Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit Seminar

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

Autumn 2009 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
August 12	Abhay G. Bhatt	Theoretical Staististics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	The Innovations Conjecture of Nonlinear Filtering
August 19	Sreekar Vadlamani	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Bangalore	An infinite dimensional approach to study the geometry of random fields
August 26	Anirban Basak	ISI, Kolkata	Large Dimensional Random Matrices
September 2	Amitabha Bagchi	IIT, Delhi	Hierarchical neighbor graphs: A low stretch connected structure for points in Euclidean space
September 8 Day: Tuesday	Kalyan B. Sinha	IISc, Bangalore	Trotter Product Formula for Quantum Stochastic Flows
September 16	Amitabha Bose	JNU and New Jersy's Science and Technology University	Predicting neuronal dynamics through one-dimensional maps
September 23	Amites Dasgupta	Theoretical Staististics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Kolkata	Geometry of the Poisson Boolean model on a region of logarithmic width in the plane
September 30	Massimo Franceschetti	University of California, San Diego, USA	Random Networks for Communication
October 7	--	--	No Seminar because of a Conference in JNU
October 14	Sungchul Lee	Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea	CLT of the Linear Placement Statistics
October 21	Rahul Roy	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	The Fairness of Fair Games
October 28	Partha Sarathi Chakraborty	Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Non-Commutative Geometry of Quantum Spheres
November 4	--	--	No Seminar
November 11	Sanjay Chaudhuri	National University of Singapore, Singapore	An Empirical Likelihood Based Approach to Incorporate Sampling Weights and Population Level Information
November 18	Krishna B. Athreya	Iwoa State University, USA and IISc, Bangalore	The Last Common Ancestor Problem
November 25	--	--	No Seminar because of LPS IV and Probability Conferences in ISI, Delhi
December 2	Richard Burnham	University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK	Identifiability for Generalised Competing Risk Models in Reliability
December 8 Day: Tuesday	Shmuel Friedland	University of Illinois at Chicago, USA	Matchings, permanents and their random approximations
December 9	Shmuel Friedland	University of Illinois at Chicago, USA	Theoretical and computational methods in statistical mechanics
December 14 Day: Monday	Satyaki Mazumder	University of Texas, Dallas, USA	Exponential Inequality and Bahadur Representations for the MAD and Applications

The Autumn Series will end on December 14, 2009 unless otherwise notified.
The Spring Series will tentatively start from the FIRST week of January 2010.
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 December 16, 2009