Yale University
Department of Statistics

Seminars 2000-2001

 Fall 2000   Spring 2000

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held each Monday at the Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 107.  Seminars begin at 4:15 pm, and are preceded by tea at 3:45 pm in the common room.  If you would like your name added to our seminar mailing list, please send your e-mail address to Kathryn Young.

Fall 2000 Seminar Schedule

Date

Speaker

Seminar Title
06 SEP 2000
Wednesday		 Xiao-Li Meng
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago		 Single Observation Unbiased Priors
Abstract
11 SEP 2000 N/A No Seminar Scheduled
18 SEP 2000 Constantin Tudor
University of Bucharest (Romania)
and CIMAT (Mexico)		 Some Aspects of the Anticipating Calculus for the Poisson Process
Abstract
25 SEP 2000 Yehuda Vardi
Department of Statistics
Rutgers University		 A new algorithm for the L-1 multivariate median, and a new concept of data-depth in multivariate data-analysis
Abstract
02 OCT 2000 N/A No Seminar Scheduled
09 OCT 2000 Jun Liu
Department of Statistics
Harvard University		 New Methods for Constructing Monte Carlo Markov Chains
Abstract
16 OCT 2000 Victor H. de la Pena
Department of Statistics
Columbia University		 Inequalities for Self-Normalized Processes and Martingales
Abstract
23 OCT 2000 Ioannis Karatzas
Departments of Mathematics
and Statistics
Columbia University		 Seminar Rescheduled to December 4th
30 OCT 2000 Ramesh Korwar
Department of Mathematics 
and Statistics
University of Massachusetts
at Amherst		 On Stochastic Orders for Sums of Independent Random Variables
Abstract
06 NOV 2000 Donald J. Brown
Departments of Economics and Mathematics
Yale University
Marten H. Wegkamp
Department of Statistics
Yale University		 Weighted Minimum Mean-Square Distance from Independence Estimation
Abstract
13 NOV 2000 N/A No Seminar Scheduled
20 NOV 2000 N/A No Seminar Scheduled - University Recess
27 NOV 2000 Hongyu Zhao
Department of Epidemiology
and Public Health
Yale University School of Medicine		 Statistical Analysis of Ordered Tetrads and Half-Tetrads
Abstract
04 DEC 2000 Ioannis Karatzas
Departments of Mathematics
and Statistics
Columbia University		 Convex Duality in Hypothesis Testing and in Partial Hedging
Abstract

Spring 2001 Seminar Schedule

Date
Speaker
Seminar Title
15 JAN 2001 Peter C. B. Phillips
Departments of Economics and Statistics
Yale University		 Nonstationary Choice
Abstract (.pdf)
22 JAN 2001 N/A No Seminar Scheduled
29 JAN 2001 Paul Eggermont
Department of Food & Resource Economics
University of Delaware		 Strong Convexity and Nonparametric Function Estimation
Abstract
05 FEB 2001 Dragan Radulovic
Department of Applied and
Computational Mathematics
Princeton University		 Accelerated Random Search
Abstract
12 FEB 2001 Richard Vitale
Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut		 Intrinsic Volumes and Gaussian Processes
Abstract
19 FEB 2001 Vladimir I. Koltchinskii
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New Mexico		 Probabilistic bounds for AdaBoost and other learning algorithms
Abstract
23 FEB 2001
Friday, 12:00 pm		 Adrian Raftery
Departments of Statistics
and Sociology
University of Washington		 Statistical Inference for Deterministic Simulation Models:
The Bayesian Melding Approach
Abstract
26 FEB 2001 Oliver Johnson
Christ's College and Statistical Laboratory
University of Cambridge		 Information Theoretic Central Limit Theorems
Abstract
5 MAR 2001 N/A No Seminar Scheduled - Spring Break
12 MAR 2001 N/A No Seminar Scheduled - Spring Break
19 MAR 2001 N/A No Seminar Scheduled
26 MAR 2001 N/A No Seminar Scheduled
2 APR 2001 Jaya P.N. Bishwal
Bendheim Center for Finance
Princeton University		 Higher Order Approximate Likelihood Based Asymptotics for
Discretely Observed Nonlinear Diffusions
Abstract
9 APR 2001 Christoph Abraham
ENSAM-INRA
Montpellier, France		 Robustness With Respect to the Loss in Bayesian Decision Theory
Abstract
13 APR 2001 Hannes Leeb
Institute of Statistics
University of Vienna, Austria		 The Distribution of Post-model-selection Estimators: Finite-sample Formulas, Simple Approximations, and Estimators
Abstract
16 APR 2001 Eric Matzner-Lober
UFR Sciences Sociales
Rennes, France		 Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional Quantiles
Abstract
23 APR 2001 David M. Mason
Department of Food and Resource Economics
University of Delaware		 Bootstrapping the Student t-statistic
Abstract (.pdf)
11 MAY 2001
Friday
12:00 noon
 Alain Berlinet
University of Montpellier
France		 Modified Histograms and Dynamical Systems
Abstract

Revised 09 APR 2001 KSY