Conference Program
 
STATISTICS IN CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

July 25-30, 1999
Plymouth State College
Plymouth, NH

Chair:
Anthony C. Atkinson

Vice Chair:
Randall D. Tobias

Conference Theme: Talks and discussions focus on new research directions in applied statistics and in the analysis of chemical phenomena. The Conference provides a highly stimulating opportunity for exchange of new ideas among leading statisticians, chemometricians, chemists and chemical engineers from industry, government and universities, and from many countries. While emphasizing the "frontiers of science", it does so with a practical bent: the focus is on innovative, state of the art approaches to real problems faced by practitioners.


Sunday evening: Statistical Issues in Modelling Ethylene Copolymerization
  • David Bacon and Kim McAuley, Queen's University
  • Merrill Galloway, Westlake Group (Discussant)
  • Dennis Keller, Realworld Quality Systems (Moderator)
Monday morning: Data Mining
  • David Rocke, University of California, Davis
  • Dick de Veaux, Williams College (Discussant)
  • Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania (Moderator)
Monday evening: Multivariate Receptor Modelling of Pollution Data
  • Cliff Spiegelman, Texas A&M University
  • Larry Cox, Environmental Protection Agency (Discussant)
  • Alison Burnham, McMaster University (Moderator)
Tuesday morning: Graphics for Binary Data
  • Sandy Weisberg, University of Minnesota
  • Jim Landwehr, Bell Labs (Discussant)
  • Sijmen de Jong, Unilever NL (Moderator)
Tuesday evening: Nonlinearity in Estimation and Control
  • Jim McLellan, Queen's University
  • Wayne Bequette, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Discussant)
  • Karen Kafadar, University of Colorado, Denver (Moderator)
Wednesday morning: Proper Statistical Practice in Analytical Chemistry and Horwitz's Rule
  • Peter Lischer, ConStat Consulting
  • Ronald Hoogerbrugge, Laboratory for Organic-Analytical Chemistry, NL
  • Diccon Bancroft, W.L. Gore (Moderator)
Wednesday evening: Multivariate Statistical Process Monitoring - the Industrial Challenges
  • Elaine Martin, University of Newcastle
  • Dora Kourti, McMaster University (Discussant)
  • Paige Miller, Kodak (Moderator)
Thursday morning: Wavelets and Multivariate Analysis
  • Svante Wold and Nouna Kettaneh, Umea University
  • Bhavik Bakshi, Ohio State University (Discussant)
  • Mary Beth Seasholtz, Dow Chemical (Moderator)
Thursday evening: Multivariate QSAR and/in Combinatorial Chemistry
  • Torbjorn Lundstedt, Pharmacia Upjohn
  • Aaron Owens, DuPont (Discussant)
  • Sam Butler, B.F. Goodrich (Moderator)

Last Updated: May 8, 2006