Program of Cincinnati Symposium
March 20-23, 2009
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Friday, March 20
First talk is in Chem 527. All other talks are in Braunstein 300.- 1:45 shuttle from Vernon Manor
- 2PM-3PM Registration, cookies (Old Chem 840)
- 3PM-4PM (527 Old Chem) Taft Lecture by S.R.S. Varadhan,
Courant Inst, NYU Large
Deviations in a random environment
- 4PM-4:30PM Break
- 4:30PM-5:15PM (300 Braunstein) Sunder Sethuraman, Iowa State U
Large deviations for a tagged
particle in one dimensional symmetric
simple exclusion
- 5:45 shuttle to Vernon Manor
- 6PM- 8PM Reception in Regency Ball Room Vernon Manor Hotel
Saturday, March 21
Room: Braunstein 300- 8:45 shuttle from Vernon Manor
- 9AM-9:30 coffee, juice, etc.
- 9:30-10:15: Qi Man Shao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Normal and Non-normal Approximations via Stein's Method
- 10:30-11:15: Kavita Ramanan, Carnegie Mellon U. A Unified Framework for Processes with Discontinuous Dynamics
- 11:30-12:15: Sourav Chatterjee, UC Berkeley.
A rigorous theory of chaos in disordered systems
- 12:30 - 2PM Lunch Room 736 Old Chemistry.
- 2PM-2:45: Ranajit Chakraborty (U. Cincinnati) Statistical and Probabilistic Issues in DNA Forensics -- Current Paradigms | Lecture (PPT) |
- 2:50 -3:35:
Arthur J. Eisenberg,
University of North Texas at Fort Worth
New
technologies
of DNA Forensics and attendant statistical issues
- 3:35-4:00 coffee, cookies
- 4PM-4:45: Tsewei Wang, U. Tennessee Knoxville Pedigree-based Inference of Missing Person Identification from DNA Data
- 5PM-5:45:
Bruce Budowle, FBI Academy, VA
Statistical inferences on Genetic Data
from Challenged Samples:
From Low Copy Number Human Identification to Attribution in Microbial
Forensics
- 6:15 shuttle to Vernon Manor
Sunday, March 22
Room: Braunstein 300- 8:45 shuttle from Vernon Manor
- 9AM-9:30 coffee, juice, etc.
- 9:30-10:15: Mikhail Gordin Multiparameter Martingale Approximation and Baker Sequences
- 10:30-11:15: Stan Szarek Concentration for non-commutative polynomials in Wigner ensembles
- 11:30-12:15: Elizabeth Meckes Quantitative
asymptotics of graphical
projection pursuit.
- 12:30 - 2PM Lunch
Room 736 Old Chemistry.
- 2PM-2:45: Gerard Letac Mean length of some random plane convex sets generated by the Brownian motion
- 2:50 -3:35: Michael Woodroofe The Conditional Central Limit Question
For Superlinear Processes
| Lecture (PDF) |
- 3:35-4:00 coffee, cookies
- 4PM-4:45: Stewart Ethier Limit theorems for Parrondo's paradox
- 5PM-5:45:
Richard Bradley
A strictly stationary, N-tuplewise independent counterexample to the central limit theorem (joint work with Alexander Pruss)
- 6:15 shuttle to Vernon Manor
Monday, March 23
Braunstein 300- 8:45 shuttle from Vernon Manor
- 9AM-9:30 coffee, juice, etc.
- 9:30-10:15: Magda Peligrad*, Flrorence Merlev`ede, and Emmanuel Rio A Bernstein inequality and moderate deviations for weakly dependent sequences
- 10:20-11:05: Wei-Biao Wu Recursive Estimation of Time-Average Variance Constants
- 11:10-11:55: Abdelhamid Hassairi On the Dirichlet distribution on symmetric matrices
- 1PM shuttle to Vernon Manor