and two plenary talks, there were eight sets of nine concurrent

oral presentation sessions and one set of poster session during June 15-17. 2006. Among the oral presentation sessions were 60 invited sessions and 10 contributed sessions. The highlight of the symposium perhaps was Dr. Henry Lee’s banquet speech in the evening of June 16, 2006. Dr. Henry C. Lee is one of the world’s foremost forensic scientists. Dr. Lee delivered a very

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entertaining and interesting speech in front of over 200 banquet attendees. No one was noticed until told that Dr. Lee’s speech lasted over one and half hours, which was initially scheduled as one hour.

More than 318 participants from countries around the world — from US to Canada to

Europe to Africa to Asia — attended the symposium. Both the number of technical sessions and the number of participants have been the highest in the ICSA annual symposium history so far.

This symposium was received a strong support from the UConn community. UConn Graduate School and the UConn College of Liberal Arts & Sciences joining with 11 companies including Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Global R&D, GSK, Organon, Amgen, Merck, IBM, Sanofi-Aventis, Johnson & Johnson, and Eisai Medical Research Inc. were the sponsors of the symposium. Dean Ross MacKinnon, Dean, UConn College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and Peter J. Nichols, Provost, University of Connecticut, gave warm welcoming speeches in the opening remarks session on June 15, 2006. Dipak K. Dey, Head, UConn Department of Statistics, delivered welcoming remarks and introduced the Banquet speaker, Henry Lee, Chief Emeritus of the Connecticut State Police during the symposium banquet. Ming-Hui Chen was the chair of the Local Organizing Committee. Lynn Kuo served as the symposium treasurer

and Fang Yu was the assistant treasurer. Yazhen Wang served as the chair of the Short Course

Committee. Several faculty members organized invited sessions and chaired keynote, plenary, invited, and contributed sessions. Two faculty members and four graduate students volunteered to be the symposium drivers and they picked up or dropped off guesses from/at Hartford train and bus station and Bradley International airport from June 12 to June 18. Twelve students volunteered to be the symposium helpers to monitor all short courses and technical sessions. Bob Sequin and Charity Miller of the UConn Conference Office had provided excellent services to the symposium.

Overall, the symposium was a huge success. Many participants congratulated us for such

a well organized symposium. They were impressed with our hospitality, nearly professional services, technical sessions, UConn state-of-art conference facilities, and food. After the symposium, Xiao-Li Meng wrote to us “It was really a great conference, one that will remain in many people's memory for long time to come. Congratulations!”

Yazhen Wang, Terry Speed, Henry Lee and Ming-Hui Chen at the ICSA reception.

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Ming-Hui Chen introducing Jim Berger at aPlenary session of the ICSA meeting.

International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies 2007

Department of Mathematics and Statistics Auburn University, Alabama, U.S.A.

Sunday, July 22 - Wednesday, July 25, 2007 http://www.stat.auburn.edu/iwsm2007/

Professor Nitis Mukhopadhyay is the main organizer. Professor Mark Carpenter from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Alabama, U.S.A. has kindly agreed to host the first International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies 2007 (IWSM2007).

Professors Mukhopadhyay and Carpenter will serve as Co-Chairs for this workshop. Contributions to theoretical and applied aspects of sequential analysis in all areas of statistical science and applications are invited. Proposals for invited paper sessions are invited.

While the detailed plans are being worked out, there will be four plenary lectures and a number of specially arranged invited paper sessions in this workshop. It is a pleasure to mention that Professor Sam Efromovich (University of Texas-Dallas, U.S.A.), Professor Tze L. Lai (Stanford University, U.S.A.), Professor Marion R. Reynolds (Virginia Tech, U.S.A.), and Professor Ester Samuel-Cahn (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), have kindly agreed to deliver the plenary lectures.

The web site is http://www.stat.auburn.edu/iwsm2007/ and please consult this site often for up to date information. If you find errors, inconsistencies, omissions or if you have a suggestion, please let Professor Nitis Mukhopadhyay (nitis.mukhopadhyay@uconn.edu) or Professor Mark Carpenter (carpedm@auburn.edu) know. That will help the organizers very much.

The Scientific Program Committee (updating to continue) includes Professor Atanu Biswas (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Professor Yuan-chin Ivan Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Professor D. S. Coad (Queen Mary, University of London, U.K.), Professor Savas Dayanik (Princeton University, U.S.A.), Dr. Vladimir Dragalin (GlaxoSmithKline, U.S.A.), Professor Marianne Frisén (Göteborg University, Sweden), Professor Malay Ghosh (University of Florida, U.S.A.), Professor Allan Gut (Uppsala Universität, Sweden), Professor A. Hussein (University of

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Windsor, Canada), Dr. Qing Liu (Johnson & Johnson PRD, U.S.A.), Professor Wei Liu (University of Southampton, U.K.), Professor Nitis Mukhopadhyay(Chair, Universityof Connecticut, U.S.A.), Professor Igor Nikiforov (Institut Charles Delaunay, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France), Professor Tumulesh K. S. Solanky (University of New Orleans, U.S.A.), Professor Josef Steinebach (Universität zu Köln, Germany), Dr. Kai Fun Yu (National Institutes of Health, U.S.A.), and Professor Shelley Zacks (Binghamton University, U.S.A.).

The sponsors include Auburn University, Alabama, the Department of Statistics, University

of Connecticut-Storrs, Sequential Analysis, and the Taylor & Francis Group.

It is hoped that IWSM2007 will set a trend and create a forum every two years in venues all over the world to gather around the researchers and practitioners in sequential methodologies.

Employee Recognition

Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Cathy Brown and Joe Glaz receiving awards for their years of service in the State of Connecticut. Nitis with 20 years and Joe and Cathy with 25. Dipak Dey (not in the picture) also received the 20 years service award.

Colloquia

We continue to have a stream of excellent colloquia:

Joseph C. Cappelleri, Pfizer Inc. and David A. Kenny, University of Connecticut University of Connecticut Samuel Kou, Harvard University

Gabriel J. Chandler, Connecticut College Hannes Leeb, Yale University Zhiyi Chi, University of Connecticut Xihong, Lin, Harvard University Hammou El Barmi, Baruch College, City James P. McDermott, Bristol-Myers Squibb

University of New York Wanli Min, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Zhezhen Jin, Columbia University New York Michael Keane, Wesleyan University Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Florida

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Parimal Mukhopadhyay, Indian Statistical Jayson D. Wilbur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Institute

Jeffrey Townsend, University of Connecticut Recai Yucel, University of Massachusetts, Cindy Weiss, University of Connecticut Amherst

Harry Zhou, Yale University

Alumni News

Patricia Apruzesse is doing an internship during Summer 2006 in the Office of Research, CT Department of Labor on a project involving a survey of employers in Connecticut to estimate hiring demand and job vacancy characteristics by industry and occupation.

Brad Carlin (Pn.D. 1989) has become a new editor of the journal Bayesian Analysis.

Zhen Chen (Ph.D. 2001) and Jieling became proud parents of Angie Chen on June 7, 2006.

Deborah Diamante (M.S. 2005) has joined Trilegiant in Norwalk, CT.

Daniel T. Larose (Ph.D. 1996) is the Director of Data Mining at the Central Connecticut StateUniversity. His second volume a three-volume series on data mining entitled “Data: An Introduction to Data Mining”, John Wiley & Sons, has just appeared. He has also been promoted to Full Professor.

Dongmei Li (M.S. 2005) has accepted a biostatistician position with Mead Johnson Nutritional.

Michael Muldoff (Mathematics-Statistics 2004) completed his Masters at Yale and has joined the US Census Bureau.

Ysanne Richards (B.A. in Statistics, 2005) is a Quality Assurance Analyst at Hewitt Associates in Norwalk.

Steven Sugrue (M.S. 2001) is currently a Statistician at Circuit City, VA after a masters degree in Economics at UConn.

Student News

This year witnessed a revitalization of the student seminar series, which now offers participants one credit for giving a presentation on a selected topic in probability or statistics. The forum gives students exposure to, and cultivates interest in, different subfields within their discipline, and provides the opportunity to share knowledge and work experiences with one another. A wide variety of subjects were covered in this last round of presentations including bioinformatics, population genetics, pharmaceutical drug trials and spatial statistics among others. An electronic student journal, soon to be accessible from the department home page, has also been created and is being maintained by

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Sourish Das. Insightful comments from attending faculty members Enrique Alvarez, Zhiyi Chi, Dipak Dey and Cyr M’lan added to the value of the experience.

Marie Buemi (Statistics 2006) presented at FURASH in April her research titled “Convexity Bias” under the supervision of Vladimir Podznyakov.

Sonali Das got married to Dr. Rangan Gupta in January 2006. She will be joining her husband in South Africa soon after her Ph.D. in August.

Ulysses Diva has received a travel grant from the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the ASA to present a paper at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle. He will be joining Bristol Meyers & Squibb after completion of his Ph.D. during the summer.

Qiong Fang has joined Synectechs, Inc., in Connecticut after completing her M.S. degree.

Elijah Gaioni is working as a summer intern on a project on “High Speed Data Streaming” with Sonalysts, Inc.

Samiran Ghosh has received an award from ASA to participate at the Statistics Bowl, during the JSM in Seattle. He will be joining Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis as an Assistant Professor after completing his Ph.D. in the summer.

Yuchen Gu is working as a summer intern at St. Paul Travelers, Hartford, CT.

Zhaohui Liu defended his Ph.D. thesis in May 2006. He is currently working as a Senior Biostatistician at Novartis Inc., NJ.

Pankaj Prakash is joining Hewitt Associates in Norwalk, CT as a Statistician.

Changhong Song has accepted a statistician’s position at EMMES Corporation in Rockville, Maryland. He and his wife, Yihong, became proud parents of a baby daughter, Stephanie, in February.

Jiali Tang has joined Eli Lilly & Company as a biostatistician.

Michael Tosca (Bachelors in Mathematics-Statistics 2006) will join the Ph.D. program in Earth Systems Science at UC Irvine in Fall 2006.

Hong Wang received her M.S. degree in May 2006. She is currently working at Forest Laboratories, Inc. in New Jersey as a Clinical Data Manager.

Fang Yu has received a student travel award to present her paper at the International Chinese Statistical Association, Applied Statistics Conference.

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Student Achievement Awards for 2005:

Gottfried Noether Award: Patrick Joyce

H. Fairfield Smith Award: Wangang Xie

Certificate of Appreciation for Service: Ulysses Diva

Certificate of Appreciation for the Best Performance in Statistical Inference: Pengfei Li

Certificate of Appreciation for the Best Performance in Probability: Elijah Gaoini

Certificate of Appreciation for Performance in Inference. Samiran Ghosh

Recent Ph.D.’s and Their Current Affiliations:

Anandamayee Majumdar, Ph.D., 2004. Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Arizona.

Madhuja Mallick, Ph.D., 2004. Biostatistician, Merck Research Laboratories. Prashni Paliwal, Ph.D., 2004. Biostatistician. Center for Statistical Sciences, Yale University,

New Haven, CT. Shanshan Wu, Ph.D., 2004. Statistician, ING Clarion, New York, NY. Lan Huang, Ph.D., 2004. National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda,

Maryland.Seongho Song, Ph.D., 2005. Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati, Ohio.Zhenkui Zhang, Ph.D., 2005. Statistical Analyst, Liberty Mutual Bank, Boston, MA. Hai Xu, Ph.D., 2006. Statistician, St. Paul Travelers, Hartford, CT.Zhaohui Liu, Ph.D., 2006. Senior Biostatistician, Novartis, Inc., NJ.

Recent Masters:

Mehrtash Hashemzadeh, Deborah Diamante, Qiong Feng, Demetra Lytras, Ayesha Jagtiani, Dongmei Li, Fang Ren, Jorge Rodriquez, Liqin Tao, Wei Xu, Jorge Rodriguez, Demetra Lytras, Qiong Feng, Deborah Diamante, Liqin Tao, Stephen P. O’Malley, Hua Wang, Hanging Ling, Dongmei Li, Hong Wang, Manish Sharma and Jaydip Mukhopadhyay.

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Recent Bachelors:

Stephen Aloi, David Andrews, Patricia Apruzzese, Christina Bloking, Meghan Carabina, Scott D'Alessandri, Jessica Feldman, Michael Grabowski, Robert Jordan, Katrina Lerman, Charles McCarthy, Wesley Mohn, Michael Muldoff, Rina Rahardjo, Ysanne Richards, Meredith Scarlata, Brian Trost, Melissa Woelfel, Todd Turton, Angelo LaBella, Serena Del Basso, Michael Tosca and Cheyenne Updegrave.

Faculty, Staff and Adjunct Faculty

Sandy Adelstein, Lecturer sandyadelstein@yahoo.com

Enrique Alvarez, Assistant Professor ealvarez@stat.uconn.edu

Cathy Brown, Administrative Assistant statadm@uconn.edu

Tracy Burke, Secretary statadm2@uconn.edu

Joseph Cappelleri, Lecturer and Adjunct joseph.c.cappelleri!pfizer.com

Ming-Hui Chen, Professor mhchen@stat.uconn.edu

Zhiyi Chi, Associate Professor zhiyi.chi@uconn.edu

Fred Dauser, Lecturer f.dauser@worldnet.att.net

Dipak K. Dey, Professor and Head dipak.dey@uconn.edu

Anne Doyle, Lecturer toughones@aol.com

Evarist Gine, Professor (Math) gine@math.uconn.edu

Joseph Glaz, Professor joseph.glaz@uconn.edu

Ofer Harel, Assistant Professor oharel@satat.uconn.edu

Kent Holsinger, Adjunct kent.holsinger@uconn.edu

Lynn Kuo, Professor lynn@stat.uconn.edu

Cyr M’lan, Assistant Professor mlan@stat.uconn.edu

Kate McLaughlin, Lecturer kate.mclaughlin@att.net

Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Professor mukhop@uconnvm.uconn.edu

Vladimir Pozdnyakov, Assistant Professor vladimir_pozdnyakov@msn.com

Nalini Ravishanker, Professor nalini@stat.uconn.edu

Bonnie Ray, Adjunct bonnier@us.ibm.com

Naitee Ting, Lecturer and Adjunct naitee.ting@pfizer.com

Gautam Tripathi, Adjunct gautam.tripathi@uconn.edu

Richard Vitale, Professor r.vitale@uconn.edu

Stephen Walsh, Adjunct walsh@nso.uchc.edu Yazhen Wang, Professor yzwang@stat.uconn.edu

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