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

Tutorial Schedule

4 - 7 August 2003

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

Monday, 4 August 2003
9:20am – 9:30am	Opening Remarks Andrew Barbour, University of Zürich
9:30am – 10:20am	Stein's method and normal approximation (Lecture 1) Qi-Man Shao, National University of Singapore and University of Oregon Lecture notes...
10:20am – 10:40am	--- Tea break ---
10:40am – 11:30am	Stein's method and normal approximation (Lecture 2) Qi-Man Shao, National University of Singapore and University of Oregon Lecture notes...
11:30am – 2:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
2:30pm – 3:20pm	Stein's method, Poisson and compound Poisson approximations (Lecture 1) Torkel Erhardsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Lecture notes...
3:20pm – 3:40pm	--- Tea break ---
3:40pm – 4:30pm	Stein's method, Poisson and compound Poisson approximations (Lecture 2) Torkel Erhardsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Lecture notes...

Tuesday, 5 August 2003
9:30am – 10:20am	Stein's method and normal approximation (Lecture 3) Qi-Man Shao, National University of Singapore and University of Oregon Lecture notes...
10:20am – 10:40am	--- Tea break ---
10:40am – 11:30am	Stein's method and normal approximation (Lecture 4) Qi-Man Shao, National University of Singapore and University of Oregon Lecture notes...
11:30am – 2:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
2:30pm – 3:20pm	Stein's method, Poisson and compound Poisson approximations (Lecture 3) Torkel Erhardsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Lecture notes...
3:20pm – 3:40pm	--- Tea break ---
3:40pm – 4:30pm	Stein's method, Poisson and compound Poisson approximations (Lecture 4) Torkel Erhardsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Lecture notes...

Wednesday, 6 August 2003
9:30am – 10:20am	Stein's method and Poisson process approximation (Lecture 1) Aihua Xia, National University of Singapore and University of Melbourne Lecture notes...
10:20am – 10:40am	--- Tea break ---
10:40am – 11:30am	Stein's method and Poisson process approximation (Lecture 2) Aihua Xia, National University of Singapore and University of Melbourne Lecture notes...
11:30am – 2:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
2:30pm – 3:20pm	Stein's method for chi-square distribution, law of large numbers and discrete distributions from a Gibbs viewpoint (Lecture 1) Gesine Reinert, University of Oxford Lecture notes...
3:20pm – 3:40pm	--- Tea break ---
3:40pm – 4:30pm	Stein's method for chi-square distribution, law of large numbers and discrete distributions from a Gibbs viewpoint (Lecture 2) Gesine Reinert, University of Oxford Lecture notes...

Thursday, 7 August 2003
9:30am – 10:20am	Stein's method and Poisson process approximation (Lecture 3) Aihua Xia, National University of Singapore and University of Melbourne Lecture notes...
10:20am – 10:40am	--- Tea break ---
10:40am – 11:30am	Stein's method and Poisson process approximation (Lecture 4) Aihua Xia, National University of Singapore and University of Melbourne Lecture notes...
11:30am – 2:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
2:30pm – 3:20pm	Stein's method for chi-square distribution, law of large numbers and discrete distributions from a Gibbs viewpoint (Lecture 3) Gesine Reinert, University of Oxford Lecture notes...
3:20pm – 3:40pm	--- Tea break ---
3:40pm – 4:30pm	Stein's method for chi-square distribution, law of large numbers and discrete distributions from a Gibbs viewpoint (Lecture 4) Gesine Reinert, University of Oxford Lecture notes...