CURRICULUM VITAE OF JAMES O. RAMSAY
PERSONAL
Date of birth: 5th September, 1942,
Place of birth: Prince George, B.C., Canada
Citizenship: Canadian
Marital status: Married to Maureen Tighe, five children.
EDUCATION
B.Ed. University of Alberta at Edmonton, 1964.
(Major in English Teaching, Minor in Mathematics Teaching)
Ph.D. PrincetonUniversity, 1966 (Psychology with
specialization in Psychometrics)
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND APPOINTMENTS
19661967Lecturer in Psychology, UniversityCollegeLondon
19671971 Assistant Professor of Psychology, McGillUniversity
19711978 Associate Professor of Psychology, McGillUniversity
1978present Professor of Psychology, McGillUniversity
19731974 Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge
19801981 Visiting Professor, University of Grenoble
1986present Associate Member, Department of Mathematics
and Statistics, McGillUniversity
198990 Visiting Consultant, Educational Testing Service
19961997 Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier,
Toulouse, France
2004-2007 Adjunct Professor, Department of Statistics,
University of British Columbia
ACADEMIC HONOURS AND AWARDS
Alberta Hotel Association Scholarship
University of Alberta Honour Prize
University of Alberta First Class Standing Prize (3 times)
James McNish Chalmers Memorial Prize (for student of
outstanding promise in firstyear statistics)
Province of Alberta Undergraduate Scholarship (2 times)
Educational Testing Service Psychometric Fellowship
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APA Creative Talent Award Program (Honourable Mention)
Gold Medal, Statistical Society of Canada, 1998
David Johnston Award of Alma Mater Society
Canadian Journal of Statistics Award for Best Paper in 2000, Statistical
Society of Canada
National Council on Measurement and Evaluation: 2003 Technical
Achievement Award
TEACHING
Undergraduate:
Introduction to Psychological Statistics
Psychological Measurement
Psychological Statistics
Measurement of Psychological Processes
Modern Psychology in Historical Perspective
Statistical Analysis of Examination and Testing Data
Experimental Design
Correlational Techniques
Graduate:
PSYCH 651B, Advanced Statistics I and II
PSYCH 650A, Experimental Design
Seminar on Multidimensional Scaling (also at U. of Chicago)
Seminar on Loglinear Models
Seminar on Functional Data Analysis (Dept. of Mathematics and
Statistics, Department of Psychology)
Seminar on Test Theory
Seminar on Multilevel Models
Ph.D. Students Graduated:
Lorcan Scanlon, Consultant
Stuart McElvie, BishopsUniversity
Ruth Corbin, Statistics Canada
Peter Pashley, LawSchool Admission Council
Moo Chung, University of Wisconsin
Ph.D Theses examined as External Examiner:
Ian Spence, University of Toronto
Dennis Domoney, University of Toronto
William Krane, YorkUniversity
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KyungSunBay, University of Alberta at Edmonton
David Chan, University of WesternOntario
Clement Dassa, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
James Goffin, University of WesternOntario
Sonia Mazzi, University of British Columbia
Cheikh Diack, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Herve Cardot, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Louis Ferre, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (habilitation)
JeanFrancois Durand, Universite de Montpellier II, Montpellier (habilitation)
Masters Students Graduated:
Carl Brewer
Marion McGlynn
Timothy Hammond
Xiaohui Wang
Nicole Malfait
Natasha Rossi
Szu-shen (Wen) Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Michal Abrahamowicz, McGillUniversity
Raymond Baillargeon, Universite de Montreal
Nadia Ghazzali, LavalUniversity
Xiaochun Li, Eli Lilly Company
Regina Nuzzo
Giles Hooker
Theodoro Koulis
DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES
Psychology Department Chairman, 19861989
Psychology Department Director of Graduate Studies, 19841986
Psychology Department Curriculum Committee (Chairman)
Psychology Department Graduate Program Committee
Psychology Department Executive Committee (19761978, 19811983, 19841986)
Committee on the Teaching of Statistics at McGill (Chairman)
Computer Policy Committee
SubCommittee on Graduate Computing and Research
Computer Users Committee (Chairman, 19711973)
Executive Committee of Center for Developing Area Studies
ELPSI Articulation Committee on Statistics (Chairman)
Academic Committee of the Faculty of Science
Tenure Committee of the Faculty of Education
Senate Committee on Computing
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Faculty of Science Committee on Computing (Chairman)
Committee on Timetabling and Scheduling
Chair, Board of Directors, Gault Estate
Chair, Cyclical Review Committee for Dept. of Meteorology
Cyclical Review Committees, Dept. of Economics, Computing Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Co-Chair, Faculty and Staff Fundraising Committee
McGill Centraide Campaign Committee
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Psychometric Society (Board of Trustees, Editorial Board (Chair), Book Review Editor, President)
Canadian Psychological Association (Fellow)
Classification Society (Editorial Board)
Statistical Society of Canada (Board of Directors, President Elect, President, Past-Presdent)
Society For Mathematical Psychology
American Statistical Association
American Psychological Association
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Member, Centre de Recherche Mathematique, 2006-2011
PROFESSIONALSERVICESOUTSIDEUNIVERSITY
Editorial Consultant:
Psychometrika
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Annals of Statistics
Biometrika
Educational and Psychological Measurement
British Journal of Statistical and Mathematical Psychology
Psychological Review
Canadian Psychologist
Canadian Journal of Psychology
Chairman, Editorial Council, Psychometric Society
Editorial Council, Classification Society
Journal of Education Statistics
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Grant Reviewer:
Canada Council
National Research Council
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
National Science Foundation
National Institute of Health
Natural Sciences and Engineering Psychology Grant Selection
Committee (19831985, Chairman, 19851986)
American Mathematical Society
Consulting Activities:
Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada
Datalabs Inc.
Canadair
Transport Development Agency
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry
IBM Corporation
Educational Testing Service
International Paper
Canadian Securities Institute
Ford Motor Company
MathSoft, Insightful Corp.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Analysis of functional data
Multidimensional scaling
Robust estimation
Monotonic transformations in statistical analysis
Fundamental measurement
Bayesian estimation techniques
Psychophysics
Exploratory multivariate analysis
History of Psychology
Factor analysis
Discrete data analysis
Test theory
Functional data analysis
RESEARCH GRANTS
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NRC Interim Grant 1968 $600
Transportation Development Agency 1972 500
McGill Graduate Faculty 1972 500
NRC Operating Grant 19721975 4,500 p.a.
NRC Travel Grant 1973 2,275
Canada Council Leave Fellowship1973
NRC Operating Grant 19751978 6,000 p.a.
NRC Operating Grant 19781980 12,000 p.a.
SSHRC Leave Fellowship 19801981 18,500
NSERC Operating Grant 19811984 17,000 p.a.
NSERC Operating Grant 19841987 29,000 p.a.
NSERC Operating Grant 19871990 30,000 p.a.
NSERC Equipment Grant 1986 57,312
FCAR Grant 19901993 40,000
NSERC Operating Grant 19901993 29,000 p.a.
NSERC Operating Grant 19931996 29,000 p.a.
FCAR Team Grant 19941996 38,000 p.a.
NIH Grant 19941996 42,000 p.a.
NSERC Operating Grant 19972000 31,000 p.a.
FCAR Team Grant 19972000 38,000 p.a.
NIH Grant 19982002 188,645
NSERC Operating Grant 20012005 38,000 p.a.
MITACS Grant2002-2003 15,000
FRSQ 2002-2003 66,000 p. a.
NATEQ 2004-2005 66,000 p. a.
CIHR Operating Grant2003-2006 65,000 p.a.
MITACS Grant2002-2005 15,000 p. a.
MITACS Grant2006-2009 56,000
NSERC Operating Grant 20062010 40,000 p.a.
PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Ramsay, J.O. (1966). The measurement of cognitive processes using the distance or curvefitting model. Journal of General Psychology, 74, 3944.
Ramsay, J.O. (1968). Economical method of analyzing perceived color differences,. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 58, 1922.
Ramsay, J.O. (1968). A scoring system for multiple choice test items. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 21, 247250.
Ramsay, J.O. (1969). Some statistical considerations in multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 34, 167182.
Ramsay, J.O. and Case, B. (1970). Attitude measurement and the linear model. Psychological Bulletin, 74, 185192.
Ramsay, J.O. (1970). A family of gradient methods for optimization. The Computer Journal, 13, 413417.
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Ramsay, J.O. (1971). True score theory: A paradox. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 31, 715719.
Ramsay, J.O. (1973). The effect of number of categories in rating scales on precision of estimation of scale values. Psychometrika, 28, 513532.
Ramsay, J.O. (1975). Implicit equations in psychological data analysis. Psychometrika, 40, 257262.
Ramsay, J.O. (1976). Algebraic representation in the physical and behavioral sciences. Synthese, 33, 419453.
Ramsay, J.O. (1977). A comparative study of several robust regression estimates. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 42, 241266.
Ramsay, J.O. (1977). Maximum likelihood estimation in multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 42, 241266.
Ramsay, J.O. (1977). Monotonic weighted power transformations to additivity. Psychometrika, 72, 83109.
Ramsay, J.O. (1978). Confidence regions for multidimensional scaling analysis. Psychometrika, 43, 145160.
Bruneau, T., Jorgenson, J., and Ramsay, J.O. (1978). C.I.D.A.: The Organization of Canadian Development Assistance. Center for Developing Area Studies Working Paper. McGillUniversity.
Ramsay, J.O. (1979). Intra and Interindividual variation in the power law exponent for area summation. Perception & Psychophysics, 26, 495500.
Ramsay, J.O. and Novick, M.R. (1980). PLU robust Bayesian decision theory: Point estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 75, 901908.
Winsberg, S. and Ramsay, J.O. (1980). Monotonic transformations to additivity using splines. Biometrika, 67, 669774.
Winsberg, S. and Ramsay, J.O. (1981). Analysis of pairwise preference data using integrated Bsplines. Psychometrika, 46, 171186.
Ramsay, J.O. (1980). Some small sample results for maximum likelihood estimation in multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 45, 139144.
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Ramsay, J.O. (1980). The joint analysis of direct ratings, pairwise preferences, and dissimilarities. Psychometrika, 45, 149165.
Ramsay, J.O. (1982). Some statistical approaches to multidimensional scaling data (with discussion). The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 145, 285312.
Ramsay, J.O. (1982). When the data are functions, Psychometrika, 47, 379396.
Winsberg, S. and Ramsay, J.O. (1983). Monotonic spline transformations for dimension reduction, Psychometrika, 48, 575595.
Ramsay, J.O. (1983). MULTISCALE: A multidimensional scaling program, American Statistician, 1983, 37, 326327.
Ramsay, J.O., Styan, G.P.H., & ten Berge, J. (1984). Matrix correlation, Psychometrika, 49, 403424.
Besse, P. & Ramsay, J.O. (1986). Principal components analysis of sampled functions. Psychometrika, 51, 285311
Ramsay, J.O. (1986). A PROC MATRIX program for preferencedissimilarity multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 51, 163170.
Ramsay, J.O. (1988). Monotone splines in action (with discussion). Statistical Science, 425461.
Ramsay, J.O. (1989). A comparison of three simple test theory models. Psychometrika, 54, 487499.
Ramsay, J.O. and Abrahamowicz, M. (1989). Bionomial regression with monotone splines: A psychometric application. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 84, 906915.
Ramsay, J.O. (1990). MATFIT: A FORTRAN subroutine for comparing two matrices in a subspace. Psychometrika, 55, 551553.
Ramsay, J.O. and Dalzell, C. (1991). Some tools for functional data analysis (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B,53, 539572.
Ramsay, J.O. and Winsberg, S. (1991). Maximum marginal likelihood estimation in semiparametric data analysis. Psychometrika, 56, 365380.
Abrahamowicz, M.; Tamblyn, R.M.; Ramsay, J.O.; Klass, D.K.; and Kopelow, M.L. (1990). Detecting and correcting for raterinduced differences in standardized patient tests of clinical competence. Academic Medicine, Vol. 65, 9, S25S26.
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Ramsay, J.O. (1991). Kernel smoothing approaches to nonparametric item characteristic curve estimation. Psychometrika, 56, 611630.
Abrahamowicz, M. and Ramsay, J.O. (1992). Multicategorical spline model for item response theory. Psychometrika, 57, 528.
Abrahamowicz, M., Ciampi, A., & Ramsay, J.O. (1992). Density estimation for censored survival data: A regression spline approach, Canadian Journal of Statistics, 20, 171185.
Dalzell, C. and Ramsay, J.O. (1993). Computing reproducing kernels with arbitrary boundary constraints. SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, 14, 511518.
Ramsay, J.O., Altman, N. & Bock, R.D. (1994). Variation in height acceleration in the Fels growth data. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 22, 89102.
Santor, D.A., Ramsay, J.O., & Zuroff, D.C. (1994). Nonparametric item analyses of the Beck Depression Inventory: Evaluating gender item bias and response option weights. Psychological Assessment, 6, 255270.
Ramsay, J.O. (1995). A similaritybased smoothing approach to nondimensional item analysis. Psychometrika, 60, 323339.
Ramsay, J.O., Flanagan, R. and Wang, X. (1995). The functional data analysis of pinch force. Applied Statistics, 44, 1730.
Ramsay, J.O. (1995). Principal differential analysis: Data reduction by differential operators. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 58, 495508.
Ramsay, J.O., Bock, R. Darrell, and Gasser, T. (1995). Comparison of height acceleration curves in the Fels, Zurich and Berkeley growth data. Annals of Human Biology, 22, 413426.
Santor, D. A., Zuroff, D. C., Cervantes, P., Palacios, J, and Ramsay, J. O. (1995) Examining scale discriminability in the BDI and CESD as a function of depressive severity. Psychological Assessment, 7, 131139.
Ramsay, J.O., Munhall, K.G., Gracco, V.L. and Ostry, D.J. (1996). Functional data analyses of lip motion. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 23, 37183727.
Ramsay, J.O. (1996). A geometrical approach to item response theory. Behaviormetrika, 23, 317
Ramsay, J.O., Heckman, N. and Silverman, B. W. (1997) Spline smoothing with modelbased penalties. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 29, 99106.
Ramsay, J.O. and Li, X. (1998). Curve registration. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B., 60, 351363.
Ramsay, J.O. (1998). Estimating smooth monotone functions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B., 60, 365375.
Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (1998). Invited comment on: Brumbeck, B. A. and Rice, J. A. Smoothing spline models for the analysis of nested and crossed samples of curves. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93, 988991.
Dechevsky, L., MacGibbon, B. and Ramsay, J. O. (1998). On smooth bijections between subsets of Rn. Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, CRM2570.
Santor, D. A. and Ramsay, J. O. (1998). Progress in the technology of measurement: Applications of item response models. Psychological Assessment. 10, 345-359.
Ramsay, J. O. and Heckman, N. (2000). Some theory for Lspline smoothing. CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes, 18, 371380.
Kneip, A., Li, X., MacGibbon, B. and Ramsay, J. O. (2000). Curve registration by local regression. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 28, 19-30.
Heckman, N. E. and Ramsay, J. O. (2000). Penalized regression with modelbased penalties. Canadian Journal of Statistics. 28, 241-258.
Ramsay, J. O. (2000). Functional components of variation in handwriting. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95, 915.
Ramsay, J. O. (2000). Differential equation models for statistical functions. Canadian Journal of Statistics. 28, 225-240.
Sadeghi, H., Allard, P., Shafie, K., Mathieu, P. A., Sadeghi, S., Prince, F.
and Ramsay, J. O. (2000) Reduction of gait data variability using curve registration. Gait and Posture. 12, 257264.
Ramsay, J. O. and Ramsey, J. B. (2001) Functional data analysis of the dynamics of the monthly index of nondurable goods production. Journal of Econometrics, 107, 327344.
Ramsay, J. O. and Ramsay, T. (2001) Invited comments on Glasbey, C. A. and Mardia, K. V. A penalized likelihood approach to image warping (with discussion.) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 63, 465-514.
Ramsay, J. O. (2001) Invited comments on Ke, C. and Wang, Y. Semiparametric nonlinear mixed-effects models and their applications. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96, 1272-1298.
Laurencelle, L., Ramsay, J.O. (2001). À la recherche de l' « unité de mesure » en psychométrie : réflexions sur la mesure en sciences humaines.Mesure et évaluation en éducation, 24, 41-52.
Samson, S., Zatorre, R. J. and Ramsay, J. O. (2002) Deficits of musical timbre perception after unilateral temporallobe lesion revealed with multidimensional scaling. Brain, 125, 511523.
Rossi, N., Wang, X. and Ramsay, J. O. (2002) Nonparametric item response function estimates with the EM algorithm. Journal of the Behavioral and Educational Sciences, 27, 291-317.
Malfait, N. and Ramsay, J.O. (2004). The historical functional linear model, Canadian Journal of Statistics,31, 115-128.
Hutchinson, R.A., P.J. McLellan, J.O. Ramsay, H. Sulieman, and D.W. Bacon, (2004).
Investigating the impact of operating parameters on molecular weight distributions using
functional regression, Macromolecular Symposia, Wiley, Weinheim, Germany, 495-508.
Poyton, A. A., Varziri, M. S., McAuley, K. B., McLellan, P. J. and Ramsay, J. O. (2006)
Parameter estimation in continuous-time dynamic models using principal differential analysis. Computational Chemical Engineering. 30, 698-708.
BOOKS
Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (1997) Functional Data Analysis. New York: Springer.
Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (2002) AppliedFunctional Data Analysis. New York: Springer.
Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B. W. (2005) Functional Data Analysi. Second Edition. New York: Springer.
Clarkson, D. B., Fraley, C., Gu, C. C. and Ramsay, J. O. (2005) S+Functional Data Analysis User’s Guide. New York: Springer.
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CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
Ramsay (1977). Multidimensional scaling. International Encyclopedia of Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Ramsay (1981). MULTISCALE Schiffman, S. S., Reynolds, M. L., and Young, F.W. Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling: Theory, Methods, and Applications. New York: Academic Press.
Ramsay, J.O. (1988). The analysis of replicated spatial functions of time. Coppi, R., and Bolasco, S., (Eds.). Multiway Data Analysis. Elsevier Science Publishers.
Ramsay, J. O. (1989). The data analysis of vectorvalued functions. E. Diday (Ed.) Data Analysis, Learning Symbolic and Numeric Knowledge. Commack, New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Ramsay, J.O. (1995). Some tools for the multivariate analysis of functional data. In W. Krzanowski (Ed.) Descriptive Multivariate Analysis. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.
Ramsay, J.O. (1997). A functional approach to modeling test data. In W.J. van der Linden and R.K. Hambleton (Eds.) Handbook of Modern Item Response Theory, New York: Springer Verlag, 381394.
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Ramsay, J.O. (1997). Functional data analysis. In S. Kotz, C.B. Read and D.L. Banks (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, New York: Wiley.
Ramsay, J.O. (1997). Principal differential analysis. In S. Kotz, C.B. Read and D.L. Banks (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, New York: Wiley.
Ramsay, J.O. and Gribble, P. (1999). Functional data analysis in action. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association. 30-36.
Ramsay, J. O. (2001) Psychometrics. In N. J. Smelser andP. B. Baltes (Eds) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
B. W. Silverman and Ramsay, J. O. (2001) Functional data analysis. In N. J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes (Eds) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Ramsay, J. O. (2002) Multilevel modeling of longitudinal and functional data. In D. S. Moskowitz and S. L. Hershberger (Eds.) Modeling Intraindividual Variability with Repeated Measures Data: Methods and Applications. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. 87-102.
Ramsay, J. O. (2005) The control of behavioral input/output systems. In J. L. Schafer and T. A. Walls (Eds.) Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.
BOOK REVIEWS
D.H. Krantz, R.D. Luce. P. Suppes, and A. Tversky. (1975). Foundations of measurement, Vol. 1. In Psychometrika, 40, 257262.
D.N.M. de Gruijter and L.J.T. van der Kamp. Advances in Psychological and Educational Measurement. In Psychometrika.
R. Gnanadesikan. (1977). Methods for Statistical Analysis of Multivariate Observations. In Psychometrika, 42, 455.
G.D. Bechtel (1978). Multidimensional Preference Scaling. In Psychometrika, 43, 585. J.W. Tukey. Exploratory Data Analysis. In Applied Psychological Measurement. (With J. de Leeuw) F. Cailliez and Pages, J.P. (1983). Introduction a l'Analyse des Donnees. In Psychometrika, 48,147151.
F.W. Young and R.M. Hamer (Editor). (1988). Multidimensional Scaling: History, Theory, and Applications. In Contemporary Psychology, 33, 874875.
P. Suppes, D.H. Krantz, R.D. Luce and A. Tversky. (1991). Foundations of measurement. Volumes II and III. In Psychometrika, 56, 355358.
A., Gifi. (1992). Nonlinear multivariate analysis. In Psychometrika, 57, 156157.
T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman (2002) Elements of Statistical Learning. In
Psychometrika, 68, 611.
L. Hubert, P. Arabie, J. Meulman. (2001) Combinatorial Data Analysis. In Psychometrika, 69, 499.
COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
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MLSCALE. Distributed by SAS Users Group International as part of the SAS Supplemental Library, 1986.
MULTISCALE. Distributed by International Educational Services, Chicago, Ill., 1978.
MLMDS1, MLMDS2 and MLMDS4. Distributed by McGill Computing Centre.
TESTGRAF. Distributed by author.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
J. O. Ramsay (2003) Matlab, R and S-PLUS Functions for Functional Data Analysis.
RECENT CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS
2001 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Osaka, Japan. Invited to present two talks:
Functional Data Analysis in Psychometrics
Nonparametric Item Response Theory
2002 Journees de Statistique of l’Association Francais de Statistique, l’Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, May 13-16, Invited plenary speaker to present a paper titled Curve Registration
2002 Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, University ofNorth Carolina, Chapel Hill, June 20-23. Invited to present a full day work shop on Functional Data Analysis
16th Australian Statistical Conference, Canberra, Australia, July 7-12 2002. Invited as plenary speaker to present a paper titled Parameter Flow
65th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Banff Centre, July 28-31, Invited to Organize a session on Functional Data Analysis.
The 6th International Statists Conference, TarbiatModarresUniversity, Tehran, Iran. August 26-28, 2002. Invited as a Special Invited Guest to present two talks:
Parameter Flow
Principal Differential Analysis and Process Control
Institute of Mathematical Statistics Mini Meeting on Functional Data Analysis, Invited keynote speaker, Gainesville, Florida, January 12-13, 2003.
The 2003 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Caia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy, July 7-10, 2003. Invited plenary speaker to present “Psychometrics, Dynamics, and Differential Equations.”
Banff International Research Station Workshop on Regularization Methods in Statistics, September 7-10, 2003. Invited participant, presented “From Data to Differential Equations.”
19th Workshop on Item Response Theory at the University of Twente, Netherlands, October 15-17, 2003, keynote invited international speaker to present three talks.
Meetingof the Vereniging Voor Statisiek en Operationele Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, October 20, 2003, keynote invited talk, “From Data to Differential Equations.”
Hutchinson, R.A., H. Sulieman, J.O. Ramsay and P.J. McLellan, “Investigating the Impact of Operating Parameters on Molecular Weight Distributions Using Functional Regression”, poster presented at the United Engineering Foundation Conference on Polymer Reaction Engineering V, Quebec City, May, 2003.
R.A. Hutchinson, McLellan, P.J. and J.O. Ramsay, “Empirical Polymer Process Investigation Using Functional Regression”, poster presented at the Jacques Cartier Conference on Polymer Reaction Engineering, Modeling, Optimization and Control, Lyon, France, December 2003.