Institute for Mathematical Sciences Event Archive
Progress in Stein’s Method
Workshop (12 - 16 Jan 2009)
Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics and Applied Probability in celebration of 80th Anniversary of Faculty of Science
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Venue: IMS Auditorium
Monday,
12 Jan 2009 |
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10:30am - 10:45am |
Registration |
10:50am - 11:00am |
Opening Remarks |
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Chair: Louis Chen, National University of Singapore |
11:00am - 11:45am |
Exponential inequalities via exchangeable pair approach |
11:45am - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
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Chair: Larry Goldstein, University of Southern California, USA |
02:00pm - 02:45pm |
Estimates for pseudomoments |
02:50pm - 03:35pm |
Bounds on the normal approximation for the number of
vertices of given degree |
03:35pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 04:45pm |
Normal approximation for stochastic geometry and
allocations |
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End of Day 1 |
Tuesday,
13 Jan 2009 |
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09:15am - 09:30am |
Registration |
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Chair: Giovanni Peccati, University of Paris Ouest, France |
09:30am - 10:15am |
Rubinstein distances on configurations spaces |
10:20am - 11:05am |
Polynomial birth-death distribution approximation in
Wasserstein distance |
11:05am - 11:30am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:30am - 12:15pm |
Statistics of biological network motifs: A compound
Poisson approximation for their count in random graphs? (PDF) |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
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Chair: Murad Taqqu, Boston University, USA |
02:00pm - 02:45pm |
Limit theorems on the Poisson space: decoupling, Stein's
method and low influences |
02:50pm - 03:35pm |
Centered Poisson and Binomial approximations for the
Poisson-Binomial |
03:35pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 04:45pm |
Approximation of Haar distributed matrices and limiting
distributions of eigenvalues of Jacobi ensembles |
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End of Day 2 |
Wednesday, 14 Jan 2009 |
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09:15am - 09:30am |
Registration |
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Chair: Qi-Man Shao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong |
09:30am - 10:15am |
Density estimates with Stein's method and Malliavin
calculus |
10:20am - 11:05am |
Stein's method and stochastic analysis of Rademacher
functionals (PDF) |
11:05am - 11:30am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:30am - 12:15pm |
Stein's method and symmetric spaces |
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End of Day 3 |
Thursday,
15 Jan 2009 |
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09:15am - 09:30am |
Registration |
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Chair: Gesine Reinert, University of Oxford, UK |
09:30am - 10:15am |
Stein's method and Cramér type large deviations |
10:20am - 11:05am |
Stein's method and convex orderings |
11:05am - 11:30am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
11:30am - 12:15pm |
Convergence to fractional Brownian motion and to the
Telecom process |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
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Chair: Andrew Barbour, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
02:00pm - 02:45pm |
On some examples where Stein's method could be improved (PDF) |
02:50pm - 03:35pm |
Normal approximation with Stein's method: a unifying
approach |
03:35pm - 04:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
04:00pm - 04:45pm |
From zero-bias to Cramer-type moderate deviation |
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End of Day 4 |
Friday,
16 Jan 2009 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
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Chair: Jason Fulman, University of Southern California, USA |
10.00am - 10:45am |
Bounds on the constant in the mean central limit theorem (PDF) |
10.50am - 11:35am |
Infinite occupancy (PDF) |
11:35am - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
02:00pm - 02:30pm |
Moderate derivations in random graphs via Laplace transforms |
02:35pm - 03:05pm |
Berry-Esseen theorems |
03:05pm - 03:30pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
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End of Day 5 |
