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Workshop 2 on Meeting the Challenges of High Dimension: Statistical Methodology, Theory and Applications
( 1 - 12 Oct 2012 )

Venue: IMS Auditorium

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Monday, 1 Oct 2012

09:00am - 09:15am

Registration

09:15am - 09:30am

Opening remarks

Louis Chen, Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Peter Hall, Saw Swee Hock Professor of Statistics in DSAP, NUS and University of Melbourne, Australia

 

Chair: Peter Hall, Saw Swee Hock Professor of Statistics in DSAP, NUS and University of Melbourne, Australia

09:30am - 10:15am

Variable selection in high dimensional regression when variables are heavily correlated

Alois Kneip, University of Bonn, Germany

10:15am - 10:45am

--- Coffee Break ---

10:45am - 11:30am

Statistical significance of clustering for high dimensional data

Yufeng Liu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Tuesday, 2 Oct 2012

09:15am - 09:30am

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Chair: Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne, Australia

09:30am - 10:15am

Factor modeling for high dimensional time series (PDF)

Clifford Lam, London School of Economics, UK

10:15am - 10:45am

--- Coffee Break ---

10:45am - 11:30am

Consistent high-dimensional Bayesian variable selection via penalized credible regions (PDF)

Howard D. Bondell, North Carolina State University, USA

11:30am - 01:30pm

--- Lunch Reception at IMS ---

Wednesday, 3 Oct 2012

09:15am - 09:30am

Registration

 

Chair: Yufeng Liu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

09:30am - 10:15am

Classification using censored functional data

Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne, Australia

10:15am - 10:45am

--- Coffee Break ---

10:45am - 11:30am

Functional mixture prediction with application to traffic flow analysis

Jeng-Min Chiou, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Thursday, 4 Oct 2012

09:15am - 09:30am

Registration

 

Chair: Xuming He, University of Michigan, USA

09:30am - 10:15am

Dimension reduction and prediction in abundant high-dimensional regressions (PDF)

Dennis Cook, University of Minnesota, USA

10:15am - 10:45am

--- Coffee Break ---

10:45am - 11:30am

Hierarchical Bayesian models of sequential data (PDF)

Yee Whye Teh, University College London, UK

11:30am - 01:30pm

--- Lunch ---

 

Chair: Howard D. Bondell, North Carolina State University, USA

01:30pm - 02:15pm

Sparse graphs (from noisy data, obviously) (PDF)

Ernst Wit, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

02:15pm - 03:00pm

--- Coffee Break ---

Friday, 5 Oct 2012

09:15am - 09:30am

Registration

 

Chair: Xin Chen, National University of Singapore

09:30am - 10:15am

Tensor regression with applications in neuroimaging data analysis

Lexin Li, North Carolina State University, USA

10:15am - 10:45am

--- Coffee Break ---

10:45am - 11:30am

A semiparametric approach to dimension reduction (PDF)

Liping Zhu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China

Monday, 8 Oct 2012

09:15am - 09:30am

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Chair: Ming-Yen Cheng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

09:30am - 10:15am

Improved statistical inference via spectral connectivity analysis and adaptive bases (PDF)

Ann Lee, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

10:15am - 10:45am

--- Coffee Break ---

10:45am - 11:30am

Structural dimension reduction of high dimensional data

Jianhua Guo, Northeast Normal University, China

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012

09:15am - 09:30am

Registration

 

Chair: Bing Li, Penn State University, USA

09:30am - 10:15am

Statistical problems in astronomical synoptic surveys
John Rice, University of California at Berkeley, USA

10:15am - 10:45am

--- Coffee Break ---

10:45am - 11:30am

Local linear regression on manifolds and its geometric interpretation (PDF)

Ming-Yen Cheng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

11:30am - 01:30pm

--- Lunch Reception at IMS ---

Wednesday, 10 Oct 2012

09:15am - 09:30am

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Chair: Yingcun Xia, National University of Singapore

09:30am - 10:15am

Integration of high-throughput biological data (PDF)

Jean Yang, University of Sydney, Australia

10:15am - 10:45am

--- Coffee Break ---

10:45am - 11:30am

A general theory of nonlinear sufficient dimension reduction: formulation and estimation

Bing Li, Penn State University, USA

11:30am - 01:30pm

--- Lunch ---

 

Chair: Yingcun Xia, National University of Singapore

01:30pm - 02:15pm

On clustering high-dimensional data via finite mixture models

Geoff McLachlan, University of Queensland, Australia

02:15pm - 03:00pm

--- Coffee Break ---

Thursday, 11 Oct 2012

Free discussion

Friday, 12 Oct 2012

Free discussion


 

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