Organizers: Angela Dean
Location: The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Dates: May 18-20, 2000
The First Midwest Conference for New Directions in Experimental Design will be held Thursday May 18 to Saturday May 20, 2000, in Columbus, Ohio, at the University Plaza Hotel and Conference Center.
The focus for the conference is on active areas of research with relevance to industry, especially engineering and manufacturing. To help American industry compete globally, advanced statistical methods suitable for real applications need to be further developed.
The themes of the conference will be as follows.
Design for nonlinear models
Experimentation for factor screening
Design for multiple responses
Experimentation in the presence of trends
Computer experiments
Two central goals of the conference are:
To bring new researchers in contact with experienced statisticians from industry, from industrial engineering and statistics departments, from business schools, and from overseas, in order to introduce them to current problems of interest to industry and engineering.
To provide support and encouragement to new researchers in the field of experimental design and to provide them with one or more mentors (in addition to their Ph.D. advisors) to whom they can turn for guidance on future research projects.
New researchers are encouraged to give talks (20 minutes) and experienced researchers are invited to lead small informal round table discussions and/or act as mentors for new researchers. Experienced researchers are also invited to submit an abstract for consideration as a talk or in a poster session.
In addition to the formal talks, the conference will include informal discussions in small groups. The primary purpose of the conference is an exchange of ideas and exposition of topics of current interest that arise in industrial applications.
The target number of participants is 60 with one-half of these being assistant professors, post-docs or senior PhD students. The conference will be aimed primarily at researchers in the Midwestern states plus Pennsylvania in order to keep the conference small enough to encourage discussion between experienced and new researchers. However, participants from outside the Midwest will be accepted as space allows.