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 - 1, 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 - 1, New Building.
Unless otherwise mentioned, tea, coffee, and cake/snacks will be served in the lobby from half-and-hour before a talk starts.

Spring 2008 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
January 2 Venue: Conference Hall	Sanjay Chaudhuri	National University of Singapore, Singapore	Estimation of the Minimum Mean of Normal Population under the Tree Order Restriction
January 3 Day: Thursday Venue: Conference Hall	Gyan Prakash	Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad	Clique Number of Random Cayley Graphs and the Number of Sets with Small Difference Set
January 9 Venue: SQC Seminar Room, Second Floor, Faculty Building	Subhash Kochar	Portland State University, Portland, USA	Dependence orderings and their applications
January 16 Venue: Conference Hall	Daniel Wulbert	University of California, San Diego, USA	A Unified Liapanouv Theorem
January 17 Day: Thursday Venue: Seminar Room - 2	Dalibor Volny	Universite 'de Rouen, France	Martingale Approximation and Limit Theorems: Choice of the Filtration
January 21 Day: Monday Venue: Conference Hall	Fabrizio Ruggeri	CNR IMATI, Milan, Italy	Recent Developments in Bayesian Reliability
January 24 Stat Math IInd Platinum Jubilee Lecture Day: Thursday Venue: Conference Hall (High Tea after talk at 4:30 PM)	Joseph A. Thas	University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	Generalized Hexagons and Singer Geometries
January 30 Venue: Seminar Room - 2	Amites Dasgupta	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Kolkata	Strong and Weak Limit Theorems for Certain Urn Models - II
February 6 Venue: Seminar Room - 2	Rajendra Bhatia	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	The Logarithmic and the Gaussian Means
February 12 Day: Tuesday Venue: Conference Hall	Jayanta K. Ghosh	Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA	Can We Have Objective Priors in Bayesian Analysis in Statistics?
February 13 Venue: Conference Hall	Jayanta K. Ghosh	Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA	Convergence of Newton's Algorithm for Estimating a Mixing Distribution
February 19 Day: Tuesday Venue: Conference Hall	Hrushikesh N. Mhaskar	California State University, Los Angeles, USA	Learning Functions on the Sphere
February 22 Day: Friday Venue: Conference Hall	Ludwig Streit	University of Bielefeld, ZIF, and University of Madeira	White Noise Analysis and Path Integrals. Recent Results and Open Problems
February 27 Venue: Conference Hall	B. Rajeev	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Bangalore	Probabilistic Representations of Solutions of the Forward Equation
March 5 Venue: Conference Hall	Peter Semrl	University of Ljubljana, Slovenia	Maps on Matrix and Operator Algebras
March 12 Venue: Conference Hall	David Gamarnik	MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, USA	Correlation Decay and Applications to the Problems of Combinatorial Enumeration and Optimization
March 19 Venue: Conference Hall	Baha-Eldin Khaledi	Razi University, Iran	Stochastic Ordering Between Order Statistics Using the Notion of Majorization
March 20 Day: Thursday Venue: Conference Hall	Amiya Mukherjee	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Kolkata	Rational Pontryagin Classes
March 26 Venue: Conference Hall	T. Krishnan	Cranes Software International Limited, Bangalore	Data Analysis with Missing Values
April 1 Day: Tuesday Venue: Seminar Room - 2	Govindan Rangarajan	Department of Mathematics, IISc, Bangalore	Time Series Analysis Using Nonparametric Granger Causality
April 2 Venue: Conference Hall	Govindan Rangarajan	Department of Mathematics, IISc, Bangalore	Synchronized Chaos and Generalized Turing Patterns in Coupled Dynamical Systems
April 11 Day: Friday Venue: Seminar Room - 1	Anupam Kumar Singh	Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	Conjugacy Classes of Centralizers in Algebraic Groups
April 15 Day: Tuesday Venue: Seminar Room - 1	Onkar Dabeer	TIFR, Mumbai	An Overview of Single and Multiuser Information Theory
April 16 Venue: Seminar Room - 1	Onkar Dabeer	TIFR, Mumbai	How Much Can We Push Uncoordinated Access ?
April 23 Venue: Seminar Room - 1	Mausumi Bose	Applied Statistics Unit, ISI, Kolkata	Visual Cryptographic Schemes using Combinatorial Designs: Construction and Optimality
April 30 Venue: Seminar Room - 2	Maneesh Thakur	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	Rationality Properties of Algebraic Groups
May 7 Venue: Seminar Room - 2	Sreekar Vadlamani	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Bangalore	On the Diffusion of Shape
May 14 Venue: Seminar Room - 2	Rahul Roy	Stat Math Unit, ISI, Delhi	Brownian Web and Poisson Trees

The Spring Series will end on May 14, 2008.
The Autumn Series will start from the third week of July, 2008.
Please contact Maneesh Thakur 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 21, 2008