BU-KEIO 2016

BOSTON UNIVERSITY/KEIO UNIVERSITY WORKSHOP 2016

Probability and Statistics

Boston University — August 15-19, 2016

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Workshop in Room MCS 148 of 111 Cummington Mall, Boston

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Overview:

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University is proud to host the sixth annual joint workshop between Boston University (Boston, MA, USA) and Keio University (Keio, JP). The purpose of these workshops is to expose graduate students, junior faculty and researchers to active areas of research in mathematics and statistics. This year's program will focus on probability and statistics.

All talks are intended to be accessible to graduate students with an interest in probability and statistics.

There is limited funding available to cover the local expenses of graduate students and postdocs from outside the Boston area.

Workshop topics include:

Bayesian inference

Mathematical finance

Network and graph analysis

Nonparametric inference

Statistical applications in biological and climate science

Speakers:

Mohammadreza Aghajani (University of California, San Diego)

Daniel Ahelegbey (Boston University)

Fumiya Akashi (Waseda University)

Takuji Arai (Keio University)

Atsushi Atsuji (Keio University)

Prithwish Bhaumik (University of Texas at Austin)

Luis Carvalho (Boston University)

Minwoo Chae (University of Texas at Austin)

Aleksandrina Goeva (Boston University)

Kenichi Hayashi (Keio University)

Ayato Kashiyama (Keio University)

Kei Kobayashi (Keio University)

Takaaki Koike (Keio University)

Eric Kolaczyk (Boston University)

Jun Li (Boston University)

David Lipshutz (Brown University)

Mihoko Minami (Keio University)

Matthew Morse (Boston University)

Daiki Nagata (Keio University)

Tomoshige Nakamura (Keio University)

Michael Salins (Boston University)

Hiroshi Shiraishi (Keio University)

Konstantinos Spiliopoulos (Boston University)

Ryoichi Suzuki (Keio University)

Hiroshi Takahashi (Tokyo Gakugei University)

Miaoyan Wang (University of Pennsylvania)

Ting Zhang (Boston University)

Organizers:

Mihoko Minami (Keio), Steve Rosenberg (BU), Hiroshi Shiraishi (Keio), Konstantinos Spiliopoulos (BU), Ting Zhang (BU)

Contact(s):
- For general information: bukeio2016@math.bu.edu
- For U.S. participants: bukeio2016@math.bu.edu
- For Japanese participants:mminami@math.keio.ac.jp

Our thanks to the following organizations for workshop funding:

Boston University Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
JSPS Core-to-Core Program
National Science Foundation