Talks and Presentations

Recorded Talks

• Challis Lecture 1, University of Florida
• Breslow Lecture, Biostatistics Department, University of Washington

Presentations

• Breslow Lecture, 2020
  Seattle, November 12, 2020
  References to accompany 2020 Breslow Lecture
   
• IMS Presidential Address, 2017
  IMS Annual Meeting and JSM
  July 31, 2017, Baltimore, Maryland
   
• Bi-s^*-Concave Distributions
  International Workshop ``Non- and Semiparametric Statistics''
  in honour of Arnold Janssen on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
  July 21-22, 2017, Dusseldorf, Germany
   
• Inference for the mode: is it possible?
  IMS China Conference on Statistics and Probability.
  June 30, 2017, Nanning, China
   
• A Law of the Iterated Logatithm for Grenander's Estimator.
  University of Washington Probability Seminar,
  October 24, 2016, UW, Seattle, Washington
   
• Nonparametric estimation of s-concave and log-concave densities:
  an alternative to maximum likelihood.
  Talk given at cemmap seminar, University College London
  October 27, 2015, London, England
   
• Nonparametric estimation of s-concave and log-concave densities:
  an alternative to maximum likelihood.
  Talk given at Cambridge University, Statistics Laboratory
  October 22, 2015, Cambridge, England
   
• Nonparametric estimation of s-concave and log-concave densities:
  an alternative to maximum likelihood.
  Talk given at York University Department of Mathematics
  October 15, 2015, York, England
   
• Signal detection and goodness-of-fit: the Berk-Jones statistics revisited
  Talk given at the meeting on Big data, big methods,
  September 29, 2015, Cambridge, England
   
• IMS Le Cam Lecture, August 10, 2015
  Joint Statistical Meetings
  August 8 - 13, 2015
  Seattle, Washington
   
• Talk given at European Meeting of Statisticians
  July 6-10, 2015
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
   
• Talk given at European Meeting of Statisticians
  July 6-10, 2015
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
   
• Talk given at 5th IMS-China International Conference in Statistics and Probability
  July 1-4, 2015,
  Kunming, China
   
• Talk given at School of Statistics and Management Science,
  Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China
  June 23, 2015
 
• Conference in Honour of Evarist Giné: Probability theory and statistics in high and infinite dimensions
  June 23-25, 2014; Center for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
  Giné talk
   
• Short Course: Empirical Process Theory for Statistics
  Institut de Statistique, Biostatistique, et Sciences Actuarielles
  Louvain-la-Neuve
  May 29 - 30, 2012: Day 1; Day 2
   
• Seminar, Statistiches Kolliquium, Universitaet Duesseldorf
  April 16, 2012: Testing for sparse normal means: an update
   
• Statistics and Probability Seminar, Institute de Mathematiques de Toulouse
  February 28, 2012, part1: Log-concave distributions: definitions, properties, and consequences
  February 28, 2012, part2: Chernoff's distribution is log-concave. And more
  March 1, 2012: Strong log-concavity of Chernoff's density: connections and open problems
  March 5, 2012: Nonparametric estimation of log-concave densities
  March 8, 2012: A local maximal inequality under uniform entropy
   
• Point of View Statistics Seminar, University of Paris 7
  Log-concave distributions: definitions, properties, and consequences
  January 23, 2012
   
• Biometry Seminar, University of Heidelberg
  Two phase designs with data missing by design: semiparametric models with inverse probability weighted estimators
  December 5, 2011; German Cancer Research Center, INF 280, Heidelberg
   
• IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability
  Xi'An, China
  July 8-11, 2011
  A local maximal inequality under uniform entropy
   
• Woodroofe Lecture,
  Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
  April 1, 2011
  Chernoff's distribution is log-concave. But why? (And why does it matter?)
   
• Center for Econometrics, Northwestern University
  Conference on Shape Restrictions in Non- and Semiparametric Estimation of Econometric Models
  November 5-6, 2010
  Nonparametric estimation of log-concave densities
   
• UW Statistics Department Research Day talk
  September 27, 2010
  Bootstrap Limit Theory
   
• Department of Statistics, Columbia University
  September 20, 2010
  Nonparametric estimation of log-concave densities
   
• Statistical Seminar August 30 - September 3, 2010
  Frejus, France
  Lecture 1; Lecture 2; Lecture 3; Lecture 4; Lecture 5
   
• Joint Statistical Meetings
  August 1-5, 2010
  Vancouver, British Columbia
  Theory for multivariate shape constraints: partial results, open problems, and conjectures; postscript form
   
• ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium
  June 21-24, 2010
  Indianapolis, Indiana
  Estimation for two-phase designs: semiparametric models and Z-theorems; postscript form
   
• UC Berkeley Statistics Department talk
  November 4, 2009
  Nonparametric estimation of log-concave densities, postscript form
   
• UW Statistics Department Research Day talk
  September 28, 2009
  Estimation and Testing with Shape Constraints: Ten Open Problems postscript form
   
• IMS Annual Meeting / Joint Statistical Meetings
  August 2-6, 2009
  Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
  Back to the Future: Do Recent Developments Tell Us Anything About the Future of Statistics?
   
• IMS - China conference
  Weihai, China, July 3-6, 2009.
  Z - theorems with estimated nuisance parameters; postscript form  
 
• First IMS Asia-Pacific Rim Conference
  Korea, June 29 - July 2, 2009.
  On and off semiparametric models; postscript form  
 
• Advances in Stochastic Inequalities and their Applications
  Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS), Banff, Alberta
  June 7 - 12, 2009.
  See also Luc Devroye's archive of talks at the meeting.
  Nemirovski's inequality revisited: some comparisons; postscript form
 
• Faculty talks, Graduate Student Orientation, Department of Statistics,
  University of Washington, 22 September 2008.
  Nemirovski's inequality revisited; postscript form
 
• Nonsmooth Inference, Analysis and Dependence
  June 9 - 13, 2008
  Stochastic Centre, Goteborg, Sweden
  Some theory for estimation with shape constraints; postscript version
   
• High Dimensional Probability
  May 26-30, 2008
  Centre International de Recontres Mathematiques (CIRM), Luminy, France
  Nemirovski's inequality revisited; postscript version
   
• Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data
  April 30, 2008,
  Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge
  Testing for sparse normal means: is there a signal? postscript version
   
• Workshop on Sparsity in High Dimensional Statistics and Learning Theory
  March 22-24, 2008
  Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
  Testing for sparse normal mixtures: new test statistics based on phi-divergences
   
• Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data
  Workshop on Contemporary Frontiers in High - Dimensional Statistical Data Analysis
  January 7-11,
  Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge
  Persistence: Alternative proofs of some results of Greenshtein and Ritov
   
• Young European Statisticians Workshop (YES-I) on Shape Restricted Inference
  October 8 - 10, 2007
  Eurandom, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3
   
• Pacific Northwest Probability Seminar (in honor of Ron Pyke)
  University of Washington, Seattle, October 22, 2006
  Goodness of fit via phi-divergences: a new family of test statistics,   (a .pdf file)
   
• Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Wellington
  Wellington, New Zealand, September 1, 2006
  Estimation and Testing with Interval-Censored Data.
   
• Joint Statistical Meetings,
  Seattle, August 9, 2006
  Session on Semiparametric inference in practice
  Organized by Florentina Bunea, Florida State University
  Semiparametric models with data missing by design and inverse probability weighted empirical processes: partial results and open problems  (a .pdf file)
   
• Conference on Statistical Methods in Epidemiology and Observational Studies
  In Honor of Norman E. Breslow
  University of Washington, August 4, 2006.
  The Breslow estimator, the Breslow-Crowley theory, and their impacts   (a .pdf file)
   
• Asymptotics: particles, processes, and inverse problems
  on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Piet Groeneboom
  held at the Lorentz Center, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands
  July 10-14, 2006
  A Kiefer - Wolfowitz theorem for convex densities   (a .pdf file)
   
• WNAR - IMS Meeting, June 27-20, Flagstaff, Arizona
  Semiparametric regression models for panel count data: comparing two estimators,   (a .pdf file)
   
• Workshop on the Frontiers of Statistics, Princeton University, May 18-20, 2006
  Goodness of fit via phi-divergences: a new family of test statistics,   (a .pdf file)
   
• University of Washington, Department of Statistics
  October 24, 2005
  Consistency and rates of convergence for maximum likelihood estimators via empirical process theory
  (a .pdf file).
   
• University of Idaho, Department of Mathematics
  September 15, 2005
  Maximum likelihood: counterexamples, examples, and open problems
  (a .pdf file).
   
• Seminaire de Statistique, Laboratoire de Statistique et Probabilites, UMR C5583
  Toulouse, France, May 30, 2005
  Estimation and Testing with Interval-Censored Data.
   
• ETH Seminar for Statistics
  Zurich, Switzerland, May 27, 2005
  Estimation and Testing with Interval-Censored Data.
   
• Joint BeNeLuxFra Mathematics Conference
  Gent, Belgium, May 20 - 22, 2005.
  Maximum likelihood: counterexamples, examples, and open problems
  
• Talk (a .pdf file).
• Figures to accompany talk (a .pdf file).

 
• Special Topics Course on
  Empirical Processes: Theory and Applications
  Delft University of Technology, Delft
  April 5 - May 24, 2005
  
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Chapters 1-2
  • Bibliography


• Stochastics Colloquium, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics.
  Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, 9 March 2005.
  Goodness of fit via pointwise likelihood ratios: some results of Berk and Jones revisited.
   
• University of Utrecht Stochastics Seminar, 8 December, 2004.
  Estimation under shape constraints: monotone, convex, and beyond  
• Parisian Statistical Seminar, 22 November, 2004, Institute Henri Poincare, Paris, France.
  Estimation under shape constraints: monotone, convex, and beyond
  • Talk (a .pdf file).
  • Plots - part 1 (a .pdf file).
  • Plots - convex case (a .pdf file).
   
• Spatial Stochastics Seminar, 9 November, 2004, CWI, Amsterdam.
  Estimation under shape constraints: monotone, convex, and beyond

• Summer School on Statistics and Probability, Bocconi University, Milan
  Torgnon, Valle d'Aosta, June 30 - July 19, 2003
  Empirical Processes: Theory and Applications

  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Chapters 1-3
  • Bibliography




• Oberwolfach Meeting March 10 - 16, 2002: Random Algebraic Structures

  Asymptotic Distribution Theory for Shell Sort




• Champéry, 3ème cycle, March 3-6, 2002

  Empirical Processes in Statistics:
  Methods, Examples, Further Problems
  Lecture Notes (pdf form); Slides (postscript form).




• Statistics Seminar: Oregon State University, February 18, 2002.

  Estimation and testing with interval censored data
  Slides(postscript form); Graphics version (postscript form).




• Statistics Seminar: Seattle, May 14, 2001.

  In Memory of Lucien Le Cam (1924 - 2000).
  Seven theorems every statistician should know
  Slides(postscript form)




• Probability Seminar: Seattle, February 26, 2001.

  Some functionals of Brownian motion connected with estimation of monotone and convex functions.
  Slides(postscript form);




• Talk for Workshop on Inverse Problems: Eindhoven, January , 2001.

  Asymptotic power for a class of nonstandard likelihood ratio statistics.
  




• Talk for Second Seattle Symposium on Biostatistics, Seattle, November 20, 2000.

  A semiparametric regression model for panel count data: some progress.
  Slides(postscript form); Plots(postscript form); Paper.pdf; Paper.ps.




• Research Day Seminar at University of Washington: Seattle, September 25, 2000.

  Maximum Likelihood Estimators and LR Statistics for some Non-regular Problems
  Slides(postscript form)




• Seminar at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, September 12, 2000:

  Likelihood Ratio Tests for Monotone Functions: a new limit distribution.
  Slides(postscript form)




• 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics
  and 63rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

  May 15-20, 2000, Guanajuato, Mexico.
  Preservation theorems for Glivenko-Cantelli classes and consistency of
  the nonparametric MLE for generalized interval censoring
  Slides(postscript form) for Jon's talk at Guanajuato;
  Slides(pdf form) for Jon's talk at Guanajuato;