Invited Talks at Conferences:


1. Conference On Linear Inference for Linear Models,
organized by the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
Poznan, Poland, June 4-9, 1984.
Title of talk: Inference in a general
linear model with an incorrect dispersion matrix.


2. International Conference on Recent
Developments in Statistical Data Analysis and Inference, a Conference in
Honor of C. R. Rao, held at the University of
Neuchatel, Switzerland, August 21-24, 1989.
Title of talk: Optimum tests in mixed linear models with two variance
components.

3. International Symposium on Optimization
and Statistics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,
India, December 18-21, 1989.
Title of talk: Optimum
tests in unbalanced split-plot designs under mixed and random models.


4. International Workshop on Linear
Models, Experimental Designs and Related Matrix Theory,
University of Tampere, Finland, August 6-8, 1990.
Title of talk: Nonnegative estimation of variance components.

5. Three-Day Seminar on Linear Models and
Design of Experiments, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta,
December 27-29, 1990.
Title of talk: Nonnegative estimation of variance components.

6. International Workshop on Matrix
Methods for Statistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand,
December 4-5, 1992.
Title of talk: Combining independent tests for a
common mean.


7. International Conference on Linear
Statistical Inference, Poznan, Poland, May 31-June 4, 1993.
Title of talk: Some hypotheses tests using generalized p-values.

8. Joint Conference on Information Sciences}, Pinehurst, North
Carolina, November 13-16, 1994.
Title of talk: Data fusion for hypothesis testing.

9. Mini-Conference on Recent Developments in Linear Models and Image
Analysis, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, March 16-18, 1995.
Title of talks: (i) Single use confidence regions in multivariate
calibration, (ii) Multiple use confidence regions in multivariate
calibration.


10. Fourth International Workshop on Matrix Methods for Statistics,
Montreal, Canada, July 15-16, 1995.
Title of talk: Inequalities for the sums of matrix quadratic forms.

11. International Conference on Quality Improvement Through Statistical Methods, Cochin, India, December 29-31, 1996.
Title of talk: Confidence regions in multivariate calibration.

12. Twelfth Annual EPA Conference on Environmental Statistics, Richmond, Virginia, April 1-3, 1997.
Title of Talk: Confidence regions and tests in a calibration problem.

13. International Conference on Combinatorics, Information Theory and Statistics, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, July 18-20, 1997.
Title of talk: Confidence regions in a linear multivariate calibration problem.

14. Symposium on Mixed Models, organized by the New Jersey Chapter of the ASA and Bellcore, Piscataway, New Jersey, June 11, 1998.
Title of talk: The problem of combining tests with applications to mixed models.

15. International Indian Statistical Association, International Conference, McMaster University, Canada, October 10-11, 1998.
Title of talk: Confidence regions in multivariate calibration: an introduction.

16. International Conference on Combinatorics, Statistics, Pattern Recognition and Related Areas, University of Mysore, India, December 28-30, 1998.
Title of talk: Tolerance regions for a multivariate normal population.

17. Symposium on Selected Topics in Variance Components Analysis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, January 21-22, 2000.
Title of talk: The one-way random model: some new problems and applications.

18. Statistics: Reflections on the Past and Visions for the Future. An International Conference in Honor of Professor C. R. Rao on the occasion of his 80th birthday, University of Texas, San Antonio, March 16-19, 2000.
Title of talk: The one-way random model: some new problems and applications.

19. International Symposium on Advances in Statistical Methods and Its Applications, Chennai, India, December 21-22, 2000.
Title of talk: Generalized p-values and confidence intervals with applications in variance component models.

20. International Conference on Recent Developments in Statistics and Probability and Their Applications, New Delhi, India, December 30, 2000-January 3, 2001.
Organized a session on Linear Models and Multivariate Analysis.

21. Graybill Conference on Linear, Non-linear and Generalized Linear Models, Fort Collins, Colorado, June 13-15, 2001.
Title of talk: Mixed model inference for Army test and evaluation.

22. International Conference on Statistics in Industry and Business, Cochin, India, January 2-4, 2003.
Title of talk: Generalized confidence limits and one-sided tolerance limits in balanced and unbalanced one-way random models}.

23. Justus F. Seely Memorial Conference on Linear Models, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, July 31 - August 1, 2003.
Organized an Invited Session on Theory and Applications of Mixed Models: Recent Developments.

24. International Conference on Mathematical Statistics: Statistical Inference in Linear Models, Bedlewo, Poland, August 21-27, 2003.
Title of talk: Generalized confidence limits and one-sided tolerance limits in balanced and unbalanced one-way random models.

25. Fifth International Triennial Calcutta Symposium on Probability and Statistics, Calcutta, India, December 28-31, 2003.
Title of talk: A test for individual bioequivalence.

26. Eleventh Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, May 19-21, 2004.
Title of talk: Mixed model inference for Army test and evaluation.

27. Thirty-Fourth Annual Lloyd Roeling Mathematics Conference, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, November 19-21, 2004.
Title of talk: A Test for Individual Bioequivalence for a 2x3 Crossover Design.

28. International Conference on the Future of Statistical Theory, Practice and Education, Hyderabad, India, December 29, 2004-- January 1, 2005.
Title of talk: Testing the equivalence of two covariance matrices.

29. International Conference in Mathematics and Applications, Bangkok, Thailand, December, 15-17, 2005.
Title of talk: Approximate tolerance limits and prediction limits for the gamma distribution.

30. 15th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics, Uppsala, Sweden, June 13-17, 2006.
Title of talk: Testing the equivalence of two covariance matrices.

31. Sixth International Triennial Calcutta Symposium on Probability and Statistics, Calcutta, India, December 29-31, 2006.
Title of talk: Testing the equivalence of two covariance matrices.

32. Joint Statistical Meeting and International Conference on Statistics, Probability and Related Areas. Organized by the International Indian Statistical Association, Cochin, India, January 2-5, 2007.
Organized an invited session on Applied Multivariate Analysis, and gave an invited talk.
Title of talk: Confidence rectangles for multivariate bioequivalence: a numerical approach.

33. U.S. Army Conference on Applied Statistics, Department of Statistics, Rice University, October 17-19, 2007.
Title of talk: Generalized confidence intervals for some bivariate normal problems.

34. Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Colorado, August 3-7, 2008.
Title of talk: Generalized confidence intervals for normal orthant probabilities.

35. The 10th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences, Cairo, Egypt, December 20-23, 2009.
Title of talk: Comparison of meta-analysis using literature and using individual patient data.

36. International Conference on Frontiers of Interface between Statistics and Sciences, Hyderabad, India, December 30, 2009-January 2, 2010.
Title of talk: Comparison of meta-analysis using literature and using individual patient data.

37. Third Annual FDA Medical Device and IVD Statistical Issues Workshop, National Harbor, Maryland, April 28-29, 2010.
Title of talk: Inference for the lognormal mean and quantiles based on samples with non-detects.

38. Keynote speaker at the International Conference on Trends and Perspectives in Linear Statistical Inference, Tomar, Portugal, July 27-31, 2010.
Title of talk: Comparison of meta-analysis using literature and using individual patient data.

39. Taipei International Statistical Symposium, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 16-19, 2011.
Title of talk: A comparison of meta-analysis using literature and using individual patient data.

40. International Conference on Advances in Probability and Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 28-December 31, 2011.
Title of talk: Combining multivariate bioassays: accurate inference using small sample asymptotics.

41. Eighth International Triennial Calcutta Symposium, Calcutta, India, December 27-30, 2012.
Title of talk: A Comparison of Disclosure Control Methods: Multiple Imputation Versus Noise Multiplication.

42. Gave two invited talks under the Advanced Research Initiative, Department of Mathematics, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, November 18-19, 2013.
Title of talks: (i) The Assessment of Bioequivalence: A Statistical Overview and, (ii) Higher Order Inference: Methodology and Some Applications

43. Dakar International Conference on Recent Developments in Applied Statistics, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegak, March 17-20, 2014.
Gave three invited talks.

44. International Conference on Applied Statistics, Khon Kaen, Thailand, May 21-24, 2014.
Title of talk: Small sample asymptotics: Methodology and two applications.

45. Workshop on Meta Analysis and Statistical Inference Based on Ordered and Ranked Data, Doukuz Eylul University, Izmir Turkey.
Gave three invited talks.

46. International Indian Statistical Association Conference, Riverside, CA, July 11-13, 2014.
Title of talk: On tolerance limit computation under the logistic regression model.

47. International Conference on Statistics: Theory to Practice, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, March 16-18, 2015.
Title of talk: The assessment of bioequivalence: A statistical overview.

Short Courses

1. Offered a short course (jointly with B. K. Sinha) on Data Analysis Using Mixed Linear Models: An Introduction, Department of Statistics, University of Helsinki, Finland, August 9, 1999.

2. Offered a short course on Data Analysis Using Mixed Linear Models: An Introduction, Joint Statistical Meetings, Atlanta, August 6, 2001.

3. Offered a short course (jointly with K. Krishnamoorthy) on Statistical Tolerance Intervals: Theory, Applications and Computation, Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, D.C., August 2, 2009.

4. Offered a short course (jointly with K. Krishnamoorthy) on Statistical Methodologies for Exposure Data Analysis, Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego, July 28, 2012.