Nalini Ravishanker, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, 215 Glenbrook Road, Storrs CT 06269-4120 USA

State-of-the-art Quantitative Techniques for Business Problems: Four Illustrative Scenarios An Interactive Session by Dr. Nalini Ravishanker An Interactive Session by Dr. Nalini Ravishanker We are delighted to invite you to the fourth part - State-of-the-art Quantitative Techniques for Business Problems: Four Illustrative Scenarios, by Dr. Nalini Ravishanker, Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, on November 13, 2010 in Chennai, at The National Management School. A word about Dr. Nalini Ravishanker Dr. Nalini Ravishanker is Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs. She has an undergraduate degree in Statistics from Presidency College, Chennai, and received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the Stern School of Business, New York University. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Editor for Theory and Methods of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Forecasting. Her current methodological and applied research interests include: Time Series and Spatial data analysis; Times-to-events Analysis; Inference for Stable Processes; Signal Processing; and Simultaneous Inference Procedures. She also does considerable interdisciplinary research in several areas including Actuarial Science, Environmental Engineering, Finance, Marketing, Psychology, and Transportation Engineering. She has over 50 publications in leading journals in statistics and the applied disciplines, and has co-authored a textbook - A First Course in Linear Model Theory, Chapman & Hall/CRC (2001). She has been actively involved in business collaboration and consulting across several disciplines. Over the years, she has also supervised graduate and undergraduate research for several students in statistics and in the applied disciplines.

Speaker: Prof. Nalini Ravishanker, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut Stat & Act. Sci. Seminar Title: TBA

Rajkumar Venkatesan, Werner Reinartz, and Nalini Ravishanker, 2012 [12-107] Rajkumar Venkatesan, Werner Reinartz, and Nalini Ravishanker determine how the inclusion of customers' attitudes affects predictions of customer lifetime value and thus a firm's customer management strategy. Nalini Ravishanker is a Professor and the Undergraduate Program Director in Statistics, University of Connecticut.

Applications will be reviewed by the IISA Travel Award Committee with Cyrus Mehta, H.N. Nagaraja and Nalini Ravishanker (Chair) as members. Please submit your application package by email (PDF files only) to Nalini Ravishanker, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs; nalini.ravishanker@uconn.edu