Recent Advances of Optimal Design of Experiment

Abstract: Designing experiments is an integral part of the scientific process, both for discovery and verification. Resources are almost always scarce, and judicious use of the limited resources is essential. Identifying efficient and optimal designs for data collection is therefore paramount. In this talk, I will first give one simple example demonstrating the set up and the impact of efficient designs. Then I will review the classical tools of studying optimal designs. The main purpose of this talk is to introduce a new strategy. With the new strategy, many well-known results in the optimal design literature can be unified and extended. If time permitted, I plan to talk about the recently development of algorithm.