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World Congress in Probability and Statistics Toronto, July 11–15, 2016 World Congress in Probability and Statistics Toronto, July 11{15, 2016 Hosted by the Fields Institute, under the sponsorship of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Scientific Programme Committee Chair: Alison Etheridge (Oxford), Probal Chaudhuri (Indian Statistical Institute), Nick Duffield (Texas A&M), Pablo Ferrari (Buenos Aires), Iain Johnstone (Stanford), Michael Jordan (Berkeley), Xihong Lin (Harvard), Zhi-Ming Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Gregory Miermont (Lyon), Lea Popovic (Concordia), Judith Rousseau (Paris Dauphine), Tom Salisbury (York), Alexandre Tsybakov (Paris 6), Larry Wasserman (Carnegie Mellon), Alan Welsh (ANU), Nancy Wermuth (Chalmers), Song Xi Chen (Beijing), Fang Yao (Toronto), Nakahiro Yoshida (Tokyo) Local arrangements: Chair: Tom Salisbury (York), Esther Berzunza (Fields), Hanna Jankowski (York), Neal Madras (York), Adnan Zuberi (Fields) Student volunteers: (Toronto): Xiucai Ding, Bill Huang, Ruilin Li, Yi Lu, Faizan Khalid Mohsin, Jasmine Nguyen, Harris Quach, Matthew Scicluna, Ruoyong Xu, Archer Zhang (York): Sawitree Boonpatcharanon, Gabriela Gonzalez Martinez, Branislav Nicolic, Aubin Nzokem, Chris Prashad, Shanshan Qin (Carleton): Helena Oliveira Contents: • Overview • Schedule • Timetable • Abstracts • Speaker index 1 2 OVERVIEW World Congress in Probability and Statistics Toronto, July 11{15, 2016 Contents Overview Schedule Timetable Abstracts Speaker Index Monday 8:30{10:45 Registration { McLeod 9:00{9:20 Opening Ceremonies { McLeod 9:25{10:15 Bin Yu (Rietz Lecture) { McLeod 10:15{10:45 Coffee & Exhibits { McLeod 10:45{12:30 Sessions: Random media [5] (Armstrong, Fribergh, Sly) { MS 3153 Stein's method [12] (Chen, Goldstein, Peccati) { MS 2170 Graphical models and totally positive distributions [22] (Rinott, Lauritzen, Uhler) { MS 2172 Object Oriented Data Anal.: Persistent Homology Repr'ns [30] (Bubenik, Bendich, Heo) { McLeod Contributed talks [47] (Gauthier, Neufeld, Ngare) { MS 3154 Contributed talks [54] (Choi, Parsons, Jovanovski) { MS 4171 Contributed talks [58] (Tikhomirov, Margarint, Nguyen) { MS 4279 Contributed talks [67] (Nolan, Mert Kantar, Nakata) { MS 3278 Contributed talks [71] (Hagwood, Schmidt, Lu) { RS 310 Contributed talks [96] (Milovic, Jankova, Sakhanenko) { FG 139 12:30{2:00 Lunch 2:00{3:45 Sessions: Spin Glasses [4] (Belius, Chen, Subag) { MS 3153 Stochastic models of evolution [16] (Gonzalez-Casanova, Schertzer, Etheridge) { MS 3154 Statistical computing and complex data [36] (Aston, Jacob, Sharpnack) { McLeod Aggregation of estimators [25] (Rakhlin, Lecu´e,Lepski) { MS 2170 Contributed talks [45] (Nam, Kossi, Zhou) { MS 4171 Contributed talks [53] (Athreya, Wu, Spreij) { MS 4279 Contributed talks [63] (Kuznetsov, Kaur, Lo) { MS 3278 Contributed talks [83] (Schiltz, Chang, Olumoh) { FG 139 Contributed talks [84] (Li, Swanepoel, Fan) { RS 310 Contributed talks [89] (Yang, Yan, Yang) { MS 2172 3:45{4:15 Coffee & Exhibits{ McLeod 4:15{5:05 Arnaud Doucet (IMS Medallion Lecture) { McLeod 5:10{6:00 Judith Rousseau (Ethel Newbold Prize Lecture) { McLeod 6:30{7:30 IMS Presidential address and awards { Fields 230 7:30{9:30 IMS Opening reception { Fields Atrium 3 Tuesday 8:30{9:20 Byeong Park (Laplace Lecture) { McLeod 9:25{10:15 Sara van de Geer (Wald Lecture 1) { McLeod 10:15{10:45 Coffee & Exhibits { McLeod 10:45{12:30 Sessions: Random growth models [3] (Turner, Holroyd, Kassel) { McLeod Analysis of next generation sequencing data for biomedicine [35] (Yuan, Hsieh, Lou) { MS 3153 Privacy and Statistics [37] (Pitassi, Su, Steinke) { MS 4171 Selective inference [28] (Buja, Taylor, Wasserman) { MS 3154 Contributed talks [48] (Kleiber, Bhim, Moyo) { MS 2170 Contributed talks [61] (Slivken, Yildirim, Vaillancourt) { RS 208 Contributed talks [74] (Bekker, Ferreira, Shanker) { FG 139 Contributed talks [85] (Patschkowski, Szkutnik, Mynbaev) { MS 3278 Contributed talks [88] (Datta, Uchida, Ghoreishi) { MS 4279 Contributed talks [90] (Srensen, Panov, Barboza) { RS 310 12:30{2:00 Lunch 2:00{3:45 Sessions: Random planar maps [7] (Addario-Berry, Bettinelli, Ray) { McLeod Limit Theorems and the Malliavin calculus [11] (Nualart, Reinert, Th¨ale){ MS 2170 Scaling limits of stochastic networks [14] (Puha, Simatos, Atar) { RS 208 Inference for high-dimensional covariance structures [29] (Zhang, Zhang, Fan) { MS 3153 Functional Data Analysis [43] (Panaretos, Delaigle, Yao) { MS 3154 Contributed talks [68] (Crane, Gao) { RS 310 Contributed talks [77] (Goreac, Tafakori, Pellin) { MS 4279 Contributed talks [81] (Pinelis, Ferrari) { MS 3278 Contributed talks [95] (Bardet, Chen, Schnurr) { MS 4171 3:45{4:15 Coffee & Exhibits { McLeod 4:15{5:05 David Brillinger (Tukey Lecture) { McLeod 5:10{6:00 Christina Goldschmidt (IMS Medallion Lecture) { McLeod 6:30{9:30 Bernoulli Society Reception for young researchers { PreNup pub 4 Wednesday 8:30{9:20 Valerie Isham (Bernoulli Lecture) { McLeod 9:25{10:15 Martin Hairer (Plenary Lecture) { McLeod 10:15{10:45 Coffee & Exhibits { McLeod 10:45{12:30 Sessions: SPDEs and the work of Martin Hairer [1] (Quastel, Shen, Mattingly) { MS 3153 Stochastic models of cancer [17] (Bovier, Leder, Durrett) { MS 3154 Statistics of random processes [15] (Yoshida, Muni Toke, Masuda) { MS 4171 Computational vs. statistical complexity in high-dim. problems [24] (Bresler, Lafferty, Rakhlin) { McLeod Analysis and Control of Stochastic Network Models [42] (Lipshutz, Ramanan, Budhiraja) { MS 4279 Contributed talks [57] (Rodrigues, Qin, Oz)¨ { RS 208 Contributed talks [59] (Kendall, Salvi, Boukhadra) { MS 3278 Contributed talks [75] (Barta, Suda, Kuo) { FG 139 Contributed talks [87] (Durastanti, Ray, Brunel) { MS 2170 Contributed talks [92] (Amiri, Levit, LI) { MS 2172 12:30{2:00 Lunch 2:00{3:45 Sessions: Rough paths [13] (Lyons, Boedihardjo, Hairer) { McLeod Random walks on graphs [9] (Ding, Gurel-Gurevich, Amir) { MS 3153 Biomedical applications [20] (Colijn, Sankararaman, Zhou) { MS 3154 Statistics and networks [27] (Lauritzen, Luczak, Durrett) { MS 4171 Model selection in non-standard high dim. models [32] (Maathuis, Wegkamp, Tsybakov) { MS 2170 Chemical Reaction Networks [41] (Kang, Kurtz, Cappelletti) { MS 2172 Contributed talks [62] (Madras, Sivakoff, M´elyk´uti){ MS 4279 Contributed talks [73] (Zhou, Effraimidis, Silva Urrutia) { FG 139 Contributed talks [86] (M¨uller,Swanepoel, Zhao) { RS 208 Contributed talks [91] (Yazici, Nyanchoga, Zhou [added talk]) { MS 3278 3:45{4:15 Coffee & Exhibits { McLeod 4:15{5:05 Servet Martinez (L´evyLecture) { McLeod 5:10{6:00 Scott Sheffield (Doob Lecture) { McLeod 7:00{11:00 Banquet (Toronto harbour cruise) { aboard the Kajama 5 Thursday 8:30{9:20 Ofer Zeitouni (Schramm Lecture) { McLeod 9:25{10:15 Sara van de Geer (Wald Lecture 2) { McLeod 10:15{10:45 Coffee & Posters { McLeod (Graziadei, Imaizumi, Lee, Matsuzoe, Mukherjee, Pannu, Park, Park, Rosales-Alcantar, Savi, Shabankhani, Shimura, Suleiman, Tilahun) 10:45{12:30 Sessions: Integrable models in Statistical Physics [2] (Boutillier, Kassel, Duits) { MS 3153 Mathematical systems biology [18] (Gupta, Popovic, Wiuf) { MS 2170 High-dimensional econometrics [31] (Bonhomme, Hansen, Belloni) { McLeod Community detection in random graphs [26] (Sandon, Lelarge, Gao) { MS 2172 Contributed talks [49] (Munkholt Jakobsen, de la Cruz Cancino, Toh) { MS 3278 Contributed talks [60] (Rembart, Delmas, Chen) { MS 3154 Contributed talks [66] (Taqqu, Olenko, Jentsch) { MS 4171 Contributed talks [78] (MacKInnon, Sabir, Nyaga) { FG 139 Contributed talks [82] (Trindade, Effraimidis, Lin) { RS 208 Contributed talks [93] (Feng, Puang-ngern, Pardo-Fernandez) { RS 310 12:30{2:00 Lunch 2:00{3:45 Sessions: Interacting particle systems and their scaling limits [10] (Bhamidi, Swart, Limic) { MS 3153 A celebration of the work of Peter Hall [39] (Jin, Park, Cheng) { McLeod Random matrix theory and statistics [21] (Van Handel, Koltchinskii, Litvak) { MS 2170 Compressed sensing [23] (Bayati, Chen, Oymak) { MS 2172 Reinforced Processes and Related Fields [44] (Cotar, Raimond, Collevecchio) { MS 3154 Contributed talks [50] (Falkowski, Butkovsky, Caglar) { MS 4171 Contributed talks [56] (Driver, Vidyashankar, Palau Calder´on){ MS 3278 Contributed talks [72] (Hurth, Dawid, Das) { RS 310 Contributed talks [79] (Kharroubi, Aron, Gayawan) { FG 139 Contributed talks [98] (Elsener, Lopes, Chang) { RS 208 3:45{4:15 Coffee & Posters { McLeod 4:15{5:05 Vanessa Didelez (IMS Medallion Lecture) { McLeod 5:10{6:00 Pierre Del Moral (IMS Medallion Lecture) { McLeod 6 Friday 8:30{9:20 Frank den Hollander (IMS Medallion Lecture) { McLeod 9:25{10:15 Sara van de Geer (Wald Lecture 3) { McLeod 10:15{10:45 Coffee { McLeod 10:45{12:30 Sessions: Random matrices [6] (Hardy, Knowles, O'Rourke) { MS 3153 BSDEs and their applications in finance [19] (Hu, Song, Gobet) { MS 3154 Frequentist propertiess of Bayesian nonparam. or high dim. models [34] (Ghoshal, Nickl, Szabo) { MS 2170 Models and inference for big data [38] (Loh, Allen, Grosse) { McLeod Contributed talks [52] (Markowsky, Ernst, Takemura) { MS 4171 Contributed talks [65] (Tone, Olenko, Duanmu) { MS 4279 Contributed talks [69] (Niezink, Schuhmacher, Gupta) { MS 3278 Contributed talks [76] (Matsen IV, Dinh, Elmasri) { FG 139 Contributed talks [80] (Kowalczyk, Decrouez, Nyaga) { RS 208 Contributed talks [94] (Bradley, Human, Niang) { MS 2172 12:30{2:00 Lunch 2:00{3:45 Sessions: Conformally Invariant Processes [8] (Lawler, Zhan, Binder) { MS 3153 Online algorithms in machine learning [33] (Bartlett, Peres, Sridharan) { MS 2170 Journal
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