NAME & AFFILIATION

PERIOD OF VISIT

TENTATIVE TITLE OF TALK

Charles Stein
Stanford University
stein@stat.stanford.edu

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

Normal approximation for sums of i.i.d. random variables  (Seminar)

Adrian Baddeley
University of Western Australia
adrian@maths.uwa.edu.au

10 - 14 Aug 2003

- Parameter estimation for highly structured systems

Zhidong Bai
National University of Singapore
stabaizd@nus.edu.sg

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

- Convergence rate for CLT of maxima in cubes

A. D. Barbour
University of Zürich
adb@amath.unizh.ch

30 Jul - 30 Aug 2003

- Some applications of Stein's method
- Mathematical modelling of parasitic diseases (School lecture)

Tim Brown
Australian National University
Tim.Brown@anu.edu.au

10 - 15 Aug 2003

- Stein's method and Palm distributions

Hock-Peng Chan
National University of Singapore
stachp@nus.edu.sg

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

Louis Chen
National University of Singapore
lhychen@ims.nus.edu.sg
imsdir@nus.edu.sg

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

- Stein's method, concentration inequalities and normal approximation

Kwok-Pui Choi
National University of Singapore
choi@math.nus.edu.sg

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

Ourania Chryssaphinou
University of Athens
ocrysaf@cc.uoa.gr

2 - 18 Aug 2003

- Applications of Stein’s method in appearances of attributes

Luc Devroye
McGill University
luc@cs.mcgill.ca

4 - 15 Aug 2003

- Random variables defined on random binary search trees

Persi Diaconis
Stanford University
diaconis@math.stanford.edu

10 - 22 Aug 2003

- The Search for randomness (Public lecture)
- Historical roots of Stein's method
- Introduction to random matrices (Seminar)

Peter Eichelsbacher
Fakultaet fuer Mathematik,
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
peter.eichelsbacher@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

4 - 16 Aug 2003

- Stein's method for Gibbs measures

Torkel Erhardsson
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
torkel@stat.stanford.edu

30 Jul - 27 Aug 2003

- Stein's method, Poisson and compound Poisson approximations (Tutorial lectures)    Lecture notes...
- Stein's method, Markov renewal point processes and strong memoryless times

Larry Goldstein
University of Southern California
larry@paradox.usc.edu

6 - 20 Aug 2003

- Normal approximation for hierarchical sequences

Friedrich Götze
Bielefeld University
goetze@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de

9 - 14 Aug 2003

- Asymptotic spectral distributions via Stein equations

Peter Hall
Australian National University
halpstat@pretty.anu.edu.au

22 - 23 Aug 2003

- Concise rates of convergence in the Studentised central limit theorem (Seminar)

Susan Holmes
Stanford University
susan@stat.stanford.edu

10 - 22 Aug 2003

- Comparing stationary distributions of Markov Chains through Stein's method

Elton P. Hsu
Northwestern University
elton@math.northwestern.edu

4 - 12 Aug 2003

- Characterization of Brownian motion on manifolds – an infinite-dimensional extension of Stein’s idea

Sungchul Lee
Yonsei University
sungchul@yonsei.ac.kr

3 - 16 Aug 2003

- The central limit theorem for the independence number for minimal spanning trees on random points in the unit square

Wei-Liem Loh
National University of Singapore
stalohwl@nus.edu.sg

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

- Fixed-domain asymptotic for a subclass of Matérn-type Gaussian random fields

Kritsana Neammanee
Chulalongkorn University
k_neammanee@hotmail.com

28 Jul - 26 Aug 2003

A non-uniform bound on the error in a combinatorial central limit theorem (Seminar)

Mathew Penrose
University of Durham
mathew.penrose@durham.ac.uk

3 - 15 Aug 2003

- Random geometric graphs and random directed graphs

Gesine Reinert
University of Oxford
reinert@stats.ox.ac.uk

2 - 31 Aug 2003

- Stein's method for chi-square distributions, law of large numbers, and discrete distributions from a Gibbs view point (Tutorial lectures)
- Application of Stein's method to word matches in DNA sequences

Vladimir Rotar
San Diego State University
vrotar@ucsd.edu

9 - 19 Aug 2003

- Stein's Method and Edgeworth expansions for sums of dependent variables

Qi-Man Shao
National University of Singapore and
University of Oregon
matsq@nus.edu.sg

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

- Stein's method and normal approximation (Tutorial lectures)
   Lecture notes...
- The Berry-Esseen bound for the Student t-statistic via Stein's method

J. Michael Steele
University of Pennsylvania
steele@wharton.upenn.edu

6 - 14 Aug 2003

- Aspects of the probability theory of the MST and TSP

Sergey Utev
University of Nottingham
pmzsu@maths.nott.ac.uk

- Operator inequalities and their applications

Aihua Xia
National University of Singapore and University of Melbourne
xia@ms.unimelb.edu.au

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

- Stein's method and Poisson process approximation (Tutorial lectures)   Lecture notes...
- Stein's method for compound Poisson approximation via immigration-death processes

Joseph E. Yukich
Lehigh University
joseph.yukich@lehigh.edu

9 - 17 Aug 2003

- Central limit theorems in geometric probability

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Narumol Chaidee
Chulalongkorn University
Narumol.C@Student.chula.ac.th

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

Yu Chen
University of Science and Technology of China
cyu@mail.ustc.edu.cn

12 - 31 Aug 2003

David Chew
National University of Singapore
matchewd@nus.edu.sg

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

Kittipong Laipaporn
Chulalongkorn University
k_laipaporn@hotmail.com

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

Yue Li
National University of Singapore g0201813@nus.edu.sg

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

Kim-Huat Lim
University of Oxford
ace_lim@yahoo.com

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

Bruno Nietlispach
University of Zürich
nietli@math.unizh.ch

29 Jul - 24 Aug 2003

Additive functions and Erdös-Wintner theorems (Seminar)

Martin Raic
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
martin.raic@fmf.uni-lj.si

9 - 22 Aug 2003

A central limit theorem and large deviation principle for decomposable random variables (Seminar)

Wang Ranran
National University of Singapore
g0306106@nus.edu.sg

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

Mia Pang Rey
University of the Philippines
miapangrey@yahoo.com

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

Unbounded function asymptotics in Poisson approximations (Seminar)

Adrian Röellin
University of Zürich
aroellin@amath.unizh.ch

29 Jul - 24 Aug 2003

Centred Poisson approximation for special sums of dependent integer random variables (Seminar)

Dominic Schuhmacher
University of Zürich
schumi@amath.unizh.ch

29 Jul - 23 August 2003

Dependent superpositions of point processes (Seminar)

Sanda Nicoleta Socoll
University of Zürich
sanda@math.unizh.ch

3 - 22 Aug 2003

Centred Poisson approximation to the stationary distribution of a Markov Process (Seminar)

Ivy Dela Cruz Suan
University of the Philippines
ivy@math.upd.edu.ph

28 Jul - 31 Aug 2003

Non-uniform bounds in normal approximation for sums of independent discrete random variables (Seminar)

Lizhe Wang
Nanyang Technological University
wlz@pmail.ntu.edu.sg

4 - 8 Aug 2003