Stochastic Colloquium: complete schedule

Past talks

• 08.05.2013: Prof. Dr. Holger Drees (Universität Hamburg)
  Title: Extremal serial dependence of time series (Abstract)
  
• 09.01.2013: Prof. Natalia Stepanova (Carleton University, Ontario, Canada)
  Title: Variable selection in nonparametric sparse regression (Abstract)
  
• 19.12.2012: Prof. Matthias Birkner (Universität Mainz)
  Title: Ancestry in locally regulated populations (Abstract)
  
• 12.12.2012: Prof. Piet Groeneboom (University of Technology, Delft)
  Title: Nonparametric estimation under shape constraints (Abstract)
  
• 21.11.2012: Prof. Ingrid Van Keilegom (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
  Title: Semiparametric transformation model with endogeneity: a control function approach (Abstract)
  
• 07.11.2012: Prof. Chris Holmes (University of Oxford)
  Title: Decision theoretic decoding of Hidden Markov Models with applications to signal segmentation in cancer genomics (Abstract)
  
• 11.07.2012: Prof. Volkmar Liebscher (Universität Greifswald)
  Title: Komplexitätsbestrafte L1-Regression (Abstract)
  
• 27.06.2012: Prof. Vlada Limic (CNRS Marseille)
  Title: Counting mutations on exchangeable coalescent trees (Abstract)
  
• 06.06.2012: Prof. Wolfgang König (WIAS Berlin/TU Berlin)
  Title: Ordered random walks (Abstract)
  
• 31.05.2012: Prof. Andrew Stuart (University of Warwick)
  Title: The Bayesian Approach to Inverse Problems
  
• 30.05.2012: Prof. Andrew Stuart (University of Warwick)
  Title: The Bayesian Approach to Inverse Problems
  
• 29.05.2012: Prof. Andrew Stuart (University of Warwick)
  Title: The Bayesian Approach to Inverse Problems
  
• 09.05.2012: Prof. Holger Dette (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
  Title: Of Copulas, Quantiles, Ranks and Spectra an L1-Approach to Spectral Analysis (Abstract)
  
• 03.05.2012: Dr. Robert Knobloch (Universität Frankfurt)
  Title: Killed fragmentations and the FKPP equation (Abstract)
  
• 25.04.2012: Prof. Jérémie Bigot (Université Paul-Sabatier, France)
  Title: Minimax properties of Fréchet means in deformable models for curve registration and image warping (Abstract)
  
• 01.03.2012: Dr. Richard Nickl (Cambridge University)
  Title: A Donsker Theorem for Lévy Measures (Abstract)
  
• 29.02.2012: Dr. Dominic Schuhmacher (Universität Bern)
  Title: Distance Methods for Point Processes (Abstract)
  
• 29.02.2012: Prof. Dr. Jochen Blath (TU Berlin)
  Title: Longterm Properties of the Symbiotic Branching Model (Abstract)
  
• 01.02.2012: Dr. Arne Kovac (University of Bristol)
  Title: Penalised regression on a graph (Abstract)
  
• 25.01.2012: Prof. Dr. Andreas Futschik (Universität Wien)
  Title: Why some commonly population genetic estimates are inadmissible and how to improve them by shrinkage (Abstract)
  
• 18.01.2012: Prof. Dr. Claudia Czado (TU München)
  Title: Count regression: models, estimation and selection (Abstract)
  
• 11.01.2012: Prof. Dr. Gerda Claeskens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
  Title: Goodness-of-fit tests for the frailty distribution in proportional hazards models with shared frailty (Abstract)
  
• 21.12.2011: Prof. Dr. Peter Pfaffelhuber (Universität Freiburg)
  Title: Wie schnell klickt Müllers Ratsche? (Abstract)
  
• 14.12.2011: Prof. Roger Koenker (University of Illinois)
  Title: Shape Constraints, Compound Decisions and Empirical Bayes Rules
  
• 07.12.2011: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Grübel (Universität Hannover)
  Title: Combinatorial Markov Chains (Abstract)
  
• 16.11.2011: Prof. Dr. Markus Grasmair (Universität Wien)
  Title: Convergence rates for convex Tikhonov regularisation (Abstract)
  
• 09.11.2011: Prof. Dr. Gilles Blanchard (Universität Potsdam)
  Title: On optimal rates for nonparametric regression via kernel partial least squares regularization (Abstract)
  
• 21.09.2011: Prof. Steve Marron (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  Title: Object Oriented Data Analysis (Abstract)
  
• 15.06.2011: Prof. Dr. John H.J. Einmahl (Tilburg University)
  Title: Bridging centrality and extremity: refining sample data depth using extreme value theory (Abstract)
  
• 08.06.2011: Prof. Dr. Nina Gantert (Universität Münster)
  Title: Einstein relation for reversible random motions in random environment (Abstract)
  
• 25.05.2011: Prof. Dr. Anita Winter (Universität Essen-Duisburg)
  Title: The Aldous move on cladograms (Abstract)
  
• 18.05.2011: Prof. Dr. Peter Jupp (University of St. Andrews )
  Title: Delights of directional statistics: (a) free-lunch learning (b) crystals, earthquakes and orthogonal axial frames (Abstract)
  
• 11.05.2011: Dr. Christina Goldschmidt (University of Warwick)
  Title: Self-similar fragmentations with negative index near their extinction time (Abstract)
  
• 09.05.2011: Prof. Wenbo Li (University of Delaware)
  Title: Small Value Probabilities and Branching Processes (Abstract)
  
• 04.05.2011: Dr. Patricia Reynaud-Bouret (Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France)
  Title: Hawkes process as models for some genomic data (Abstract)
  
• 09.02.2011: Prof. Dr. Mathieu Rosenbaum (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
  Title: Asymptotic results for time-changed Lévy processes sampled at hitting times (Abstract)
  
• 19.01.2011: Siegfried Hörmann (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  Title: Functional principal component analysis for sequential and spatial data (Abstract)
  
• 01.12.2010: Dr. Richard Samworth (Cambridge University, UK)
  Title: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a Multidimensional Log-Concave Density (Abstract)
  
• 10.11.2010: Prof. Dr. Oscar Sheynin (Berlin)
  Title: Russian Probability: The Background (Abstract)
  
• 23.06.2010: Dr. Richard Nickl (Cambridge University, UK)
  Title: Adaptive Confidence Bands (Abstract)
  
• 19.05.2010: Prof. Dr. Hannes Leeb (Universität Wien)
  Title: Shrinkage Estimation of a Univariate Normal Mean (Abstract)
  
• 13.01.2010: Prof. Dr. Daniel Potts (TU Chemnitz)
  Title: Fast Fourier transform at nonequispaced knots and applications (Abstract)
  
• 16.12.2009: Florian Gach (Universität Wien)
  Title: Efficiency in Indirect Inference (Abstract)
  
• 25.11.2009: Dr. Jan Swart (Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the ASCR, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
  Title: Stochastic flows in the Brownian web and net. (Abstract)
  
• 20.11.2009: Alexandre Tsybakov (Université Paris VI)
  Title: Sparse exponential weighting and matrix recovery
  
• 18.11.2009: Alexandre Tsybakov (Université Paris VI )
  Title: Basic problems of recovery of sparse vectors
  
• 28.10.2009: Prof. Dr. Victor M. Panaretos (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  Title: Second-Order Functional Comparison of DNA Minicircles (Abstract)
  
• 08.07.2009: Dr. Mathias Vetter (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
  Title: Inference for Semimartingales Observed at High Frequency (Abstract)
  
• 17.06.2009: Prof. Marc Hoffmann (École Nationale de la Statistique et de l Administration Économique, Paris)
  Title: Financial data modelling across temporal scales: some remarks from the point of view of statistical information. Part III (Abstract)
  
• 10.06.2009: Prof. Marc Hoffmann (École Nationale de la Statistique et de l Administration Économique, Paris)
  Title: Financial data modelling across temporal scales: some remarks from the point of view of statistical information. Part I (Abstract)
  
• 22.04.2009: Prof. Dr. Laurent Cavalier (Université Aix-Marseille 1 )
  Title: Risk Hull Methods for Inverse Problems (Abstract)
  
• 21.01.2009: Professor Dr. Aad van der Vaart (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  Title: Some frequentist results about posterior distributions on infinite-dimensional parameter spaces (Abstract)
  
• 14.01.2009: Dr. Ulrike Schneider (Universität Wien)
  Title: On the Distribution of the Adaptive LASSO Estimator (Abstract)
  
• 07.01.2009: Prof. Dr. Nathalie Neumeyer (Universität Hamburg)
  Title: Bootstrap Methods in Statistics (Abstract)
  
• 07.11.2008: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Hautsch (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  Title: Modelling Financial High-Frequency Data (Abstract)
  
• 09.07.2008: Dr. Karsten Keller (University of Lübeck)
  Title: Distribution of ordinal patterns (Abstract)
  
• 02.07.2008: Dr. Mark Podolskij (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
  Title: Inference for Quadratic Variation of Semimartingales in the Presence of Noise (Abstract)
  
• 14.05.2008: Prof. Dr. Daniel Cremers (University of Bonn)
  Title: Shape Priors and Image Segmentation: Towards Combinatorial Solutions (Abstract)
  
• 07.05.2008: Prof. Dr. Marc Hoffmann (University of Paris)
  Title: The generic problem of estimating the smmothness of a blurred signal (Abstract)
  
• 23.04.2008: Prof. Dr. A. Futschik (University of Vienna)
  Title: Statistical Methods for Quantitative Trait Localization Based on Genome Data (Abstract)
  
• 09.04.2008: Prof. Dr. Laurent Cavalier (Université Aix-Marseille 1)
  Title: Oracle inequalities in inverse problems (Abstract)
  
• 18.07.2007: Prof. Dr. Norbert Schappacher (Universität Straßburg)
  Title: Felix Bernstein - Bemerkungen zu Leben und Werk (Abstract)
  
• 11.07.2007: Prof. Dr. Hans Rudolf Künsch (ETH Zürich)
  Title: Statistik für Atmosphäre und Klima: Ensemble-Methoden und zeitvariiende Parameter (Abstract)
  
• 30.05.2007: Prof. Dr. Rainer von Sachs (Universite catholique de Louvain)
  Title: A multiscale approach for statistical characterization of functional images (Abstract)
  
• 11.04.2007: Prof. Dr. Olaf Wittich (TU Eindhoven)
  Title: Brownian Motion conditioned to Submanifolds (Abstract)
  
• 22.02.2007: Prof. Dr. Peter Kim (University of Guelph, CA)
  Title: On the Statistics of Hermann Weyl and Harish-Chandra (Abstract)
  
• 06.12.2006: Prof. Dr. Cecilia Mancini (Universität Florenz)
  Title: Threshold estimation of jump-diffusion models and interest rate modelling (Abstract)
  
• 22.11.2006: Prof. Dr. Benedikt Poetscher (Universität Wien)
  Title: Model Selection and Inference (Abstract)
  
• 05.07.2006: Prof. Dr. Robert Bauer (University of Illinois)
  Title: Missing the hole: Conformally invariant random curves in ring domains, Missing the hole: Conformally invariant random curves in ring domains, elliptic functions, and random simple loops (Abstract)
  
• 14.06.2006: Prof. Dr. Walter Philipp (University of Illinois)
  Title: Entropy conditions for subsequences of random variables with (Abstract)
  
• 31.05.2006: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Stadtmüller (Universität Ulm)
  Title: Functional Variance Processes and Applications (Abstract)
  
• 24.05.2006: Dr. Samuel Müller (Universität Bern)
  Title: Model selection in regression type models (Abstract)
  
• 15.02.2006: Dr. Gilles Blanchard (FIRST Berlin)
  Title: Oracle inequalities and exact algorithm for dyadic decision trees (Abstract)
  
• 01.02.2006: Prof. Dr. Mariusz Lemanczyk (Universitaet Torun)
  Title: Smooth flows on surfaces and systems of probability origin
  
• 25.01.2006: Prof. Dr. Jose Manuel Corcuera (Universitaet Barcelona)
  Title: Power variation analysis of some integral (Abstract)
  
• 14.12.2005: PD Dr. Alexander Lindner (TU Muenchen)
  Title: Lévy copulas: dynamics and construction of Lévy measures with prescribed properties (Abstract)
  
• 30.11.2005: Prof. Dr. Joachim Weickert (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken)
  Title: What can we learn from two and four pixels ? (Abstract)
  
• 16.11.2005: Prof. Dr. Peter Imkeller (Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin)
  Title: Lévy noise induced transitions (Abstract)
  
• 09.11.2005: Prof. Dr. Sergiy Kolyada (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
  Title: On Li-Yorke sensitivity and various concepts of chaos (Abstract)
  
• 02.11.2005: Prof. Dr. Ursula Gather (Universität Dortmund)
  Title: Model selection and examples: histogram construction, nonparametric regression (Abstract)
  
• 08.07.2005: Prof. Dr. Stephen M. Stigler (University of Chicago)
  Title: Maximizing Likelihood, From Lambert and Lagrange to Fisher and LeCam (Abstract)
  
• 29.06.2005: Prof. Dr. Holger Drees (Universität Hamburg)
  Title: Modelling Extremal Dependence (Abstract)
  
• 22.06.2005: Dr. Christian Hafner (Universität Rotterdam)
  Title: Semiparametric multivariate volatility models (Abstract)
  
• 15.06.2005: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Fahrmeir (LMU München)
  Title: Structured Additive Regression (Abstract)
  
• 01.06.2005: Prof. Dr. Laurie Davis (Universität Essen)
  Title: Approximating Data (Abstract)
  
• 25.05.2005: Prof. Dr. Ludger Rueschendorf (Universität Freiburg)
  Title: On the ordering of option prices (Abstract)
  
• 11.05.2005: Prof. Dr. Chris Klaassen (Universität Amsterdam)
  Title: Semiparametric transformation models (Abstract)
  
• 27.04.2005: Prof. Dr. Christoph Kühn (Universität Frankfurt)
  Title: Convertible bonds in jump-diffusion models (Abstract)
  
• 20.04.2005: Dr. Peter Mathe (WIAS Berlin)
  Title: Uniform function estimation under general smoothness (Abstract)
  
• 09.03.2005: Jon A. Wellner (University of Washington, Seattle)
  Title: Goodness of Fit via Pointwise Likelihood Ratios: Some Results of Berk and Jones Revisited (Abstract)
  
• 02.02.2005: Dr. Fadoua Balabdaoui (Universität Göttingen)
  Title: Nonparametric estimation of a k-monotone density: A new asymptotic distribution theory (Abstract)
  
• 26.01.2005: Prof. Dr. Enno Mammen (Universität Mannheim)
  Title: Quantiles and Averages: Another Look on Nonseparable Models with an Application to Demand (Abstract)
  
• 05.01.2005: Prof. Dr. Vladimir Spokoiny (WIAS Berlin)
  Title: Spatial stagewise aggregation with applications to regression and density estimation and classification (Abstract)
  
• 15.12.2004: Prof. Dr. Michael Scheutzow (TU Berlin)
  Title:
  
• 08.12.2004: Prof. Dr. Ildar Ibragimov (St. Petersburg)
  Title: On the estimation of analytic functions
  
• 03.11.2004: Dr. Stephan Huckemann (Universität Kassel)
  Title: Principal Component Analysis for Shape Spaces Based on Geodesics (Abstract)
  
• 27.10.2004: Prof. Dr. Davy Paindaveine (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  Title: Optimal Rank-Based Tests for Sphericity (Abstract)
  
• 29.07.2004: Dr. V. Liebscher (Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry Neuherberg)
  Title: Variationelle Ansätze zur Sprungerhaltenden Glättung und Nichtlineare Approximation (Abstract)
  
• 21.07.2004: Prof. Dr. Youri Davydov (Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille)
  Title: Strictly stable distributions on convex cones (Abstract)
  
• 14.07.2004: Prof. Dr. M. Pawlak (University of Manitoba)
  Title: NON-PARAMETRIC FUNCTION ESTIMATION DEFINED ON A CONVEX DOMAIN (Abstract)
  
• 30.06.2004: Dr. Lorens Imhof (RWTH Aachen)
  Title: Stochastische Modelle in der evolutionären Spieltheorie (Abstract)
  
• 23.06.2004: Prof. Dr. Arnold Janssen (Universität Düsseldorf)
  Title: Globale Gütefunktion für Anpassungstests: lokale Alternativen versus nicht benachbarte Alternativen (Abstract)
  
• 02.06.2004: Prof. Anil K. Jain (Michigan State University)
  Title: Biometric Recognition: How Do I Know Who You Are? (Abstract)
  
• 19.05.2004: Prof. Dr. Sara van de Geer (University of Leiden)
  Title: Adaptive methods in classification (Abstract)
  
• 05.05.2004: Alexander Danilov (Universität St. Petersburg)
  Title: Asymptotically minimax problems of testing a simple hypothesis against nonparametric alternatives
  
• 04.02.2004: Prof. Dr. Gerda Claeskens (Texas A&M University)
  Title: t.b.a.
  
• 30.01.2004: Prof. Dr. Michael Neumann (Institut für Mathematische Stochastik, TU Braunschweig)
  Title: t.b.a.
  
• 19.01.2004: Prof. Dr. Joachim Buhmann (ETH Zürich)
  Title: Statistical Models for Image Segmentation and Clustering in Computer Vision (Abstract)
  
• 14.01.2004: Dr. Jörg Polzehl (Weierstraß-Institute für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, Berlin)
  Title: Structural adaptive smoothing methods (Abstract)
  
• 16.12.2003: Prof. Dr. Steffen Rohde (University of Washington, Seattle)
  Title: The Loewner Differential Equation and Stochastic Processes (Abstract)
  
• 03.12.2003: Dr. E. A. Cator (Technische Universiteit Delft)
  Title: On the testability of the CAR assumption (Abstract)
  
• 09.07.2003: Prof. Steven Portnoy (University of Illinois)
  Title: Nonparametric regression quantiles
  
• 02.07.2003: Prof. Steven Portnoy (University of Illinois)
  Title: Some theory for regression quantiles: Bahadur representation
  
• 25.06.2003: Prof. Dr. Michael Dellnitz (Universität Paderborn)
  Title: Set oriented numerical methods in space mission design
  
• 16.06.2003: Dr. Uta Freiberg (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
  Title: Spectral asymptotics of Laplacians on fractals
  
• 05.06.2003: Prof. Isaac Kornfeld (North Dakota State University)
  Title: Measurable coboundaries and topological Kakutani-Rokhlin multitowers
  
• 04.06.2003: Prof. Dr. Gesine Reinert (University of Oxford)
  Title: t.b.a.
  
• 28.05.2003: Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Simon (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
  Title: On the Smallest Dimension and the Largest Margin of Linear Arrangements for Matrices (Abstract)
  
• 12.02.2003: PD Dr. Michael Kohler (Universität Stuttgart)
  Title: Nonasymptotic bounds on the L_2 error of neural network regression estimates. (Abstract)
  
• 05.02.2003: Dr. O. Wittich (Institute für Biomathematik und Biometrie, München)
  Title: Potts Model and Discontinuities in 1-dim Data (Abstract)
  
• 29.01.2003: Prof. Dr. H. Dette (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
  Title: Optimal designs for polynomials, continued fractions and some applications to random matrices (Abstract)
  
• 15.01.2003: Prof. Dr. J.-P. Kreiss (Universität Braunschweig)
  Title: Autoregressive Aided Periodogram Bootstrap for Time Series. (Abstract)
  
• 08.01.2003: Dmitriy Zaporozhets (St. Petersburg State University)
  Title: On Random Algebraic Structures. (Abstract)
  
• 07.01.2003: Prof. A. Frolov (St. Petersburg State University)
  Title: Universal strong laws for increments of sums of i.i.d. random variables. (Abstract)
  
• 04.12.2002: Dr. R. Simon (Universität Göttingen)
  Title: Two-person stochastic games with infinitely many states.
  
• 27.11.2002: Prof. Dr. H. Ziezold (Universität Kassel)
  Title: Some Statistical Procedures in Shape Analysis
  
• 06.11.2002: Prof. Dr. U. Stadtmüller (Universität Ulm)
  Title: Generalized linear models with functional data
  
• 23.10.2002: Dr. ir. G. Jongbloed (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  Title: The support reduction algorithm for computing nonparametric M-estimators in mixture models (Abstract)