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We plan to open the Workshop at 9 am, Tuesday, March 29, 2005 with a Maori Powhiri (Welcome) and close the Workshop before 5 pm, Friday, April 1, 2005. All sessions will take place on the Massey University Campus in the Quadrangle B Building.

Opening Reception
A reception, sponsored by SAS, will be hosted by the Workshop at 5.00pm on the opening day of the conference. This will be held on the University campus..

Excursion
An excursion will be held on the afternoon of Wednesday March 30th. The excursion will explore Waiheke Island. Participants will get to choose among several attractions, including wineries, beaches, a boutique olive oil production facility, and the village shops and galleries. The fee for the excursion (which includes transport from the Workshop venue to the ferry, the ferry fare, afternoon refreshments and return to the conference hotels) is $NZ85.00

Workshop Dinner
The Workshop dinner will be held on the evening of Thursday March 31. The fee for this in included in the registration fee for participants and for partners taking advantage of the accompanying persons programme. Additional tickets for partners or spouses is $NZ90.00. Please indicate on the registration form if additional tickets are required. Only a limited number of tickets will be available at the time of the conference.

Accompanying persons programme
An outing on the first day of the workshop including a guided tour of the Auckland Museum, a Maori cultural concert, a lunch, and returning to the conference venue for the opening reception is planned. The programme also includes the Workshop dinner. Participants attending with partners who wish to participate in this programme should pre-register at the time of completing registration.

 

Programme

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Tuesday March 29

08.00 - 09.20 Registration – Foyer of Quad B Building, Massey University, Albany Campus Auckland
 
09.20 - 09.30 Powhiri
The powhiri is the Maori welcome ceremony. It removes the tapu of the Manuhiri (visitors) to make them one with the Tangata Whenua (Home people) and is a gradual process of the Manuhiri and the Tangata Whenua coming together.

International and New Zealand visitors to assemble in the Quadrangle between Quad A and Quad B Buildings. Massey University participants to assemble in Quad B 5.
 
09.30 Response on behalf of the Tangata Whenua - Prof Jeff Hunter
 
  Waiata
 
  Response on behalf of the Manuhiri - Prof George Styan
 
09.35 Opening Remarks (Jeff Hunter, Chair of Local Organising Committee)
 
09.40 Welcome to Massey University by Prof John Raine, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Massey University, Auckland

Session 1: KEYNOTE LECTURE 1
09.45 Welcome to the Massey University Distinguished Lecturer by Prof Robert Anderson, Pro-Vice Chancellor, College of Sciences, Massey University
 
  Introduction to the Nokia Lecturer - Prof George Styan, Chair of the International Organizing Committee
   
9.50 - 10.50 Nokia Lecture – Prof C R Rao, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Statistical Proofs of Matrix Theorems
   
11.00 - 11.30 Morning Tea (Foyer to Quad B)
 

Session 2: Invited Lectures; (Chair: Alan Lee)
11.30 - 12.00 Tõnu Kollo, University of Tartu, Estonia and D. von Rosen, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Approximation of the Parameter Distributions of Growth Curve Model
   
12.00 - 12.30 Nye John, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand
Inverse of the Information Matrix
   
12.30 - 13.00 Alexander Kukush, Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine
Invariant estimator in a quadratic measurement error model
   
13.05 - 14.00 Lunch (Staff Lounge, Study Centre)
 

Session 3: Invited Lectures (Chair: Nye John)
14.00 - 14.30 Götz Trenkler, Dortmund University, Germany
On the commutativity of orthogonal projectors
   
14.30 - 15.00 Stephen Haslett, Massey University, New Zealand and John Haslett, Trinity College Dublin
What are the residuals for the linear model?
   
15.00 - 15.30 Joachim Werner, Univ of Bonn, Germany and Ingram Olkin, Stanford University
On permutations of matrix products
   
15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon Tea
 

Session 4: Contributed Lectures (Chair: Alexander Kukush)
16.00 - 16.20 B. Jones, Massey University, Auckland and M. West, Duke University, N.C., USA
Covariance decomposition for Gaussian graphical models
   
16.20 - 16.40 Burkhard Schaffrin, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
On the optimal choice of the regularization parameter through variance ratio estimation
   
16.40 - 17.00 Song-Gui Wang and Zhong-Zhen Jia, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
Estimating the covariance matrix by spectral decomposition approach in linear mixed model
   
17.00 - 17.20 Mike Doherty, Statistics New Zealand, Wellington
Partially diffuse starting values in State Space Models
   
17.30 - 20.30 “SAS Reception”
Opening Reception held in the Staff Lounge, Study Centre.
 

Wednesday March 30

Session 5: KEYNOTE LECTURE 2
09.00 Introduction to the SAS Lecturer – Joachim Werner, Vice Chair of the International Organizing Committee
   
09.05 - 10.05 SAS Lecture – Prof Emeritus Shayle Searle, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Reflections on a fifty year random walk midst matrices and statistics
   
10.05 Workshop Photo
   
10.20 - 10.40 Morning Tea (Foyer to Quad B)
   
 

Session 6A: Invited Lectures (Chair: Stephen Haslett)
10.50 - 11.10 C R Rao, Pennsylvania State University, U.S
Anti-eigen and anti-singular values of a matrix and applications to problems in statistics
   
11.10 - 11.40 Karl Gustafson, University of Colorada, Boulder, Colorado
The geometry of statistical efficiency
   
11.40 - 12.10 Garry Tee, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Eigenvectors of block circulant matrices
 

Session 6B: Contributed Lectures
12.10 - 12.30 Imbi Traat, University of Tartu, Estonia
A matrix with consecutive integer eigen values
   
12.30 - 12.50 Kimmo Vehkalahti, University of Helsinki, Finland
Leaving useful traces when working with matrices
   
13.00 – Boxed Lunch Pickup.
Participants to assemble outside the Atrium Building for the Bus to the Ferry.
   
13.15 – Bus departs for Excursion to Waiheke
   
14.00 – Ferry leaves for Waiheke.
The excursion will explore Waiheke Island. Participants will get to choose among several attractions, including wineries, beaches, a boutique olive oil production facility, and the village shops and galleries.
 

Thursday March 31

Session 7: KEYNOTE LECTURE 3
09.00 Introduction to the New Zealand Mathematical Society Lecturer - Associate Prof Mick Roberts, President of the NZMS
   
09.05– 10.05 NZMS Lecturer – Prof Eugene Seneta, University of Sydney, Australia
Coefficients of Ergodicity in a Matrix Setting
   
10.05 - 10.30 Morning Tea (Foyer to Quad B)
 

Session 8A: Invited Lectures (Chair:Tonu Kollu)
10.30 - 11.00 S Ejaz Ahmed, University of Windsor, Canada
Approximation Assisted Estimation of Eigen Vectors Under Quadratic Loss
   
11.00 - 11.30 Anyue Chen, University of Greenwich, U.K.
Asymptotic Birth-Death Processes: A Matrix Analysis Approach
   
11.00 - 12.00 Moshe Haviv, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
On singularly perturbed Markov chains
 

Session 8B: Contributed Lectures
12.00 - 12.20 D. Alexander and G. Jones, Massey University, Palmerston North, N.Z.
Convergence Properties of Alternating Markov Chains
   
12.20 - 12.40 Jeff Hunter, Massey University, Auckland, N.Z.
Simple procedures for finding mean first passage times in Markov chains
   
12.40 - 13.00 G. Jones, Massey University, Palmerston North, N.Z.
Properties of transition matrices for chain binomial models
   
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (Staff Lounge, Study Centre)
 

Session 9: Jerzy K. Baksalary Memorial Session organized by Oskar Maria Baksalary, Simo Puntanen, George Styan, and Götz Trenkler, and chaired by George Styan
   
14.00 - 15.30 Comments on the life and work of Jerzy K. Baksalary (1944 - 2005)
   
15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon Tea
   

Session 10: Contributed Lectures (Chair: Moshe Haviv)

   
16.00 - 16.20 W. Sakamoto, Osaka University, Japan
Diagnosing non-linear regression structure with power additive smoothing splines
   
16.20 - 16.40 Eric Iksoon Im, University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA
Hessian Equivalence to Bordered Hessian
   
16.40 - 17.00 C. M. Cuadras, University of Barcelona, Spain.
Continuous canonical correlation analysis
   
19.00 - 24.00 Workshop Dinner - Spencer on Byron
   
19:00 Pre Dinner Drinks
   
19.30 Conch call to guests
Hato Petera College Maori Cultural Group
   
20.00 Dinner (New Zealand Theme)
 

Friday April 1

Session 11: KEYNOTE LECTURE 4
09.00 Introduction to the Keynote Lecturer - Simo Puntanen, Member of International Organizing Committee
   
09.05 - 10.05 Keynote Lecture – Prof Emeritus George Seber, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Things my mother never told me about Matrices
   
10.05 - 10.30 Morning Tea (Foyer to Quad B)
 

Session 12: Invited Lectures (Chair: Simo Puntanen)

   
10.30 - 11.00 Estate Khmaladze, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Inverse matrices, Volterra operators and innovation processes: application to statistics
   
11.00 - 11.30 Alan Lee and Alastair Scott, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Semi-parametric Efficiency, Projection and the Scott-Wild Estimator
   

Session 13: Invited Lectures (Chair: Götz Trenkler)
   
11.30 - 12.00 Jarkko Isotalo and Simo Puntanen, Univ Tampere, Finland; University of Tampere, Finland
Comparison of the ordinary least squares predictor and the best linear unbiased predictor in the general Gauss--Markov model
   
12.00 - 12.30 George P.H. Styan, McGill University, Montréal, Canada; Ka Lok Chu, Dawson College, Montréal, Canada; Jarkko Isotalo, University of Tampere, Finland Simo Puntanen, Univ Tampere, Finland
Inequalities and equalities associated with the Watson efficiency in orthogonally partitioned full rank linear models
   
12.30 - 13.00 Simo Puntanen, Univ Tampere, Finland; Ka Lok Chu, Dawson College, Montréal, Canada; Jarkko Isotalo, University of Tampere, Finland; George P.H. Styan, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
Decomposing the Watson efficiency in partitioned linear models
   
13.05 - 14.30 Lunch (Staff Lounge, Study Centre)
   
14.00 Concluding Remarks – George Styan
 

Paper presented by title:
Karuthan Chinna, University Technology MARA, Malaysia, (with Parthasarathy Balachandar both from Multimedia University, Cyber Jaya, Malaysia)
Modeling Multivariate Meta-Analysis Using Bootstrap Resampling Techniques
Lakshmi Narasimhaiah, Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu, India; Kishore Hoysal, Islamiah Institute of Engineering, Bangalore, India.
Model for students expected performance level through varying control limits in relation to Power of Valuation


 
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