Seminars held in 2011

Date Speaker Title
November 15, 2011

Dr. Zeng Tieyong

Dictionary Learning for Gaussian-Impulse Noise Removal

November 8, 2011

Dr. Xinghua Zheng

On the Estimation of Integrated Covariance Matrices of High Dimensional Diffusion Processes

October 18, 2011

Dr. Yingying Li

Vast Volatility Matrix Estimation using High Frequency Data for Portfolio Selection

October 11, 2011

Dr. Erjia Ge

Using Knowledge Fusion to Map Avian Influenza H5N1 in East and Southeast Asia

September 20, 2011

Dr. Christian Rau

The Stochastic Radon Transform and Classification for Rotations with Symmetry Properties

August 16, 2011

Dr. Henry Kwai-Hung Lam

Efficient Sampling for Large Scale Stochastic Systems

July 21, 2011

Dr. Jingchen Liu

On the Stationary Distribution of An Incompatible Gibbs Sampler - The Analysis of Multiple Imputations Via Chained Equations (MICE)

May 3, 2011

Professor Katsumi Shimotsu

Local Quadratic Approximation in Finite Mixture Models and Testing the Number of Components

April 26, 2011

Professor Laurent Mertz

Stochastic Variational Inequalities and Applications to Random Vibrations and Mechanical Structures

April 15, 2011

Dr. Ng Chi Tim

Composite Likelihood Methods for Stochastic Volatility Models

April 12, 2011

Dr. Tiejun Tong

Improved mean estimation for high-dimensional data and its application to diagonal discriminant analysis

April 4, 2011

Professor Pierre Raphael Bertrand

A New Method for Change Detection with Applications to Heartbeat Series

March 29, 2011

Professor Jun S Liu

Beyond the Naïve Bayes: Finding Interactions Among Discrete Covariates

March 28, 2011

Dr. Frederick Kin Hing Phoa

Nonregular Designs: A Better Choice for Experiments

March 22, 2011 Professor  Wenyang Zhang Semiparametric Modelling for Censored Hierarchical Data
March 16, 2011 Dr. Keiji Nagai Seqeuential Unit Root Tes
March 15, 2011 Professor TSUI Kwok Leung Recent Research on Healthcare and Public Health Surveillance
March 8, 2011 Professor WU Wei Biao Simultaneous Confidence Bands in Time Series
February 25, 2011 Professor PENG Xian-Hua External Risk Measures and Basel III Accord