Organizer: Peng Zeng, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
Chair:  Dean S. Hoskins, Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University
Date/Time: 2:30-4:30 a.m., Saturday, December 4, 2005

Neeraj Tiwari (and A.K.Nigam), Kumaon University, ALMORA(UTTARANCHAL), INDIA
“On an optimal controlled nearest proportional to size sampling scheme”

Xiaofeng Wang, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
 “A Semiparametric Model for Repeated Image Data”

Manisha Pal, Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata-700 019, INDIA
 “Estimation of Common Parameter of Several Exponential Distributions with Known Coefficients of   Variation”

Kumar Das, Asst. Professor, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX,
"Ruin Estimates under Interest Force"

Tetsuto Himeno, Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University
“Asymptotic Expansions of the Distributions of Dempster Test Statistics when the Dimension is Large”

Dean S. Hoskins (and Charles J. Colbourn), Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University
“Combining D-Optimal and Covering Array Design Properties”