SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

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WC2008 Main Events			BS/IMS Meetings
Time	Lecture/Event	Venue	Time	Meeting
Sunday 13 July 2008
-	-	-	1500-1700	BS Ex
Monday 14 July 2008
0830-0930	Registration	LT 27 Foyer
0930-1015	Opening Ceremony	LT 27
1015-1045	Break	LT 27 Foyer
1045-1145	Wald I	LT 27
1145-1245	Tukey	LT 27
1230-1800	PS: 01	LT 24/25 Foyer
1245-1400	Lunch	LT 27 Foyer	1245-1445	BS CM
1400-1545	IS 01 IS 07 IS 14 IS 15	LT 25 LT 26 LT 28 LT29	1245-1745	IMS Ex
	CS 1 CS 2 CS 3 CS 4 CS 5 CS 6 CS 7	LT 24 LT 23 M10-LT 26 Annex S9A-01-01 S9A-01-03 S9A-02-01 S9A-01-02
1545-1615	Break	LT 24/25 & LT 27 Foyers	1600-1730	BS 1
1615-1800	IS 24 IS 27 IS 30 IS 34	LT 25 LT 26 LT 28 LT 29
	CS 8 CS 9 CS 10 CS 11 CS 12 CS 13 CS 14	M10-LT 26 Annex LT 23 LT 24 S9A-02-01 S9A-01-02 S9A-01-03 S9A-01-01
1900-2000	IMS Presidential Address	Mercury, Furama RF
2000-2200	Welcome Reception	Venus, Furama RF
Tuesday 15 July 2008
0900-1000	BS-IMS 1	LT 27
1000-1100	BS-IMS 2	LT 27
1100-1130	Break	LT 27 Foyer
1130-1230	Medallion 1	LT 27
	Panel 1	LT 28
	CS 15 CS 16	M10-LT26 Annex S9A-02-01
1230-1400	Lunch	LT 24/25 & LT 27 Foyers	1230-1530	IMS CM 1
1230-1800	PS: 02	LT 24/25 Foyer
1400-1545	IS 05 IS 09 IS 10 IS 12 IS 18	LT 25 LT 26 LT 28 LT 29 LT 24	1400-1530	BS 2
	CS 17 CS 18 CS 19 CS 20 CS 21 CS 22 CS 23	S9A-02-01 M10-LT 26 Annex LT 23 S9A-01-01 S9A-01-03 S9A-01-02 M14A-LT 28 Annex
1545-1615	Break	LT 24/25 & LT 27 Foyers	1600-1800	BS ED
1615-1800	IS 02 IS 11 IS 22 IS 29	LT 25 LT 26 LT 28 LT 29
	CS 24 CS 25 CS 26 CS 27 CS 28 CS 29 CS 30	LT 24 LT 23 M10-LT 26 Annex S9A-01-01 S9A-01-02 S9A-01-03 S9A-02-01
1830-2030	Special Reception	Atrium, NUS University Hall
Wednesday 16 July 2008
0900-1000	Bernoulli	LT 27
1000-1100	Wald II	LT 27
1100-1130	Break	LT 27 Foyer	1100-1230	BS 3
1130-1230	Medallion 2	LT 27
	Panel 2	LT 28
	CS: 31	LT 26
1230-1400	Lunch	LT 24/25 & LT 27 Foyers	1230-1330	IMS ED
1230-1800	PS: 03	LT 24/25 Foyer
1400-1545	IS 06 IS 13 IS 17 IS 21	LT 25 LT 26 LT 28 LT 29	1400-1530	BS 4
	CS 32 CS 33 CS 34 CS 35 CS 36 CS 37 CS 38 CS 39	LT 23 LT 24 M14A-LT 28 Annex S9A-01-01 S9A-01-03 S9A-02-01 M10-LT 26 Annex S9A-01-02
1545-1615	Break	LT 24/25 & LT 27 Foyers
1615-1800	IS 19 IS 23 IS 26 IS 28 IS 32	LT 25 LT 26 LT 28 LT 29 LT 24	1715-1800	IMS BM
	CS 40 CS 41 CS 42 CS 43 CS 44 CS 45	LT 23 S9A-01-01 S9A-02-01 S9A-01-02 S9A-01-03 M10-LT 26 Annex
1830-1930	Public Lecture	LT 27
Thursday 17 July 2008
0900-1000	Neyman	LT 27
1000-1100	Kolmogorov	LT 27	1030-1330	IMS CM 2
1100-1130	Break	LT 27 Foyer
1130-1230	In memoriam	LT 28	1130-1300	ERC
	CS 46 CS 47 CS 48 CS 49 CS 50 CS 51 CS 52 CS 53 CS 54 CS 55 CS 56	S9A-01-01 LT 23 LT 24 LT 26 M10-LT 26 Annex S9A-01-02 S9A-02-01 S9A-01-03 LT 25 M14A-LT 28 LT 29
1230-1400	Lunch	LT 24/25 & LT 27 Foyers
1400-1800	Tour	LT 27 Foyer
1900-2200	Banquet	Grand ballroom, The Pines
Friday 18 July 2008
0900-1000	Wald III	LT 27
1000-1100	Lévy	LT 27	1000-1130	BS 5
1100-1130	Break	LT 27 Foyer
1130-1230	CS 57 CS 58 CS 59 CS 60 CS 61 CS 62 CS 63 CS 64 CS 65 CS 66 CS 67	LT 24 S9A-01-01 LT 23 S9A-01-03 S9A-02-01 S9A-01-02 M10-LT 26 Annex LT 26 M14A-LT 28 Annex LT 29 LT 28	1130-1300	EAPRC
1230-1400	Lunch	LT 24/25 & LT 27 Foyers	1330-1530	SPA
1400-1545	IS 08 IS 20 IS 25 IS 31	LT 25 LT 26 LT 28 LT 29	1400-1530	BS 6
	CS 68 CS 69 CS 70 CS 71 CS 72 CS 73 CS 74	LT 24 M10-LT 26 Annex LT 23 S9A-01-01 S9A-01-02 S9A-01-03 S9A-02-01
1545-1615	Break	LT 24/25 & LT 27 Foyers
1615-1800	IS 03 IS 04 IS 16 IS 33	LT 25 LT 26 LT 28 LT 29	1615-1715	BS GA
	CS 75 CS 76 CS 77 CS 78 CS 79 CS 80 CS 81 CS 82	LT 23 S9A-01-01 M10-LT 26 Annex S9A-01-03 M14A-LT 28 Annex S9A-02-01 LT 24 S9A-01-02
Saturday 19 July 2008
0900-1000	Medallion 3	LT 27
1000-1030	Break	LT 27 Foyer
1030-1130	Laplace	LT 27
1130-1200	Closing Ceremony	LT 27

Legends

LT - Lecture Theatre

Sxx-yy-zzz denotes Building-Level/Floor-Room (S16-07-107 = building S16-level 7-room 107)

Plenary Lectures
Bernoulli	Bernoulli Lecture (Spiegelhalter)	LT 27	16 Jul
BS-IMS 1	BS-IMS Special Lecture (Werner)	LT 27	15 Jul
BS-IMS 2	BS-IMS Special Lecture (Schramm)	LT 27	15 Jul
Kolmogorov	Kolmogorov Lecture (Sznitman)	LT 27	17 Jul
Laplace	Laplace Lecture (Fan)	LT 27	19 Jul
Lévy	Lévy Lecture (Guionnet)	LT 27	18 Jul
Neyman	Neyman Lecture (McCullagh)	LT 27	17 Jul
Tukey	Tukey Lecture (Thompson)	LT 27	14 Jul
Wald I-III	Wald Lecture I (Durrett) Wald Lecture II (Durrett) Wald Lecture III (Durrett)	LT 27 LT 27 LT 27	14 Jul 16 Jul 18 Jul

IMS Medallion Lectures
Medallion 1	IMS Medallion Lecture (Low)	LT 27	15 Jul
Medallion 2	IMS Medallion Lecture (Ma)	LT 27	16 Jul
Medallion 3	IMS Medallion Lecture (Barlow)	LT 27	19 Jul

Public Lecture
Public Lecture	Public Lecture (Nychka)	LT 27	16 Jul

Meetings of the Bernoulli Society
BS Ex	BS Executive Committee Meeting	Executive Club, Furama RiverFront Hotel (level 2)
BS 1-6	BS Committee Meeting	S16-07-107
BS CM	BS Council Meeting	S14-03-05
BS ED	BS Editorial Board Meeting	S14-03-05
BS GA	BS General Assembly	LT 23
ERC	European Regional Committee Meeting	S14-03-05
EAPRC	East Asian and Pacific Regional Committee Meeting	S14-03-05
SPA	SPA Editorial Board Meeting	S14-03-05

Meetings of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences
IMS BM	IMS Business Meeting	S14-03-10
IMS CM1	IMS Council Meeting 1	S14-03-10
IMS CM2	IMS Council Meeting 2	S14-03-10
IMS ED	IMS Editors' Luncheon 1 & 2	Dalvey 1 & 2 @ NUS Guild House
IMS Ex	IMS Executive Committee Meeting	S16-07-107
IMS PA	IMS Presidential Address	Mercury Ballroom, Furama RiverFront Hotel (level 5)

Panel Discussions
Panel 1	Graduate Curriculum in Probability: Challenges and Opportunities	15 Jul
	Organizers: Don Dawson and Eulalia Vares
	Panelists: Thomas Kurtz, Terry Lyons, Zhi-Ming Ma, Alain-Sol Sznitman
Panel 2	Statistics: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century	16 Jul
	Organizers: Jim Berger and Peter Hall
	Panelists: Jim Berger, Nanny Wermuth, Peter Green, Ker-Chau Li, Peter Hall

In Memoriam
In memoriam: David Kendall, Samuel Karlin and Chris Heyde			17 Jul
There will be short presentations by Robert Adler, Martin Barlow, Peter Hall and Tom Kurtz, and some time for audience reminiscences

Invited Sessions
IS01	Advances in Statistical Computing and Graphics		14 Jul
IS02	Algebraic Statistics		15 Jul
IS03	Applications of Probability/Statistics in Imaging		18 Jul
IS04	Astrostatistics		18 Jul
IS05	Gaussian Processes with Applications		15 Jul
IS06	Geophysical Models: Inference, Prediction and Interpretation		16 Jul
IS07	Graphical Modeling		14 Jul
IS08	Lévy Processes		18 Jul
IS09	Machine Learning and Data Mining		15 Jul
IS10	Markov Chain Monte Carlo		15 Jul
IS11	Model Choice for High Dimensional Data		15 Jul
IS12	Multiple Tests and Selective Inference		15 Jul
IS13	Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms		16 Jul
IS14	Probability Problems from Genetics		14 Jul
IS15	Quantitative Risk Management		14 Jul
IS16	Random Matrices and Applications		18 Jul
IS17	Random Processes with Interactions		16 Jul
IS18	Random Trees and Planar Maps		15 Jul
IS19	Semiparametric Models		16 Jul
IS20	Sparsity in High Dimensional Problems		18 Jul
IS21	Statistical Challenges in the Study of Infectious Diseases		16 Jul
IS22	Statistical Inverse Problems		15 Jul
IS23	Statistical Learning Theory		16 Jul
IS24	Statistics in Genomics		14 Jul
IS25	Statistics in Quantum Information		18 Jul
IS26	Statistics for Understanding Numerical Models of Climate Change		16 Jul
IS27	Stochastic Control in Finance		14 Jul
IS28	Stochastic PDE and Interacting Stochastic Systems		16 Jul
IS29	Stochastic Loewner Evolution		15 Jul
IS30	Stochastic Models with Spatial Effects		14 Jul
IS31	Stochastic Networks		18 Jul
IS32	Stochastic Neuronal Models		16 Jul
IS33	Stochastic Processes in Physics		18 Jul
IS34	Uncertainty in Computer Models		14 Jul

Contributed Sessions
CS	Contributed Session

Poster Sessions
PS01	Poster Session 1
PS02	Poster Session 2
PS03	Poster Session 3

Last updated on 3 July 2008