The 40th Anniversary Symposium of Japanese Society of Computational Statistics

This is a tentative program. The start and end times of each day are fixed; session assignments and speakers for the Contributed and Student Sessions will be announced later. Details may change. All times are New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT, UTC+13).

Venue: Clock Tower Building (Building 105), The University of Auckland, 22 Princes Street, Auckland

Thursday 17 December (Day 1)

09:30–09:35 Opening

09:35–10:20 Keynote 1: Thomas Lumley

10:20–10:30 Break

10:30–12:10 Parallel Sessions 1

12:10–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–14:15 Keynote 2: Paul Murrell

14:15–15:00 Afternoon Tea

15:00–16:20 Parallel Sessions 2

18:00– Conference Dinner(Orbit 360° Dining, Sky Tower; registered participants)

Friday 18 December (Day 2)

09:30–10:30 Special Keynote: Ross Ihaka

10:30–11:30 Group Photo & Morning Tea

11:30–13:10 Parallel Sessions 3

13:10 Close of the Symposium

Keynote Sessions

Special Keynote

Ross Ihaka, Ph.D.
Ihaka Statistical Consulting. Co-creator of the R language. Retired Associate Professor, Dept. of Statistics, University of Auckland.
Title: Writing Statistical Computing Software Systems
Friday 18 December, 09:30–10:30
Chair: Prof. Takayuki Yamada (Kyoto Women's University)

Keynote 1

Thomas Lumley, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair in Biostatistics, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland
Fellow, Royal Society of NZ / Fellow, ASA / Member, ISI
Title: Same source, different streams: unifying or separating in software implementation
Thursday 17 December, 09:35–10:20
Chair: Prof. Kosuke Okusa (Chuo University)

Keynote 2

Paul Murrell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland
Fellow, American Statistical Association (2010)
Title: Typesetting in Statistical Graphics in R
Thursday 17 December, 13:30–14:15
Chair: Prof. Hiroyuki Minami (Hokkaido University)

Program