Symposium to Honour the 80th birthday of John Nelder, FRS The statistics group at Imperial College is organising the above event, to take place on the South Kensington campus of Imperial College London on 29-30th March 2004. If you intend to attend please register via the website http://stats.ma.ic.ac.uk/Nelder so that we know the numbers for tea and coffee, etc. Contact: Prof Martin Crowder ([log in to unmask]) PROGRAMME Day 1 March 29th, 2004 ---------------------- 0930 Arrival: (Room 344, Huxley Building) 1015 Introductory remarks: Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College Prof David Hand, Head of Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College 1030 Prof Yudi Pawitan, Karolinska Institute Likelihood for statistical modelling and inference. 1130 Coffee (344) 1200 Prof Rosemary Bailey, Queen Mary College Principles of designed experiments in John Nelder's papers. 1300 Lunch (Sherfield main dining hall) 1430 Prof Roger Payne, Rothamsted Experimental Station Algorithms, data structures and languages - the computational ingredients for innovative analysis. 1530 Tea (344) 1600 Prof Jon Wakefield, University of Washington Non-linear regression modelling. 1700 Prof Stephen Senn, University of Glasgow From General Balance to Generalised Models (Both Linear and Hierarchical) 1830 Dinner (SCR Ante-room) Prof Michael Healy Day 2 March 30th, 2004 ---------------------- 0930 Prof Youngjo Lee, Seoul National University Likelihood-based models beyond GLMs. 1030 Coffee 1100 Dr Brian Cullis, Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute Perspectives on Anova, REML, and a general linear mixed model. 1200 Prof Sir David Cox, Nuffield College, Oxford Some remarks on model criticism. 1300 Lunch (Sherfield main dining hall), Posters 1500 Prof Brian Ripley, University of Oxford Selecting amongst large classes of models. 1600 Closing remarks, Tea All talks (except Prof Healy) take place in the Clore Lecture Theatre, Department of Mathematics, Huxley Building, 180 Queen's Gate.