Program

 

Venue

HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST (near South Entrance)
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Schedule

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Time Event Event

08:30 - 09:00

Registration
(Venue: IAS Lecture Theater)

09:00 - 09:10

Welcome Remarks by Nancy Ip [HKUST]

09:10 - 10:10

Talk #1: "Quality Technology in the High-tech Age" by Jeff Wu
[Georgia Institute of Technology]

10:10 - 10:30

Refreshments

 

(Venue: 2/F Seminar Room)

(Venue: 4/F Seminar Room)

 

Session 1 - Chair: Bing-Yi Jing

Session 2 - Chair: Xianhua Peng

10:30 - 11:00

Talk #2: "Sample Size Requirement For Some Low-Dimensional Estimation Problems" by Cun-Hui Zhang
[Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey]
Talk #3: "New Test for One-Way ANOVA with Functional Data and Application to Ischemic Heart Screening" by Ming-Yen Cheng
[National Taiwan University]

11:00 - 11:30

Talk #4: "A Sequential Penalized Likelihood Approach for Feature Selection with Ultra-high Dimensional Feature Space" by Zehua Chen
[National University of Singapore]
Talk #5: "Group Regularized Estimation under Strong Hierarchy" by Yiyuan She
[Florida State University]

11:30 - 11:45

Tea Break

 

Session 3 - Chair: Shujie Ma

Session 4 - Chair: Fugee Tsung

11:45 - 12:15

Talk #6: "Imprinting Test of Disease- Associated SNPs under Mixture Model" by Jianhua Guo
[Northeast Normal University]
Talk #7: "Monitoring High-Dimensional Data Streams" by Wei Jiang
[Shanghai Jiao Tong University]

12:15 - 12:45

Talk #8: "Statistical Inference of Covariate-Adaptive Randomized Clinical Trials" by Feifang Hu
[George Washington University]
Talk #9: "BIG Data and Dimensional Analysis" by Dennis Lin
[Pennsylvania State University]

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch Break

 

Session 5 - Chair: Lancelot James

Session 6 - Chair: Shiqing Ling

14:00 - 14:30

Talk #10: "Estimation and Selection of Complex Effects in Pooled Nested Case‐ Control Studies with Heterogeneity" by Wenbin Lu
[North Carolina State University]
Talk #11: "Interval Estimation for Random Coefficient AR model and Predictive Regressions" by Liang Peng
[Georgia Institute of Technology]

14:30 - 15:00

Talk #12: "Semi Parametric Modeling for Nonlinear Interactions" by Shujie Ma
[University of California, Riverside]
Talk #13: "Optimizing Organ Exchange System – Celebrating the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics" by Peter Song
[University of Michigan]

15:00 - 15:15

Tea Break

 

Session 7 - Chair: Inchi Hu

Session 8 - Chair: Yingying Li

15:15 - 15:45

Talk #14: "A Partially Linear Single-index Transformation Model" by Qihua Wang
[Chinese Academy of Sciences]
Talk #15: "Estimation of the Error Correlation Matrix in Semi-parametric Models for Brain fMRI Data" by Chunming Zhang
[University of Wisconsin - Madison]

15:45 - 16:15

Talk #16: "Oracally Efficient Estimation of Autoregressive Error Distribution with Simultaneous Confidence Band"
by Lijian Yang
[Michigan State University]
Talk #17: "On Consistency of Community Detection in Networks" by Ji Zhu
[University of Michigan]

16:15 - 16:30

Refreshments

 

Session 9 - Chair: Kani Chen

Session 10 - Chair: Xinghua Zheng

16:30 - 17:00

Talk #18: "Generalized Measures of Correlation and Their Implications in GARCH and Heston Models" by Zhengjun Zhang
[University of Wisconsin – Madison]
Talk #19: "Adaptive Bayesian Estimation" by Harrison Huibin Zhou
[Yale University]

17:00 - 17:30

Talk #20: "Semiparametric Estimation of Treatment Effect with Logistic Regression Model" by Yong Zhou
[Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics]
Talk #21: "Sparse PCA: Optimal Rates and Adaptive Estimation" by Tony Cai
[University of Pennsylvania]



       
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