Empirical Processes Working Group

Winter Quarter 2011

The tentative schedule for the Empirical Processes Working Group:

• When: Tuesdays, 3:30 - 5:00 PM, January 4 to March 8
• Where: Padelford, C301

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  The main purpose of this page will be to keep a current version of the schedule for the group meetings. The current schedule (as of 1/25/2011) is as follows:

  Tentative Schedule: (subject to suggestions, revision, and volunteers(!))

  January 4:    global convergence rates, part 1:                   Jon Wellner               
  
  January 11:   global convergence rates, part 2:                   Jon Wellner  
  
  January 18:   estimation of a convex decreasing desity, part 1:   Charles Doss
  
  January 25:   estimation of a convex decreasing desity, part 2:   Charles Doss
  
  February 1:   concentration of measure; Talagrand's inequality
                and refinements of Bousquet and Rio:                Jon Wellner
  
  February 8:   bootstrapping empirical measures, part 1:           Alexander Volfovsky    
  
  February 15:  bootstrapping empirical measures, part 2:           Alexander Volfovsky    
  
  February 22:  concentration inequalities                          Dominique Perrault-Joncas
  
  March 1:      exchangeably weighted bootstrapping:                Takumi Saegusa
  
  March 8:      Empirical likelihood in semiparametric models:      Gary Chan
  
  
  
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