Invited Speakers

Below is a list of invited and confirmed speakers. You can find a full schedule of events on the schedule page.

Speaker Topic/Title
Jeannie Hall, Melbourne, Australia "Private reflections"
Rudy Beran, UC Davis "On double bootstrap asymptotics"
Peter Bickel, UC Berkeley "The bootstrap in some novel environments"
Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania "Adaptive estimation of a planar convex set"
Song Xi Chen, Iowa State University and Peking University "Two-sample and ANOVA tests for high dimensional means"
Ming-Yen Cheng, National Taiwan University "A simple and adaptive two-sample test in high dimensions"
Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne "Methodology for nonparametric deconvolution when the error distribution is unknown"
Jianqing Fan, Princeton University "Guarding against spurious discoveries in high dimension"
Frédéric Ferraty, University of Toulouse "Variable selection in high-dimensional nonparametric regression setting"
Jiashun Jin, Carnegie Mellon University "Innovated higher criticism and statisticians’ networks"
Iain Johnstone, Stanford University "Eigenvalues and variance components"
Runze Li, Pennsylvania State University "Projection test for high-dimensional mean vectors with optimal direction"
Wenceslao Gonzalez Manteiga, University de Santiago de Compostela "Smoothing techniques for regression with directional data"
Steve Marron, University of North Carolina "High dimension low sample size asymptotics"
Byeong Park, Seoul National University "Smooth backfitting in errors-in-variables additive models"
Terry Speed, Melbourne and UC Berkeley "Some vignettes"
Matt Wand, University of Technology, Sydney "Fast approximate inference for arbitrarily large statistical models via message passing"
Alan Welsh, Australian National University "Early work on order statistics: research and teaching"
Fang Yao, University of Toronto "Mixture models and densities for functional data"