Friday, October 19, 2012 Sherrerd Hall, Princeton University All talks in Sherrerd 101. Speakers Florentina Bunea (Cornell University) Tony Cai (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) John Lafferty (The University of Chicago) Runze Li (Penn State University) Ian McKeague (Columbia University) John Storey (Princeton University) Tong Zhang (Rutgers) Harry Zhou (Yale University) Schedule Time Speaker or Event Topic or Activity 8:30am–9:00am Continental Breakfast 9:00am–9:35am John Storey Cross-Dimensional Inference of Dependent High-Dimensional Data 9:40am–10:15am Tony Cai A Framework for Shape Constrained Inference 10:15am–10:45am Coffee Break 10:45am–11:20am Florentina Bunea High Dimensional Matrices of Low Effective Dimension: New and Old Estimators 11:25am–12:00pm Harry Zhou Parameters Estimation for Differential Equations 12:00pm–2:00pm Lunch 2:00pm–2:35pm John Lafferty Variations on Nonparametric Additive Modeling: Computational and Statistical Aspects 2:40pm–3:15pm Runze Li Calibrating Non-convex Penalized Regression in Ultra-high Dimension 3:15pm–3:45pm Coffee Break 3:45pm–4:20pm Tong Zhang Some Recent Progress on High Dimensional Sparse Estimation with Concave Regularization 4:25pm–5:00pm Ian McKeague An Adaptive Resampling Test for Detecting the Presence of Significant Predictors
