Alastair Young's
60th Birthday Conference
August 16th, 2019

Alastair Young's 60th Birthday Conference will celebrate the first half of Young Alastair's career. Collaborators, friends, and admirers will gather to present research and reflect on Alastair's many contributions to statistics. The birthday conference is the day before the Fourth Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference (WHOA-PSI)^{4} from August 17-19, 2019. Alastair will be speaking at that workshop, too, so we encourage everyone to stick around for a few days!
Contact: Todd Kuffner (email: kuffner@wustl.edu)

This conference supports the Welcoming Environment Statement of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).

Organizers




Click here for more information about Alastair Young's research with links to papers.
Schedule

08:00 - 09:30
 Breakfast
09:30 - 10:15
 Todd Kuffner
Washington University in St. Louis
 Introduction / A Celebration of Alastair Young's Contributions
10:15 - 10:45
 Break
10:45 - 11:15 Richard Samworth
University of Cambridge 		High-dimensional log concave density estimation
11:15 - 11:45
 Daniel Garcia Rasines
Imperial College London
 Computational challenges in selective inference
11:45 - 13:45
 Lunch
13:45 - 14:15
 Richard Smith
UNC Chapel Hill
 Extreme event attribution: an important statistical problem for climate change
14:15 - 14:45
 Stephen M.S. Lee
The University of Hong Kong
 On uniform correctness of bootstrap confidence intervals under M-estimation
14:45 - 15:15
 Peter McCullagh
University of Chicago
 Sparsity
15:15 - 15:45
 Break
15:45 - 16:15
 Elvezio Ronchetti
University of Geneva, Switzerland
 Saddlepoint approximations for short and long memory time series: a frequency domain approach
16:15 - 16:45
 Anthony Davison
EPFL, Switzerland
 Generalised peaks-over-thresholds modelling
16:45 - 17:00
 Richard / Todd
 Closing remarks
18:30 - 22:00
 Banquet Dinner
(reservation required)


Participants
  1. Mohamed Amezziane
    Central Michigan University
  2. Pallavi Basu
    Indian School of Business
  3. Heather Battey
    Imperial College London
  4. Zhiqi Bu
    University of Pennsylvania
  5. Junhui Jeffrey Cai
    University of Pennsylvania
  6. Hongyuan Cao
    Florida State University
  7. Anthony Davison
    EPFL
  8. Daniela De Angelis
    University of Cambridge
  9. Tom DiCiccio
    Cornell University
  10. Ed George
    University of Pennsylvania
  11. Iain Johnstone
    Stanford University
  12. John Kolassa
    Rutgers University
  13. Ioannis Kosmidis
    University of Warwick
  14. Todd Kuffner
    Washington University in St. Louis
  15. Stephen M.S. Lee
    University of Hong Kong
  16. Lihua Lei
    UC Berkeley
  17. Nan Lin
    WUSTL
  18. Miles Lopes
    UC Davis
  19. Peter McCullagh
    University of Chicago
  20. Art Owen
    Stanford University
  21. Annie Qu
    UIUC
  22. Aaditya Ramdas
    Carnegie Mellon University
  23. Daniel Garcia Rasines
    Imperial College London
  24. Elvezio Ronchetti
    University of Geneva
  25. Cynthia Rush
    Columbia University
  26. Richard Samworth
    University of Cambridge
  27. Matteo Sesia
    Stanford University
  28. Richard Smith
    UNC Chapel Hill
  29. Peter Song
    University of Michigan
  30. Weijie Su
    University of Pennsylvania
  31. Nick Syring
    Washington University in St. Louis
  32. Robert Tibshirani
    Stanford University
  33. Ryan Tibshirani
    Carnegie Mellon University
  34. Peng Wang
    University of Cincinnati
  35. Qi Wang
    WUSTL
  36. Di Wu
    WUSTL
  37. Alastair Young
    Imperial College London
  38. Marco Young
  39. Michi Young
  40. Yubai Yuan
    UIUC
  41. Russell Zaretzki
    University of Tennessee
  42. Anru Zhang
    University of Wisconsin
  43. Mengqi Zhang
    WUSTL
  44. Qiyiwen Zhang
    WUSTL
  45. Yanjie Zhong
    WUSTL
  46. Xiaorui Zhu
    University of Cincinnati