Byran Smucker of Miami University Ohio, SPES JSM Program Chair-Elect

SPES has three invited and three topic-contributed sessions at the upcoming JSM in Baltimore. The section is also cosponsoring two invited and two topic-contributed sessions and one continuing education course with other sections.

Invited Sessions

• Emerging Statistical Methods for Big Tensor Data in Chemometrics and Related Fields, organized by Ping Ma, University of Georgia
• Rethinking the Analysis of Modern Designed Experiments, organized by Byran Smucker, Miami University Ohio
• Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments for Complex Systems, organized by Ying Hung

Topic-Contributed Sessions

• Statistics for Computer Experiments: Collaboration Between Industry and Academia, organized by Qiong Zhang, Virginia Commonwealth University
• New Directions in Computer Experiments, organized by Matthew Pratola, The Ohio State University
• Climate Statistics: Studies on the Physics and Impacts of Climate Change Using Data Science, organized by Ansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota

Cosponsored Invited and Topic-Contributed Sessions

• Complex Risk Structures or Constraints of Reliability of Systems, organized by Jen Tang of Purdue University
• Scan Statistics in Networks and Graphs, organized by Joseph Naus, Rutgers University
• Methodological and Computational Advances in Bayesian Design for Scientific and Industrial Experimentation, organized by Dave Woods, University of Southampton
• Statistical Process Control for Complex Data Structures, organized by Emmanuel Yashchin, IBM Research

Continuing Education Course

• Preparing Statistician/Statistics Graduates to Be Data Scientists (additional fee), led by Ming Li, Amazon and TAMU – Commerce, and Hui Lin, DuPont Pioneer