Preview
We introduce the first two in a series of IMS special lecture previews for 2018. Richard Samworth and Thomas Mikosch are two of this year’s Medallion Lecturers. Both of them will be giving their Lecture at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2–6, 2018. The program will be…
Subhashis Ghoshal is a professor of statistics at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. His research interests span many areas including Bayesian statistics, asymptotics, nonparametrics and high dimensional models, with diverse applications. In particular, his pioneering work on concentration of posterior distributions led to theoretical understanding of nonparametric Bayesian procedures. He …
Judith Rousseau is currently Professor at University Paris Dauphine. Her research interests range from theoretical aspects of Bayesian procedures, both parametric and nonparametric, to more methodological developments. From a theoretical perspective she is interested in the interface between Bayesian and frequentist approaches, looking at frequentist properties of Bayesian methods. From …
Takashi Kumagai studied at Kyoto University, where he defended his PhD thesis in 1994 (supervisor: Shinzo Watanabe). After working at Osaka University and Nagoya University, he went back to Kyoto University in 1998. He is now a professor at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Kyoto University. His research …
