Recent Talks and Presentations:

Over the past twenty years, Cox Associates professionals have made several public presentations about its approach, services and products. Recent talks and presentations since 1999 are provided below:

1999    2000    2001

Talks and Presentations in 1999:

"Causal mechanisms and classification trees for predicting chemical carcinogens." Presented (by Professor D. Fisher for L.A. Cox) at the Seventh International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. January 3-6, 1999. http://uncertainty99.microsoft.com/proceedings.htm

"Applied mathematics in telecommunications consulting." Invited lecture in Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar, University of Colorado at Denver, March 8th, 1999. http://www.cudenver.edu/~hgreenbe/courses/3001/S99/syllabus.html

"Causal data mining and modeling of customer data." Invited lecture, University of Denver, Daniels School of Business, capstone course in data technologies for business applications, April 29th, 1999.

"Optimal use of acquired network facilities." Invited presentation, INFORMS '99, Cincinnati Convention Center, May 3rd, 1999.

"Valid and invalid causal inferences in epidemiology." Invited talk, CU-Denver Statistics and BioMath Seminar, September 14th, 1999.

"An axiomatic approach to attributable risk," CU-Denver Statistics and BioMath Seminar, October 19th, 1999.

"Forecasting purchases of telecommunications services via state transition models", with Dr. Doug Popken. INFORMS Fall '99, Philadelphia, November 7-10, 1999. http://www.informs.org/Conf/Philadelphia99//TALKS/TE13.html

"Causal data mining of telecommunications customer data", INFORMS Fall '99, Philadelphia, November 7-10, 1999. http://www.informs.org/Conf/Philadelphia99//TALKS/TE13.html

"Mathematical validity of CVM Risk Assessment." Invited review of antimicrobial risk assessment, presented at U.S. Food and Drug Administration College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM)'s Draft Risk Assessment and the Establishment of Resistance Thresholds Workshop, December 9th and 10th, 1999. DoubleTree Hotel, Rockville, MD. http://www.fda.gov/cvm/antimicrobial/tonycox/index.htm

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Talks and Presentations in 2000:

"Optical network planning and optimization in metropolitan areas." Invited talk at Institute for International Research Conference on Transitioning to the Next Generation Metropolitan Network Using DWDM. Wyndham Miami Beach Resort, February 14-15, 2000.

"Data mining and causal simulation modeling of customer behaviors". Tutorial presented at Fifth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference. Sheraton Boca Raton Hotel, Boca Raton, Florida, March 5-8, 2000. http://www.crt.umontreal.ca/GERAD/boca2000/monday.shtml#ma

"Cost savings from network optimization of DWDM facilities and optical switches". Presented at 8th International Conference on Telecommunications Systems: Modeling and Analysis. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, March 9-12, 2000.

"Predicting and optimizing customer behaviors." Presented at 8th International Conference on Telecommunications Systems: Modeling and Analysis. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, March 9-12, 2000.

"Attributable risk and multiple causes." Invited seminar, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Seminar Series, April 17th, 2000

"Predicting how Telecommunications Ads Affect Customer Values". INFORMS Spring 2000 Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7-10, 2000. Salt Palace Convention Center. http://www.informs.org/Conf/SaltLake2000//TALKS/MB19.html

"A simulation model of excess illnesses from fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter." Invited presentation, 9th Symposium of the International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics. Beaver Run Resort, Breckenridge, CO, August 6-11, 2000. http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/cveadss/schedule/SchedulePage.htm

"Some new problems in applied optimization: Telecommunications data mining and network design applications.". Invited lecture, Seminar in Special Topics in Optimization, University of Colorado at Boulder, School of Business, November 2nd, 2000.

Cox LA, Jr., and V. Bier, "Designing Effective Risk Management Decision Processes". Invited talk, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2000. (Presented by Professor Bier.)

Cox, LA, Jr. "A discrete-event simulation model of human health risks from fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter in chickens." Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. December 6th, 2000.

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Talks and Presentations in 2001:

Cox, LA, Jr. "Alternatives to establishing thresholds: A predictive modeling framework." Invited talk presented at the FDA meeting on Use of Antimicrobial Drugs in Food Animal and the Establishment of Regulatory Thresholds on Antimicrobial Resistance. Rockville, MD, January 22 - 24, 2001. http://www.fda.gov/cvm/antimicrobial/thresagenda51.htm

Cox, LA, Jr. "Advances in data mining for predicting risks of customer responses to interventions." Invited lecture, Hearin Center for Enterprise Science. University of Mississippi School of Business Administration, Oxford, Mississipi, 2-24-01.

Cox, LA, Jr., "Data mining methods for health risk data bases." Invited lecture, Seminar on Computational Biology, University of Colorado Department of Mathematics, Denver, Colorado, 3-15-01.

Cox, LA, Jr., "Optimized mesh vs. ring comparisons". Invited presentation and panel discussion, All Optical Network Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 3rd, 2001.

Cox, LA, Jr., "Campylobacter risk analysis: a cause-and-effect view." Invited presentation, Second International Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance: Use of Antimicrobials and Protection of Public Health. Office International des Epizooties, Paris, France. 2-4 October, 2001.

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