Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 23, 2010 00:39:21

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Francisco, CA, January 13-16, 2010 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1056

• Wednesday January 13, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Markov Chains and Their Statistical Applications (Mathematics Research Communities session), I
  Room 2010, 2nd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  James Flegal, University of California Riverside jflegal@ucr.edu
  Radu Herbei, Ohio State University herbei@stat.osu.edu
  Jessica Zuniga, Stanford University jzuniga@math.stanford.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Markov Chains, Generalized Wishart distributions and Applications to High Dimensional Statistical Inference.
    Bala Rajaratnam*, Stanford University
    (1056-60-1253)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Improved mixing time bounds for the Thorp shuffle.
    Ben J Morris*, UC Davis
    (1056-60-1395)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Applicability of drift and minorization condition for finding rate of convergence of finite state space Markov chains.
    Partha Sarathi Dey*, UC Berkeley
    (1056-60-1836)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Using Reversible Markov Chains for Distributional Approximation.
    Nathan F. Ross*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1056-60-1408)
• Wednesday January 13, 2010, 2:15 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Markov Chains and Their Statistical Applications (Mathematics Research Communities session), II
  Room 2010, 2nd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  James Flegal, University of California Riverside jflegal@ucr.edu
  Radu Herbei, Ohio State University herbei@stat.osu.edu
  Jessica Zuniga, Stanford University jzuniga@math.stanford.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Hitting-time Distributions for Markov Chains.
    James Allen Fill*, The Johns Hopkins University
    (1056-60-1746)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Evaluation of Formal posterior distributions via Markov chain arguments.
    Galin Jones*, University of Minnesota
    (1056-62-1158)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Finding Sparse Cuts Locally Using Evolving Sets.
    Reid Andersen, Microsoft
    Yuval Peres*, Microsoft Research
    (1056-60-1993)