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  • image1 3rd Conference of the International Society for NonParametric Statistics
  • image2 June 11th-16th, 2016
    Palace of the Popes International Conference Center
    Avignon, France

Invited sessions

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List of invited sessions:

Session organiser: Magalie Fromont, Univ. de Rennes II, France
Hypothesis testing and statistical learning
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Invited Speakers:

  • Arthur Gretton, Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at UCL, London, UK
  • Barath Sriperumbudur, The Statistical Laboratory, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
  • Pierre Neuvial, CNRS, Univ. d'Évry Val d'Essonne, France
  • Ery Arias-Castro, Department of Mathematics, Univ. of California, San Diego, USA

Session organiser: Marianna Pensky, UCF Mathematics, Univ. of Central Florida
Adaptive inference in sparse models
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Invited Speakers:

  • Alexander Tsybakov, CREST-GENES, Paris, France
  • Oleg Lepsky, Univ. Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France
  • Olga Klopp, MODAL’X, Univ. Paris-Ouest-Nanterre and CREST-GENES, Paris, France
  • Arnak Dalalyan, CREST-GENES, Paris, France

Session organiser: Dimitris Politis, Univ. of California San Diego, USA
Nonparametric time series analysis
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Invited Speakers:

  • Giovanni Motta, Columbia Univ., USA
  • Tim McMurry, Univ. of Virginia, USA
  • Marco Meyer, Tech Univ. of Braunschweig, Germany
  • Dimitris Politis, Univ. of California San Diego, USA

Session organiser: Arnak Dalalyan, CREST-ENSAE-GENES, France
Nonasymptotic guarantees in high-dimensional statistical inference
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Invited Speakers:

  • Joseph Salmon , Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France
  • Pierre Bellec, ENSAE ParisTech, Paris, France
  • Quentin Berthet, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
  • Alexandra Carpentier, Univ. of Potsdam, Netherlands

Session organiser: Natalia Markovich, Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Nonparametric estimation and testing of heavy-tailed distributions with applications
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Invited Speakers:

  • Natalia Markovich, DrSci, Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
  • Marijus Vaiciulis, Vilnius Univ., Litvenia
  • Liubov Markovich, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State Univ., Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
  • Joan del Castillo, Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Session organiser: Vic Patrangenaru, Dpt of Statistics, Florida State Univ., USA
Object Data Analysis and their Applications
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Invited Speakers:

  • Vic Patrangenaru, Florida State University, USA
  • Stephan Huckeman, Univ. of Goettingen, Germany
  • John Kent, Univ. of Leeds, United Kingdom
  • Laurent Younes, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA

Session organiser: Francesca Chiaromonte, Penn State Univ., USA
Reducing and Modeling Complex Data
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Invited Speakers:

  • Piercesare Secchi, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
  • Giovanni Felici, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy
  • Efstathia Bura, George Washington Univ., Washington DC, USA
  • Francesca Chiaromonte, The Pennsylvania State Univ., USA

Session organiser: Philippe Vieu, Univ. de Toulouse, France
Functional Data Analysis Part I
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Invited Speakers:

  • Beatriz Bueno, Univ. Madrid , Spainn
  • Laurent Delsol, Univ. d’Orléans, France
  • Aldo Goia, Univ. da Novara, Italy
  • André Mas, Univ. de Montpellier, France

Session organiser: Philippe Vieu, Univ. de Toulouse, France
Functional Data Analysis Part II
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Invited Speakers:

  • Jean-Baptiste Aubin, Univ. Lyon, France
  • Stéphane Girard, Univ. de Grenoble, France
  • Paulo Oliveira, Univ. Coimbra, Portugal
  • Paula Raña, Univ. da Coruña, Spain

Session organiser: Daniel Nordman, Iowa State Univ., USA
Nonparametric Likelihoods for Complex Data
Session chair: Ulrike Genschel
Invited Speakers:

  • Soutir Bandyopadhyay, Dpt of Mathematics, Lehigh Univ., USA
  • Ulrike Genschel, Iowa State Univ., USA
  • Wen (Rick) Zhou, Dpt of Statistics Colorado State Univ., USA
  • Daniel Nordman, Dpt of Statistics, Iowa State Univ., USA

Session organiser: Jens-Peter Kreiss, TU Braunschweig, Institut für Mathematische Stochastik, Braunschweig, Germany
Change-points in High Dimensions
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Invited Speakers:

  • Hao Chen, Univ. of California at Davis, USA
  • Haeran Cho, Univ. of Bristol, UK
  • Moritz Jirak, Humboldt Univ. Berlin, Germany
  • Han Xiao, Rutgers Univ., USA

Session organiser: Holger Dette, Department of Mathematics, Ruhr-Universitaet, Bochum, Germany
New Developments in Change-point Analysis
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Invited Speakers:

  • J. Aston, The Statistical Laboratory, Univ. Cambridge, UK
  • Piotr Fryzlewicz, Dpt of Statistics, London School of Economics, UK
  • C.Y. Yau, Chinese Univ. of Hong-Kong, China
  • Z. Zhou, Dpt of Statistics, Univ. of Toronto, Canada

Session organiser: Arniban DasGupta, Purdue Univ., USA
Inference in High and Infinite Dimensional Problems under Sparsity and Shape Constraints
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Invited Speakers:

  • Gaelle Chagny, Univ. Rouen, France
  • Marianna Pensky, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
  • Dominique Picard, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
  • Sucharita Ghosh, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland

Session organiser: John Einmahl, Univ. of Tilburg, The Netherlands
Recent advances in extreme value statistics organizer
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Invited Speakers:

  • Laurens de Haan, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal and Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Deyuan Li, Shanghai Univ., China
  • Yi He, Tilburg Univ., The Netherlands
  • John Einmahl, Univ. of Tilburg, The Netherlands

Session organiser: Hira Koul, Dpt of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State Univ., USA
Recent Advances in Measurement Error Models
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Invited Speakers:

  • Len Stefanski, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
  • Jana Jureckova, Charles Univ., Prague, CZ
  • Weixing Song, Kansas State Univ., USA
  • Hajo Holzmann, Philipps-Univ. Marburg, Germany

Session organiser: Ronghui (Lily) Xu, Dpt of Family Medicine and Public Health and Dpt of Mathematics, Univ. of California, San Diego, USA
New Advances in the Analysis of Lifetime Data
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Invited Speakers:

  • Yi Yu, Cambridge Univ., UK
  • Bin Nan, Univ. of Michigan, USA
  • Liqun Diao, Univ. of Waterloo, USA
  • Ronghui (Lily) Xu, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA

Session organiser: Theofanis Sapatinas, Dpt Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus
Testing in High-Dimensional Settings
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Invited Speakers:

  • Christina Butucea, Univ. Marne-La-Vallée et CREST-GENES, France
  • Clement Marteau, Univ. de Lyon, France
  • Nicolas Verzelen, Laboratoire de biométrie, INRA, Montpellier, France
  • to be announced

Session organiser: Efstathios Paparoditis, Dpt of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus
Functional time series
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Invited Speakers:

  • Alexander Aue, Univ. of California, Davis, USA
  • Siegfried Hoermann, Free Univ. Brussels, Belgium
  • Matthew Reimers, Penn State Univ., USA
  • Efstathios Paparoditis, Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus

Session organiser: Ingrid Van Keilegom, Louvain Univ, Belgium
Multi-state models and competing risks
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Invited Speakers:

  • Samuel Maistre, Univ. catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Candida Geerdens, Hasselt Univ., Belgium
  • Jacobo de Uva Alvarez, Univ. do Vigo, Spain
  • Jan Beyersmann, Univ. Ulm, Germany

Session organiser: Subhashis Ghoshal, North Carolina State Univ., USA
Variable selection for high dimensional nonparametric regression
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Invited Speakers:

  • Yichao Wu, North Carolina State Univ., USA
  • Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, Leiden Univ., The Netherlands
  • Hao Helen Zhang, Univ. of Arizona, USA
  • Subhashis Ghoshal, North Carolina State Univ., USA

Session organiser: V.A. Vasiliev, Dpt of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics, Tomsk State Univ., Russia.
Adaptive Methods in Nonparametric Statistics
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Invited Speakers:

  • V.A. Vasiliev, Dpt of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics, Tomsk State Univ., Tomsk, Russia.
  • V.O. Vasilyev, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Russia.
  • F.P. Tarassenko, Dpt Management, Tomsk State Univ., Tomsk, Russia.
  • G.M. Koshkin, Dpt of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics, Tomsk State Univ., Tomsk, Russia.

Session organiser: Marie Huskova, Charles Univ. Prague, Czech Republic
Sequential Nonparametrics
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Invited Speakers:

  • Daniel Vogel, Univ. of Aberdeen, UK
  • Zuzana Praskova, Charles Univ. Prague, Czech Republic
  • Daniela Jaruskova, Technical Univ. Prague, Czech Republic
  • Marie Huskova, Charles Univ. Prague, Czech Republic

Session organiser: Karim Abadir, Imperial College London, UK (11-13 june)
Time Series
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Invited Speakers:

  • Alessandra Luati, Univ. Bologna, Italy
  • Michael Rockinger , Univ. Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Abderrahim Taamouti , Univ. Durham, UK
  • Karim Abadir, Imperial College, London, UK

Session organiser: Ursula U. Mueller, Texas A&M Univ., USA and Valentin Patilea, Ensai, Rennes, France
Non standard rates for density estimation
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Invited Speakers:

  • Fabienne Comte, Univ. Paris Descartes, Paris, France
  • Natalie Neumeyer, Univ. Hamburg, Germany
  • Lionel Truquet, Ensai, Rennes, France

Session organiser: Ian Abramson, UC San Diego, USA
Inference in the Analysis of Complex Data
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Invited Speakers:

  • Annie Qu, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Jelena Bradic, Univ. California at San Diego, USA
  • Hanna Jankowski, York Univ., USA
  • Heping Zhang, Yale Univ., USA

Session organiser: Jeffrey Racine, Department of Economics McMaster Univ., Canada
Nonparametric Instrumental Variables and Related Topics
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Invited Speakers:

  • Christoph Breunig, Dpt Economics, university of Berlin, Germany
  • Samuele Centorrino, Dpt Economics, Stony Brook Univ., USA
  • Carlos Martins-Filho, Dpt Economics, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, USA
  • Daniel Wilhelm, Dpt Economics, Univ. College London, UK

Session organiser: Marc Hallin, European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Univ. libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Nonparametric Inference in High Dimension
Session chair: Gerard Biau
Invited Speakers:

  • Edgar Dobriban, Stanford Univ., USA
  • Davy Paindaveine, Univ. libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Thomas Verdebout, Univ. libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Tengyao Wang, Univ. Cambridge, UK

Session organiser: Aurore Delaigle, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Functional data analysis and related problems
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Invited Speakers:

  • Victor Panaretos, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Naisyin Wang, Michigan Univ., USA
  • Katharina Proksch, Institute of Statistics, Ruhr Univ., Bochum, Germany
  • Gery Geenens, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia

Session organiser: Cécile Durot, Univ. Nanterre, France
Shape constrained inference
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Invited Speakers:

  • Dragi Anevski, Lund Univ., Sweden
  • Moulinath Banerjee, Univ. Michigan, USA
  • Hendrik P. Lopuhaä, Delft Univ., Netherlands
  • Richard Samworth, Univ. of Cambridge, UK

Session organiser: Jan Johannes, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Nonparametric inference in the presence of endogeneity
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Invited Speakers:

  • Pascale Lavergne, Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France
  • Pierre Maréchal, Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  • Anne Vanhems, Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France
  • Nicolas Asin, Univ. catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Session organiser: Axel Munk, Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Institut für Mathematische Stochastik, Goettingen, Germany
Statistical Inverse Problems
Session chair: Katharina Proksch
Invited Speakers:

  • Felix Abramovich, Dpt of Statistice and Operation Research Tel Aviv Univ., Israel
  • Aurore Delaigle, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
  • Claudia Koenig, Dpt of Mathematics and Computer Science, Georg August Univ. Goettingen, Germany
  • Markus Reiss, Dpt of Mathematics, Humboldt Univ., Berlin, Germany

Session organiser: Maria-Dolores Martinez-Miranda, Jens Perch-Nielsen and Sperlich, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
Recent advances in non- and semiparametric duration analysis
Session chair: Sperlich
Invited Speakers:

  • Thomas Scheike, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Lena Janys, Univ. of Bonn, Germany
  • Munir Hiabu, City Univ. London, UK
  • James Wolter, Oxford Univ., UK

Session organiser: Suojin Wang, Texas A&M Univ., USA (15 june)
Recent Advances on Nonparametric Statistical Inference
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Invited Speakers:

  • Jun Shao, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA
  • Suojin Wang, Texas A&M Univ.,USA
  • Alan Welsh, Australian National Univ., Australia

Session organiser: Song Xi Chen, Peking Univ. and Iowa State Univ., USA
Functional and High Dimensional Data
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Invited Speakers:

  • Huazhen Lin, SouthWestern Univ. of Economics and Finance, China
  • Hui Huang, Peking Univ., China
  • Bin Guo, Sichuan University and Song Xi Chen, Iowa State and Peking University, USA
  • Yumou Qiu, University of Nebraska, USA

Session organiser: Simos G. Meintanis, Univ. of Athens, Greece
Model Validation
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Invited Speakers:

  • Miguel A. Delgado, Univ. Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
  • C. Francq, CREST, France
  • Gilles Stupfler, Aix Marseille Univ., France
  • Viktor Witkovsky, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovaquia

Session organiser: Haiyan Wang, Kansas State Univ., USA (not 16 june)
Nonprametric Test and Modeling in Complex Data
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Invited Speakers:

  • James W. Neill, Kansas State Univ., USA
  • Mohammed Gharaibeh, Al al-Bayt Univ., USA
  • Juan Du, Kansas State Univ., USA
  • Haiyan Wang, Kansas State Univ., USA

Session organiser: Michael G. Schimek, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical Univ. of Graz, Austria
Modelling and Inference in High Dimensions
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Invited Speakers:

  • Michael G. Schimek, Medical Univ. of Graz, Austria
  • Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani, MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX, USA
  • Karthik Bharath, Univ. Nottingham, UK
  • Florian Frommlet, Medical Univ. Vienna, Austria

Session organiser: Philippe Soulier, Univ. Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense, session sponsored by ANR AMERISKA
Risk
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Invited Speakers:

  • Holger Drees, Hamburg Univ., Germany
  • Enkelhed Hashorva, HEC Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Krzysztof Dębick, Wroclaw Univ., Switzerland
  • Rafal Kulik, Ottawa Univ., Canada

Session organiser: Antoine Chambaz, MODAL’X, Univ. Paris-Ouest, France, session sponsored by ANR SPADRO
Semiparametric inference
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Invited Speakers:

  • Emilien Joly, Univ. Paris Ouest, Nanterre, France
  • Alex Luedtke, Univ. California, Berkeley, USA
  • Wenjing Zheng, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Univ. of California, San Francisco, USA
  • Antoine Chambaz, Univ., Paris Ouest Nanterre, France

Session organiser: Vincent Rivoirard, Univ. Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France
Tests in nonparametric statistics
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Invited Speakers:

  • Claire Lacour, Dpt Mathématiques, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
  • Patricia Reynaud-Bouret, Univ. de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
  • Laure Sansonnet, Univ. catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
  • Theofanis Sapatinas, Dpt of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus (to confirm)

Session organiser: Steve Marron, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Object Oriented Data Analysis : Tree Structured Data Objects
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Invited Speakers:

  • Aasa Feragen, Copenhagen Univ., Denmark
  • Tom Nye, Newcastle Univ., UK
  • Megan Owen, City Univ. New York, USA
  • to be announced

Session organiser: Jacek Leskow, Cracow Univ. of Technology, Krakow, Poland
Resampling techniques for nonstationary data structures
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Invited Speakers:

  • Jacek Leśkow, Institute of Mathematics, Cracow Technical Univ., Poland
  • Elżbieta Gajecka, Nowy Sacz Professional College, Poland
  • Gabriela Ciolek, Univ. Paris-Ouest et AGH Univ., Poland
  • Jürgen Franke, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. Germany

Session organiser: Anton Schick, Binghamton university, GB
Various Topics in Non-parametric statistics
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Invited Speakers:

  • Ian McKeague, Columbia Univ., USA
  • Ursula Mueller, Texas A&M, USA
  • to be announced
  • Wolfgang Wefelmeyer, Univ. Cologne, Germany

Session organiser: Florentina Bunea, Dpt of Statistical Science, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, USA
New advances in network modeling
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Invited Speakers:

  • Harry Zhou, Dpt Statistics, Yale Univ., USA
  • Sofia Olhede, Dpt Statistical Science, Univ. Central London, UK
  • Patrick Wolfe, Dpt Statistical Science, Univ. Central London, UK
  • Martin Royer, Univ. Paris-Sud, France

Session organiser: Subhajit Dutta, Dpt of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT Kanpur
Statistics for high-dimensional and infinite-dimensional data
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Invited Speakers:

  • Anil K. Ghosh, ISI Kolkata, India
  • Anirvan Chakraborty, EPFL, Switzerland
  • Antonio Cuevas, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Subhajit Dutta, IIT Kanpur, India

Session organiser: Qihua Wang, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
New Challenge in Statistics
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Invited Speakers:

  • Weidong Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.
  • Changliang Zou, Nankai Univ.
  • Xianshi Yu, The Hong Kong Univ. of Science
  • Qihua Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Session organiser: Moulinath Banerjee, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Topics in Nonsmooth Inference
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Invited Speakers:

  • Sumanta Basu, Univ. California, Berkeley, USA
  • Cecile Durot, Univ. Paris, Nanterre, France
  • Geurt Jongbloed, Delft Univ. Technology, Netherlands
  • George Michalidis, Univ. Florida, Gainesville, USA

Session organiser: Rui Song, Univ. of North Carolina State, USA
Recent development in semiparametric methods for complex data
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Invited Speakers:

  • Ingrid Van Keilegom, Univ. catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Yanyuan Ma, Univ. South Carolina, USA
  • Jennifer Sinnot, Statistics Department, The Ohio State Univ., USA
  • Stéphane Guerrier, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Session organiser: Michael Akritas, Penn State Univ., USA
High Dimensional Data Modeling
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Invited Speakers:

  • Eliana Christou, Penn State Univ., USA
  • Bing Li, Penn State Univ., USA
  • Junli Lin, Penn State Univ., USA
  • Michael Akritas, Penn State Univ., USA

Session organiser: Olivier Wintenberger, Dpt of Mathematics, Univ. of Copenhaguen, Denmark
Heavy tailed time series
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Invited Speakers:

  • Bojan Basrak, Zagreb Univ., Zagreb, Croatia
  • Yuwei Zhao, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Kirstin Storkorb, Mannheim Univ., Mannheim, Germany
  • Anja Janssen, Copenhagen Univ., Copenhagen, Denmark

Session organiser: Sophie Dabo Niang and Anne-Françoise Yao, Univ. Lille 3 and Clermont-Ferrand, France
Asymptotic properties in nonparametric spatial problems
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Invited Speakers:

  • Akim Adekpedjou, Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, US
  • Raquel Menezes, University of Minho, Portugal, Portugal
  • Aboubacar Amiri, University of Lille, France
  • Anne-Françoise Yao, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France

Session organiser: Rainer Dahlhaus, Heidelberg Univ., Germany
Locally Stationary Processes
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Invited Speakers:

  • Holger Dette, Dpt Mathematics, Ruhr-Universitaet, Bochum, Germany
  • Michael Eichler, Maastricht Univ., Netherlands
  • François Roueff, Telecom Paris-Tech, Paris, France
  • Stefan Richter, Heidelberg University, Germany

Session organiser: Minge Xie, Rutgers Univ., USA
New developments of statistical inference with applications to fusion learning of complex data
Session chair: Regina Liu, Rutgers Univ.
Invited Speakers:

  • Dongchu Sun, Univ. of Missouri, USA
  • Minge Xie, Rutgers University, USA
  • Ying Hung, Rutgers University, USA
  • Jan Hannig, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Session organiser: Tassos Magdalinos, Univ. Southampton, USA
Non-parametric methods in Econometrics
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Invited Speakers:

  • Yuichi Kitamura, Univ. Yale, USA
  • Xiaohong Chen, Univ. Yale, USA
  • Ioannis Kasparis, Univ. Cyprus, Cyprus
  • Tassos Magdalinos, Univ. Southampton, USA

Session organiser: Marie Kratz, ESSEC CREAR, France
Extreme Risks
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Invited Speakers:

  • Philippe Soulier, université Paris-Ouest, France
  • Marie Kratz, ESSEC CREAR, Cergy, France
  • Jürg Hüsler, Bern Univ., Switzerland
  • Maud Thomas, Chalmers Univ., Sweden

Session organiser: Regina Liu, Rutgers University, USA
Depth for Multivariate and Functional settings and Applications
Session chair:
Invited Speakers:

  • to be announced
  • Yi Fan, Rutgers University, USA
  • Sara Lopez-Pintado, Columbia University, USA
  • Derek Young, University of Kentucky, USA

Session organiser: Simos Meintanis, Univ. of Athens, Greece
Model Validity II
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Invited Speakers:

  • Simos Meintanis, University of Athens, Greece
  • Somnath Datta, Florida State Univ., Gainesville, USA
  • Thomas Verdebout, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
  • James Allison, Northwest University, South Africa

Session organiser: Valérie Girardin, Univ. Caen Normandie, France
Random Processes and Statistics
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Invited Speakers:

  • Gabriela Ciuperca, Laboratoire Camille Jordan, Université Claude Bernard Lyon-I, France
  • Robert Elliott, Univ. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Rachid Senoussi, INRA Avignon, France
  • Philippe Regnault, Univ. Reims, France

Session organiser: Anna Dudek, Univ. Rennes 2, Rennes, France
Bootstrap Methods with Applications to Time Series and Hypothesis Testing
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Invited Speakers:

  • Anna Dudek, Univ. Rennes 2, Rennes, France
  • Magalie Fromont, Univ. Rennes 2, Rennes, France
  • Carsten Jentsch, Univ. of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
  • Anne Leucht, Technische Univ. Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Session organiser: Somnath Datta, Univ of Florida
Nonparametric Methods in Biostatistics
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Invited Speakers:

  • Anju Srivastava, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, USA
  • Susmita Datta, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, USA
  • Hannu Oja, Univ. of Turku, Turku, Finland
  • Debajyoti Sinha, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Session organiser: Eric Gautier, Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France
Structural Econometrics
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Invited Speakers:

  • Anna Simoni, CREST, Paris, France
  • Jean-Pierre Florens, Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France
  • Chris Rose, Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France
  • Valentin Patiléa, ENSAI, Rennes, France

Session organiser: Jean-Michel Zakoian, CREST-GENES, Paris
Recent Advances in Financial Time Series
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Invited Speakers:

  • Genaro Sucarrat, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo
  • Yaxing Yang, Hong-Kong univ. of Science and Technology
  • Liudas Giraitis, Queen May, Univ. of London
  • Jean Michel Zakoian, CREST-GENES, Paris

Session organiser: Juan Romo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Robust Functional Data Analysis
Session chair: Juan Romo
Invited Speakers:

  • Rosaria Ignaccolo, Univ. degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
  • Alicia Nieto-Reyes, Univ. de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
  • Calo Sguera, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • Claudio Agostinelli, Univ. degli Studi di Trento, Italy

Session organiser: Layla Parast, RAND Corporation, USA
Nonparametric Methods With Applications in Health
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Invited Speakers:

  • Edward Kennedy, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Dpt of Biostatistics & Epidemiology
  • Stefan Michaels, INSERM, Gustave Roussy, Paris
  • Tianxi Cai, Harvard Univ., USA
  • Layla Parast, RAND Corporation, USA

Session organiser: Anne Sabourin, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France
Multivariate and Infinite Dimensional Extremes : Recent Advances
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Invited Speakers:

  • Johan Segers, Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University, USA
  • Charles Tillier, Univ. Paris-Ouest, Nanterre, France
  • Anne Sabourin, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France

Session organiser: Ricardo Cao, Department of Mathematics, Univ. da Coruña, Spain
Statistics for big data
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Invited Speakers:

  • Boaz Nadler, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehobot, Israel
  • Melanie Zetlaoui, Univ. Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense, France
  • Antoine Rebecq, INSEE, Paris, France
  • Ricardo Cao, Universidade da Coruña, Spain

Session organiser: Jeffrey Hart, Texas A&M University
Nonparametrics for Big Data and Bayesian Analysis
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Invited Speakers:

  • Steve MacEachern, The Ohio State University, Columbus
  • Anirban Bhattacharya, Texas A&M, USA
  • Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay, Temple University, USA
  • Jeffrey Hart, Texas A&M University, USA

Session organiser: S.N. Lahiri, North Carolina State University
Statistics for high dimensional data
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Invited Speakers:

  • Soumendra Lahiri, North Carolina Univ., USA
  • Richard Lockhart, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • Karl Gregory, University of Mannheim, Germany
  • Sandipan Roy, University College London, UK