Empirical Processes Working Group

Winter Quarter 2013

The tentative schedule for the Empirical Processes Working Group:

When: Thursdays, 1:00 - 3:00 PM, January 10 to March 14, except as noted
Where: Padelford, C301

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 1/10/2013) is as follows:

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

FUTURE MEETINGS:  

January 10:   intro & overview                 
              Jon Wellner               

January 17:   empirical processes in model selection
              (optimal bounds for excess risk, with applications to model selection)
              Adrien Saumard

January 24:   model selection, continued 
              Dennis Leung
              Michael Karcher
              Takumi Saegusa

January 31:   (Jon away) Model selection, continued:
              Takumi Saegusa
              Adrien Saumard
              
February 7:   Basic inequalities & non-parametric ML estimation 
                  for shape constrained families
              Takumi Saegusa & Jon W (?)

February 14:  Basic inequalities & non-parametric ML estimation 
                  for shape constraints:  rates of convergence
              Charles Doss & Jon W (?)

February 21:  Nonparametric rates:  Charles Doss (1/2 hour)
              Multiplier CLTs and bootstrapping intro:  Tracey Marsh

February 28:  Applications of EP methods to survival analysis:
                 Tracey Marsh, Rui Zhang, Jie Hu, and Cheng Zheng
            
March 7:      Shattering dimension and uniform in P Donsker theorems
                 Hari Narayanan and  Adrien Saumard

March 14:     Takumi Saegusa:  Vapnik-Chervonkis Type Conditions and Uniform Donsker Classes of Functions
                               Michel Talagrand, Ann. Prob (2003).
              Jie Zhou:  Entropy and the combinatorial dimension
                         Mendelson and Vershynin (2003).  Invent. Math. 152, 37-55.

Topics and groups:

2.  Shape constrained estimation; empirical process methods.
    Charles Doss 
    Takumi Saegusa 
    Jon Wellner
3.  Shattering dimension and uniform in P Donsker theorems.
    Hari Narayanan
    Jie Zhou
    Adrien Saumard
    Takumi Saegusa
4.  Empirical process method in survival analysis and semiparametric models
    Tracey Marsh
    Rui Zhang
    (Kate) Jie Hu 
    Cheng Zheng 
5.  Bootstrap methods in statistics and multiplier CLTs
    Takumi Saegusa
    Adrien Saumard
    (Kate) Jie Hu
    Alex Volfovsky