Jointly organized by the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, Department of Mathematics and Institute for Mathematical Sciences of the National University of Singapore.
   

INVITED SESSIONS

IS01 - Advances in Statistical Computing and Graphics

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Organizer:
Luke Tierney (University of Iowa)

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Chair:
Berwin Turlach (National University of Singapore)

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Speakers:
Ross Ihaka (University of Auckland)
Luke Tierney (University of Iowa)
Hadley Wickham (Iowa State University)

IS02 - Algebraic Statistics

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Organizer and Chair:
Eva Riccomagno (Universitŕ di Genova)

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Speakers:
Aleksandra Slavkovic (Pennsylvania State University)
Akimiki Takemura (University of Tokyo)
Henry Wynn (London School of Economics)

IS03 - Applications of Probability/Statistics in Imaging

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Organizer and Chair:
Zuowei Shen (National University of Singapore)

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Speakers:
Mario Figueiredo (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon)
Xiaoming Huo (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Zuowei Shen (National University of Singapore)

IS04 - Astrostatistics

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Organizer and Chair:
John Rice (University of California, Berkeley)

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Speakers:
David van Dyk (University of California, Irvine)
Domenico Marinucci (Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata")
John Rice (University of California, Berkeley)

IS05 - Gaussian Processes with Applications

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Organizer and Chair:
Robert Adler (Technion)

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Speakers:
Jonathan Taylor (Stanford University and Université de Montréal)
Keith Worsley (McGill University)
Steve Zelditch (Johns Hopkins University)

IS06 - Geophysical Models: Inference, Prediction and Interpretation

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Organizer and Chair:
Douglas Nychka (US National Center for Atmospheric Research)

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Speakers:
Tao Shi (Ohio State University)
Will Welch (University of British Columbia)
Zhong Liu (University of British Columbia)

IS07 - Graphical Modeling

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Organizer and Chair:
Steffen Lauritzen (University of Oxford)

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Speakers:
Matthias Drton (University of Chicago)
Alberto Roverato (Universita di Bologna)
 Ricardo Silva (University of Cambridge)

IS08 - Lévy Processes

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Organizer and Chair:
Victor Perez Abreu (CIMAT, Guanajuato)

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Speakers:
Andreas Kyprianou (University of Bath)
Victor Rivero-Mercado (CIMAT, Guanajuato)
Jan Rosinski (University of Tennessee)

IS09 - Machine Learning and Data Mining

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Organizer and Chair:
Ji Zhu (University of Michigan)

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Speakers:
Peter Bühlmann (ETH, Zürich)
Yufeng Liu (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
David Madigan (Columbia University)

IS10 - Markov Chain Monte Carlo

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Organizer and Chair:
Gareth Roberts (Warwick University)

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Speakers:
Alex Beskos (Warwick University)
Arnaud Doucet (University of British Columbia)
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

IS11 - Model Choice for High Dimensional Data

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Organizer and Chair:
Laurie Davies (University of Essen)

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Speakers:
Laurie Davies (University of Essen)
Nicolai Meinshausen (University of California, Berkeley)
Anthony O'Hagan (University of Sheffield)

IS12 - Multiple Tests and Selective Inference

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Organizer and Chair:
Yoav Benjamini (Tel Aviv University)

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Speakers:
 Sanat Sarkar (Temple University)
Daniel Yekutieli (Tel Aviv University)
Ruth Heller (University of Pennsylvania)

IS13 - Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms

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Organizer and Chair:
Luc Devroye (McGill University)

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Speakers:
Jim Fill (Johns Hopkins University)
Hsien-Kuei Hwang (Statistica Sinica, Taipei)
Ralph Neininger (J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M.)

IS14 - Probability Problems from Genetics

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Organizer and Chair:
Richard Durrett (Cornell University)

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Speakers:
Thomas Kurtz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Lea Popovic (Concordia University)
Deena Schmidt (Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, U. of Minnesota)

IS15 - Quantitative Risk Management

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Organizer and Chair:
Paul Embrechts (ETH, Zürich)

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Speakers:
Kjersti Aas (Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo)
Roger Cooke (Resources for the Future, Washington D.C., and University of Delft)
Juri Hinz (National University of Singapore)

IS16 - Random Matrices and Applications

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Organizer:
Iain Johnstone (Stanford University)

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Chair:
Arup Bose (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India)

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Speakers:
 Zhidong Bai, National University of Singapore
Noureddine El Karoui, UC Berkeley
Kurt Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

IS17 - Random Processes with Interactions

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Organizer:
Vlada Limic (Université de Provence)

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Chair:
Vladas Sidoravicius (IMPA, Brazil)

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Speakers:
Siva Athreya (ISI, Bangalore)
Mark Holmes (University of Auckland)
Jason Schweinsberg (University of California, San Diego)

IS18 - Random Trees and Planar Maps

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Organizer:
Grégory Miermont (Université Paris-Sud) 

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Chair:
Ed Perkins (University of British Columbia) 

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Speakers:
David Croydon (University of Warwick)
Maxim Krikun (Université de Nancy)
Grégory Miermont (Université Paris-Sud)

IS19 - Semiparametric Models

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Organizer and Chair:
Yingcun Xia (National University of Singapore) 

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Speakers:
Peter Hall (University of Melbourne)
Enno Mammen (University of Mannheim)
Byeong Park (Seoul National University)

IS20 - Sparsity in High Dimensional Problems

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Organizer:
Jiashun Jin (Purdue University)

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Chair:
David Nott (National University of Singapore)

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Speakers:
Emmanuel Candes (California Institute of Technology)
Mike West (Duke University)

IS21 - Statistical Challenges in the Study of Infectious Diseases

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Organizer and Chair:
Christl Donnelly (Imperial College London)

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Speakers:
 Laura Forsberg White (Boston University)
Michael Rosenblum (University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco)
Hamish McCallum (University of Tasmania)

IS22 - Statistical Inverse Problems

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Organizer and Chair:
Axel Munk (University of Göttingen)

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Speakers:
Laurent Cavalier (Université Aix-Marseille)
Peter Green (University of Bristol)
Alexandre Tsybakov (Université de Paris VI)

IS23 - Statistical Learning Theory

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Organizer:
Sara van de Geer (ETH, Zürich)

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Chair:
Sanjay Chaudhuri (National University of Singapore)

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Speakers:
Stephane Boucheron (Université de Paris 7)
Kenji Fukumizu (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo)
John Lafferty (Carnegie Mellon University)

IS24 - Statistics in Genomics

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Organizer:
Haiyan Huang (University of California, Berkeley)

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Chair:
Yap Von Bing (National University of Singapore)

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Speakers:
 Debashis Ghosh (University of Michigan)
Mary Sara McPeek (University of Chicago)
George Tseng (University of Pittsburgh)

IS25 - Statistics in Quantum Information

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Organizer and Chair:
 Richard Gill (Leiden University)

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Speakers:
Jean-Marie Aubry (University of Paris-Est)
Mădălin Guţă (University of Nottingham)
Matthew James (Australian National University)

IS26 - Statistics for Understanding Numerical Models of Climate Change

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Organizer:
Jim Zidek (University of British Columbia)

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Chair:
Zhong Liu (University of British Columbia)

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Speakers:
Reinhard Furrer (Colorado School of Mines)
Cari Kaufman (U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Hans Kuensch (ETH, Zürich)

IS27 - Stochastic Control in Finance

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Organizer and Chair:
Nizar Touzi (Ecole Polytechnique Paris)

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Speakers:
Peter Bank (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Bruno Bouchard  (Université Paris-Dauphine)
Jianfeng Zhang (University of Southern California)

IS28 - Stochastic PDE and Interacting Stochastic Systems

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Organizer and Chair:
Ed Perkins (University of British Columbia)

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Speakers:
Tadahisa Funaki (University of Tokyo)
Leonid Mytnik (Technion, Israel)
Eulalia Nualart (Université de Paris 13)

IS29 - Stochastic Loewner Evolution

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Organizer:
Scott Sheffield (Courant Institute, NYU)

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Chair:
Loh Wei Liem (National University of Singapore)

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Speakers:
Tom Alberts (Courant Institute, NYU)
Wang Zhou (National University of Singapore)

IS30 - Stochastic Models with Spatial Effects

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Organizer and Chair:
Harry Kesten (Cornell University)

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Speakers:
Ed Perkins (University of British Columbia)
Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto)
Bŕlint Tňth (Technical University, Budapest)

IS31 - Stochastic Networks

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Organizer:
Kavita Ramanan (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Chair:
Vivek Borkar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

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Speakers:
Maury Bramson (University of Minnesota)
François Baccelli (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Kavita Ramanan (Carnegie Mellon University)

IS32 - Stochastic Neuronal Models

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Organizer:
Luigi Ricciardi (University of Naples Federico II)

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Chair:
Petr Lansky (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

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Speakers:
 Susanne Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen)
Petr Lansky (Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Benjamin Lindner (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)

IS33 - Stochastic Processes in Physics

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Organizer and Chair:
Anton Bovier (Weierstrass-Institute and Berlin University of
Technology)

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Speakers:
Jiri Cerny (ETH, Zürich)
Takashi Hara (Kyushu University)
 Anton Bovier (Weierstrass-Institute and Berlin University of
Technology)

IS34 - Uncertainty in Computer Models

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Organizer and Chair:
Anthony O'Hagan (University of Sheffield)

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Speakers:
Derek Bingham (Simon Fraser University)
Michael Goldstein (Durham University)
Jeremy Oakley (University of Sheffield)

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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