In memorial to Professor Michael Woodroofe and his contributions to Statistics, the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will be hosting a conference on September 29-30, 2023. The planned sessions for the conference include

*sequential analysis to reinforcement learning,
*shape constraints and beyond,
*limit theorems for dependent data,
*modern data science,
*nonparametrics and selection biases,
*astrostatistics in the 21st century.

The conference will feature around 20 talks mostly by Michael Woodroofe’s friends and co-authors, including also a few special talks by outstanding young researchers.

Confirmed Speakers
Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
Nancy Flournoy, University of Missouri
Dong-Yun Kim, National Institutes of Health
Tze Liang Lai, Stanford University
Mario Mateo, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Mary Meyer, Colorado State University
Magda Peligrad, University of Cincinnati
David Siegmund, Stanford University
Jiayang Sun, George Mason University
Dalibor Volný, Université de Rouen
Matthew Walker, Carnegie Mellon University
Jon Wellner, University of Washington
Xiao Wang, Purdue University
Wei Biao Wu, University of Chicago
Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University
Cui-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University

You can find the conference website here:https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/woodroofememorial/
Sponsors
The Caucus for Women in Statistics
Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Wells Fargo
Welltower