Charles Stein in Singapore 2003

Charles Stein (born 22 March 1920) is considered to be one of the most original thinkers who made fundamental contributions to probability and statistics. He has received many honors and awards and is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). He has given many invited lectures, notably as plenary speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians, and as the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Wald Lecturer, Rietz Lecturer and Neyman Lecturer. He is now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Stanford University and continues to be active in research in statistics.

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Monday, 22 Mar 2010

01:30pm - 01:45pm

Speeches by

Wing Hung Wong, Stanford University
Louis Chen, National University of Singapore

01:45pm - 02:10pm

Charles Stein's research about fixed sample optimality, apart from multivariate normal minimax shrinkage
Larry Brown, University of Pennsylvania

02:15pm - 02:40pm

On some contributions of Charles Stein to applications of invariance in Statistics
Morris L Eaton, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

02:45pm - 03:05pm

Shrinkage estimation
Carl Morris, Harvard University

03:10pm - 03:30pm

Stein's unbiased risk estimate
Bradley Efron, Stanford University

03:30pm - 04:00pm

--- Coffee Break ---

04:00pm - 04:25pm

Charles Stein: Semiparametric models and nonparametric methods
Peter Bickel, University of California, Berkeley

04:30pm - 04:55pm

Charles Stein and fixed precision sequential estimation
David Siegmund, Stanford University

05:00pm - 05:20pm

Stein's (magic) method
Andrew Barbour, University of Zurich

05:25pm - 05:45pm

Few but ripe: 35 years of following Charles Stein
Persi Diaconis, Stanford University

06:15pm - 09:00pm

--- Dinner at Schwab Center ---

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