Invited Paper Sessions

Preliminary list. Short-term changes are possible. The online program is always up to date.

(1) Recent Developments in Reinforcement Learning

Organizer and Chair: Annie Qu (UC Irvine, USA)

Speakers:

(a) Susan Murphy (Harvard University, USA)

(b) Eric Laber (Duke University, USA)

(c) Zhuoran Yang (Yale University, USA)

(2) Discrete-Time Markov Chains

Organizer and chair: Hubert Lacoin (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Speakers:

(a) Benoit Dagallier (Courant Institute, NYU, USA)

(b) Hubert Lacoin (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

(c) Insuk Seo (Seoul National University, Korea)

(3) SPDEs in Fluid Dynamics

Organizer and chair: Rongchan Zhu (Beijing University of Technology, China)

(a) Xiangchan Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

(b) Tommaso Rosati (University of Warwick, UK)

(c) Umberto Pappalettera (Bielefeld University, Germany)

(4) Non-Reversible MCMC

Organizer and chair: Kengo Kamatani (ISM Tokio, Japan)

(a) Sebastiano Grazzi (University of Warwick, UK)

(b) Alexandre Thiery (National University of Singapore)

(c) Koji Hukushima (University of Tokyo, Japan)

(5) Stein's Method and its Applications

Organizers and Chairs: Qi-Man Shao (Southern University of Science and Technology,
China) and Nathan Ross (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Speakers:

(a) Morgane Austern (Harvard University, USA)

(b) Gesine Reinert (Oxford University, UK)

(c) Zhuosong Zhang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

(6) Stochastic Networks

Organizer: Maria Vlasiou (University of Twente and Eindhoven University of Technology,

The Netherlands)

Speakers:

(a) Clara Stegehuis (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

(b) Tiago de Paula Peixoto (Central European University Vienna, Austria)

(c) Maria Vlasiou (University of Twente and Eindhoven University of Technology, The

Netherlands)

(7) High-Dimensional Probability

Organizer and Chair: Pierre Youssef (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Speakers:

(a) Anirban Basak (ICTS, Bangalore, India)

(b) Ioana Dumitriu (University of California, San Diego, USA)

(c) Tatiana Brailovskaya (Princeton University, USA)

(8) High-Dimensional Statistical Inference

Organizer: Subhabrata Sen (Harvard University, USA)

Speakers:

(a) Gerard Ben Arous (Courant Institute, NYU, USA)

(b) Olga Klopp (ESSEC Business School, France)

(c) Subhabrata Sen (Harvard University, USA)

(9) Branching and Interacting Particle Systems

Organizer and Chair: Sarah Penington (University of Bath, UK)

Speakers:

(a) Alice Callegaro (TU Munich, Germany)

(b) Félix Foutel-Rodier (Oxford University, UK)

(c) Zhenyao Sun (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

(10) Recent Advances in Sampling

Organizer and Chair: Yuansi Chen (Duke University, USA)

Speakers:

(a) Jeremy Heng (ESSEC Business School, Singapore)

(b) Yian Ma (University of California San Diego, USA)

(c) Nawaf Bou-Rabee (Rutgers University, Camden, USA)

(11) Stochastic Models in Population Biology

Organizer and Chair: Matthias Birkner (University of Mainz, Germany)

Speakers:

(a) Wai-Tong (Louis) Fan (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)

(b) Martina Favero (University of Stockholm, Sweden)

(c) Amandine Véber (Université Paris Cité, France)

(12) Optimal Transport and the Role of Entropy

Organizers and Chairs: Gudmund Pammer (ETH Zürich), Beatrice Acciaio (ETH Zürich)

Speakers:

(a) Julio Backhoff-Veraguas (Vienna University, Austria)

(b) Camilla Brizzi (TU M¨unchen, Germany)

(c) Martin Huesmann (Münster University, Germany)

(13) Rough Paths in Data Science

Organizers: Harald Oberhauser (Oxford University, UK), Ni Hao (University College

London, UK)

Speakers:

(a) Joscha Diehl (University of Greifswald, Germany)

(b) Darrick Lee (Oxford University, UK)

(c) Ruixun Zhang (Peking University, China)

(14) Mean-field Games and Games on Networks

Organizer and Session Chair: Tomoyuki Ichiba (University of California, Santa Barbara,

USA)

Speakers:

(a) Gökce Dayanili (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

(b) Mathieu Lauriere (NYU Shanghai, China)

(c) Sarath Yasodharan (Brown University, USA)

(15) New Aspects of Spin Systems

Organizer and Chair: Piet Lammers (Sorbonne University, Paris, France)

Speakers:

(a) Catherine Wolfram (MIT, USA)

(b) Marcin Lis (TU Wien, Austria)

(c) Jiaming Xia (IHES, France)

(16) Combinatorial Statistics

Organizer: Yihong Wu (Yale University, USA)

Speakers:

(a) Alexandra Carpentier (Universitat Potsdam, Germany)

(b) Zhou Fan (Yale University, USA)

(c) Sophie Yu (Stanford University, USA)

(17) PDE with Random Data

Organizer: Andrea Nahmod (University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA)

Speakers:
(a) Yu Deng (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
(b) Bjoern Bringmann (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA)
(c) Anne-Sophie de Suzzoni (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France)

(18) Random Spatial Systems

Organizer: Maria Deijfen (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Speakers:

(a) Daniel Ahlberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)

(b) Nina Gantert (TU Munich, Germany)

(c) Markus Heydenreich (University of Ausgburg, Germany)

(19) Large Deviations in Random Graphs and Networks

Organizers: Fanny Augeri (LPSM, Université de Paris, France) and Anirban Basak

(ICTS Bangalore, India)

Speakers:
(a) Nicholas Cook (Duke University, USA)
(b) Alice Guionnet (ENS Lyon, France)
(c) Jonathan Husson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

(20) Integrable Systems

Organizers: Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto, Canada), Dominik Schmid (University

of Bonn, Germany)

Speakers:
(a) Giuseppe Cannizzaro (University of Warwick, UK)
(b) Matteo Mucciconi (University of Warwick, UK)
(c) Dominik Schmid (University of Bonn, Germany)

(21) Modern Applications of Filtering and Numerical Methods

Organizer: Dan Crisan (Imperial College, London, UK)

Speakers:

(a) Pierre Del Moral (INRIA Bordeaux, France)

(b) Oana Lang (Imperial College, London, UK)

(c) Sahani Pathiraja (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

(22) Random Matrices and their Applications

Organizer: Alice Guionnet (ENS Lyons, France)
Speakers:
(a) Louis-Pierre Arguin (Oxford University, UK)
(b) Fanny Augeri (Universit´e Paris-Cit´e, France)
(c) Jeanne Boursier (Columbia University, New York, USA)

(23) Modern Perspectives in Stochastic Control

Organizer: Mao Fabrice Djete (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France)
Speakers:
(a) Mao Fabrice Djete (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France)
(b) Camilo Hernandez (Princeton University, USA)
(c) Mehdi Talbi (Universit´e Paris-Cit´e, France)

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(25) Missing values

Organizer: Grace Yi (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Speakers:
(a) Wenqing He (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

(b) Ofer Harel (University of Connecticut, USA)
(c) Julie Josse (Inria Montpellier, France)

(26) Change Point Analysis

Organizer: Yi Yu (Warwick University, UK)
Speakers:
(a) Haeran Cho (University of Bristol, UK)
(b) Feiyu Jiang (Fudan University, China)
(c) Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

(27) Transfer Learning for Heterogeneous Data

Organizer: Liping Zhu (Renmin University, China), Song Xi Chen (Peking University, China)
Speakers:
(a) Zhongyi Zhu (Fudan University, China)
(b) Yifan Sun (Renmin University, China)
(c) Xiaozhou Wang (East China Normal University, China)

(28) Inverse Problems

Organizer: Victor Panaretos (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Speakers:
(a) Mikael Kuusela (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
(b) Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (Cambridge University, UK)
(c) Sven Wang (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)

(29) Inference for Infinite-Dimensional Parameters

Organizer: Sebastian Engelke (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Speakers:

(a) Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

(b) Niklas Pfister (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

(c) Frank Röttger (Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

(30) Advances in Functional Data Analysis

Organizers: Alois Kneip (University of Bonn, Germany)

Speakers:
(a) Siegfried Hörmann (TU Graz, Austria)
(b) Sven Otto (University of Cologne, Germany)
(c) Wanjie Wang (National University of Singapore)

(31) Robust Statistics and Data Depth

Organizer: Regina Liu (Rutgers University, USA)
Speakers:
(a) Davy Paindaveine (Universit´e libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
(b) Yaqing Chen (Rutgers University, USA)
(c) Stanislav Nagy (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

(32) Advances in Extreme-Value Analysis

Organizer: Johanna Neslehova (Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada)

Speakers:
(a) Anne Sabourin (Universite Paris-Descartes, France)

(b) Kirstin Strokorb (Cardi University, UK)

(c) Johan Segers (UC Louvain, Belgium)

(33) Statistics on Manifolds/Non-Euclidean Statistics

Organizer: Janice Scealy (Australian National University, Australia)

Speakers:
(a) Andrea Meil´an Vila (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)
(b) Stephan Huckemann (University of G¨ottingen, Germany)
(c) Armin Schwartzman (University of California, San Diego, USA)

(34) Advances in Environmental and Ecological Statistics: Insights and Methods
across Weather, Climate, Health, and Beyond

Organizer: Sophie Dabo (University of Lille, France)
Speakers:
(a) Claire Miller (University of Glasgow, UK)
(b) Serge Guillas (University College London, UK)
(c) Boubakari Ibrahimou (Florida International University, Miami, USA)

(35) Classification and Clustering

Organizer: Jason Klusowski (Princeton University, USA)
Speakers:
(a) Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
(b) Jelena Bradic (University of California, San Diego, USA)
(c) Adel Javanmard (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)

(36) Optimal Transport and Statistics

Organizer: Axel Munk (University of Göttingen, Germany)

Speakers:

Florentina Bunea (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)

Shayan Hundrieser (University of Göttingen, Germany)

Tudor Manole (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)

(37) Causal Inference

Organizer: Oliver Dukes (University of Gent, Belgium)

Speakers:
(a) Erin Gabriel (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
(b) Liyang Sun (CEMFI, Spain; University College London, UK)
(c) Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)

(38) Bayesian Nonparametric Statistics

Organizer: Michele Guindani (UCLA, USA)

Speakers:
(a) Tommaso Rigon (University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy)
(b) Alejandra Avalos-Pacheco (TU Wien, Austria)
(c) Beatrice Franzolini (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy)

(39) Spatiotemporal Statistics and Time Series

Organizer: Jinyuan Chang (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China) 

Speakers:
(a) Sebastian Engelke (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
(b) Zhou Zhou (University of Toronto, Canada)
(c)Tim Kutta (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

(40) Tensor Data

Organizers: Qiwei Yao (London School of Economics, UK)
Speakers:
(a) Daniela Schkoda (TU Munich, Germany)
(b) Guanglin Huang (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China)
(c) Rong Chen (Rutgers University, USA)

(41) Data Privacy and Algorithmic Fairness in Data Science

Organizers: J¨org Drechsler (IAB, Germany)
Speakers:
(a) Christoph Kern (LMU Munich, Germany)
(b) Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University, USA)
(c) Silvia Casacuberta Puig (Oxford University, UK)

(42) High Dimensional Graphical Models

Organizer: Sofia Olhede (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Speakers:
(a) Genevera Allen (Columbia University, USA)
(b) Mladen Kolar (Chicago Booth University, USA)
(c) Tomas Masak (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)

(43) Khintchin's LIL Centennial Session

Organizer: Adam Jakubowski (University of Torun, Poland)

Speakers:

(a) Christoph Aistleitner (TU Graz, Austria)

(b) Istvan Berkes (Renyi Institute, Budapest)

(44) Geometric Statistics (Royal Statistical Society Session)

Speakers:

(a) Victor Panaretos (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)

(b) Karthik Bharath (University of Nottingham, UK)

(c) Zhenhua Lin (National University of Singapore)

(d) Anna Calissano (Imperial College London, UK)

(45) Recent Advances in Bayesian inference (New Researchers Group Session)

Speakers:

(a) Trevor Campbell (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada),
(b) Marta Catalano (University of Warwick, UK)
(c) Jeffrey Miller (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA)
(d) Pragya Sur (Harvard University, USA)

(46) Bernoulli Society New Researchers Award Session

Speakers:

(a) Jiaoyang Huang (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
(b) Leonardo Tolomeo (University of Edinburgh, UK)
(c) Lingfu Zhang (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

(47) IMS Brown Student Session

Speakers:

(a) Yuling Yan (MIT, USA)
(b) Chanwoo Lee (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
(c) Filippo Ascolani (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy)

(48) Probabilistic Methods in Geometry

Organizer: Christoph Thale (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

Speakers:
(a) Radoslaw Adamczak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
(b) Florian Besau (TU Wien, Austria)
(c) Kavita Ramanan (Brown University, Providence, USA)

(49) Scaling Limits of Random Trees

Organizer: Anita Winter (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Speakers:
(a) Eleanor Archer (Université Paris Nanterre, France)
(b) Serte Donderwinkel (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
(c) Cyril Marzouk (École Polytechnique, France)

(50) Bootstrap in High Dimensions

Organizer: Axel B¨ucher (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany), Carsten Jentsch (TU
Dortmund, Germany)
Speakers:
(a) Alexander Giessing (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
(b) Angelika Rohde (University of Freiburg, Germany)
(c) Yunyi Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)