Symposium in Probability and Statistics
in Honor of Charles Stein
on his 90th Birthday

March 22, 2010
Main Quad, Building 370, Room 370
Stanford University

This symposium was jointly organized by
Department of Statistics, Stanford University
and Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
National University of Singapore

THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Peter J. Bickel
University of California, Berkeley
Louis Chen
National University of Singapore
Morris L. Eaton
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Wei-Liem Loh
National University of Singapore
Carl Morris
Harvard University
Wing Hung Wong
Stanford University

THE SPEAKERS

Andrew Barbour
University of Zurich
Peter J. Bickel
University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence D. Brown
University of Pennsylvania
Persi Diaconis
Stanford University
Morris L. Eaton
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Bradley Efron
Stanford University
Carl Morris
Harvard University
David Siegmund
Stanford University

THE PRESENTATIONS
moderated by Wei-Liem Loh

1:30 -- 1:45pm	Wing Wong and Louis Chen
	Welcome and Opening Remarks
1:45 -- 2:10pm	Larry Brown
	"Stein's Research Involving Fixed Sample Optimality, Apart from Multivariate Normal Minimax Shrinkage [aka: Everything Else That Charles Wrote]"
2:15 -- 2:40pm	Morris Eaton
	"On Some Contributions of Charles Stein to Applications of Invariance in Statistics"
2:45 -- 3:05pm	Carl Morris
	"Charles Stein and Shrinkage Estimation"
3:10 -- 3:30pm	Brad Efron
	"Stein's Unbiased Risk Estimate"
3:30 -- 4:00pm	------ Coffee Break ------
4:00 -- 4:25pm	Peter Bickel
	"Charles Stein: Semiparametric Models and Nonparametric Methods"
4:30 -- 4:55pm	David Siegmund
	"Charles Stein and Fixed Precision Sequential Estimation"
5:00 -- 5:20pm	Andrew Barbour
	"Stein's (Magic) Method"
5:25 -- 5:45pm	Persi Diaconis
	"Few But Ripe: 35 Years of Following Charles Stein"

"It's good that different people think differently."
--- Charles Stein to Morris DeGroot,
October 1984