09:00am - 09:15am | Registration | |
09:15am - 09:30am | Opening Remarks Louis Chen, National University of Singapore and Wei-Liem Loh, National University of Singapore | |
09:30am - 10:15am | Charles Stein: A personal view | David O. Siegmund Stanford University, USA |
10:15am - 10:45am | Group Photo and Coffee Break | |
10:45am - 11:30am | Recent applications of Stein's method in machine learning (PDF) | Qiang Liu The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
11:30am - 12:15pm | Infinite arms bandit: optimality via confidence bounds (PDF) | Hock Peng Chan National University of Singapore, Singapore |
12:15pm - 02:00pm | Lunch Break | |
02:00pm - 02:45pm | A class of tractable predictive densities for curved exponential families (PDF) | Fumiyasu Komaki The University of Tokyo, Japan |
02:45pm - 03:15pm | Coffee Break | |
03:15pm - 04:00pm | Reversing the Stein effect (PDF) | Sanjay Chaudhuri National University of Singapore, Singapore |
09:15am - 09:30am | Registration | |
09:30am - 10:15am | Divergence loss and the Stein phenomemon | Malay Ghosh University of Florida, USA |
10:15am - 10:45am | Coffee Break | |
10:45am - 11:30am | Single index models and non-linear compressed sensing in the non-Gaussian case via Stein type discrepancies (Video) | Larry Goldstein University of Southern California, USA |
11:30am - 12:15pm | Singular value shrinkage prior: a matrix version of Stein’s prior (PDF) | Takeru Matsuda The University of Tokyo, Japan |
12:15pm - 02:00pm | Lunch Reception at IMS | |
02:00pm - 02:45pm | Stein's concentration inequality for proving the Berry-Esseen theorem | Louis Chen National University of Singapore, Singapore |
02:45pm - 03:15pm | Coffee Break | |
03:15pm - 04:00pm | Joint subtree distributions under two evolutionary tree models (PDF) | Kwok Pui Choi National University of Singapore, Singapore |
09:30am | Excursion |
09:15am - 09:30am | Registration | |
09:30am - 10:15am | From Stein to minimax predictive density estimation: the sparse normal means case | Iain Johnstone Stanford University, USA |
10:15am - 10:45am | Coffee Break | |
10:45am - 11:30am | Space-time data, intrinsic stationarity and functional models | Tailen Hsing University of Michigan, USA |
11:30am - 02:00pm | Lunch Break | |
02:00pm - 02:45pm | Ensemble minimaxity of James-Stein estimators (PDF) | Yuzo Maruyama University of Tokyo, Japan |
02:45pm - 03:15pm | Coffee Break | |
03:15pm - 04:00pm | Charles Stein, covariance matrix estimation and some memories from one of his students | Wei-Liem Loh National University of Singapore, Singapore |