Distinguished Professor Peter Hall
SCHEDULE
Location: Ballroom B, UC Davis Conference Center
The new UC Davis Conference Center is located opposite the Mondavi Center
Saturday May 19, 2012
8:30-9:00: Registration, Breakfast
9:00-9:15: Welcome
Winston Ko, Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Wolfgang Polonik, Chair of the Department of StatisticsChair: Wolfgang Polonik
9:15-9:55: Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley)
More on Network Models9:55-10:35: Jianqing Fan (Princeton University)
Endogeneity in Ultra High Dimensional ModelsBreak
Chair: Ethan Anderes
11:05-11:45: Craig Tracy (UC Davis)
Turbulent Liquid Crystals, KPZ Universality and the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process11:45-12:25: Iain Johnstone (Stanford University)
Minimax Risk for Sparse Orthogonal Regression RevisitedLunch (Tercero)
Chair: Prabir Burman
14:00-14:40: Lawrence D. Brown (University of Pennsylvania)
SURE Estimates for a Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Model14:40-15:20: Tony Cai (University of Pennsylvania)
A Framework for Shape Constrained InferenceBreak
Chair: Jie Peng
15:50-16:10: Jiashun Jin (Carnegie Mellon University)
Optimal Variable Selection by Graphlet Screening16:10-16:50: Raymond Carroll (Texas A&M University)
Deconvolution and Classification16:50-17:05: Debashis Paul (UC Davis)
Functional and High-dimensional PCA When Samples are Correlated17:05-17:20: Hans-Georg Müller (UC Davis)
Stringing: From High-Dimensional to Functional DataReception and Poster Session
19:00: Gala Dinner (speech by Frank Samaniego)
AGR Hall, Walter Buehler Alumni Center
Sunday May 20
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
Chair: Jane-Ling Wang
9:00-9:20: Byeong Park (Seoul National University)
Structured Nonparametric Regression9:20-9:40: Qiwei Yao (London School of Economics)
Factor Modelling for High-Dimensional Time Series: A Dimension-Reduction Approach9:40-10:20: Ker-Chau Li (UC Los Angeles and Academia Sinica Taipei)
Statistical Issues of Nonlinearity and Interaction in Voluminous Genomic Data AnalysisBreak
Chair: Alexander Aue
10:50-11:05: Jiming Jiang (UC Davis)
The EMAF and E-MS Algorithms: Model Selection With Incomplete Data11:05-11:20: Paul Baines (UC Davis)
Testing Equality of Regression Curves with Spatial and Temporal Dependence11:20-11:35: Thomas Lee (UC Davis)
Generalized Fiducial Inference for High Dimensional Data Analysis11:35-12:15: Peter Hall (UC Davis and University of Melbourne)
Distribution Approximation, Roth's Theorem, and Looking for Insects in Shipping Containers
Lunch (Tercero)