Institute for Mathematical Sciences Event Archive

Charles Stein’s Influence on Probability

(24 - 28 June 2019)

Venue: IMS Auditorium
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Monday, 24 Jun 2019

09:00am - 09:15amRegistration
09:15am - 09:30amOpening Remarks
Louis Chen, National University of Singapore and Wei-Liem Loh, National University of Singapore
09:30am - 10:15am

Dickman approximation in quickselect sorting and probabilistic number theory

(Video)



Larry Goldstein
University of Southern California, USA
10:15am - 10:45amGroup Photo and Coffee Break
10:45am - 11:30am

Higher order approximation for sequences converging in the mod-Gaussian sense

(PDF) (Video)



Peter Eichelsbacher
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
11:30am - 12:15pm

Chi-square approximations with Stein's method

(PDF) (Video)



Gesine Reinert
University of Oxford, UK
12:15pm - 02:00pmLunch Break
02:00pm - 02:45pm

On moderate deviations in Poisson approximation

(PDF) (Video)



Aihua Xia
The University of Melbourne, Australia
02:45pm - 03:15pmCoffee Break
03:15pm - 04:00pm

Skewness correction in tail probability approximations for sums of local statistics

(PDF)



Xiao Fang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Tuesday, 25 Jun 2019

09:15am - 09:30amRegistration
09:30am - 10:15am

Multivariate normal approximation for statistics in geometric probability

(PDF)



Joseph Yukich
Lehigh University, USA
10:15am - 10:45amCoffee Break
10:45am - 11:30am

High-order accuracy steady-state diffusion approximations

(PDF) (Video)



Jim Dai
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China and Cornell University, USA
11:30am - 12:15pm

Fluctuations in a general preferential attachment model

(PDF)



Hanna Döring
Universität Osnabrück, Germany
12:15pm - 02:00pmLunch Break
02:00pm - 02:45pm

Berry-Esseen bounds for functionals of independent random variables

(PDF) (Video)



Qi-Man Shao
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Southern University of Science and Technology, China
02:45pm - 03:15pmCoffee Break
03:15pm - 04:00pm

Central limit theorems for densities on Wiener chaoses

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Guillaume Poly
University of Rennes 1 (IRMAR), France

Wednesday, 26 Jun 2019

09:15am - 09:30amRegistration
09:30am - 10:15am

Central moment inequalities using Stein's method

(PDF)



Nathan Ross
The University of Melbourne, Australia
10:15am - 10:45amCoffee Break
10:45am - 11:30am

Constructing Stein kernels



Max Fathi
Institut de Mathematiques de Toulouse, France
11:30am - 12:15pm

Stein's method and random matrix theory

(PDF)



Elizabeth Meckes
Case Western Reserve University, USA
12:15pm - 02:00pmLunch Reception at IMS
02:00pmExcursion

Thursday, 27 Jun 2019

09:15am - 09:30amRegistration
09:30am - 10:15am

On Götze's multivariate central limit theorem: doubts, clarification and improvements

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Martin Raič
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
10:15am - 10:45amCoffee Break
10:45am - 11:30am

Some recent developments of LLN and CLT under probability and distribution uncertainties

(PDF) (Video)



Shige Peng
Shandong University, China
11:30am - 12:15pm

On Stein's method for multivariate self-decomposable laws

(PDF)



Benjamin Arras
Université de Lille, France
12:15pm - 02:00pmLunch Break
02:00pm - 02:45pm

Cramér-type moderate deviation of normal approximation for unbounded exchangeable pairs

(PDF)



Zhuosong Zhang
University of Melbourne, Australia
02:45pm - 03:15pmCoffee Break

Friday, 28 Jun 2019

09:15am - 09:30amRegistration
09:30am - 10:15am

Covariance identities and expansions via Stein's method

(PDF)



Yvik Swan
Université de Liège, Belgium
10:15am - 10:45amCoffee Break
10:45am - 11:30am

Stein's method on Wiener chaos, and limit theorems for level sets of Gaussian fields

(PDF) (Video)



Giovanni Peccati
Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
11:30am - 12:15pm

Some applications of Stein's method

(PDF) (Video)



Andrew Barbour
Universität Zürich, Switzerland
12:15pm - 02:00pmLunch Break