Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit Seminar

The regular schedule for the seminar is on Wednesdays from 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM at the Conference Hall, 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 Conference Hall, New Building.
Unless otherwise mentioned, tea, coffee, and cake/snacks will be served in the lobby from half-and-hour before a talk starts.

Autumn 2007 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
July 24 Day: Tuesday	Eknath Ghate	TIFR, Mumbai	The Manifestation of Order in Error (Sato - Tate Conjecture)
July 25	Eknath Ghate	TIFR, Mumbai	The Manifestation of Order in Error (Sato - Tate Conjecture)
August 1	Isha Dewan	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	Testing for Equality of Two Competing Risks
August 8	Tulsi Dass	IIT, Kanpour	Noncommutative probability, noncommutative symplectic geometry and quantum mechanics
August 14 Day: Tuesday	Krishna B. Athreya	IISc, Bangalore and Iowa State University	On scaling limits of age dependent branching processes with Markovian motion
August 20 Day: Monday	K. B. Sinha	JNCASR, Bangalore	Unitary Independent Increment Processes on a Hilbert Tensor Algebra
August 22	Rashi Gupta	University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland	Basics of Microarrays and the role of Statistics in its processing
August 29	Rajat Mukherjee	Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi	Efficient Estimation in Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) models for Forward and Backward Recurrence Times
September 5	No Seminar	No Seminar	Cancelled in view of the Conference in honor of Professor Aloke Dey
September 12	No Seminar	No Seminar	Cancelled (Unit Meeting)
September 19 Venue: Seminar Room - 2	K. R. Parthasarathy	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	Neyman Pearson Theory in Quantam Statistics - I
September 25 Day: Tuesday Venue: Seminar Room - 2	Maneesh Thakur	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Bangalore	Real Elements in Groups and Relations with Representation Theory
September 26 Venue: Seminar Room - 2	K. R. Parthasarathy	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	Neyman Pearson Theory in Quantam Statistics - II
October 5 Stat Math Platinum Jubilee Lecture Day: Friday High Tea after talk at 4:30 PM	Boris Tsirelson	Department of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Israel	Scaling Limits
October 10	Ajit Iqbal Singh	Department of Mathematics, Delhi University	Liapounov's Convexity Theorem, Preservation of the range of a vector measure under shortenings of the domain and their quantized versions
October 17	Anima Nagar	Department of Mathematics, IIT, Delhi	Chaos on Intervals
October 22 Day: Monday Venue: Seminar Room - 2	K. R. Parthasarathy	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	Neyman Pearson Theory in Quantam Statistics - III
October 24 Venue: Seminar Room - 2	Amites Dasgupta	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Kolkata	Strong and weak limit theorems for certain urn models
October 30 Day: Tuesday Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Saurabh Ghosh	Human Genetics Unit, ISI, Kolkata	Complex Genetic Traits and Quantitative Endophenotypes: Model-free Linkage Approaches
October 31	Rahul Roy	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	Conformal invariance in percolation theory: Smirnov's theorem
November 7 Venue: Seminar Room - 2	Swagata Nandi	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	An efficient and fast algorithm for estimating the parameters of sinusoidal frequency model
November 14 Venue: Seminar Room - 2	R.V. Ramamoorthi	Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA	Nonparametric Bayesian approach to right censored data - I
November 21 Venue: Seminar Room - 2	R.V. Ramamoorthi	Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA	Nonparametric Bayesian approach to right censored data - II
November 28	Subhashis Ghoshal	Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA	Recipes of complex stochastic processes in Bayesian machine learning
December 6 Day: Thursday	Hermann Thorisson	University of Iceland	Taboo Stationarity

The Autumn Series will end on December 6, 2007.
The Spring Series will start in the second week of January, 2008.
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.
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Last modified November 13, 2007