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

Workshop Schedule

11 - 15 August 2003

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

Monday, 11 August 2003
9:00am - 9:15am	Welcome and Opening Remarks Louis Chen, National University of Singapore
9:15am - 10:00am	Historical roots of Stein's method Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
10:00am – 10:30am	--- Tea break ---
10:30am - 11:15am	Normal approximation for hierarchical sequences Larry Goldstein, University of Southern California Presentation slides...
11:15am - 12:00nn	Application of Stein's method to word matches in DNA sequences Gesine Reinert, Oxford University
12:00nn – 2:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
2:30pm – 3:15pm	Some applications of Stein's method Andrew Barbour, University of Zürich
3:20pm – 4:05pm	Characterization of Brownian motion on manifolds – an infinite-dimensional extension of Stein’s idea Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University
4:05pm ~	--- Reception ---

Tuesday, 12 August 2003
9:15am - 10:00am	Stein's method and Palm distributions Tim Brown, Australian National University
10:00am – 10:30am	--- Tea break ---
10:30 - 11:15am	Comparing stationary distributions of Markov chains through Stein's method Susan Holmes, Stanford University
11:15am - 12:00nn	Stein's method for compound Poisson approximation via immigration-death processes Aihua Xia, National University of Singapore and University of Melbourne
12:00nn - 2:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
2:30pm – 3:15pm	Asymptotic spectral distributions via Stein equations Friedrich Götze, Bielefeld University
3:15pm – 3:45pm	--- Tea break ---
3:45pm – 4:30pm	Parameter estimation for highly structured systems Adrian Baddeley, University of Western Australia

Wednesday, 13 August 2003
9:15am - 10:00am	Aspects of the probability theory of the MST and TSP J. Michael Steele, University of Pennsylvania
10:00am – 10:30am	--- Tea break ---
10:30 - 11:15am	Random geometric graphs and random directed graphs Mathew Penrose, University of Durham
11:15am - 12:00nn	The central limit theorem for the independence number for minimal spanning trees on random points in the unit Sungchul Lee, Yonsei University
12:00nn - 2:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
2:30pm – 3:15pm	Central limit theorems in geometric probability Joseph E. Yukich, Lehigh University
3:15pm – 3:45pm	--- Tea break ---
3:45pm – 4:30pm	Convergence rate for CLT of maxima in cubes Zhidong Bai, National University of Singapore

Thursday, 14 August 2003
9:15am - 10:00am	Random variables defined on random binary search trees Luc Devroye, McGill University
10:00am – 10:30am	--- Tea break ---
10:30 - 11:15am	Stein's method for Gibbs measures Peter Eichelsbacher, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
11:15am - 12:00nn	Stein's method, Markov renewal point processes and strong memoryless times Torkel Erhardsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
12:00nn - 2:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
2:30pm – 3:15pm	Fixed-domain asymptotic for a subclass of Matérn-type Gaussian random fields Wei-Liem Loh, National University of Singapore
3:15pm – 3:45pm	--- Tea break ---
3:45pm – 4:30pm	Applications of Stein’s method in appearances of attributes Ourania Chryssaphinou, University of Athens

Friday, 15 August 2003
9:15am - 10:00am	Stein's method, concentration inequalities and normal approximation Louis Chen, National University of Singapore
10:00am – 10:30am	--- Tea break ---
10:30 - 11:15am	The Berry-Esseen bound for the student t-statistic via Stein's method Qi-Man Shao, National University of Singapore and University of Oregon
11:15am - 12:00nn	Stein's method and edgeworth expansions for sums of dependent variables Vladimir Rotar, San Diego State University
12:00nn - 2:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
2:30pm – 3:15pm	Operator inequalities and their applications Sergey Utev, University of Nottingham
3:15pm – 3:30pm	Closing Remarks Andrew Barbour, University of Zürich