Summer School on "Advanced Nonparametric Statistics"
of the FNRS Graduate School in Statistics and Actuarial Sciences and the IAP Network in Statistics

Belgium
Institute of Statistics, Université catholique de Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
May 21 - 24, 2007


 
Information (updated May 11, 2007)

Location of the Summer School: The summer school will take place at auditorium MORE52, place Montesquieu, n°2 in Louvain-la-Neuve (see the map, square E5, number 24). The lunch will take place at the sandwich shop "D'un Pain à l'autre", Grand Rue n°20 (on the map, square E6 in front of "(P)GRAND RUE")

General information: The Graduate School in Statistics and Actuarial Sciences announces a Summer School on three different topics in nonparametric statistics to be held in Louvain-la-Neuve Monday May 21 to Thursday May 24, 2007. Each of the following three international experts - Oliver Linton (London School of Economics) on "Nonparametrics in finance", Jean Opsomer (Iowa State University)on "Nonparametrics in surveys", and Marten Wegkamp (Florida State University) on "Nonparametric model selection methods" - will give a short course of 6 hrs lecture during this summer school. In addition, informal contacts between participants and speakers will be encouraged during coffee and lunch breaks as well as discussion groups and a social activity on Wednesday May 23 afternoon. The participation at the Summer School is free of charge but travel and potential overnight accomodation for those who wish need to be organised individually. The schedule of the courses will allow to follow all or a subset of them.
Lunch breaks: On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday the participants of the short courses organised at that day are invited to a light sandwich lunch organised as a common activity by us. Please understand that once you have registered for the lunches, your registration to that lunch is binding.
On Wednesday the lunch (plus the following social activity) will be a barbecue in a shelter (against potential bad weather) in the nearby recreation area "Bois des Reves". Your registration to that barbecue is binding, too.

After the registration deadline of May 1st you will find detailed information about where the lectures are going to take place - plus access information for foreign participants. Those who need accommodation will receive an e-mail (provided they have registered) how to reserve a room in the nearby hotel Le Relais on their own expenses and as soon as possible. The number of available rooms is limited, so if you do not stay for the whole period, please specify the exact number of nights you are going to stay. Additional accommodation will only be available in Brussels which is 45 min by train from Louvain-la-Neuve.

Details on the three short courses

Oliver Linton (LSE) "Nonparametrics in Financial Econometrics: Discrete time volatility and Continuous time processes"


Jean Opsomer (Iowa State University) "Nonparametric regression methods in surveys" 


Marten Wegkamp (Florida State University) "Aggregation and sparsity oracle inequalities in nonparametric classification and regression"


Each course will be given by 4 times 1.5 hrs plus time for discussion..


Final schedule

Monday May 21, 2007: 8h40 Opening of registration desk, 8h55 Welcome Address, 9h00 Lecture 1 of M. Wegkamp, 10h30 Coffee break, 10h45-12h15 Lecture 2 of M. Wegkamp, 12h30 Lunch break, 14h00 Lecture 1 of O. Linton, 15h30 Coffee break, 16h00-18h00 Lecture 2 of O. Linton (including time for discussion)

Tuesday May 22, 2007: 9h00-10h30 Lecture 3 of O. Linton , 10h30 Coffee break, 10h45-12h15 Lecture 3 of M. Wegkamp, 12h30-14h00 Lunch break, 14h00 Lecture 4 of O. Linton, 15h30 Coffee break, 16h00-18h00 Lecture 4 of M. Wegkamp (including time for discussion)

Wednesday May 23, 2007: 9h00 Lecture 1 of J. Opsomer, 10h30 Coffee break, 10h45-12h15 Lecture 2 of J. Opsomer, 13h00-19h00 Barbecue "Bois des Rêves" and social activities

Thursday May 24, 2007: 9h00 Lecture 3 of J. Opsomer, 10h30 Coffee break, 10h45-12h45 Lecture 4 of J. Opsomer (including time for discussion), 13h00-14h00 Lunch (End of the Summer School; possibility for more informal meetings with the lecturers)

Annexe to the Summer School: Thursday May 24, 2007: 16h-19h00 Afternoon on statistical consulting (16h Tutorial on "Hidden statistical treasures" in Excel, given by Christian Ritter, Institut de statistique, room C045; 18h00 Former students witness about their professional activities as statisticians; 18h30 informal drink - this afternoon is open to all participants of the Summer School)



Registration

Registration is closed by now. If you still want to come and listen to the courses, you have to send an e-mail to the Graduate School before this Friday May 18, 2007.



Last update: 18 May 2007  by Rainer von Sachs