Time	Session	Speaker	Session Chair
08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-09:10	Welcoming Remarks	Wei Shyy (Provost of HKUST)
09:10-09:50	On Meteors, Earthworms and WIMPs (Abstract)	Krzysztof Burdzy, University of Washington	Xinghua Zheng
09:50-10:30	Nonparametric Regression with Homogeneous Group Testing Data (Abstract)	Peter Hall, University of Melbourne
10:30-10:50	Refreshment
10:50-11:30	Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models (Abstract)	Samuel Kou, Harvard University	Qiman Shao
11:30-12:10	Out of Africa (Abstract)	Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago
12:10-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:10	A Test for the Rank of the Volatility Process: the Random Perturbation Approach (Abstract)	Mark Podolskij, Heidelberg University	Yingying Li
14:10-14:50	Limit Theorems for the Empirical Distribution Function of Scaled Increments of Ito Semimartingales at high frequencies (Abstract)	George Tauchen, Duke University
14:50-15:10	Break
15:10-15:50	Functional Limit Results for Spatial Causal Linear Models (Abstract)	Neville Weber, University of Sydney	Lancelot James
15:50-16:30	An L2 Test Theory for Nonstationary Time Series (Abstract)	Weibiao Wu, University of Chicago
16:30-16:50	Refreshment
16:50-17:30	Curve Regression via Dimension Reduction and Forecasting Daily Electricity Loads (Abstract)	Qiwei Yao, London School of Economics	Inchi Hu
17:30-18:10	Optimal Spatial Sampling Design: Theory and Applications (Abstract)	Zhengyuan Zhu, Iowa State University
18:10-18:15	Closing Remarks	Henry Tye (IAS Director)
19:00	Dinner (by invitation)

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