ISI-ISM-ISSAS Joint Conference, 2017

February 19

9:30am - 10:00am

Opening

10:00am - 11:30am

Session 1 (Chair: Rahul Roy)

Hironori Fujisawa, ISM

Robust and Sparse Regression Modelling

Ci-Ren Jiang, ISSAS

Sensible Functional Linear Discriminant Analysis

Swagata Nandi, ISI

Estimating the fundamental frequency using modified Newton-Raphson algorithm

11:30am - 12:00noon

Tea/Coffee Break

12:00noon - 1:00pm

Poster Session (Chair: Yasmeen Akhtar)

Mansi Garg, ISI

On U-statistics based on associated random variables

Partha Pratim Ghosh, ISI

Characterization of Extreme Copulas

Zhongliang Guo, ISM

Statistical significance of conditional main effects in molecular properties

Jayant Jha, ISI

Regression On A Unit Sphere

Gursharn Kaur, ISI

Negatively Reinforced Urn Models

Kaustav Nandy, ISI

Estimation of Kernel Size from Blurred Images

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Lunch (Guest house lawn)

2:45pm - 7:00pm

Visiting Rashtrapati Bhawan (The Presidential Palace complex)

Museum tour between 3:30pm and 5:00pm. Meeting with the Honourable President of India, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee in the visitors chamber at 6:15pm.

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Welcome Dinner at Oh! Calcutta (Nehru Place)

February 20

9:30am - 11:00am

Session 2 (Chair: Daichi Mochihashi)

Yuya Ariyoshi, ISM

Space Debris Modelling for Sustainable Space Utilization

Jing-Shiang Hwang, ISSAS

Detecting the spread of personal mood through networks using online contact diaries

Anil K. Ghosh, ISI

Multi-scale Classification Using Localized Spatial Depth

11:00am - 11:30am

Tea/Coffee Break

11:30am - 1:00pm

Session 3 (Chair: Shuhei Mano)

Su-Yun Huang, ISSAS

On the weak convergence and Central Limit Theorem of blurring and nonblurring processes with application to robust location estimation

Shogo Kato, ISM

Some properties of a family of distributions on the sphere related to the Möbius transformation

Anish Sarkar, ISI

Towards finer result about learning from neighbour model

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Lunch (Guest house lawn)

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Session 4 (Chair: Hironori Fujisawa)

Arijit Chakrabarty, ISI

Asymptotic behaviour of Gaussian minima

Krishanu Maulik, ISI

Strong Law for Urn Models with Random Replacement Matrices

Daichi Mochihashi, ISM

The Infinite Tree Hidden Markov Model

4:00pm - 4:30pm

Tea/Coffee Break

4:30pm - 6:00pm

Session 5 (Chair: Junji Nakano)

Hsuan-Yu Chen, ISSAS

Applications of Bioinformatics in Precision Medicine

Saurabh Ghosh, ISI

Effect of Population Stratification on Powers of Association Tests for Quantitative Traits

Masao Ueki, Kurume University, Japan

Rapid and accurate genetic predictive modelling for large-scale genetic study

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Conference dinner at Mandarin Court (Katwaria Sarai)

February 21

9:30am - 11:00am

Session 6 (Chair: Tso-Jung Yen)

Antar Bandyopadhyay, ISI

Generalized Pólya Urn Schemes With Negative But Linear Reinforcements

Chi-Lun Cheng, ISSAS

Two Problems in Measurement Error Models

Shuhei Mano, ISM

Multiplicative measures on partitions and A-hypergeometric system

11:00am - 11:30am

Tea/Coffee Break

11:30am - 1:00pm

Session 7 (Chair: Ci-Ren Jiang)

Junji Nakano, ISM

Summarizing aggregated symbolic data with categorical variables

Deepayan Sarkar, ISI

Blind Deconvolution using Natural Image Priors

Tso-Jung Yen, ISSAS

Solving Fused Group Lasso Problems via Block Splitting Algorithms

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Lunch (Guest house lawn)

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Session 8 (Chair: Hsuan-Yu Chen)

Yasmeen Akhtar, ISSAS

Generalized covering designs: a new class of experimental designs bridging covering arrays and orthogonal arrays

Yi-Hau Chen, ISSAS

Joint regression analysis of marginal quantile and quantile association in longitudinal studies, with application to adolescent body mass index data

Shonosuke Sugasawa, ISM

Flexibly Transformed Empirical Best Prediction in Finite Population

4:00pm - 4:15pm

Closing

4:15pm - 4:30pm

Tea/Coffee