Statistics Program
July 30–August 2

1. Analysis of longitudinal data

Organizer: Damla Senturk
Chair: TBA

Runze Li, Pennsylvania State University
Naisyin Wang, Texas A&M University
Joel Dubin, University of Waterloo

2. Statistical learning

Organizer: Sayan Mukherjee
Chair: Sayan Mukherjee

Phil Long, Google (formerly Columbia University)
Mikhail Belkin, Ohio State
Andrea Caponnetto, Univ. of Chicago and Univ. of Genoa

3. Statistics in Finance

Organizer: Yacine Ait-Sahalia
Chair: Yacine Ait-Sahalia

Jianqing Fan, Princeton University
Jean Jacod, Universite de Paris VI
Per A. Mykland, The University of Chicago

4. Aggregation of estimators

Organizer: Yuhong Yang
Chair: TBA

Nicolas Vayatis
Feng Liang
Yuhong Yang

5. Statistical analysis of shapes and images

Organizer: Victor Patrangenaru
Chair: TBA

Rabi N. Bhattacharya, University of Arizona
Ian Dryden, University of Nottingham
Washington Mio, Florida State University

6. Estimation in time series that are both non-linear and non-stationary

Organizer: Joon Park
Chair: TBA

Robert deJong, Ohio State University
Joon Park
Yoosoon Chang, Rice University

7. Adaptive smoothing applied to images and processes

Organizer: Vladimir Spokoiny
Chair: TBA

J. Polzehl, Berlin
C. Kervann, Rennes
A. Goldenshluger, Haifa

8. Inference for high-dimensional data and models

Organizer: Peter Bickel
Chair: Peter Bickel

A. Tsybakov Paris
S. van de Geer, Zurich
Y. Ritov HU, Israel
P. Bickel (discussant)

9. Graphical models: Algorithms and statistics

Organizer: Martin Wainwright
Chair: TBA

Mathias Drton, Univ. Chicago
Zoubin Ghahramani, Cambridge University
Elchanan Mossel, UC Berkeley

10. Statistics and the Environment

Organizer: Bin Yu
Chair: TBA

Tilmann Gneiting, Seattle
Curtis Storlie, SAMSI
Michael Lavine, Duke

11. Inverse problems, deconvolution and applications

Organizer: Geurt Jongbloed
Chair: Geurt Jongbloed

Laurent Cavalier, (Marseille)
Moulinath Banerjee, (Michigan)
Geurt Jongbloed (Amsterdam)

12. Modeling dependencies via copulas and applications

Organizer: Irene Gijbels
Chair: TBA

Yanqin Fan, Vanderbilt University
Jose Maria Gonzalez Barrios, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Stephane Girard, Université Joseph Fourier

13. Information and complexity

Organizer: Peter Grunwald
Chair: Peter Grunwald

Dean Foster, U Penn
Sham Kakade, Toyota Technol. Institute at Chicago
Peter Grunwald, CWI

14. Advances in statistical genomics

Organizer: Sylvia Richardson
Chair: TBA

Hans Van Houwelingen, (Leiden)
Sayan Mukherjee, (Duke)
Ernst Wit, (Lancaster)

15. Analysis of functional data

Organizer: Hans Mueller
Chair: TBA

Garreth James (USC)
Jane-Ling Wang (UCD)
Steve Marron (UNC)

16. Astrostatistics

Organizer: Chad Schafer
Chair: Chad Schafer

Domenico Marinucci, Universita di Roma, "Tor Vergata"
Ji Meng Loh, Columbia University
John Rice, Berkeley
Chad Schafer (discussant)

17. Multiple hypothesis testing and false discovery rate

Organizer: Felix Abramovich
Chair: TBA

Yoav Benjamini, Tel Aviv University
Sanat Sarkar, Temple University
Jiashun Jin, Purdue University

18. Frequentist analysis of Bayesian procedures

Organizer: Aad van der Vaart
Chair: Aad van der Vaart

Subhashis Ghosal, (North Carolina)
Yaeyong Lee, (Seoul)
Harry van Zanten, (Amsterdam)

19. Likelihood/Bayesian methods for discretely observed stochastic processes

Organizer: Gareth Roberts
Chair: TBA

Osnat Stramer, University of Iowa
Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton
Alexandros Beskos, Warwick, UK

20. Statistics for Levy processes

Session organized by Mexican Society (AME)

Organizer: Victor Perez Abreu
Chair: José Gonzalez-Barrios

Gernot Muller; Munich
Cecilia Mancini, Florence
Yacini Ait-Sahalia, Princeton

21. Parameter Estimation: Classical and Bayesian Aspects

Session organized by Brazilian Society (ABE)

Organizer: Silvia Regina Lopes

Heleno Bolfarine
Francisco Louzada-Neto
Héo S. Migon

22. Robust Statistics

Session organized by Argentinian Society (SAE)

Organizer: Victor Yohai

Ricardo Maronna, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Daniel Peña, Universidad Carlos III, Spain
Roy Welsch, MIT, USA

23. Time Series Analysis

Session organized by the Chilean Society (SOCHE)

Organizer: Wilfredo Palma

Pascal Bondon, CNRS, France
Mauricio Zevallos and Luiz K. Hotta, Department of Statistics, UNICAMP, Brazil
Wilfredo Palma, Department of Statistics, P. Universidad catolica de Chile, Chile

24. Vardi memorial session

Organizer: David Madigan

25. Medallion lecture

Organizer: Guenther Walther
Chair: Persi Diaconis

M. Woodroofe

26. LeCam lecture

Organizer: Guenther Walther
Chair: Frank Samaniego

S. Stigler

27. Wald lecture

Organizer: Guenther Walther
Chair: Jianqing Fan

P. Hall