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.
Unless otherwise mentioned, tea, coffee and snacks will be served in the lobby from half-and-hour before a talk starts.

Spring 2007 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
January 17	Antar Bandyopadhyay	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	Random Walk in Dynamic Markovian Random Environment
January 22 (Monday) P. C. Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture 2007 Venue: Conference Hall, New Building Note: Tea, coffee and snacks at 4:30 PM.	Mike Titterington	University of Glasgow	Variational Approximations in Incomplete-Data Problems
January 29 (Monday) Venue: Conference Hall, New Building	Rajeeva Karandikar	Cranes Software	Importance of "Randomness" in Cryptography
February 6 (Tuesday) Time: 4:00 -- 5:00 PM Note: Tea, coffee and snacks at 3:30 PM	Jayaram Sethuraman	Florida State University	Nonparametric Bayesian Methods - I
February 7	Jayaram Sethuraman	Florida State University	Nonparametric Bayesian Methods - II
February 13 (Tuesday)	M. S. Narasimhan	TIFR, Bangalore	Affine Kac-Moody algebras and Riemann surfaces
February 14	Arup Kumar Pal	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	Brief Overview of Noncommutative Geometry
February 21	Aloke Dey	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	Allocating Factors to the Columns of an Orthogonal Array when Certain Interactions are Important
February 28 Venue: Conference Hall, New Building	Rahul Roy	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	Coverage of Space by Random Sets
March 5 (Monday) Venue: Conference Hall, New Building	Krishanu Maulik	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Calcutta	Maximum of some Triangular Exchangeable Sequences
March 7	Siva Athreya	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Bangalore	Conditioned super-Brownian motion
March 14 Venue: Conference Hall, New Building	Abhay G. Bhatt	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	A Hille-Yossida type theorem for generators of Markov processes
March 21 Venue: Conference Hall, New Building	Rashi Gupta	University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland	Problems with Gene Expression Data and Solutions under the Bayesian Framework
March 28	Alfonso Montes-Rodrudguez	Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain	Cyclic Composition Operators
March 29 (Thursday) Time: 3:00 -- 4:00 PM Note: Tea, coffee at 4:00 PM Venue: Conference Hall, New Building	Youngjo Lee	Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea	Double Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models
April 4	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar
April 10 (Tuesday) Venue: Conference Hall, New Building	Tathagata Bandyopadhyay	IIM, Ahmedabad	Inference on Categorical Survey Response: A Predictive Approach
April 11 Venue: Seminar Room - 1, New Building	Tathagata Bandyopadhyay	IIM, Ahmedabad	Optimal Microarray Designs for cDNA Microarray Experiments
April 17 (Tuesday) Venue: Conference Hall, New Building	Mokshay Madiman	TIFR, Mumbai and Department of Statistics, Yale University, USA	Information inequalities: interpretations and applications
April 18 Venue: Conference Hall, New Building	Mokshay Madiman	TIFR, Mumbai and Department of Statistics, Yale University, USA	Entropy power inequalities and monotonicity in central limit theorems
April 25 Venue: Conference Hall, New Building	R. B. Bapat	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	Spectrum and Energy of a Graph
May 2	No Seminar	No Seminar	Holiday
May 9	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar
May 17 (Thursday) Venue: Conference Hall, New Building	Sanjay Chaudhuri	National University of Singapore, Singapore	A two-step Empirical Likelihood based approach for combining sample and population data in Generalised Linear Models
May 22 (Tuesday)	Josep Lluis Sole	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain	On the polynomials associated with a levy process

The Spring Series will end on May 22, 2007.
The Autumn Series will start from July 24, 2007.
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 May 18, 2007