Program Schedule

  Thursday  Friday  Saturday
8:30-8:45

8:45-9:00

Registration

Opening Ceremony

   
9:00-9:30

9:30-10:00

10:00-10:30

Peter G. Hall

Peter Buhlmann

Sara van der Geer

Jun Liu

Haiyan Huang

Zhiliang Ying

Hira Koul

Anton Schick

Soumendra N. Lahiri

John Rice

Jon Wellner

Ursula Gather

10:30 - 11:00 Photo and Break Break Break
11:00-11:30

11:30-12:00

12:00-12:30

Willem Van Zwet

Nancy Reid

Friedrich Goetze

Hans Muller

Chunming Zhang

Byeong Park

Regina Liu

Yijun Zuo

Jiming Jiang

Jayanta K. Gosh

Xiaoli Meng

Jeff Wu

12:30-14:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch
14:00-14:30

14:30-15:00

15:00-15:30

Kjell Doksum

Jane-Ling Wang

Stephan Morgenthaler

David Donoho

David Tyler

Ya'acov Ritov

 
15:30-16:00 Break Break  
16:00-16:30

16:30-17:00

17:00-17:30

Vijay Nair

Elizaveta Levina

Mark van der Laan

Chris Sims

Yacine Ait-Sahalia

Donald Andrews

 

Place:  Friend Center (Directions Map)

 

Program  Overview

 

May 17, 2006 (Wednesday)

19:30-21:30

   Reception

Palmer House

    (http://www.princeton.edu/palmerhourse/)
     Tel: 609-258-3715
      Fax: 609-258-0526

 

May 18, 2006 (Thursday)

8:00-8:45 Registration  Friend 101
8:45-9:00 Opening Ceremony Friend 101
  Invited Session  
9:00-10:30 Chair:  Don Fraser Friend 101
   9:00 Peter G. Hall  
   

Some theory for classifiers in high-dimensional, low sample size settings

 
   9:30 Peter Buhlmann  
    Very high-dimensional data: prediction and variable selection  
  10:00  Sara van der Geer  
     Oracle inequalities for the LASSO  
10:30-11:00 Photo and Break       
11:00-12:30 Chair:  Ursula Gather Friend 101
  11:00  Willem van Zwet  
    An expansion for a discrete non-lattice distribution  
  11:30 Nancy Reid  
    Applied Asymptotics  
  12:00  Friedrich Goetze  
    Edgeworth Approximations for Symmetric Statistics  
12:30-14:00 Lunch Friend Convocation Room
14:00-15:30 Chair: Luisa Fernholz Friend 101
  14:00 Kjell Doksum  
   

Powerful Choices: Variable and Tuning Constant Selection in Nonparametric Regression  based  on Power

 
  14:30 Jane-Ling Wang  
    Flexible Approaches to Model Survival and Longitudinal Data  
  15:00 Stephan Morgenthaler  
    Smoothing Large Tables  
15:30-16:00 Break  

16:00-17:30

Chair:    David Blei Friend 101
  16:00 Vijay Nair  
    Statistical Inverse Problem in Active Network Tomography  
  16:30 Elizaveta Levina  
    Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks  
  17:00  Mark van der Laan  
    Estimating function based cross-validation  

End of day 1

 

May 19, 2006 (Friday)

  Parallel Invited Session
9:00-10:30 Chair: Julian Faraway Friend 006
  9:00  Jun Liu  
    Bayesian Methods in Haplotype Inference and Disease Mapping   
  9:30 Haiyan Huang  
     A Statistical framework to infer functional gene associations from multiple biologically dependent microarray experiments  
  10:00 Zhiliang Ying  
   

Semiparametric mixed effects models for duration and  longitudinal data

 
9:00-10:30  Chair:   Run-ze Li Friend 004
  9:00 Hira Koul  
    Goodness-of-fit testing in interval censoring case 1  
  9:30 Anton Schick  
    Efficient estimators for time series  
  10:00 Soumendra N. Lahiri  
   

Edgeworth expansions for sums of block-variables under weak dependence

 
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Chair:   Richard Samworth Friend 006
  11:00 Hans Muller  
    Functional Variance  
  11:30 Chunming Zhang  
    Spatially Adaptive Functional Linear Regression with Functional  Smoothing Lasso  
  12:00 Byeong Park  
   

Estimation and Testing for Varying Coefficients in Additive Model with Marginal Integration

 
11:00-12:30 Chair:   Miriam Donoho Friend 004
  11:00 Regina Liu  
   

Mining Massive Test Data: Classification, Construction of Tracking Statisticss and Inference under Misclassification

 
  11:30 Yijun Zuo  
    Multi-Dimensional Trimming Based on Data Depth  
  12:00 Jiming Jiang  
    Fence Methods: Another Look at Model Selection   
12:30-14:00 Lunch Friend Convocation Room
  Invited Session
14:00-15:30  Chair:   Stephan Morgenthaler Friend Convocation Room
  14:00 David Donoho  
    Sparsity in Inference: past trends, future promise  
  14:30 David Tyler  
    Invariant coordinate selection (ICS):  A robust statistical perspective on independent component analysis (ICA)  
  15:00 Ya'acov Ritov  
    Some remarks on non-linear dimension reduction   
15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-17:30

 Chair:     Yazhen Wang Friend Convocation Room
  16:00 Chris Sims  
   

Bayesian Inference in Central Banks: Recent Development in Monetary Policy Modeling

 
  16:30 Yacine Ait-Sahalia  
    Likelihood Inference for Diffusions  
  17:00 Donald Andrews  
    The Limit of Finite Sample Size and a Problem with Subsampling  

End of day 2

 

 

May 20, 2006 (Saturday)

  Invited Session 
9:00-10:30 Chair:   Anirban Dasgupta Friend Convocation Room
  9:00 John Rice  
    Multiple Testing in Astronomy  
  9:30 Jon Wellner  
   

Goodness of fit via phi-divergences: a new family of test statistics

 
  10:00 Ursula Gather  
    Methods of robust online signal extraction and application  
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Chair:   Zhezhen Jin Friend Convocation Room
  11:00 Jayanta K. Gosh  
    Convergence and Consistency of Newton' Algorithm for Estimating a Mixing Distribution  
  11:30 Xiaoli Meng  
   

Statistical physics and statistical computing: A critical link - estimating criticality via perfect sampling

 
  12:00  Jeff Wu  
   

Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Integrating Low-accuracy and High-accuracy Experiments

 
12:30-14:00  Lunch Friend Convocation Room

End of day 3