2003 Quality and Productivity Research Conference

 Agenda


Note:Ê All meals listed in this Agenda are included in the registration fee.

Tuesday, May 20:

All day workshop, 8:30 - 5:00, Auditorium Rear (separate registration fee): "Experimenting with Mixtures", by Professor. John A. Cornell (University of Florida).Ê
 

Wednesday, May 21:

 

Time

Auditorium Rear

Auditorium Front

Room 20-043

7:30-8:30

Sign-in and Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30-10:00

Introduction and Welcoming Addresses:  Emmanuel Yashchin, Conference Chair; Paul Horn, IBM Senior VP, Research; Mike Jesrani, Director of IBM Quality Management Process;  Anil Menon, IBM VP, Corp. Brand Strategy and Worldwide Market Intelligence

 

 

10:00-10:30

BREAK (REFRESHMENTS)

 

 

10:30-12:00

Invited Session #1 (Experimental Design - Chair: T. Robinson)

Invited Session #2 (Use of Bayesian Methods for Metrology in NIST - Chair W. Guthrie)

Invited Session # 3 (Statistical Modeling - Chair E. Yashchin)

12:00-1:00

LUNCH 

 

 

1:00-2:30

Invited Session #4 (Advances in Statistical Process Control I - Chair: Z. Stoumbos)

Invited Session #5 (Software Engineering - Chair B. Ray)

 

Invited Session #6 (Statistics in Setting Standards, Dealing with Shocks and Text Mining - Chair R. Liu)

2:30-3:00

BREAK (REFRESHMENTS)

 

 

3:00-4:30

Invited Session #7 (Operating Window Experiments and Extensions - Chair: John A. Cornell)

Invited Session #8 (Examples of Adapting Academic Reliability Theory to Messy Industrial Problems - Chair M. Totorella)

Invited Session #9 (Statistics in the Semiconductor Industry - Chair: A. Takken)

4:30-4:45

BREAK

 

 

4:45-5:30

Invited Guest Talk  (Peter W. M. John)

 

 

5:30-8:00

MIXER and DINNER Honoring Peter W. M. John and the Mary Natrella Scholarship and Q&P Scholarship Winners

 

 

Thursday, May 22:

 

Time

Auditorium Rear

Auditorium Front

Room 20-043

7:30-8:30

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30-10:00

Invited Session #10 (Advances in Statistical Process Control II - Chair: Z. Stoumbos)

 

Invited Session #11 (Industrial Appliucations of Six Sigma at G.E. - Chair C. Stannard)

 

Contributed Session # 1: Industrial Applications (Contributed Papers #'s 1,2,3,4). Chair: Andre Pinho 

10:00-10:30

BREAK (REFRESHMENTS)

 

 

10:30-12:00

Invited Session #12 (Industrial Statistics at Bell Labs Today - Chair: D. Lambert)

Invited Session #13 (Bayesian Reliability - Chair R. Leon)

 

 

Contributed Session #2: Process Control I (Contributed Papers #'s 5,6,7,8). Chair: Norma Leyva - Estrada 

12:00-1:00

LUNCH 

 

 

1:00-2:30

Invited Session #14 (Tutorial: Algorithms for Efficient Statistical Data Mining - Andrew Moore)

Invited Session #15 (Sequential Methods - Chair: M. Baron))

Contributed Session #3: DOE (Contributed Papers #'s 9,10,11,12). Chair: Alexandra Kapatou

2:30-3:00

Special Invited Session #1 (Data Gathering – Gerald Hahn)Ê

Special Invited Session #2 (Sequential ExperimentationÊ – Michael Baron)Ê

 

3:00-3:30

BREAK (REFRESHMENTS)

 

 

3:30-5:00

Invited Session #16:Ê Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Special Session - Chair: S. Albin)

Invited Session #17 (Statistics in Corp. Finance - Chair R. Neagu)

Contributed Session #4: Process Control II (Contributed Papers #'s 13,14,15). Chair: Daniel R. Jeske.

 

 

5:15- 7:30

IBM Industry Solutions Lab Visit

 

 

Friday, May 23:

 

Time

Auditorium Rear

Auditorium Front

Room 20-043

7:30-8:30

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30-10:00

Invited Session #18 (Data Mining Applications - Chair: C. Apte)

 

 

Invited Session #19 (Supply Chain Analytics – Chair R. Tsai)

 

Contributed Session #5: Statistical Methods I

(Contributed Papers #'s 16,17,18). Chair: J.D. WilliamsÊ  

10:00-10:30

BREAK (REFRESHMENTS)

 

 

10:30-12:00

Invited Session #20 (Wavelets in Statistical Process Control - Chair: G. Shmueli)

Invited Session #21 (Data Quality - Chair T. Dasu)

Contributed Session #6: Statistical Methods II (Contributed Papers #'s 19,20,21,22). Chair: Carla Vivacqua 

12:00-1:00

LUNCH (Box lunch provided) & Bus Back to Hotel