Invited Sessions

IS1 – Bayesian nonparametrics
Organizer:
Nils L. Hjort (University of Oslo)

Speakers:
Peter Mueller (University of Texas, Austin)
Dilan Görür (University of California, Irvine)
Nils L. Hjort (University of Oslo)


IS2 – Composite likelihood inference
Organizer:
Nancy Reid (University of Toronto)

Speakers:
Michael L. Stein (University of Chicago)
Manuela Cattelan (University of Padova)
Nancy Reid (University of Toronto)


IS3 – Geometric Perspectives on High-Dimensional Data
Organizer:
Bejamin Recht (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Speakers:
Benjamin Recht (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Alexander Rakhlin (University of Pennsylvania)
Philippe Rigollet (Princeton University)

IS4 – Copula models
Organizer:
Johanna Nešlehová (McGill University)
Chair:
Roger Cooke (TU Delft)

Speakers:
Roger Cooke (TU Delft)
Bruno Remillard (HEC Montreal)
Elif Fidan Acar (McGill University)


IS5 – Data Depth
Organizer:
Regina Liu (Rutgers University)

Speakers:
Regina Liu (Rutgers University)
Anil Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute)
Davy Paindaveine (Universit´e libre de Bruxelles)

IS6 – Decision theory, control theory and games
Organizer:
Adolfo Minjarez-Sosa (University of Sonora)

Speakers:
Anna Jaskiewicz (Politechnika Wroclawska)
Rosario Romera (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Oscar Vega-Amaya (University of Sonora)

IS7 – Extremes for complex phenomena
Organizer:
Thomas Mikosch (University of Copenhagen)

Speakers:
Richard A. Davis (Columbia University)
Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell University)
Thomas Mikosch (University of Copenhagen)

IS8 – Functional data analysis
Organizer:
Hans-Georg Mueller (University of California, Davis
Chair:
Richard Samworth (Cambridge University)


Speakers:
Peter Hall (University of Melbourne)
Damla Senturk (University of California, Los Angeles)
Victor Panaretos (Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne)


IS9 – Graphical models, networks and causality
Organizer:
Vanessa Didelez (University of Bristol)

Speakers:
Marloes Maathuis (ETH)
Rhian Daniel (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Vanessa Didelez (University of Bristol)

IS10 – High-dimensional inference
Organizer:
Sara van de Geer (ETH)
Chair:
Patric Müller (ETH)


Speakers:
Peter Bühlmann (ETH)
Guillaume Obozinski (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Martin Wainwright (University of California at Berkeley)

IS11 – Interacting particle systems
Organizer:
Timo Seppailainen (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Speakers:
Ivan Corwin (Microsoft Research and MIT)
Benedek Valko (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Stanislav Volkov (Lund University)

IS12 – Large-scale multiple comparisons
Organizer:
Wenguang Sun (University of Southern California)

Speakers:
Helmut Finner (University of Düsseldorf)
Jelle J. Goeman (Leiden University)
Sanat K. Sarkar (Temple University)


IS13 – Long-range dependence and self- similarity
Organizer:
Ingemar Kaj (Uppsala University)

Speakers:
Murad S. Taqqu (Boston University)
Alan Hammond (University of Oxford)
Mikko Kuronen (University of Jyväskylä)

IS14 – Machine learning
Organizer:
Gilles Blanchard (University of Potsdam)

Speakers:
Gilles Blanchard (University of Potsdam)
Sylvain Arlot (INRIA)
Bharath Sriperumbudur (University College London)


IS15 – Modern applications of Malliavin calculus
Organizer:
Andrey Dorogovtsev (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences)

Speakers:
Nicolas Privault (Nanyang Technological University)
Giovanni Peccati (Université du Luxembourg)
Andrey Dorogovtsev (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences)

IS16 – Markov processes
Organizer:
Haya Kaspi (Technion)

Speakers:
Krzysztof Burdzy (University of Washington)
Nathalie Eisenbaum (Universite Paris VI)
Kavita Ramanan (Brown University)


IS17 – MCMC: Adaptive, likelihood free, particle filters and other samplers
Organizer:
Gareth Roberts (University of Warwick)

Speakers:
Dawn Woodard (Cornell University)
Alexandros Beskos (University College London)
Gareth Roberts (University of Warwick)


IS18 – Probability and computer science
Organizer:
Devavrat Shah (MIT)

Speakers:
David Gamarnik (MIT)
Devavrat Shah (MIT)
Martin Wainwright (University of California, Berkeley)


IS19 – Quantile regression
Organizer:
Roger Koenker (University of Illinois)

Speakers:
Xuming He (University of Michigan)
Victor Chernozhukov (MIT)
Roger Koenker (University of Illinois)


IS20 – Random combinatorial structures
Organizer:
Christina Goldschmidt (University of Oxford)

Speakers:
Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill University)
Shankar Bhamidi ( University of North Carolina)
Charles Bordenave (Université de Toulouse)

IS21 – Random matrices and applications
Organizer:
Arup Bose (Indian Statistical Institute)
Chair:
Charles Bordenave (Université de Toulouse)

Speakers:
Jamal Najim (CNRS)
Wei Biao Wu (University of Chicago)
Manjunath Krishnapur (Indian Institute of Science)

IS22 – Random media
Organizer:
Fabio Toninelli (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Chair:
Atilla Yýlmaz (Boðaziçi University)


Speakers:
Nikolaos Zygouras (Warwick University)
Timo Seppailainen (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Firas Rassoul-Agha (University of Utah)


IS23 – Rare-event Monte Carlo methods
Organizer:
Jose Blanchet (Columbia University)
Chair:
Jingchen Liu (Columbia University)

Speakers:
Aya Wallwater (Columbia University)
Pierre del Moral (INRIA)
Jingchen Liu (Columbia University)


IS24 – Critical 2-D Systems and SLE
Organizer:
Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)

Speakers:
Hugo Duminil-Copin (University of Geneva)
Christophe Garban (ENS Lyons)
Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)

IS25 – Space time data
Organizer:
Alexandra M. Schmidt (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Speakers:
Peter Craigmile (Ohio State University)
Alexandra M. Schmidt (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Johan Lindström (Lund University)

IS26 – Sparse signals
Organizer:
Ming Yuan (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Speakers:
Tony Cai (University of Pennsylvania)
Richard Samworth (Cambridge University)
Ming Yuan (Georgia Institute of Technology)

IS27 – Spatial stochastic models
Organizer:
Omer Angel (University of British Columbia)

Speakers:
Nicolas Broutin (INRIA)
Dan Romik (University of California, Davis)
Ori Gurel-Gurevich (University of British Columbia)

IS28 – Statistical climatology
Organizer:
Richard Chandler (University College London)

Speakers:
Andrew Parnell (University College Dublin)
Jo Kaczmarska (University College London)
Steve Sain (National Centre for Atmospheric Research, USA)

IS29 – Statistical inference for stochastic differential equations
Organizer:
Masayuki Uchida (Osaka University)

Speakers:
Michael Sørensen (University of Copenhagen)
Mark Podolskij (University of Heidelberg)
Nakahiro Yoshida (University of Tokyo)

IS30 – High-Throughput Genomic Assays
Organizer:
Sandrine Dudoit (University of California, Berkeley)

Speakers:
Yuval Benjamini (University of California, Berkeley)
Sunduz Keles (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Jean-Philippe Vert (Mines ParisTech and Institut Curie)


IS31 – Statistical methods for neuroscience
Organizer:
Matthew Harrison (Brown University)

Speakers:
Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
Uri Eden (Boston University)
Matthew Harrison (Brown University)


IS32 – Statistical methods in finance
Organizer:
Per A. Mykland (University of Chicago)

Speakers:
Claudia Kluppelberg (Technische Universitat Munchen)
Marc Hoffmann (ENSAE-CREST and Université Paris-Est)
Lan Zhang (University of Illinois at Chicago)

IS33 – Stochastic methods for equilibrium in financial markets
Organizer:
Umut Çetin (London School of Economics)

Speakers:
Ulrich Horst (Humboldt University)
Albina Danilova (London School of Economics)
Umut Çetin (London School of Economics)


IS34 – Dynamics and cubature for stochastic non-linear systems
Organizer:
Terry Lyons (University of Oxford)

Speakers:
Lajos Gergely Gyurko (University of Oxford)
Christian Litterer (Imperial College London)
Dan Crisan (Imperial College London)

IS35 – Stochastic geometry and spatial point porcesses
Organizer:
Eva B. Vedel Jensen (University of Aarhus)
Chair:
Thomas Mikosch (University of Copenhagen)

Speakers:
Joseph Yukich (Lehigh University)
Günter Last (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Jesper Møller (Aalborg University)

IS36 – Stochastic methods and finance
Organizer:
Nizar Touzi (Ecole Polytechnique)
Chair:
Umut Çetin (London School of Economics)

Speakers:
Masaaki Fukasawa (Osaka University)
Jean-François Chassagneux (Imperial College London)
Mathieu Rosenbaum (University Pierre et Marie Curie)


IS37 – Stochastic models of cancer

Organizer:
Jasmine Foo (University of Minnesota)

Speakers:
Tibor Antal (Edinburgh University)
Kevin Leder (University of Minnesota)
Jasmine Foo (University of Minnesota)


IS38 – Stochastic networks with applications
Organizer:
Avi Mandelbaum (Technion)

Speakers:
Avi Mandelbaum (Technion)
Lea Popovic (Concordia University)
Itai Gurvich (Northwestern University)

IS39 – Stochastic partial differential equations with applications
Organizer:
Martin Hairer (University of Warwick)

Speakers:
Hendrik Weber (The University of Warwick)
Zdzislaw Brzezniak (The University of York)
Ivan Corwin (Microsoft Research and MIT)


IS40 – Stochastic population genetics and evolution
Organizer:
Sylvie Méléard (École Polytechnique)

Speakers:
Peter Pfaffelhuber (University of Freiburg)
Amandine Veber (École Polytechnique)
Jean Bertoin (University of Zurich)