Stochastics Meeting Lunteren 2010

Date
November 15-17, 2010.

Place
Conference Centre "De Werelt"
Westhofflaan 2, Lunteren
Tel. 31 + (0)318-484641
Fax 31 + (0)318-482924.

Organisers
M.S. Keane (Wesleyan)
M.N.M. van Lieshout (CWI)
A.W. van der Vaart (Vrije Universiteit)

Speakers
Ellen Baake (Bielefeld)
Peter Buehlmann (Zurich)
Gregory Miermont (Paris)
Mark Pollicott (Warwick)
Andrew Stuart (Warwick)
Ingrid Van Keilegom (Louvain-la-Neuve)

Programme
See below for titles of talks and detailed programme.

Costs
Full stay Eur 340.

Registration
Registration participants before October 1.
For details see below.

Information
Marie-Colette van Lieshout
Tel. 31 + (0)20-5924008.

Next year's Meeting
November 14-16, 2011.

More about the Meeting

General

The 39th annual Meeting of Dutch Statisticians and Probabilists will take place November 15-17, 2010 in the Conference Centre `De Werelt', Westhofflaan 2, Lunteren, Telephone 31 + (0)318-484641. The organisers are M.S. Keane, M.N.M. van Lieshout and A.W. van der Vaart. The Meeting is sponsored by the Gebiedsbestuur Exacte Wetenschappen (NWO), the Sectie Mathematische Statistiek (VVS), the Mathematical Research Institute (MRI), the Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics, and the Stochastics - Theoretical and Applied Research cluster.

Around the conference center (click on picture to s ee it full size)

Programme

Six invited speakers will give two lectures of one hour each on topics in Statistics or Probability. The lectures are open to anyone who is interested. The programme starts Monday November 15 at 10.30 h and ends Wednesday November 17 after lunch. A poster session will be held Monday evening.

Titles of the talks:
Ellen Baake
1. Stochastics in the immune system, or: How T-cells are educated to discriminate foreign from self.
2. Single-crossover recombination, or: How genes are mixed.

Peter Buehlmann
1. High-dimensional statistics: Regression and classification.
2. High-dimensional statistics: Graphical models and causal inference.

Gregory Miermont
1. Random planar maps and their scaling limits: Part I.
2. Random planar maps and their scaling limits: Part II.

Mark Pollicott
1. Asymptotic formulae in circle packings: PartI.
2. Asymptotic formulae in circle packings: PartII.

Andrew Stuart
1. The Bayesian approach to inverse problems: Part I.
2. The Bayesian approach to inverse problems: Part II.

Ingrid Van Keilegom
1. Z-estimation in semiparametric statistics: General theory.
2. Z-estimation in semiparametric statistics: Applications in various fields.

Programme:

Monday	November 15	Tuesday	November 16	Wednesday	November 17
		08.00-09.00	Breakfast	07.30-08.30	Breakfast
		09.00-10.00	Pollicott	08.30-09.30	Baake
10.30-11.15	Coffee	10.00-10.30	Coffee	09.30-10.30	Miermont
11.15-11.30	Opening	10.30-11.30	Stuart	10.30-11.00	Coffee
11.30-12.30	Buehlmann	11.30-12.30	Van Keilegom	11.00-12.00	Miermont
12.45	Lunch	12.45	Lunch	12.00-13.00	Stuart
15.30-16.00	Tea	15.30-16.00	Tea	13.15	Lunch
16.00-17.00	Buehlmann	16.00-17.00	Van Keilegom
17.00-18.00	Pollicott	17.00-18.00	Baake
18.45	Dinner	18.45	Dinner

Posters

For questions, please contact aad@cs.vu.nl.

Sander Dommers
Ising models on power-law random graphs.

Tim van Erven
Learning the switching state by discretising Bernoulli sources online.

Zhe Guo
The Hammersley process on the circle.

Rene de Jonge
Adaptive Bayesian estimation using tensor-product splines.

Bartek Knapik
Bayesian inverse problems.

Derong Kong
The Markov binomial distribution.

Tina Nane
Shape constrained nonparametric estimators in the Cox model.

Participation Fee and Lodging

A limited number of people may stay at the Conference Centre overnight.

Costs:
A full stay including registration fee, accomodation and all meals from November 15 before lunch to November 17 after lunch costs EUR 340 / 370 if registered and paid before / after October 1.

For a two day arrangement (registration fee, one overnight stay and all meals during two days) EUR 240 / 270 if registered before / after October 1.

Participation in the scientific programme without an overnight stay will cost EUR 90 / 110 per day including registration fee, meals and coffee during breaks if registered before / after October 1.

Registration

EVERYONE who wishes to participate in the meeting, including those who will not stay overnight nor take meals, is requested to register and pay before October 1.
Registration is valid only when the participation fee is received in the account given below.
Registrations after October 1 are subject to higher fees.
If a reservation is cancelled before October 1 the participation fee will be refunded. Requests for refunds will not be honoured after October 1.
Rooms can no longer be booked! Please contact Marie-Colette van Lieshout.

To register one should complete the registration form and send it by e-mail as indicated or by post to

Marie-Colette van Lieshout
CWI
Science Park 123
1098 XG Amsterdam

The money should be transferred before October 1 to the appropriate account as indicated below.

Nationally:
ING account number: 6273908
Account owner: Bijeenkomst Stochastici
Address: Valkenburgerstraat 131, 1011 MH Amsterdam.

Foreigners are encouraged to pay by credit card or bank transfer (see above). If requested beforehand (see registration form) they may also pay cash during the conference.
We regret that it is not possible to pay by Eurocheque or traveller cheque nor for residents of the Netherlands to pay by credit card.

Transportation Information

De Werelt can easily be reached by train (see local map). A train travel planner is available on internet.
Directions for travel by car can be found on the website of De Werelt.

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