Session Schedule

Agenda

• Wednesday, May 27, 2026

  • 08:30-12:30 Registration
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby, Center
  • 08:30-10:00 Morning Refreshment
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby, Outside of Room 101
  • 09:00-17:00 Short courses
    • Location: McHugh Room TBA for Bayesian Statistics (Bayesics), its history, rationale, and future in clinical trials
    • Location: McHugh Room TBA for Empowering Decision Making with Historical Data: From Theory to Practice of Prior Elicitation and Bayesian Clinical Trial Design
    • Location: McHugh Room TBA for Modern Statistical Inference Tools for Complex Data Using Artificial Data
    • Location: McHugh Room TBA for How Large Language Models Process and Reason: A Geometric View of Hidden-State Dynamics
  • 12:30-13:30 Lunch
    • Location: Student Union Marketplace (pick up ticket at Registration Desk)
  • 15:00-15:30 Afternoon Coffee Break
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby, Outside of Room 101
  • Poster setup: poster can be set up if the presenter arrives on Wednesday.
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby

• Thursday, May 28, 2026

  • 07:30-17:00 Registration
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby, Center
  • 07:30-08:30 Morning Refreshment
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby, Outside of Room 101
  • 08:30-10:10 Parallel Sessions 1
    • Location: Schedule of Parallel Sessions
  • 10:10-10:30 Morning Coffee Break
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby, Outside of Room 101
  • 10:30-10:50 Welcome Remarks
    • Location: McHugh Room 102
    • Speakers:
      • Shuangge Ma (President-Elect of NESS)
      • Ofer Harel (Dean of CLAS, UConn)
  • 10:50-11:50 Plenary Session 1 (Annie Qu)
    • Location: McHugh Room 102
  • 11:50-14:00 Lunch
    • Location: South Dining Hall
  • 13:00-14:00 Posters
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby
  • 14:00-15:40 Parallel Sessions 2
    • Location: Schedule of Parallel Sessions
  • 15:40-16:00 Afternoon Coffee Break
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby, Outside of Room 101
  • 16:00-17:40 Parallel Sessions 3
    • Location: Schedule of Parallel Sessions
  • 16:30-18:00 Statathon Presentations
    • Location: TBA
  • 18:30-22:00 Symposium Banquet
    • Location: Rome Ballroom
  • 19:30-20:20 Banquet Talk (Deepak Agarwal)
    • Location: Rome Ballroom

• Friday, May 29, 2026

  • 07:30-17:00 Registration
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby, Center
  • 07:30-08:30 Morning Refreshment
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby, Outside of Room 101
  • 08:45-10:25 Parallel Sessions 4
    • Location: Schedule of Parallel Sessions
  • 10:25-10:50 Morning Coffee Break
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby, Outside of Room 101
  • 10:50-11:50 Plenary Session 2 (David Blei)
    • Location: McHugh Room 102
  • 11:50-13:30 Lunch
    • Location: Student Union Marketplace
  • 12:30-13:30 Posters
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby
  • 13:30-15:10 Parallel Sessions 5
    • Location: Schedule of Parallel Sessions
  • 15:10-15:30 Afternoon Coffee Break
    • Location: McHugh Hall Lobby, Outside of Room 101
  • 15:30-16:40 Chernoff Award and Chernoff Lecture
    • Location: McHugh Room 102
  • 16:40-17:10 Award Ceremony
    • Location: McHugh Room 102
      • Statathon winners
      • Student Research Awards
      • Student Poster Awards
      • NextGen Scholarships
  • 17:10-17:20 Closing Remarks
    • Location: McHugh Room 102