HDP-IV: Schedule of Talks 

June 20:

9:00-10:00: Michael B. Marcus, CUNY,
Title: Associated Gaussian processes

10:00-10:30: Jan Hannig, Colorado State University
Title: Distribution Theory for SiZer

10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-11:30: Yuliy Baryshnikov, Columbia University and Bel Labs,
Title: Finite type invariants of random braids and hypoelliptic diffusions

11:30-12:00: Vladimir Dobric, Lehigh University
Title: Fractional Brownian motion, its martingales and finite-dimensional wavelet approximations

12:00-12:30: Igor Borisov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
Title: Stochastic integrals of nonrandom kernels for nonorthogonal stochastic measures and some statistical applications

12:30-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:00: Roman Vershinin, University of California at Davis.
Title: Small Ball Probabilities in Geometric Functional Analysis

3:00-3:30: Wenbo Li, University of Delaware
Title: Small Value Probabilities: Progresses and Prospects

3:30-4:00: Coffee Break

4:00-4:30: Fuchang Gao, University of Idaho
Title: Upper Bound Estimate for the Small Deviation Probability of Some Gaussian Random Fields

4:30-5:00: Pawel Hitczenko, Drexel University
Title: Probability Distributions Arising in the Context of Random Partitions


June 21

9:00-10:00: Dmitry Panchenko, MIT
Title: On the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model

10:00-10:30: Ingo Steinward, Los alamos National laboratory
Title: Some Oracle Type Inequalities for Regularized Risk Minimizers

10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-11:30: Vladimir Koltchinskii, University of New Mexico
Title: Concentration Inequalities and Asymptotic Results for Ratio Type Empirical Processes

11:30-12:00: WeiBiao Wu, University of Chicago
Title: Empirical Processes of Stationary Sequences

12:00-12:30: Alexander Rakhlin, MIT
Title: Some Properties of Empirical Risk Minimization Over Donsker Classes

12:30-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:00: Christian Houdr\'e, Georgia Tech
Title: On the Concentration Phenomenona for Infinitely Divisible Laws

3:00-3:30: Magda Peligrad, University of Cincinnati
Title: Sharp Inequalities and Asymptotic Results under Martingale-like Conditions

3:30-4:00: Coffee Break

4:00-4:30: Iosif Pinelis, Michigan Technological University
Title: Exact Probability Inequalities with Applications

4:30-5:00: Victor de la Pe\~na, Columbia University
Title: Some Sharp Inequalities


June 22:

9:00-10:00: Richard M. Dudley, MIT
Title: Functionals of Location and Scatter

10:00-10:30: Jay Rosen, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Title: The Most Visited Site of a Symmetric Stable Process and the Supremum of Fractional Brownian Motion

10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-11:30: Josh Rushton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: A Lower Tail Functional LIL for $\alpha$-stable Processes in $R^d$: Invariance for L\'evy and Partial Sum Processes

11:30-12:00: Sam Efromovich, University of New Mexico
Title: Nonparametric Regression: Univariate Regression in the Presence of Auxiliary Covariates and Error Density Estimation


June 23:

9:00-10:00: Xia Chen, University of Tennessee
Title: The Self Intersection of a Single Brownian Trajectory, and the Mutual Intersection of Several Independent Brownian Trajectories

10:00-10:30: Donsheng Wu, Michigan State University
Title: Geometric Properties of the Images of Fractional Brownian Sheets

10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-11:30: Miguel Arcones, Binghamton University
Title: Efficiency of Confidence Intervals

11:30-12:00: Dragan Radulovic, Florida Atlantic University
Title: The Block-wise Bootstrap and Central Limit Theorem, Recent Results

12:00-12:30: Joel Zinn, Texas A\&M
Title: Some Empirical Limit and Concentration Results

12:30-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:00: Jim Kuelbs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Dominating Points: What Are They, and Why Are They of Interests

3:00-3:30: Sergei Utev, University of Nottingham
Title: What Do We Know about the Reed-Frost Epidemic Model?

3:30-4:00: Coffee Break

4:00-4:30: Richard Nickl, University of Vienna
Title: Donsker-Type Theorems for Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimators

4:30-5:00: Lyudmila Sakhanenko, Michigan State University
Title: Integral Curves of Noisy Vector Fields: Nonparametric Kernel Estimation and Hypotheses Testing

5:00-5:30: Rafal Kulik, University of Ottawa
Title: Invariance Principles for Self-normalized Martingales and Mixing Sequences


June 24:

9:00-10:00: Jon Wellner, University of Washington
Title: Rates of Convergence for MLE's and Minimum Contrast Estimators via Empirical Process Methods

10:00-10:30: Paul Deheuvels, LSTA, University of Paris 6
Title: On the k-spaciings with Applications

10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-11:30: Evarist Gin\'e, University of Connecticut
Title: Local U-statistics Processes I

11:30-12:00: David M Mason, University of Delaware
Title: Local U-statistics Processes II

12:00-12:30: Paul Eggermont, University of Delaware
Title: Uniform Error Bounds for Smoothing Splines

12:30-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:00: Jorgen Hoffmann-Jorgensen, University of Aarhus
Title:  Integral Representations with Applications to the Marginal Problem and Stochastic Orderings

3:00-3:30: Andrei Volodin, University of Regina
Title: The Complete Convergence Rates and the Law of Logarithm for the Bootstrap of the Mean

3:30-4:00: Coffee Break

4:00-4:30: Sabir Umarov, University of New Mexico
Title: Fractional Differential Equations and Diffusion Processes

4:30-5:00: Peter K. Molnar, University of Alberta
Title: On the Construction of Confidence Bands for Probability Distributions in Arbitrary Sample Spaces: The Bootstrap Approach