Stochastics Meeting Lunteren 2014

Overview

The 43rd annual meeting of the Dutch probability and statistics community. This is an archive page.

When

November 10-12, 2014

Where

Conference Centre De Werelt
Westhofflaan 2, 6741 KH Lunteren
Tel: +31 (0)318-484641

Organisers

W.Th.F. den Hollander (Leiden)
M.N.M. van Lieshout (CWI)
A.W. van der Vaart (Leiden)

Sponsors

Stochastics - Theoretical and Applied Research (STAR) cluster
Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research through its Section Mathematical Statistics (VVS+OR)

Speakers

• Tony Cai (Pennsylvania)
  1. Sparse PCA: Optimal rates and adaptive estimation.
  2. Recovery of high-dimensional low-rank matrices.
• Nina Gantert (Munich)
  1. Sinai's walk - a simple model for metastability. Part I.
  2. Sinai's walk - a simple model for metastability. Part II.
• Leo Held (Zurich)
  1. Objective Bayesian model selection in regression. Part I: Introduction.
  2. Objective Bayesian model selection in regression. Part II: Recent developments..
• Jonathan Taylor (Stanford)
  1. Post-selection inference.
  2. Critical points of smooth Gaussian random fields.
• Cristina Toninelli (Paris)
  1. Kinetically constrained models. Part I.
  2. Kinetically constrained models. Part II.
• Anton Wakolbinger (Frankfurt)
  1. The ancestral selection graph in a structured sweep.
  2. Evolving coalescents and their lengths.

Posters

Stein Andreas Bethuelsen (Leiden)

Random walks in dynamic random environment.

Fengnan Gao (Leiden)

Posterior contraction rates for deconvolution of Dirichlet-Laplace mixtures.

Alice Kirichenko (Amsterdam)

Estimation of a regression function on the graph.

Anshui Li (Utrecht)

Subgraphs of percolated random geometric graphs.

Jan van Waaij (Amsterdam)

Posterior convergence for a one-periodic diffusion.