2009 Quality and Productivity Research Conference

 Conference Program


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

Tuesday, June 2:

All day workshop, 9am - 5pm, IBM Hawthorne I building, Rm 1S-F53, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (separate registration fee): "Statistical Methods in Reliability", by Prof. William Q. Meeker (Iowa State University) and Prof. Luis A. Escobar (Louisiana State University). 
 

Wednesday, June 3:

 

Time

Auditorium

Room 26-004

Room 20-043

7:30-8:30

Sign-in and Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30-10:00

Opening Plenary Session: Introduction and Welcoming Addresses.

 

 

10:00-10:30

BREAK (REFRESHMENTS)

 

 

10:30-12:00

Invited Session #1:  Designing High Reliability Products

Invited Session #2: Statistics for Business Analytics

Invited Session # 3:  Analytics and Risk Management

12:00-1:00

LUNCH 

 

 

1:00-2:30

Invited Session #4:  Special Honoree Invited Session

Invited Session #5: Aspects of Bias, Prediction Variance and Mean Square Error 

Invited Session #6:  Semi-supervised Learning in Quality Control

2:30-3:00

BREAK (REFRESHMENTS)

 

 

3:00-4:30

 

Invited Session #7:  Risk Analysis in Information Technology Industry

Invited Session #8:  Sequential Testing

Invited Session #9: Lifetime Data Analysis

4:30-4:45

BREAK

 

 

4:45-5:30

Presentation of the QPRC-2009 Honoree Award to Prof. William Q. Meeker, Iowa State University. The Honoree’s Address

 

 

5:30-8:00

MIXER and DINNER

Presenting the Mary G. Natrella Scholarship and Q&P Scholarship Winners

 

 

Thursday, June 4:

 

Time

Auditorium

Room 26-004

Room 20-043

7:30-8:30

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30-10:00

Invited Session #10:  Challenges in Web Search and Advertising

 

Invited Session #11:  Classification models with applications to Quality

Contributed Session # 1:

Data Mining

10:00-10:30

BREAK (REFRESHMENTS)

 

 

10:30-12:00

Invited Session #12:  Advances in Statistical Process Control: Session in Honor of the late Professor Zachary Stoumbos

Invited Session #13:  Reliability Assessment and Verification

Contributed Session #2:

Design of Experiments

12:00-1:00

LUNCH 

 

 

1:00-2:30

Invited Session #14:  Adaptive Designs in Pharmaceutical Industry

Invited Session #15:  Data Mining and Information Retrieval

Contributed Session #3:

Lifetime Data Analysis and Reliability

2:30-3:00

Special Invited Session #1:  Advances in Reliability

Special Invited Session #2:  Advances in Process Monitoring

 

3:00-3:30

BREAK (REFRESHMENTS)

 

 

3:30-5:00

Invited Session #16:  Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Special Session:  Data Mining in Manufacturing Process Control

Invited Session #17:  Nonparametric Statistical Process Control / Monitoring

Contributed Session #4:

Statistical Inference

 

5:15- 7:30

IBM Industry Solutions Lab Visit

 

 

Friday, June 5:

 

Time

Auditorium

Room 26-004

Room 20-043

7:30-8:30

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30-10:00

Invited Session #18:  Statistical Leadership in Industry 

 

Invited Session #19:  New developments in Design of Experiments

 

Contributed Session #5:

Statistical Challenges and Methods

10:00-10:30

BREAK (REFRESHMENTS)

 

 

10:30-12:00

Invited Session #20:  Bayesian methods in Quality and Reliability

Invited Session #21:  Healthcare Applications

Contributed Session #6:

Applications

12:00-1:00

LUNCH (Box lunch provided) & Bus Back to Hotel