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STEIN’S METHOD AND APPLICATIONS:
A PROGRAM IN HONOR OF CHARLES STEIN
(28 July - 31 August 2003)

Seminars

Venue:

IMS Auditorium
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS
3 Prince George's Park
Singapore 118402

   

Talks by Graduate Students

  Tuesday, 19 August 2003

9:00am – 9:30am

Centred Poisson approximation to the stationary distribution of a Markov Process
Sanda Nicoleta Socoll, University of Zürich

9:30am – 10:00am

Dependent superpositions of point processes
Dominic Schuhmacher, University of Zürich

10:00am – 10:30am

--- Tea break ---

10:30am – 11:00am

Centred Poisson approximation for special sums of dependent integer random variables
Adrian Röellin, University of Zürich

11:00am – 11:30am

Additive functions and Erdös-Wintner theorems
Bruno Nietlispach, University of Zürich

11:30am – 2:30pm

--- Lunch break ---

2:30pm – 3:00pm

A central limit theorem and large deviation principle for decomposable random variables
Martin Raič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Non-uniform bounds in normal approximation for sums of independent discrete random variables
Ivy Dela Cruz Suan, University of the Philippines

3:30pm – 4:00pm

--- Tea break ---

4:00pm – 4:30pm

Unbounded function asymptotics in Poisson approximations
Mia Pang Rey, University of the Philippines

 

Seminars

 Friday, 22 August 2003

3:00pm – 4:00pm

A non-uniform bound on the error in a combinatorial central limit theorem
Kritsana Neammanee Chulalongkorn University

   

 Saturday, 23 August 2003

10:00am – 11:00am

Concise rates of convergence in the Studentised central limit theorem
Peter Hall, Australian National University

 

Colloquium Lectures

  Wednesday, 20 August 2003

10:45am – 11:45am

Introduction to random matrices
Persi Diaconis, Stanford University

   

 Tuesday, 26 August 2003

10:00am – 11:00am

Normal approximation for sums of i.i.d. random variables
Charles Stein, Stanford University
  Lecture notes...