Seminars held in 2008

Date Speaker Title
December 17, 2008 Professor Jianqing Fan Impact of dimensionality and correlation learning
December 2, 2008 Dr Piotr Fryzlewicz The Dantzig selector in Cox's proportional hazards model
November 18, 2008 Prof Jane-Ling Wang Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data
November 4, 2008 Prof Minggao Gu Market Efficiency and Investment Strategies, a case study of Hong Kong racetrack betting Market
October 28, 2008 Prof Xiaole Shirley Liu ChIPing the human Cistrome
September 29, 2008 Prof Shuo-Yen Robert Li Martingales of Patterns
July 8,  2008 Professor Yacine Ait-Sahalia Estimating the degree of activity of jumps in high frequency financial data
May 20,  2008 Professor Victor Solo Neural Information Encoding and Multivariate Point Processes with Coincidences
April 22,  2008 Dr. Jessica Tressou A storage model for modelling exposure to food contaminants
April 15,  2008 Professor Curtis Storlie The Adaptive COSSO for Multiple Predictor Function Estimation
April 9,  2008 Professor Yury Kutoyants On Goodness-of-Fit Testing for Diffusion Processes
April 8,  2008 Professor Haonan Wang Statistics for Complex Data Objects: Opportunities and Challenges
April 7,  2008 Professor Yury Kutoyants On Regularity Conditions and Properties of Estimators for Poisson Processes
April 1,  2008 Professor Yury Kutoyants Statistical Inference for Ergodic Diffusion Process
March 11,  2008 Dr. Heping HE Asymptotic Properties of Maximum Likelihood Estimators in Models with Multiple Change Points
March 4,  2008 Mr Xiaodan Fan Bayesian Meta-analysis for Identification of Cell Cycle-regulated Genes
February 20,  2008 Mr Chengyong TANG Parameter Estimation and Bias Correction for Diffusion Processes
February 19,  2008 Dr Kenichiro TAMAKI Power comparisons of nonparametric likelihood-based tests for stationary processes
February 12,  2008 Mr Clifford Lam Estimation of Covariance Matrices Through Penalisation
January 15,  2008 Professor Song Xi Chen A Two Test for Ultra High Dimensional Data with Applications to Gene Sets Testing