AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, April 13, 2005 08:32:23

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 2, 2005, 8:55 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on High Dimensional Probability, I
Room 115, Purnell Hall
Organizers:
Wenbo Li, University of Delaware wli@math.udel.edu
Joel Zinn, Texas A\&M University jzinn@math.tamu.edu
- 8:55 a.m.
  Opening tribute to James Kuelbs by {\bf Joel Zinn}, Texas A\&M University.
- 9:00 a.m.
  Location and scale functionals based on $t$ distributions.
  Richard M. Dudley*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1005-62-122)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Weak and strong limit theorems for estimators of the density of a function of several samples.
  Evarist Gin�*, University of Connecticut
  David M. Mason, University of Delaware
  (1005-60-104)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some curious results on randomly weighted self-normalized sums.
  David M Mason*, University of Delaware
  (1005-60-151)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An empirical central limit theorem for pre-Gaussian classes of functions and a related concentration inequality.
  Shahar Mendelson, The Australian National University
  Joel Zinn*, Texas A&M University
  (1005-60-169)

Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on High Dimensional Probability, II
Room 115, Purnell Hall
Organizers:
Wenbo Li, University of Delaware wli@math.udel.edu
Joel Zinn, Texas A\&M University jzinn@math.tamu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Local Moduli of Continuity of Local Times under Minimal Smoothing Conditions.
  Michael B Marcus*, City College and CUNY Graduate Center
  (1005-60-139)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Moment asymptotics related to permulation groups.
  Xia Chen*, University of Tennessee
  (1005-60-201)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Small deviations of Brownian sheet and beyond.
  Fred Torcaso*, Johns Hopkins University
  James A. Fill, Johns Hopkins University
  (1005-60-68)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Riesz product and small ball probabilities for the Slepian Gaussian Fields.
  Fuchang Gao*, University of Idaho
  Wenbo Li, University of Delaware
  (1005-60-89)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Sectorial Local-nondeterminism for the Brownian Sheet and Applications.
  Yimin Xiao*, Michigan State University
  (1005-60-103)
- 5:30 p.m.
  General results on two-sided LIL behavior.
  Uwe P Einmahl*, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  (1005-60-58)

Sunday April 3, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on High Dimensional Probability, III
Room 115, Purnell Hall
Organizers:
Wenbo Li, University of Delaware wli@math.udel.edu
Joel Zinn, Texas A\&M University jzinn@math.tamu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Gaussian limits for random geometric structures.
  Joseph E. Yukich*, Lehigh University
  (1005-60-59)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some stochastic properties of random overpartitions.
  P. Hitczenko*, Drexel University
  (1005-60-112)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Large deviations of M--estimators.
  Miguel A Arcones*, Binghamton University
  (1005-62-18)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some Gaussian Inequalities and Conjectures.
  Wenbo Li*, University of Delaware
  (1005-60-185)

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