Title:   Using Animal Instincts to Find Efficient Experimental Designs
Speaker: Weng Kee Wong, Dept of Biostatistics, UCLA

ABSTRACT
Using popular models from the biological and pharmaceutical sciences as examples, I demonstrate how particle swarm optimization (PSO) searches for different types of optimal experimental designs in dose response studies, including mini-max types of optimal designs where effective algorithms to find such designs have remained elusive until now.