Arrival
Roanoke Airport (ROA) to Main Street Inn, 205 South Main Street, Blacksburg, VA 24060, 540-552-MAIN
(not to be confused with Inn at Virginia Tech (Map)
Partners and prospective partners arrive:
BD, Capital One, DuPont, Eli Lilly, GE, Mintab, Pratt & Whitney, RJReynolds, SAS
3M, Eastman Chemical, Merck
300 Seitz Hall (C on Map)
Partners Presentations at the weekly Departmental Seminar, chaired and organized by Rebecca Dickinson
- Chris Hughes, 3M
- Kevin White, Statistical Associate and Team Leader, Applied Statistics Group, Eastman Chemical Company
- Sarah Haines, Leader, Technical Support, Minitab, Inc.
- Ilya Lipkovich, Principal Research Scientist, Eli Lilly and Company
7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Home of Carmen Tavera and Geoff Vining (119 Primrose Drive, Blacksburg, Map)
Welcome Reception for partners, faculty, and graduate students
7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Gillies (suggested, not a group activity)
Breakfast - But we will have coffee and sweet rolls at the conference room at 8:00
8:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Departmental Conference Room, 418-A Hutcheson Hall (C on Map)
Advisory Committee Meeting, chaired by Department Head Eric Smith.
One representative of each company meets with key committee chairs
(Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA), Graduate
Program, undergraduate Program, and Personnel Committee).
Squires Student Center (SSC) (Map)
Interviews 9:30-5:00
3M, SSC Blue Ridge Conference Room
Capital One, SSC Cardinal Room
Eastman, SSC Mountain Lake Conference Room
Minitab, SSC Room 232
11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
Dean's Conference Room, College of Science
Partners Meet with Dean Lay Nam Chang, College of Science
12:30 -1:30 p.m.
India Gardens Restaurant, 210 Prices Fork Road NW, 951-5100
(Map from Squires)
Lunch. Partners with Advisory Committee
Squires Student Center (SSC) Room 341/345 (B on Map) Mu Sigma Rho Research Seminar, chaired by Mu Sigma Rho President Jon Stalings, organized by Professors Feng Guo and Yili Hong. Presentations of current research by selected graduate students.
4:15-4:45 p.m.
Squires Student Center (SSC) Room 341/345 (B on Map)
Honors and Awards Presentations. Partners, faculty, graduate and select undergraduate students
Home of Xiaoli Hou and Matthew Glasgow, 220 Progress Street (limitied parking at adjacent dental office), 267-664-1269 (D on Map)
Happy hour
Interviews and Meetings
Recreation (Golf, Hiking, ...)
Squires Student Center (SSC) (Map)
Interviews 9:30-3:00
3M, SSC Room 217ConferenceRoom
Capital One, SSC Mountain Lake Conference Room
Capital One
, SSC Norfolk Room
DuPont , SSC Blue Ridge