About

Aad van der Vaart has shaped mathematical statistics through his wide range of contributions including seminal work on empirical processes, likelihood based methods and semiparametric statistics. He is well known for the Ghosal-Ghosh-van der Vaart theory for nonparametric Bayes. In addition, Aad has been contributing to many fields in applied statistics, in particular statistical genetics and genomics. He is author of several excellent books that are standard references and basis of statistics courses worldwide. For his work, Aad received numerous awards and honors.


The conference

The conference will bring together collaborators and leading researchers in theoretical and applied statistics. Topics include nonparametric Bayes, high-dimensional/nonparametric statistics and applications of statistics in the life sciences.

2019
June 17-21

Leiden
The Netherlands

150+
Participants

32
Speakers

List of speakers

Registration

Registration is closed.

List of participants

Kweku Abraham
Diaa Al Mohamad
Moulinath Banerjee
Eduard Belitser
Svetlana Belitser
Rudolf Beran
James Berger
Thomas Berrett
Andrea Bertazzi
Joris Bierkens
Lucien Birgé
Stefan Boehringer
Kay Bogerd
Thijs Bos
Peter L. Buehlmann
Cristina Butucea
Juan Juan Cai
Emanuel Candes
Ismael Castillo
Rui Castro
Eric Cator
Gregory (Xiang-Yi) Chen
Alberto Coca
Giulia Cereda
Saskia le Cessie
Minwoo Chae
Arnak Dalalyan
Pierpaolo De Blasi
Miguel del Alamo
Alexis Derumigny
Marina Tiana Dietrich
Sjoerd Dirksen
Dennis Dobler
Charles Doss
Kevin Duisters
Brad Efron
Bart Eggen
Paul Eilers
Onno Elzinga
Tim van Erven
Bert van Es
Gianluca Finocchio
Marta Fiocco
Stefan Franssen
Chao Gao
Fengnan Gao
Elisabeth Gassiat
Sara van de Geer
Erwin Geerdink
Edward George
Subhashis Ghosal
Richard Gill
Matteo Giordano
Jelle Goeman
Els Goetghebeur
Sebastiano Grazzi
Piet Groeneboom
Peter Gruenwald
Steffen Grunewalder
Shota Gugushvili
Mathisca de Gunst
Zijian Guo
Amine Hadji
Rianne de Heide
Willem Heiser
Tom Heskes
Rikkert Hindriks
Dirk van der Hoeven
Remco van der Hofstad
Shaoxiong Hu
Hyungchan Cho
Arnold Janssen
Geurt Jongbloed
Marianne Jonker
Julian Karch
Tetsuya Kaji
Azadeh Khaleghi
Maarten Kampert
Yongdai Kim
Arlene Kim
Mijeong Kim
Alisa Kirichenko
Chris Klaassen
Geerten Koers
Vladimir Koltchinskii
Gino Kpogbezan
Willem Kruijer
Ekaterina Krymova
Mariusz Kubkowski
Pankaj Kumar
Mark van der Laan
Steffen Lauritzen
Gwenael Leday
Didong Li
Housen Li
Antonio Lijoi
Marie-Colette van Lieshout
Wei Lin
Lin Liu
Matthias Loeffler
Judith Lok
Gabor Lugosi
Alexander Ly
Marloes Maathuis
Enno Mammen
Irene Man
Ester Mariucci
Luminita Mihaela Maxim
Bart Mertens
Jacqueline Meulman
Grzegorz Mika
Magnus Muench
Rajarshi Mukherjee
Axel Munk
Susan Murphy
Thomas Nagler
Tina Nane
Mohamed Ndaoud
Richard Nickl
Bo Ning
Andrew Nobel
Nurzhan Nurushev
Nestor Parolya
Stephanie van der Pas
Muriel Perez
Sonia Petrone
Dominique Picard
Natesh Pillai
Richard Post
Igor Pruenster
Hein Putter
Lucas Radloff
Kolyan Ray
Markus Reiss
Jamie Robins
Veronika Rockova
Mark de Rooij
Etienne Roquain
Judith Rousseau
Anja Rueten-Budde
Jean-Bernard Salomond
Richard Samworth
Moritz Schauer
Johannes Schmidt-Hieber
Judith ter Schure
Bodhisattva Sen
Paulo Serra
Anna Skripka
Suzanne Sniekers
Jakob Soehl
Vladimir Spokoiny
Peter Spreij
Thomas Staudt
Natalia Stepanova
Weijie Su
Qian Sun
Botond Szabo
Surya Tokdar
Alexandre Tsybakov
Lasse Vuursteen
Jan van Waaij
Stephen Walker
Sven Wang
Tengyao Wang
Marten Wegkamp
Rafael Weissbach
Jon Wellner
Mark van de Wiel
Wessel van Wieringen
Sanne Willems
Ningning Xu
Dong Yan
Yuehan Yang
William Weimin Yoo
Jan van Mill
Harry van Zanten
Huiming Zhang
Maxim Zinchenko
Erik van Zwet
Willem van Zwet
Harrison Zhou
Ziwei Zhu

Program

For details about the locations and abstracts, please see the conference program


FAQs

It is remarkably easy to get to Leiden by train. Buy a one-way ticket at one of the yellow machines at Schiphol plaza (the entrance hall of the airport, do not get discount fare). Trains run to Leiden every few minutes and the journey takes 15 minutes with an intercity and a couple of minutes more if you take the sprinter. You should get out at Leiden Centraal. The station is within walking distance to the conference venue and the hotels in the city center.

A taxi might cost around 50-70 Euros.

You can send an email to schmidthieberaj@math.leidenuniv.nl

Photos

(copyright Lucien Birge)

Conference venue

Marekerk
Leiden
Lange Mare 48, 2312 GS Leiden

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