Stochastics Meeting Lunteren 2016

Overview

The 45th annual meeting of the Dutch probability and statistics community.

When

November 14-16, 2016

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/Twente)
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

• Jean-Rene Chazottes (Paris)
  1. Concentration inequalities. Part 1: Introduction.
  2. Concentration inequalities. Part 2: Recent results in statistical physics and dynamical systems.
• Ramon van Handel (Princeton)
  1. A new look at the majorizing measure theory. Part 1: Interpolation.
  2. A new look at the majorizing measure theory. Part 2: The contraction principle.
• Michael Jordan (Berkeley)
  1. On the computational/statistical interface:  Lower bounds in optimization theory, the Bregman-Lagrangian, and symplectic integration.
  2. On the computational/statistical interface:  Stein's method for matrix concentration, and decoding from random histograms.
• Peter Pfaffelhuber (Freiburg)
  1. The tree-valued Flaming-Viot process with selection.
  2. Selective sweeps in structured populations.
• Angelika Rohde (Freiburg)
  1. Adaptation to lowest density regions with application to support recovery.
  2. Locally adaptive confidence bands.
• Silke Rolles (Munich)
  1. Processes with reinforcement and a supersymmetric sigma model.
  2. A closer look at vertex-reinforced jump processes.

Posters

Steven Berghout (Leiden)

On the relation between Gibbs and g-measures.

Conrado Freitas Paulo da Costa (Leiden)

From particle systems to the solution of a stochastic differential equation.

Hakan Guldas (Leiden)

Mixing times of random walks on dynamic configuration models.

Rianne de Heide (CWI/Leiden)

Bayesian inconsistency under model misspecification.

Mahdi Mahmoudi (Groningen)

Inference on/in/of networks. Joint with Ernst Wit.

Anja Rueten-Budde (Leiden)

Investigating hospital heterogeneity with a competing risks frailty model.

Mahdi Shafiee Kamalabad (Groningen)

Regularization of non-homogeneous dynamic Bayesian networks with partially information-coupling.

Sanne Willems (Leiden)

Optimal scaling in survival analysis with ordinal data.