Seminars held in 2014

Date Speaker Title
December 22, 2014 Symposium CUHK Symposium on Financial Risk Management 2014
December 19, 2014

Professor Dennis K.J. Lin

Dimensional Analysis and Its Applications in Statistics

December 19, 2014

Ting Kam Leonard Wong

Geometry, Hierarchy and Optimization of Relative Arbitrages

December 2, 2014

Professor Nevin L. Zhang

Latent Tree Analysis of Unlabeled Data and TCM Patient Classification

November 18, 2014

Professor Vladimir V. Ulyanov

Generalized Cornish-Fisher Expansions and its Applications

November 11, 2014

Professor Quansheng Liu

Cramer's Large Deviation Expansion for Martingales

November 4, 2014

Professor Hiroaki Ogata

Circular Autocorrelation of Stationary Markov Circular Processes

October 31, 2014

Prof Larry Wright

Streakiness and the Binomial Model in Sports Statistics

October 31, 2014

Prof Charles M. Newman

Statistical Mechanics and the Riemann Hypothesis

October 21, 2014

Dr Junhui WANG

Model Selection via Stability

September 23, 2014

Professor Geoffrey Grimmett

Universality for Percolation on Isoradial Graphs

September 10, 2014

Professor Lane P. Hughston

Levy Models for Foreign Exchange

August 25, 2014

Professor Jun LIU

Detecting Relationships Beyond Linear Regression

July 24, 2014

Dr. Xiaojing Wang

A Bayesian Approach For Subgroup Analysis

July 22, 2014

Professor Zeng Donglin

New Statistical Learning Methods for Estimating Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes

July 22, 2014

Professor Zhiliang YING

Semiparametric Models For Causal Inference In Time To Event Studies

June 23, 2014

Professor Wing Hung WONG

Density Estimation from Multivariate Data and Applications to Machine Learning

May 14, 2014 Professor Tingting Zhang A Dynamic Directional Model for Effective Brain Connectivity using Electrocorticographic (ECoG) Time Series
May 13, 2014 Professor Hongtu Zhu Functional Data Analysis of Imaging Data
May 9, 2014 Dr. Ivor Cribben New Methods for Detecting Granger Causality Change Points and Distributional Causality
April 23, 2014 Professor Paul Doukhan Weak Dependence, Models and Applications
April 1, 2014 Professor Wei-Yin Loh A Regression Tree Approach to Identifying Subgroups with Differential Treatment Effects
March 28, 2014 Professor Min Tsao Extending the Empirical Likelihood by Domain Expansion
March 27, 2014 Mr. Ting Kam Leonard Wong The Geometry of Relative Arbitrage
February 27, 2014 Dr. Lin Yuanyuan Robust Estimation for General Transformation Models with Dependent Data
February 25, 2014 Mr. Qiu Yumou Band Width Selection for High-Dimensional Covariance Matrix Estimation
February 21, 2014 Ms. Juan Shen Model-based Inference for Subgroup Analysis
February 18, 2014 Mr. LUO Wei On Efficient Dimension Reduction with Respect to a Statistical Functional of Interest
February 13, 2014 Ms. Wei Yingying Integrative Statistical Models for Genomic Signal Detection and Ultra-High-Dimensional Prediction
February 11, 2014 Professor Giuseppe Cavaliere  & Professor Anders Rahbek Implementation and Theory of Bootstrap in Cointegrated Vector Autoregressive Models
February 7, 2014 Dr. Yao Zhigang Optimal Classification in Sparse Gaussian Graphic Model
January 17, 2014 Dr Frederick Kin Hing Phoa Definitive Screening Designs: A New Class of D-Efficient Three-level Factorial Designs