Co/Wy Chapter - Spring Meeting - Details

When:  Apr 15, 2016 from 09:30 to 16:00 (MT)
Associated with  Colorado-Wyoming Chapter

 Spring Meeting - Friday April 15th, 2016 , NCAR - Boulder  Details


The following is the agenda for the Spring Meeting of the Colorado Wyoming Chapter of the American Statistical Association Meeting.  Once again, this meeting will be held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research Center - Mesa Lab above Boulder.  Directions to the location can be found here.  If you have never visited the Mesa Lab - this is a wonderful place to spend a Friday in April.

There is no need to register for this event.  It is open to everyone.

Longer abstracts for these talks are available here. 2016_spring_asa_abstracts.pdf.

 

9:30 – 10 – Coffee and Donuts 

10 to 12:30

  • E. Jackson, A. Menon, E. Smirnova, S. Huzurbazar - University of Wyoming
    • “Exploratory visualization of 16s rRNA microbiome data”
  • Carolyn P. Johnston, Ph.D. - Sr. Manager, Image Mining;  DigitalGlobe
    • “Accuracy metrics for automatically detected settlement boundaries”
  • Ekaterina Smirnova, Farhad Jafari, and Snehalata Huzurbazar - University of Wyoming
    • “Microbiome Data Normalization Methods”
  • Xiyue Liao and Mary C. Meyer - Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
    • “Change-Point Estimation using Shape-Restricted Regression Splines
  • (break)
    • Peter DeWitt- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics - University of Colorado
      • “An efficient knot selector for B-spline transformations”
    • Branden Olson - University of Colorado - Boulder
      • “Stochastic Weather Generators”
    • Eric Gilleland- National Center for Atmospheric Research
      • “Evaluating high-resolution forecast performance”

     12:30 till 2 pm.

    Lunch   Food Available in the NCAR Cafeteria

    1:15 – 1:45 – Optional Architectural Tour of NCAR Mesa Building

    2 till 4 pm

    • Chapter Business, Awards, etc.
    • Caitlyn Cole, Ian Greenwald, and Cody Griffith  Metro State University of Denver
      • “Diving into Bear Creek”
    • David Young Winner Presentation  (TBD).
    •  

      (Short Break)

    • Pratyaydipta Rudra - University of Colorado – Health Sciences

      •  “Model based heritability scores for high-throughput sequencing data“
    •  Sean Lopp - RStudio
      • “Increasing Impact: Adding Interactivity to Your Workflow”
    • Philippe Naveau - Visiting Scientist – National Center for Atmospheric Research
      • “How To Revise Return Periods For Record Events In A Changing Climate”  

    4 pm. Happy Hour – Southern Sun

     

    Location

    NCAR Mesa Lab
    1850 Table Mesa Dr,
    Boulder, CO 80305

    Contact

    Matthew Pocernich
    (720) 936-2048
    matt_pocernich@hotmail.com