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Meeting the Challenges of High Dimension: Statistical Methodology, Theory and Applications
(13 August - 26 October 2012)

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NAME & AFFILIATION	PERIOD OF VISIT	TENTATIVE TITLE OF TALK
OVERSEAS VISITORS
Howard D. Bondell North Carolina State University, USA bondell(AT)stat.ncsu.edu	29 Sep - 6 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Consistent high-dimensional Bayesian variable selection via penalized credible regions (PDF)
Peter Buehlmann ETH Zürich, Switzerland buhlmann(AT)stat.math.ethz.ch	12 - 19 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: High-dimensional causal inference: potential and limitations
Tony Cai University of Pennsylvania, USA tcai(AT)wharton.upenn.edu	12 - 18 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Coherence of random matrices: limiting laws, phase transition, and statistical applications Inference on high-dimensional covariance matrices and its applications
Song Xi Chen Iowa State University, USA songchen(AT)iastate.edu	12 - 22 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Alternative tests to higher critism test under sparsity and dependence
Ziqi Chen Central South University of China, China chemzq453(AT)gmail.com	4 - 10 Oct 2012
Ming-Yen Cheng National Taiwan University, Taiwan cheng(AT)math.ntu.edu.tw	30 Sep - 12 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Local linear regression on manifolds and its geometric interpretation (PDF)
Jeng-Min Chiou Academia Sinica, Taiwan jmchiou(AT)stat.sinica.edu.tw	1 - 5 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Functional mixture prediction with application to traffic flow analysis
Dennis Cook University of Minnesota, USA dennis(AT)stat.umn.edu	27 Sep - 12 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Dimension reduction and prediction in abundant high-dimensional regressions (PDF)
Aurore Delaigle University of Melbourne, Australia A.Delaigle(AT)ms.unimelb.edu.au	14 Sep - 8 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Classification using censored functional data
Jianqing Fan Princeton University, USA jqfan(AT)princeton.edu	13 - 24 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Random matrices and false discovery rates
Yingying Fan University of Southern California, USA fanyingy(AT)marshall.usc.edu	12 - 18 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Variable selection in linear mixed effects models
Zhaozhi Fan Memorial University, Canada zhaozhi(AT)mun.ca	25 - 27 Sep 2012
Frédéric Ferraty Université de Toulouse, France frederic.ferraty(AT)math.univ-toulouse.fr	12 - 18 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: High dimensional nonparametric regression
Jianhua Guo Northeast Normal University, China jhguo(AT)nenu.edu.cn	1 - 10 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Structural dimension reduction of high dimensional data
Peter Hall Saw Swee Hock Professor of Statistics in DSAP, NUS and University of Melbourne, Australia halpstat(AT)ms.unimelb.edu.au	11 Aug - 11 Oct 2012	Tutorial: Some methodology and theory for functional data analysis (PDF 1)
Xuming He University of Michigan, USA xmhe(AT)umich.edu	1 - 9 Oct 2012
Jiashun Jin Carnegie Mellon University, USA jiashun(AT)stat.cmu.edu	11 - 19 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Spectral clustering with higher criticism thresholding
Iain Johnstone Stanford University, USA imj(AT)stanford.edu	14 - 21 Jul 2012 5 - 30 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Roy's Largest root test under rank one alternatives
Alois Kneip University of Bonn, Germany akneip(AT)uni-bonn.de	14 Sep - 13 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Variable selection in high dimensional regression when variables are heavily correlated
Clifford Lam London School of Economics, UK C.Lam2(AT)lse.ac.uk	30 Sep - 3 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Factor modeling for high dimensional time series (PDF)
Ann Lee Carnegie Mellon University, USA annlee(AT)stat.cmu.edu	29 Sep - 9 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Improved statistical inference via spectral connectivity analysis and adaptive bases (PDF)
Bing Li Pennsylvania State University, USA bing(AT)stat.psu.edu	6 - 13 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: A general theory of nonlinear sufficient dimension reduction: formulation and estimation
Lexin Li North Carolina State University, USA li(AT)stat.ncsu.edu	1 - 7 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Tensor regression with applications in neuroimaging data analysis
Runze Li Pennsylvania State University, USA rli(AT)stat.psu.edu	14 - 22 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Penalized quantile regression for in ultra-high dimensional data
Yufeng Liu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA yfliu(AT)email.unc.edu	28 Sep - 6 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Statistical significance of clustering for high dimensional data
Edisanter Lo Susquehanna University, USA loe(AT)susqu.edu	13 - 22 Aug 2012
Jinchi Lv University of Southern California, USA jinchilv(AT)marshall.usc.edu	12 - 18 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Asymptotic equivalence of regularization methods in thresholded parameter space
Zongming Ma University of Pennsylvania, USA zongming(AT)wharton.upenn.edu	10 - 27 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Adaptive confidence bands
Geoff McLachlan University of Queensland, Australia g.mclachlan(AT)uq.edu.au	30 Sep - 19 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: On clustering high-dimensional data via finite mixture models Tutorial: On modelling high-dimensional data via finite mixture distributions
Boaz Nadler Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel boaz.nadler(AT)gmail.com	14 - 23 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Vectorial phase retrieval / mathematical, statistical and computational challenges
Debashis Paul University of California at Davis, USA debashis(AT)wald.ucdavis.edu	12 - 20 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Marčenko-Pastur law for linear time series with symmetric coefficients
John Rice University of California at Berkeley, USA jariceiii(AT)gmail.com	30 Sep - 12 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Statistical problems in astronomical synoptic surveys
Philippe Rigollet Princeton University, USA rigollet(AT)princeton.edu	11 - 17 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Optimal detection of high-dimensional sparse principal components
Qiman Shao The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong qmshao(AT)sta.cuhk.edu.hk	12 - 16 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: On control of false discovery rate under dependence
Terry Speed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia and University of California at Berkeley, USA terry(AT)wehi.edu.au	14 - 19 Oct 2012	Seminar: Removing unwanted variation from gene expression data Public Lecture: Epigenetics: a new frontier
Yunfan Tang The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong yunfant(AT)gmail.com	8 - 9 Oct 2012
Yee Whye Teh University College London, UK yeewhye(AT)gmail.com	1 - 7 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Hierarchical Bayesian models of sequential data (PDF)
Aad van der Vaart Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands aad(AT)few.vu.nl	12 - 24 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Sparse Bayesian inference
Sara van de Geer ETH Zürich, Switzerland geer(AT)stat.math.ethz.ch	12 - 19 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Penalized maximum likelihood estimation of a sparse DAG
Martin Wainwright University of California at Berkeley, USA wainwrig(AT)stat.berkeley.edu	11 - 17 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Graphical models and missing data: non-convex methods with theoretical guarantees
Roy Welsch Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA rwelsch(AT)mit.edu	7 - 14 Oct 2012
Ernst Wit University of Groningen, The Netherlands e.c.wit(AT)rug.nl	3 - 12 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Sparse graphs (from noisy data, obviously) (PDF)
Aihua Xia Melbourne University, Australia xia(AT)ms.unimelb.edu.au	25 Sep 2012
Jinghao Xue University College London, UK jinghao.xue(AT)ucl.ac.uk	12 Aug - 10 Oct 2012	Workshop 1: Hybrid generative-discriminative modelling for statistical classification
Jean Yang University of Sydney, Australia jeany(AT)maths.usyd.edu.au	4 - 12 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: Integration of high-throughput biological data (PDF)
Ming Yuan Georgia Institute of Technology, USA myuan(AT)isye.gatech.edu	13 - 18 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Low rank functional estimation
Harrison Huibin Zhou Yale University, USA huibin.zhou(AT)yale.edu	11 - 18 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Estimation of large sparse precision matrices
Jianhui Zhou University of Virginia, USA jz9p(AT)virginia.edu	12 - 20 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Variable selection for censored quantile regression
Liping Zhu Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China zhulp1(AT)hotmail.com	2 - 6 Oct 2012	Workshop 2: A semiparametric approach to dimension reduction (PDF)
Lixing Zhu Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong lzhu(AT)hkbu.edu.hk	26 - 29 Aug 2012	Seminar: Ultrahigh dimensional time course feature selection
Hui Zou University of Minnesota, USA hzou(AT)stat.umn.edu	12 - 19 Aug 2012	Workshop 1: Sparse precision matrix estimation via L1 penalized D-trace loss
LOCAL VISITORS
Sanjay Chaudhuri National University of Singapore stasc(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Xin Chen National University of Singapore stacx(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Ying Chen National University of Singapore stacheny(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Zehua Chen National University of Singapore stachenz(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Ajay Jasra National University of Singapore staja(AT)nus.edu.sg	16 Aug 2012
Wei-Liem Loh National University of Singapore stalohwl(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Zhen Pang Nanyang Technological University zpang(AT)ntu.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Yingcun Xia National University of Singapore staxyc(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Von Bing Yap National University of Singapore stayapvb(AT)nus.edu.sg	16 Oct 2012
Jin-Ting Zhang National University of Singapore stazjt(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Muzaffer Ege Alper National University of Singapore m_e_alper(AT)yahoo.com.tr	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Xue Bai National University of Singapore a0105259(AT)nus.edu.sg	1 - 5 Oct 2012
Britta Anker Bak University of Aarhus, Denmark brittabak(AT)gmail.com	12 - 19 Aug 2012
Binbin Chen Nanyang Technological University chen0635(AT)e.ntu.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Ying Ciu National University of Singapore Cuiying(AT)nus.edu.sg	21 Aug 2012
Sourav Das National University of Singapore sourav2.das(AT)googlemail.com	13 Aug - 24 Oct 2012
Yihua Dong National University of Singapore fongy226(AT)gmail.com	14 - 16 Aug 2012
Shao Fang National University of Singapore g0900759(AT)nus.edu.sg	16 Oct 2012
Ngoc Hieu National University of Singapore ngoc.hieu.tran(AT)nus.edu.sg	10 Oct 2012
Lei Huang National University of Singapore a0068184(AT)nus.edu.sg	8 - 16 Oct 2012
Hui Jiang National University of Singapore a0082740(AT)nus.edu.sg	8 - 18 Oct 2012
Yiwei Jiang National University of Singapore a0082739(AT)nus.edu.sg	9 - 16 Oct 2012
Eka Kurniawan Nanyang Technological University eka.a.kurniawan(AT)gmail.com	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Bo Li National University of Singapore a0030821(AT)nus.edu.sg	25 - 27 Sep 2012
Hua Li National University of Singapore g0800806(AT)nus.edu.sg	21 Aug - 18 Oct 2012
Xiang Li National University of Singapore a0068196(AT)nus.edu.sg	18 Oct 2012
Cheng Liu National University of Singapore g0900751(AT)nus.edu.sg	17 Aug - 16 Oct 2012
Shan Luo National University of Singapore sluo2012(AT)gmail.com	21 Aug - 18 Oct 2012
Viet Cuong Nguyen National University of Singapore a0032681(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Meng Hwee Ong National University of Singapore g0900757(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 - 14 Aug 2012
Victor Ong National University of Singapore g0900757(AT)nus.edu.sg	10 Oct 2012
Daniel Paulin National University of Singapore paulindan(AT)gmail.com	25 - 27 Sep 2012
Xinyan Ruan National University of Singapore ruanxinyan(AT)yahoo.com	25 Sep 2012
Chaoran Song National University of Singapore chaoran.song(AT)gmail.com	21 Aug 2012
Dechao Tian National University of Singapore a0068140(AT)nus.edu.sg	16 - 18 Oct 2012
Rouwei Wang National University of Singapore a0104428(AT)nus.edu.sg	1 - 5 Oct 2012
Tianhao Wang National University of Singapore g0900762(AT)nus.edu.sg	16 Oct 2012
Xinxi Wang National University of Singapore wangxinxi(AT)comp.nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Bin Wu National University of Singapore wubin(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug 2012
Ningning Xia National University of Singapore xiann664(AT)gmail.com	21 Aug 2012
Shengning Xiao National University of Singapore shengning(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 12 Oct 2012
Qing Yang Nanyang Technological University QYANG1(AT)e.ntu.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Yanrong Yang Nanyang Technological University yang0263(AT)e.ntu.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Teng Yin National University of Singapore a0068164(AT)nus.edu.sg	18 Oct 2012
Xiaobin You National University of Singapore xbyou52(AT)gmail.com	14 Aug 2012
Zayed Zakir Shawon National University of Singapore shawon(AT)nus.edu.sg	1 - 10 Oct 2012
Xingyuan Zeng Central South University, China xyzeng2008(AT)gmail.com	13 - 15 Aug 2012
Xiaowei Zhang National University of Singapore g0800887(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Yufei Zhao National University of Singapore a0086274(AT)nus.edu.sg	21 Aug 2012
Jingshan Zhong Nanyang Technological University zhongjingshan(AT)hotmail.com	13 Aug 2012
Bu Zhou National University of Singapore zhoubu1988(AT)yahoo.com.cn	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
REGISTERED LOCAL PARTICIPANTS
Kian Ming Adam Chai DSO National Laboratories ckianmin(AT)dso.org.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Ding Chao National University of Singapore dingchao(AT)nus.edu.sg	14 - 15 Aug 2012
Hui Han Chin DSO National Laboratories hhchin87(AT)gmail.com	13 - 17 Aug 2012
Yee Ling Foo DSO National Laboratories jadeite9(AT)gmail.com	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Chieu Hai Leong DSO National Laboratories chaileon(AT)dso.org.sg	25 Sep - 26 Oct 2012
Binyan Jiang National University of Singapore stajb(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Samuel Jolivet National University of Singapore sdwjsmp(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Anthony Kuk National University of Singapore statkuka(AT)nus.edu.sg	25 Sep 2012
Ah Wah Lam Agency for Science, Technology and Research lam_ah_wang(AT)bii.a-star.edu.sg	1 - 8 Oct 2012
Tze Siong Lau DSO National Laboratories gnoiseztual(AT)gmail.com	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Chenlei Leng National University of Singapore stalc(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 - 17 Aug 2012
Heng Lian Nanyang Technological University henglian(AT)ntu.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Sze Kim Pang DSO National Laboratories pang_sze_kim(AT)yahoo.com.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Han Meng Peh DSO National Laboratories hanmeng.peh(AT)dso.org.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Wei Shan Charlotte Poh DSO National Laboratories pweishan(AT)dso.org.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Zuowei Shen National University of Singapore matzuows(AT)nus.edu.sg	4 Oct 2012
Defeng Sun National University of Singapore matsundf(AT)nus.edu.sg	13 - 17 Aug 2012
Wai Shing Tang National University of Singapore mattws(AT)nus.edu.sg	25 Sep 2012
Frederick Teo DSO National Laboratories tchengta(AT)dso.org.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Jialei Wang Nanyang Technological University JL.WANG(AT)ntu.edu.sg	13 Aug - 26 Oct 2012
Zhengxiao Wu National University of Singapore stawz(AT)nus.edu.sg	25 - 27 Sep 2012
Huan Xu National University of Singapore mpexuh(AT)nus.edu.sg	8 Oct 2012
Jian Chao Yao DSO National Laboratories yjiancha(AT)dso.org.sg	15 Aug 2012
Ying Zhu National Institute of Education ying.zhu(AT)nie.edu.sg	4 Oct 2012

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Meeting the Challenges of High Dimension: Statistical Methodology, Theory and Applications (13 August - 26 October 2012)

Visitors and Participants

Meeting the Challenges of High Dimension: Statistical Methodology, Theory and Applications
(13 August - 26 October 2012)