Louisiana ASA Chapter
Louisiana Chapter of the ASA: Spring 2025 Meeting
Monday, 19 May 2025
Lions' Eye Center, room 632
2020 Gravier Street
LSUHSC
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Spring 2025 meeting of the Louisiana ASA chapter will be held on the Louisiana State University Health Science Center Campus in New Orleans. We will meet in room 632 (labeled on this floor plan) of the Lions' Eye Center Building (building 8 on this campus map) on the Louisiana State University Health Science Center Campus.
This theme of this meeting is Current Statistical Research in Louisiana.
We will have twelve 15 minute talks by student (5) and faculty (7) researchers from across the state.
Directions to LSUHSC/Parking/ School of Public Health
The School of Public Health is located in Downtown New Orleans, on the campus of LSU Health Sciences Center in the Lions Eye Clinic Building (building #8, on the campus map) at 2020 Gravier St, on the 2nd & 3rd Floor.
Parking
Visitor pay parking is on the 1st floor of the South Roman Street Parking Garage (building #30, on the campus map) located on South Romans Street, between Tulane Ave & Gravier Street. The entrance to the S. Romans Parking Garage is on S. Romans Street. (Garage Entrance: 425 South Roman Street, New Orleans, LA 70112.) The parking machine to pay for parking is on the Bolivar Street side of the parking garage near the elevator. Use this parking garage for approved LSUHSC validated parking. Please bring your parking ticket to the School of Public Health.
Once parked, access to the School is via the above street walkway connecting the LSUHSC buildings.
Directions to Lions 6th floor from Roman Street Garage
Elevated Walkway: Take the elevators from the first floor of the LSUHSC Roman St Garage to the third floor. As you exit the elevators, turn left and proceed forward on the elevated crosswalk until you come to the sign indicating to turn right to the “LSU-Lions” building. Proceed forward and through the glass doors where you will find another set of elevators. Take the elevator to the sixth floor.
If you are accessing the walkway at street level use the elevator located in South Roman Street Parking Garage on the Bolivar Street side of the garage.
NOTE: First floor street access is limited to LSUHSC students & personnel at 2020 Gravier Street where the School of Public Health is located. The Resource Center (building #7), South Roman Street Parking Garage (building #30) and Nursing & Allied Health (building #6) are the only street access points to the LSUHSC buildings.
Louisiana Chapter of the ASA: Spring 2025 Meeting Schedule
(final - last updated 6 May 2025)
| Time | Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 9:30-10:00 | Reception |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Two--sample bi--directional causality between two traits with some invalid IVs in both directions using GWAS Siyi Chen, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans |
| 10:15-10:30 |
A multi--bin rarefaction method for evaluating alpha diversities in TCR sequencing data Mo Li, UL Lafayette, Lafayette |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Latent Classification of Multi--model Non--homogeneous Continuous--time Markov Chains Joonha Chang, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Clustering Spatial Data with a Mixture of Skewed Regression Models Junho Lee, LSU, Baton Rouge |
| 11:15-11:30 |
Action--based phylogenetic likelihood calculations for large state--space models Xiang Ji, Tulane University, New Orleans |
| 11:30-11:45 |
Tests for Comparing Several Normal Quantiles with Applications Justin Dunnam, UL Lafayette, Lafayette |
| 11:45-1:15 | Lunch |
| 1:15-1:30 |
Characterizing Interlocus Gene Conversion in Segmentally--Duplicated Regions of Primate Genomes Yufei Zou, Tulane University, New Orleans |
| 1:30-1:45 |
An Association Test Based on Kernel--Based Neural Networks for Complex Genetic Association Analysis Tingting Hou, LSU, Baton Rouge |
| 1:45-2:00 |
Joint Modeling Approach for censored predictors in generalized linear model due to detection limit with applications to metabolites data Fengxue Li, Public Health & Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, New Orleans |
| 2:00-2:15 | Break |
| 2:15-2:30 |
Testing Multivariate Normality of a Large Number of Populations Nurudeen Ajadi, UL Lafayette, Lafayette |
| 2:30-2:45 |
Bayesian Analyses and Design of Aggregated Group Sequential N--of--1 Clinical Trials Md Abdullah Al--Mamun, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans |
| 2:45-3:00 |
Multivariate Modeling Techniques for Estimating Assistance Impacts from Daily Food Security Surveys John Argentino, Tulane University, New Orleans |
View a list of titles and abstracts here.
Louisiana Chapter of the ASA: Fall 2025 Meeting/
2025 Lloyd Roeling UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference
24-25 October 2025
The Fall 2025 meeting of the Louisiana ASA chapter will be held in conjunction with the 2025 Lloyd Roeling UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Campus in Lafayette.
Details about this conference will be posted here and on the Lloyd Roeling UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference web page as they become available.
In addition to presenting a talk yourself, please encourage your colleagues to present, and send suggestions for potential invited speakers to cberry@louisiana.edu. There may be some funding to support invited speakers.
Please direct inquiries about this conference to cberry@louisiana.edu.
2025 Chapter Officers
President:
Junho Lee
Department of Experimental Statistics
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5606
junholee@lsu.edu
Vice President:
Evrim Oral
Biostatistics Section
LSU Health Science Center New Orleans
2020 Gravier Street, 3rd Floor
New Orleans, LA 70112
eoral@lsuhsc.edu
Secretary/Treasurer:
James Calvin Berry
Mathematics Department
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Box 43568
Lafayette, LA 70504-3568
cberry@louisiana.edu
Chapter Representative:
Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy
Mathematics Department
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Box 43568
Lafayette, LA 70504-3568
krishna@louisiana.edu
If you have any suggestions regarding the chapter such as: proposals for activities, potential speakers, or the like, please send them to the president.