AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 12, 2008 00:23:32

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Weak Dependence in Probability and Statistics, I
Room 344, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Richard C. Bradley, Indiana University bradleyr@indiana.edu
Lahn T. Tran, Indiana University tran@indiana.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A strictly stationary, ``causal,'' 5-tuplewise independent counterexample to the central limit theorem.
  Richard C. Bradley*, Indiana University
  (1038-60-39)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rates of convergence for minimal distances in the CLT under projective criteria.
  Florence Merlevede*, University Paris VI. LPMA
  (1038-60-50)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Moment and maximal inequalities for some classes of dependent variables.
  Magda Peligrad*, University of Cincinnati
  Sergey Utev, University of Nottingham
  (1038-60-162)
- 10:30 a.m.
  q-Wishart matrices.
  Wlodek Bryc*, University of Cincinnati
  (1038-60-69)

Saturday April 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Weak Dependence in Probability and Statistics, II
Room 344, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Richard C. Bradley, Indiana University bradleyr@indiana.edu
Lahn T. Tran, Indiana University tran@indiana.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Nonparametric estimation of the regression function under mixing conditions.
  Lanh Tat Tran, Indiana University
  Jiexiang Li*, College of Charleston
  (1038-62-29)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Self-normalized L\'{e}vy process distributional convergence at small times.
  Ross A Maller, Australian National University
  David M Mason*, University of Delaware
  (1038-60-09)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Empirical Process Invariance Principle for Markov Chains.
  Herold Dehling*, Ruhr-Universit\"at Bochum, Germany
  Olivier Durieu, Universit\'e de Rouen, France
  Dalibor Volny, Universit\'e de Rouen, France
  (1038-60-124)
- 4:30 p.m.
  What is Dependence?
  Wei B Wu*, University of Chicago
  (1038-60-94)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Isotonic regression with applications to global warming.
  Ou Zhao*, University of Michigan
  Michael Woodroofe, University of Michigan
  (1038-62-87)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A continuous spectral density for a random field of continuous-index.
  Jason T Shaw*, Truman State University
  (1038-60-144)

Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Weak Dependence in Probability and Statistics, III
Room 344, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Richard C. Bradley, Indiana University bradleyr@indiana.edu
Lahn T. Tran, Indiana University tran@indiana.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometric Ergodicity and beta-mixing Property for a Seasonal GARCH model with Periodic Coefficients.
  Oesook Lee*, Ewha Womans University, Department of Statistics
  (1038-60-111)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Spatial fixed design nonparametric regression.
  Soyeon Lee*, Occidental college
  (1038-62-163)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Density estimation by frequency polygons on random fields.
  Michel Carbon*, Rennes 2 University
  (1038-62-108)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Erd\"os-Renyi Law For Gibbs Markov Systems.
  M Denker*, Mathematische Stochastik, Universit\"at G\"ottingen
  (1038-60-70)

Sunday April 6, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Weak Dependence in Probability and Statistics, IV
Room 344, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Richard C. Bradley, Indiana University bradleyr@indiana.edu
Lahn T. Tran, Indiana University tran@indiana.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Weak Convergence of the Standard Empirical Process of Stationary Sequences.
  Juan Carlos Escanciano*, Indiana University, Economics Department
  (1038-60-135)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Conditional U-Statistics with Applications in Discriminant Analysis, ARMA Processes and Hidden Markov Models and Hidden Markov Models.
  Madan L Puri*, Indiana University, Bloomington,Indiana
  Michel Harel, C.N.R.S., Toulouse, France
  (1038-60-109)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Spectrum Estimation for Isotropic Intrinsically Stationary Spatial Processes.
  Chunfeng Huang*, Department of Statistics, Indiana University
  Tailen Hsing, University of MIchigan
  Noel Cressie, The Ohio State University
  (1038-62-140)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Hazard rate estimation on random fields.
  Jiexiang Li, College of Charleston, South Carolina
  Lanh T Tran*, Indiana University
  (1038-62-155)

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