Monday, 20 Jun 2016

10:30am - 10:45am

Registration

10:45am - 11:00am

Opening Remarks

11:00am - 12:00pm

Self-concordance for empirical likelihood (PDF)
Art Owen, Stanford University, USA

12:00pm - 02:00pm

--- Lunch Break ---

02:00pm - 03:00pm

Small area model selection (PDF)
Snigdhanshu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota, USA

03:30pm - 03:30pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:30pm - 04:30pm

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo In Bayesian empirical likelihood computation (PDF)
Sanjay Chaudhuri, National University of Singapore

Tuesday, 21 Jun 2016

01:45pm - 02:00pm

Registration

02:00pm - 03:00pm

Empirical likelihood based tests for stochastic ordering under biased sampling (PDF)
Hsin-wen Chang, Institute of Statistical Science, Taiwan

03:30pm - 03:30pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:30pm - 04:30pm

Empirical likelihood assessment of Markov random field models (PDF)
Mark Kaiser, Iowa State University, USA

Wednesday, 22 Jun 2016

10:45am - 11:00am

Registration

11:00am - 12:00pm

Higher-order properties of Bayesian empirical likelihood (PDF)
Malay Ghosh, University of Florida, USA

12:00pm - 02:00pm

--- Lunch Reception at IMS & Poster Session ---

02:00pm - 03:00pm

Empirical likelihood based deviance information criterion (PDF)

Teng Yin, NCS Pte Ltd

03:30pm - 03:30pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:30pm - 04:30pm

Combining parametric and empirical likelihoods (PDF)
Ian McKeague, Columbia University, USA

Thursday, 23 Jun 2016

10:45am - 11:00am

Registration

11:00am - 12:00pm

Unified empirical likelihood ratio tests for functional concurrent linear models and the phase transition from sparse to dense functional data (PDF)
Ping-Shou Zhong, Michigan State University, USA

12:00pm - 02:00pm

--- Lunch Break ---

02:00pm - 03:00pm

An empirical likelihood method for geo-referenced spatial data (PDF)
Soutir Bandyopadhyay, Lehigh University, USA

03:30pm - 03:30pm

--- Group Photo & Coffee Break ---

03:30pm - 04:30pm

Differential equations and empirical likelihood (PDF)
Debashis Paul, University of California, Davis, USA

Friday, 24 Jun 2016

10:45am - 11:00am

Registration

11:00am - 12:00pm

An algorithmic approach to nonparametric function estimation with shape constraints (PDF)
Rahul Mazumder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

12:00pm - 02:00pm

--- Lunch Break ---

02:00pm - 03:00pm

Empirical likelihood for public-use survey data (PDF)
Changbao Wu, University of Waterloo, USA

03:30pm - 03:30pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:30pm - 04:30pm

Tests of additional conditional moment restrictions (PDF)
Richard Smith, University of Cambridge, UK

04:30pm - 04:45pm

Closing Remarks