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.

Spring 2010 Schedule

Upcoming Seminars:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)

Past Seminars:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
January 6	Manas Ranjan Tripathy	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	Estimation of a Common Mean and Quantile of Two Normal Populations
January 12 Day: Tuesday	Rahul Mukerjee	Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata	Probability Matching Priors for Two-Sided Tolerance Intervals in Balanced Random Effects Models
January 13	Rahul Mukerjee	Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata	A Trigonometric Approach to Quaternary Code Designs with Application to One-Eighth and One-Sixteenth Fractions
January 20	Kaneenika Sinha	PIMS, University of Alberta, Canada	Factoring Jacobians of Certain Modular Curves
January 27	Antar Bandyopadhyay	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi	On the One Dimensional Critical "Learning from the Neighbours" Model
February 3	K. R. Parthasarathy	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	On the philosophy of Cramer-Rao-Bhattacharya Inequalities in Quantum Statistics
February 10	Amit Bhaya	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro	The Controlled Conjugate Gradient Trajectory-Following Algorithm for Minimization of Non-convex Functions
February 17	Balram S. Rajput	University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA	Asymptotic Dependence Behavior of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Semi-Stable Processes
February 24	Deepayan Sarkar	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi	Modeling Data From High-Throughput ChIP-Seq Experiments
March 3	Jayaram Sethuraman	Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA	Distributions of Patterns in Occurrences and Non-Occurrences of Special Events
March 10	Haasan Doosti	Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran	Linear Wavelet-Based Estimation for Derivative of a Density Under Random Censorship
March 17	Satadal Ganguly	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai	Large Sieve Inequalities
March 24	--	--	No Seminar (Holiday)
March 31	Arunava Sen	Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi	Incentive-Compatible Voting Rules with Positively Correlated Beliefs
April 7	Ghurumuruhan Ganesan	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi	Two properties of the Random Partitions of an Integer
April 14	--	--	No Seminar (Holiday)
April 21	Rajendra Bhatia	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi	Min Matrices and Mean Matrices
April 28	Amritanshu Prasad	Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	The Combinatorics of Finite Abelian Groups

The Spring 2010 Series will end on April 29, 2010 unless otherwise notified.
The Autumn 2010 Series will tentatively start from the second week of August 2010.
Please contact Antar Bandyopadhyay if you are interested to give a talk on topics from mathematics and Deepayan Sarkar if you want to talk on topics from statistics.
Click here for the official web-page for the seminars.
Click here for the past and future seminars.
Click here for the direction to reach ISI, Delhi Centre.

Last modified April 28, 2010