Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit Seminar

The regular schedule for the seminar is on Wednesdays from 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM at Seminar Room - 2, New Building.
The seminar series speakers will typically give two talks during the week of their visit. One talk will be scheduled on regular time. The time and venue for the other talk will be posted in advance.
Always the default time is 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM and the venue is Seminar Room - 2, New Building.
Tea, Coffee and snacks will be served in the lobby from half-and-hour before a talk starts.

Autumn 2006 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
September 26 (Tuesday)	B. L. S. Prakasa Rao	University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad	Instrumental variable estimation for linear stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion
September 27	B. L. S. Prakasa Rao	University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad	Some stochastic inequalities and stochastic identities
October 04	Antar Bandyopadhyay	Stat Math Unit, ISI, New Delhi	Hard-Core Model on Random Graphs
October 11 Venue : Conference Hall, New Building	M. G. Nadkarni	University of Bombay, Mumbai	Did Cantor Sow the Seed of Measure and Integral ?
October 12 (Thursday) Time : 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Venue : Conference Hall, New Building	M. G. Nadkarni	University of Bombay, Mumbai	What is Ergodic Theory About ?
October 17 (Tuesday)	Riddhi Shah	TIFR, Mumbai	Operator-semistable, Operator Semi-selfdecomposable Probability Measures and Related Nested Classes on $p$-adic Vector Spaces
October 18	Nabin Jana	Department of mathematics, Bijoy Krishna Girls' College, West Bengal	Generalized Random Energy Model and Some Open Problems
October 25	--	--	No seminar ! (Official holiday for Idu'l Fitr)
November 01	Anish Sarkar	Stat Math Unit, ISI, New Delhi	Convergence of sums of records
November 08	K. R. Parthasarathy	Stat Math Unit, ISI, New Delhi	A covariant quantum Birkhoff-von Neumann Theorem
November 10 (Friday)	Jayant V. Deshpande	University of Pune, Pune	Nonparametric tests for perfect judgement rankings
November 14 (Tuesday)	Jayant V. Deshpande	University of Pune, Pune	Some load sharing models for reliability and inference for them
November 21 (Tuesday)	S. Thangavelu	IISc, Bangalore	Random Matrices and Orthogonal Polynomial - I
November 22	S. Thangavelu	IISc, Bangalore	Random Matrices and Orthogonal Polynomial - II
November 29	--	--	No Seminar ! (Cancelled for the First ISI Lectures on Probability and Stochastic Processes)
December 06	--	--	No Seminar ! (Cancelled for the Conference in honor of Professor K. B. Sinha)
December 13	G. G. Katona	Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary	TBA

The Autumn Series will end on December 13, 2006.
The Winter Series will start from January 10, 2006.
Please contact Antar Bandyopadhyay if you are interested to give a talk, or want to get the regular notice for the seminars by e-mail.
Click here for the official web-page for the seminars.

Last modified October 31, 2006