Recent seminars
| Series | Details | Topic | Time and day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seminar - Finance | Finance seminar - Professor Shangjin Wei - Columbia Business School | 11:00 am, Friday 10 April 2026 | |
| Seminar - Statistics | Statistics seminar - Dr Liuhua Peng - Univesity of Melbourne | 11:00 am, Thursday 9 April 2026 | |
| Seminar - Statistics | Statistics seminar - Dr Bao Anh Vu - ANU/RSFAS | 11:00 am, Thursday 2 April 2026 | |
| Seminar - Finance | Finance seminar - Dr Marina Gertsberg - Melbourne University | 11:00 am, Friday 27 March 2026 | |
| Seminar - Statistics | Statistics seminar - Dr Adam Nie - RSFAS | 11:00 am, Thursday 26 March 2026 | |
| Seminar - Finance | Finance seminar - Dr Edward Shore - UNSW | 11:00 am, Friday 13 March 2026 | |
| Seminar - Finance | Finance seminar - Professor Ron Masulis - UNSW | 11:00 am, Friday 6 March 2026 | |
| Seminar - Finance | Finance seminar - Dr Dongchen Zou - Indiana University | Buying the Dip: Return-Contingent Retail Trades | 11:00 am, Monday 2 March 2026 |
| Seminar - Statistics | Statistics Seminar - Dr Pavel Krupskiy - The University of Melbourne | Parsimonious Factor Models for Asymmetric Dependence in Multivariate Extremes | 11:00 am, Thursday 19 February 2026 |
| Seminar - Statistics | Statistics Seminar - Raffaele Argiento - Università degli Studi di Bergamo | Model-Based Clustering: A Bayesian Nonparametric Perspective | 11:00 am, Thursday 5 February 2026 |
Seminars archive
Finance seminars
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
|---|---|---|
| Assistant Professor Brittany Almquist Lewis | Friday, November 7, 2025 - 11:00 | |
| Professor Erica Li | Friday, October 17, 2025 - 11:00 | |
| Associate Professor Grace Xing Hu | Friday, October 10, 2025 - 11:00 | |
| PIK Now and Pay Later - How Deferred Interest Reshapes Private Credit | Professor Sascha Steffen | Monday, September 29, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Corporate Hierarchy | Professor Michael Ewens | Friday, August 22, 2025 - 11:00 |
| ESG Metrics in Executive Compensation: A Multitasking Approach | Distinguished Professor Vikas Agarwal | Friday, August 8, 2025 - 11:00 |
| The Green Transition: Evidence from Corporate Green Revenues | Professor Pedro Matos | Friday, August 1, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Modeling Managers as EPS Maximizers | Professor Zahi Ben-David | Monday, July 21, 2025 - 11:00 |
| News Selection and Asset Pricing, with Charles Martineau | Professor Jordi Mondria | Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Bottom-up institutional change and growth in China | Professor Xiaodong Zhu | Friday, May 16, 2025 - 09:30 |
| Financial Advice and Retirement Savings | Professor Stefan Ruenzi | Monday, April 7, 2025 - 11:00 |
| The Motherhood Penalty in the Mutual Fund Industry | Professor Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi | Friday, April 4, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Coverage neglect in homeowners insurance | Professor Tony Cookson | Monday, March 24, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Opioid Crisis and Firm Downside Tail Risks: Evidence from the Option Market | Professor Jie Cao | Friday, March 7, 2025 - 11:00 |
| How Much of Cross-Stock Momentum Reflects Underreaction? | Assistant Professor Jiacui Li | Friday, February 21, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Comparison and Evaluation of Long-Term Performance of Investment Strategies | A seminar by Professor Raymond Kan | Friday, February 14, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Professor Xiang Fang | Emerging Market Spreads and Risk Premia: Risk-free Rate and (In)Convenience Yield | Friday, November 22, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Professor Robert Marquez | Bank fragility and the incentives to manage risk | Monday, November 11, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Assistant Professor Peter Cziraki | Newspaper Closures and Local Investor Information Acquisition | Friday, October 25, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Professor George Pennacchi | The Effects of an Aging Population on the Structure of Bank Assets and Liabilities | Friday, October 18, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Professor Lukas Schmid | Granular Treasury Demand with Arbitrageurs | Monday, October 14, 2024 - 11:15 |
| Do bankers matter for main street? The financial intermediary labor channel | Professor Xiaoji Lin | Friday, October 4, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Oil and Greenium | Associate Professor Zhan Shi | Friday, September 27, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Teaching Economics to the Machines | Professor Hui Chan | Friday, September 20, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Revolving Credit to SMEs: The Role of Business Credit Cards | Associate Professor Greg Buchak | Friday, September 6, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Does Democratized Information Access Demand Democratized AI? A Tale of the Rich, the Poor, and the AI (ChatGPT) | Associate Professor Xi Dong | Friday, August 23, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Voting on Public Goods: Citizens vs. Shareholders | Professor Nadya Malenko | Monday, August 12, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Data Regulation in Credit Markets | Professor Uday Rajan | Friday, August 2, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Professor Jonathan Brogaard | Friday, July 19, 2024 - 11:00 | |
| The Value of Social Media Anonymity: Evidence from the Stock Market | Professor Kai Li | Monday, June 17, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Sustainable finance under regulation | Professor Shiyang Huang | Friday, June 7, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Randomized On-Site Inspections and Shareholder Value | Associate Professor Fangjian Fu | Friday, May 31, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Government Litigation Risk and the Decline in Low-Income Mortgage Lending | Assistant Professor Erik Mayer | Friday, May 24, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Pollution Abatement Investment under Financial Frictions and Policy Uncertainty | Assistant Professor Chi-Yang Tsou | Friday, May 17, 2024 - 11:00 |
| How Perception Affects House Prices: Evidence from Failed Auctions | Professor David Solomon | Friday, May 10, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Capital market distortions and reform dividends: evidence from IPO locational Choices | Professor Shang-Jin Wei | Friday, May 3, 2024 - 11:00 |
| A Four-Trillion-Dollar Question: Why Trade ETFs Instead of Their Underlying Stocks? | Professor Wenxi Jiang | Friday, April 19, 2024 - 11:00 |
| How Do Borrowers Respond to a Debt Moratorium: Experimental Evidence from Consumer Loans in India | Martin Kanz | Friday, April 12, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Structuring Management Fees for Prospect Theory Investors: Experimental Evidence | Associate Professor Jordan Moore | Friday, April 5, 2024 - 11:00 |
| A seminar by Professor Allaudeen Hameed | A seminar by Professor Allaudeen Hameed | Friday, March 22, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Professor Tony Cookson | News consumption in the wild | Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 11:00 |
| A seminar by Associate Professor Thanh Huynh | A seminar by Associate Professor Thanh Huynh | Friday, March 8, 2024 - 11:00 |
| A seminar by Dr Lucie Lu | A seminar by Dr Lucie Lu | Friday, March 1, 2024 - 11:00 |
| CEO Personal Political Contributions and Regulatory Enforcement against the CEO | Associate Professor James Naughton | Friday, February 23, 2024 - 11:00 |
| A seminar by Assistant Professor Victor Song | Assistant Professor Victor Song | Friday, February 16, 2024 - 11:00 |
| The Politics of Academic Research | Professor Matthew Ringgenberg | Friday, November 10, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Do Investors Reward Countries for Participating in Climate Agreements? | Associate Professor Konark Saxena | Friday, November 3, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Voting Choice | Professor Andrey Malenko | Monday, October 23, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Smoothing, Space and Statistics | Senior Lecturer Tilman Davies | Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Expected Returns and Large Language Models | Professor Xiu Dacheng | Friday, October 13, 2023 - 11:00 |
| The Technical Default Spread | Senior Lecturer Jun Yu | Friday, October 6, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Labor Market Shocks and Wealth Accumulation | Professor Kaveh Majlesi | Friday, September 29, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Social Trust and the Prominence of Banks in Financial Systems | Professor Allen Berger, Moore School of Business | Friday, September 15, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Financial Intermediaries and Contagion in Market Efficiency: The Case of ETFs | Assistant Professor Weikai Li, Singapore Management University | Friday, September 8, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Corporate Hedging, Contract Rights, and Basis Risk | Associate Professor Yuri Tserlukevich, Arizona State University | Friday, September 1, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Do Different Measures of Stock Market Volatility Risks Have the Same Price? | Senior Lecturer Guanglian Hu, University of Sydney | Friday, August 25, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Balance Sheet Financial Flexibility | Professor Sudipto Dasgupta, Chinese University of Hong Kong | Friday, August 11, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Does Portfolio Disclosure Make Money Smarter? | Associate Professor Byoung Kang | Friday, August 4, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Non-Random Survival and Long-Run IPO Underperformance | Associate Professor Feng Zhang | Friday, June 9, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Asset Pricing Implications of Heterogeneous Investment Horizons | Assistant Professor Idan Hodor | Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Equity Prices in a Granular Economy | Associate Professor Alexandre Jeanneret | Friday, May 12, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Tactical Asset Allocation of Target Date Funds | David Brown | Friday, May 5, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Evaluating the Efficacy of Multiple Testing Adjustments in Empirical Asset Pricing | Dr Min Zhu | Friday, April 28, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Yushui Shi | Naïve buy diversification, retail investors, and size effect | Friday, April 21, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Yang Song | Discontinued Positive Feedback Trading and the Decline of Return Predictability | Friday, April 14, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Expert Network Calls | Associate Professor Sean Cao | Monday, March 27, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Professor Ron Masulis | Value-Enhancing Effects of Female Independent Directors in Companies with Overconfident CEOs | Friday, March 24, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Payment Risk and Bank Lending | Dr Yi Li | Friday, March 17, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Debt Maturity Management | Assistant Professor Chao Ying | Friday, March 10, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Credit Rating under Ambiguity | Alexander Szimayer | Friday, March 3, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Municipal Capital Structure (Co-authored by Murray Carlson and Rob Heinkel) | Ron Giammarino | Friday, February 24, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Does Foreign Institutional Capital Promote Green Growth for Emerging Market Firms? | Jaewon Choi | Friday, February 17, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Self-Dealing in Corporate Investment | Denis Sosyura - Arizona State University | Friday, November 25, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Feedback and Contagion Through Distressed Competition | Dr Winston Dou - Wharton | Monday, November 14, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Can Finance Save the World? Measurement and Effects of Coal Divestment Policies by Banks | Professor Boris Vallée, Harvard Business School | Friday, November 4, 2022 - 10:00 |
| The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps | Dr Bo Bian, Sauder UBC | Monday, October 31, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Political Divide and the Composition of Households’ Equity Portfolios | Prof Stephan Siegel, Washington | Friday, October 28, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Hidden in Plain Sight: The Role of Corporate Board of Directors in Public Charity Lobbying | Dr Sehoon Kim, Florida | Friday, October 7, 2022 - 11:00 |
| The Real Effects of Banking the Poor: Evidence from Brazil | Dr Adrien Matray - Princeton | Friday, September 23, 2022 - 10:00 |
| The Resilience of the U.S. Corporate Bond Market during Financial Crises | Professor Bo Becker - Stockholm School of Economics | Monday, September 19, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists | Dr Vladimir Mukharlyamov, Georgetown University | Friday, September 16, 2022 - 11:00 |
| The Impact of Lack of Affordable Housing on Labor Markets | Asso Prof Isaac Hacamo - Indiana University | Monday, September 5, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Do Incidental Encounters Strengthen Economic Ties? Evidence from Venture Capital Syndication | Professor Jason Zein - UNSW | Friday, August 26, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Informed Trading on Counterparty Risk | Associate Professor Thu Phuong Pham - Curtin | Monday, August 22, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Tax News Shocks, Political Cycles, and Asset Prices | Dr Ruchith Dissanayake - QUT | Friday, August 19, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Do women need to provide more skill signals to advance their careers? | Professor Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi - Mannheim | Monday, August 8, 2022 - 11:00 |
| The impact of finance TV | Professor Diego Garcia - Colorado | Friday, August 5, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Delegated Gender Diversity | Dr Cara Vansteenkiste - UNSW | Friday, July 29, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Don’t trust, verify: The economics of scams in initial coin offerings | Dr Kenny Phua - UTS | Monday, July 25, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Dr Chao Ying, CUHK | The Pre-FOMC Announcement Drift and Private Information: Kyle Meets Macro-Finance | Friday, May 27, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Professor Farzad Saidi - Bonn | Information Transmission between Banks and the Market for Corporate Control | Tuesday, May 17, 2022 - 17:00 |
| Dr Hanzhe Zhang, Michigan State | Overcoming Borrowing Stigma: The Design of Lending-of-Last-Resort Policies | Friday, May 13, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Prof Thomas Noe, Oxford | Governance, Stakeholder Welfare, Crises and Recovery: An Experiment | Friday, May 6, 2022 - 16:00 |
| Professor Daniel Streitz, University of Jena | Feasible Stimulus and Constrained Monetary Policy | Friday, April 29, 2022 - 15:00 |
| Dr Thomas Drechsel, University of Maryland | Income Inequality, Financial Intermediation, and Small Firms | Friday, April 22, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Professor Christine Parlour from UC Berkeley | Battle of the Bots: Flash loans, Miner Extractable Value and Efficient Settlement | Friday, April 8, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Asso. Prof. Keke Song, Melbourne | When Banks Become Shareholder Activists | Friday, April 1, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Asso Prof Jin Yu, Monash | The Dynamics of Corporate Debt Structure | Friday, March 25, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Professor Thomas Philippon | Title: Dominant firms and the economy | Friday, March 18, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Dr Claire Celerier, Uni of Toronto | The Impact of Financial Inclusion on Minorities: Evidence from the Freedman’s Savings Bank | Friday, March 11, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Associate Professor Stacey Jacobsen | Overallocation and Secondary Market Outcomes in Corporate Bond Offerings | Friday, March 4, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Jonathan Pogach | Shared Destinies? Small Banks and Small Business Consolidation | Friday, February 25, 2022 - 10:00 |
| What Works Best in Capital Budgeting? | Professor David Thesmar | Friday, October 29, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Pay Now, Play Later: Political Contributions and Underwriting Relationships in the Muni Market | Associate Professor Z. Jay Wang | Friday, October 22, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Firm Foreign Activity and Exchange Rate Risk | Professor Francesca Carrieri - McGill University | Friday, October 15, 2021 - 10:00 |
| On the Instability of Banking and Other Financial Intermediation | Professor Chao Gu - the University of Missouri | Friday, October 1, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Decentralized Stablecoins and Collateral Risk | Professor Roman Kozhan - Warwick Business School | Friday, September 24, 2021 - 16:00 |
| Mutual Funds as Lenders. Liquidity Fragility in Loan Funds and Shock Transmission | Dr Nicola Cetorelli - the Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Friday, September 17, 2021 - 10:00 |
| ESG Lending | Dr Sehoon Kim - the University of Florida | Friday, September 10, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Scope, Scale and Competition: The 21st Century Firm | Professor Gerard Hoberg - University of Southern California | Friday, August 27, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Labor Market Networks and Asset Returns | Associate Professor Xiaofei Zhao - Georgetown University | Friday, August 20, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Competition and Exchange Data Fees | Dr James Brugler - University of Melbourne | Friday, August 13, 2021 - 11:00 |
| What is the Cost of Privatization for Workers? | Associate Professor Joacim Tåg - Lund University and Program Director at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) | Friday, August 6, 2021 - 15:00 |
| Public Disclosure and Consumer Financial Protection | Associate Professor Yiwei Dou (New York University) | Friday, May 28, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Liquidity Management by Bond Mutual Funds (joint work with Minsoo Kim) | Dr Oliver Randall University of Melbourne | Friday, May 21, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Vertical Acquisitions, Firm Boundaries, and Social Trust | Adjunct Professor Cong Wang - Chinese University of Hong Kong | Friday, May 14, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Rush to raise: does fundraising pressure incentivise strategic venture capital deal pricing? | Associate Professor Peter Pham - University of New South Wales | Friday, May 7, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Crowded Ratings: Clientele Effects in the Corporate Bond Market | Professor Jordan Nickerson - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Friday, April 30, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Banks and Firms: Evidence from a legal reform altering contract design | Professor Hans Degryse - KU Leuven | Friday, April 23, 2021 - 15:00 |
| Lying to Speak the Truth: Selective Manipulation and Improved Information Transmission | Professor Paul Povel - University of Houston | Friday, April 16, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Errors in Shareholder Voting | Associate Professor Alan Crane - Rice University | Friday, April 9, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Contracting Costs and Reputational Contracts | Associate Professor Dominique Badoer - University of Illinois at Chicago | Friday, March 26, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Partisan Return Gap: The Polarized Stock Market in the Time of a Pandemic | Dr Jinfei Sheng - University of California, Irvine | Friday, March 19, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Corporate Capital Raising During the COVID Crisis | Associate Professor David Smith - University of Virginia | Friday, March 12, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Debt as Safe Asset: Mining the Bubble | Professor Markus Brunnermeier - Princeton University | Friday, March 5, 2021 - 10:00 |
| The Financial Origins of the Rise and Fall of American Inflation | Professor Philipp Schnabl - New York University | Friday, February 26, 2021 - 10:00 |
Semester 2, 2020
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
Financing Payouts | Joan Farre-Mensa (University of Illinois at Chicago) | 11:00-12:00 Fri 4 Aug 20 |
| A New Channel for Global Volatility Propagation | Jianxin Wang (University of Technology Sydney) | 11:00-12:00 Fri 21 Aug 20 |
| The Consequences of Student Loan Credit Expansions: Evidence from Three Decades of Default Cycles" | Constantine Yannelis (University of Chicago) | 11:00-12:00 Fri 28 Aug 20 |
| Big Fish in Small Ponds: Human Capital Mobility and the Rise of Boutique Banks | Wenyu Wang (Indiana University) | 11:00-12:00 Fri 11 Sept 20 |
| Big Information Complementarities and the Dynamics of Transparency Shock Spillovers | Sudipto Dasgupta (Chinese University of Hong Kong) | 15:00-16:00 Fri 18 Sept 20 |
| Off Target: On the Underperformance of Target-Date Funds | David Brown (University of Arizona) | 11:00-12:00 Fri 25 Sept 20 |
| Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World | (University of Virginia) | 11:00-12:00 Fri 2 Oct 20 |
| The Death of a Regulator: Strict Supervision, Bank Lending, and Business Activity | (University of Chicago) | 11:00-12:00 Fri 9 Oct 20 |
| Real Responses to Anti-tax Avoidance: Evidence from the UK Worldwide Debt Cap | (City University of Hong Kong) | 14:00-15:00 Fri 12 Oct 20 |
| How Deep Is the Labor Market for Female Directors? Evidence from California’s Board Gender Diversity Mandate | (University of Arizona) | 11:00-12:00 Fri 16 Oct 20 |
| Labor Force Telework Flexibility and Asset Prices: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic | (University of Minnesota) | 10:00-11:00 Fri 23 Oct 20 |
| The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods | (Boston College) | 10:00 - 11:00 Fri 30 Oct 20 |
| Private Equity and COVID-19 | (Georgetown University) | 10:00 - 11:00 Fri 06 Nov 20 |
| Shareholder Power and the Decline of Labor | (Cornell University) | 10:00 - 11:00 Fri 13 Nov 20 |
| Disclosure and the Cost-of Capital: Evidence from FOMC Announcements | (State University of New York at Buffalo) | 10:00 - 11:00 Fri 20 Nov 20 |
Semester 1, 2020
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
| The liberalization spillover: from equities to loans | Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University) | 11:00-12:30 Mon 24 Feb 20 |
| Financing Corporate Growth | Murray Frank (University of Minnesota) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 13 Mar 20 |
Semester 2, 2019
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
| Disclosure, Runs and Bank Capital Raising | Jean Helwege (UC Riverside) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 26/7/19 |
| Leasing as a Risk-Sharing Mechanism | Kai Li (HKUST) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 2/8/19 |
| Weather, Institutional Investors and Earnings News | Danling Jiang (Stony Brook University) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 9/8/19 |
| Does Financial Market Structure Impact the Cost of Raising Capital? | Carole Comerton-Forde (UNSW) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 16/8/19 |
| Trading in Crowded Markets | Yajun Wang (City University of New York) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 30/8/19 |
| The Sources of Financing Constraints | Boris Nikolov (University of Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 6/9/19 |
| A friend in need is a friend indeed: Strategic insider financing | Yizhou Xiao (CUHK) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 16/9/19 |
| The Role of External Regulators in Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from SEC Comment Letters | Tao Shu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 27/9/19 |
| On Index Investing | Matthew C. Ringgenberg (University of Utah) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 4/10/19 |
| What Drives Global Lending Syndication? Effects of Cross-Country Capital Regulation Gaps | Yeejin Jang (UNSW) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 11/10/19 |
| Operating Hedge and Gross Profitability Premium | Harold Zhang (UT Dallas) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 18/10/19 |
| Short Seller Attention and Corporate Customer News | Lilian Ng (York University) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 25/10/19 |
| Mutual fund carbon footprints and performance | Jacquelyn Humphrey (UQ) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 1/11/19 |
| Out of Sight No More? The Eect of Fee Disclosures on 401(k) Investment Allocations | Mathias Kronlund (UIUC) | 11:00-12:30 Mon 11/11/19 |
| The Origins and Real Effects of the Gender Gap: Evidence from CEOs’ Formative Years | Denis Sosyura (ASU) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 15/11/19 |
| Private Equity Indices Based on Secondary Market Transactions | Michael Weisbach (Ohio State) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 13/12/19 |
Semester 1, 2019
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
| Variance Risk Premiums in Emerging Markets | Hao Zhou (Tsinghua PBC School) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 8/3/19 |
| Momentum and Reversal: A Decomposition | Allaudeen Hameed (NUS) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 15/3/19 |
| Debt covenants and the value of commitment | Lei Mao (CUHK Shenzhen) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 22/3/19 |
| Anticompetitive effects of horizontal acquisitions: the impact of within-industry product similarity | Sandy Klasa (University of Arizona) | 11:00-12:30 Mon 25/3/19 |
| The Tangible and Intangible Consequences of Corporate Fraud | Tamas Barko (University of Mannheim) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 29/3/19 |
| Independent Director Reputation Incentives: CEO Compensation Contracting and Financial Reporting | Ron Masulis (UNSW) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 5/4/19 |
| Do Internet Finance Platforms Mitigate Conflicts of Interest? The Case of Mutual Fund Investment | Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia) | 11:00-12:30 Mon 8/4/19 |
| Distress Risk, Liquidity and the Cross-section of Stock Returns | Chuan Yang Hwang (Nanyang Technological University) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 12/4/19 |
| Are Return Seasonalities Due to Risk or Mispricing? Evidence from Seasonal Reversals | Matti Keloharju (Aalto University, Helsinki Finland) | 11:00-12:30 Mon 15/4/19 |
| Accounting Information, Renegotiation, and Debt Contracts | Pierre Liang (Carnegie Mellon) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 26/4/19 |
| Geopolitical Risk and Corporate Investment | Ruchith Dissanayake (QUT) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 3/5/19 |
| Factor Momentum and the Momentum Factor | Juhani Linnainmaa (USC) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 10/5/19 |
| Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your High Skilled Labor: H-1B Lottery Outcomes and Entrepreneurial Success | Stephen Dimmock (Nanyang Technological University) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 17/5/19 |
| Willingness to Take Risk and Fund Flow Dynamics | Zhongyan Zhu (Monash University) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 24/5/19 |
| Extrapolative Beliefs in the Cross-Section: What Can We Learn from the Crowds? | Xing Huang (WUSTL) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 31/5/19 |
| Interbank Trading, Collusion, and Financial Regulation | Michael Gofman (University of Rochester) | 11:00-12:30 Mon 3/6/19 |
| The Effects of Capital Requirements on Good and Bad Risk-Taking | Roberto Robatto (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 14/6/19 |
| Finance and Firm Volatility | Tao Chen (NTU) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 21/6/19 |
| Reaching for Dividends | Hao Jiang (Michigan State University) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 28/6/19 |
| Expected inflation, real rates, and stock-bond comovement | Greg Duffee (Johns Hopkins University) | 11:00-12:30 Mon 1/7/19 |
| Institutional Allocations in the Primary Market for Corporate Bonds | Stanislava (Stas) Nikolova (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 5/7/19 |
| Who is the Boss? Family Control without Ownership in Publicly-traded Japanese Firms | Yupana Wiwattanakantang (NUS) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 12/7/19 |
| Bank Entrepreneurs | Manju Puri (Duke University) | 11:00-12:30 Mon 15/7/19 |
| Why Are Commercial Loan Rates So Sticky? The Effect of Private Information on Loan Spreads | Christopher M. James (University of Florida) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 19/7/19 |
Semester 2, 2018
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Non-dominated models in finance: several approaches in continuous time | Laurent Denis (Université du Maine) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 20/7/18 |
| Credit Default Swaps and Corporate Debt Structure | Sarah (Qian) Wang (The University of Warwick ) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 27/7/18 |
| The Bond Pricing Implications of Rating-Based Capital Requirements | Dr Stanislava Nikolova (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 3/8/18 |
| The redistributive effects of bank capital regulation | Professor Robert Marquez (UC Davis) | 15:30 - 17:00 Thu 9/8/18 |
| Why Don’t Share Issue Privatizations Improve Profitability in China? | Professor Qian Sun (Fudan University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 13/8/18 |
| Shareholder Litigation and the Information Environment | Professor Eliezer Fich (Drexel University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Tue 14/8/18 |
| Proxy Variables in Empirical Corporate Finance: Why Does Size Matter For Bidder Announcement Returns? | Dr Christoph Schneider (Tilburg University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 17/8/18 |
| A Theory of ICOs: Diversication, Agency, and Information Asymmetry | Associate Professor Evgeny Lyandres (Boston University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 20/8/18 |
| Linear IV Regression Estimators for Single-Agent Dynamic Discrete Choice Models | Dr Paul Scott (NYU Stern School of Business ) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 24/8/18 |
| Debt and Supplier Diversification | Dr Ben Charoenwong (National University of Singapore) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 31/8/18 |
| Anomalies and Multiple Hypothesis Testing: Evidence from Two Million Trading Strategies | Professor Amit Goyal (University of Lausanne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 3/9/18 |
| Small area estimates of public opinion: model-assisted post-stratification of data from voter advice applications | Professor Simon Jackman (University of Sydney) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 14/9/18 |
| Central Hub Financial Advisors | Professor Alfred Yawson (University of Adelaide) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 21/9/18 |
| Debt, Information, and Illiquidity | Professor Efraim Benmelech (University of Northwestern) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 5/10/18 |
| Over-the-Counter Market Liquidity and Securities Lending (with Nathan Foley-Fisher and Stefan Gissler) | Dr Stéphane Verani (The Federal Reserve Board) | 11:00 - 12:30 Tue 9/10/18 |
| Dissecting Conglomerates | Professor Ran Duchin (University of Washington) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 12/10/18 |
| How Do Individual Politicians Affect Privatization? Evidence from China | Dr Hong Ru (Nanyang Technological University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 19/10/18 |
| The Importance of Sovereign Reference Rates for Corporate Debt Issuance | Professor Bruce Grundy (University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 22/10/18 |
| Learning While Setting Precedent | Professor Hulya Eraslan (Rice University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 26/10/18 |
| How Does the Economy Shape the Financial Advisory Profession? | Associate Professor Luo Zuo (Cornell University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 29/10/18 |
| Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment | Professor Ross Levine (The University of California, Berkeley) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 2/11/18 |
| Sharing surplus with clients: Evidence from the protection of bank proprietary information | Dr Yupeng Lin (National University of Singapore) | 11:00 - 12:30 Wed 14/11/18 |
| Liquidity Supply and Demand in the Corporate Bond Market | Dr Yoshio Nozawa (HKUST) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 19/11/18 |
| Hacking Corporate Reputations | Dr Stefan Lewellen (London Business School) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 23/11/18 |
| How Do Firms Use Their Financial Flexibility | Professor David Denis (University of Pittsburgh) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 7/12/18 |
Semester 1, 2018
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Naughty Firms, Noisy Disclosure: The Effects of Cartel Enforcement on Corporate Disclosure | Thomas Bourveau (HKUST Business School) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 29/1/18 |
| What Makes the SP500 Jump | Marcel Prokopczuk (Leibniz University Hannover) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 16/2/18 |
| In the Shadow of Banks: Wealth Management Products and Issuing Banks’ Risk in China | Jun Qian (Fudan University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 23/2/18 |
| The Commonality of Sovereign Credit Risk: A Rating-Based Approach | Tao Li (City University of Hong Kong) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 2/3/18 |
| News Momentum | Sophia Zhengzi Li (Rutgers) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 5/3/18 |
| Railroad Bailouts in the Great Depression | Lyndon Moore (University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 16/3/18 |
| Fund Flow Diversification: Implications for Fee-Setting and Performance | Lorenzo Casavecchia (Macquarie University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 23/3/18 |
| Foreign Ties that Bind: Cross-border Firm Expansions and Fund Portfolio Allocation around the World | Peter Pham (University of New South Wales) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 6/4/18 |
| Institutional Crowding and the Moments of Momentum | Roger Edelen (UC Davis Grad School of Management) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 13/4/18 |
| Information revelation through regulatory process: Interactions between the SEC and companies ahead of the IPO | Ekaterina Volkova (University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 20/4/18 |
| Unrelated Acquisitions | Rajesh Aggarwal (Northeastern University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 4/5/18 |
| Stress Tests and Small Business Lending | Kristle Cortés (University Of New South Wales) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 7/5/18 |
| Credit Ratings: Adding value to Public Information | Uday Rajan (University of Michigan) | 14:00 - 15:30 Tue 22/5/18 |
| A multi-factor model for idiosyncratic volatility | Thijs Van der Heijden (The University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 1/6/18 |
| Investor Sentiment and the Cross-section of Corporate Bond Returns | Hai Lin (Victoria University of Wellington) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 15/6/18 |
Semester 2, 2017
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Do Banks Still Monitor When There is a Market for Credit Protection? | Prof Andrew Winton (University of Minnesota) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 28/7/17 |
| MBS Ratings and the Mortgage Credit Boom | Dr James Vickery (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 4/8/17 |
| The effect of stock market indexing on option market quality | Dr Li Ge (Monash University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 11/8/17 |
| Mechanism Selection and Trade Formation onSwap Execution Facilities: Evidence from Index CDS Trades | Dr Haoxiang Zhu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 14/8/17 |
| A Forward-looking Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates | Dr Albert Chin (University of Queensland) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 28/8/17 |
| Estimating the Unofficial Income of Officials | Prof Yongheng Deng (National University of Singapore ) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 8/9/17 |
| Purging Investor Sentiment Index from Too Much Fundamental Information | Jun Tu (Singapore Management University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 29/9/17 |
| Sunk-Cost Fallacy and Seller Behavior in the Housing Market | Dr Vijay Yerramilli (University of Houston, Bauer) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 6/10/17 |
| Marketing Mutual Funds | Dr Nikolai Roussanov (Wharton) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 9/10/17 |
| Advisors Lending to the Advised Acquirer as a Last Resort | Dr Xueping Wu (City University of Hong Kong) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 20/10/17 |
| Multinational Firms and the International Transmission of Crises: The Real Economy Channel | Dr Jan Bena (UBC Sauder School of Business) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 23/10/17 |
| Discriminatory Pricing of Over-the-Counter FX Derivatives | Prof Harald Hau (University of Geneva) | 11:00 - 12:30 Tue 31/10/17 |
| CDS Trading and Price Discovery in the Equity Market: Evidence from Insider Trading Profitability | Prof Dragon Tang (University of Hong Kong) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 3/11/17 |
| Assimilation of Oil News into Prices | Prof Timothy Loughran (University of Notre Dame) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 10/11/17 |
| Tax-Loss Carry Forwards and Returns | Prof Ron Giammarino (University of British Columbia) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 24/11/17 |
| Syndicated Loan Risk: The Effects of Covenants and Collateral | Prof George Pennacchi (University of Illinois) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 27/11/17 |
| Hometown Biased Acquisitions | Prof Yiming Qian (University of Iowa) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 11/12/17 |
Semester 1, 2017
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Intellectual Property Contracts: Theory and Evidence from Screenplay Sales | Abraham (Avri) Ravid (Yeshiva University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thu 2/2/17 |
| Adverse Selection on Maturity: Evidence from Online Consumer Credit? | Andrew Hertzberg (Columbia University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 27/2/17 |
| Systemic Default and Return Predictability in the Stock and Bond Markets | Kewei Hou (Ohio State) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 3/3/17 |
| Does Supply Chain Network Information Predict Firm Exit? Japanese Micro Data and Machine Learning | Daisuke Miyakawa (Hitotsubashi) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 6/3/17 |
| Winning by Default: Why Is There so Little Competition in Government Procurement? | Robert Miller (Carnegie Mellon) | 11:00 - 12:30 Tue 14/3/17 |
| Investing in Mutual Funds: Exploiting the Cross-sectional Predictability in Fund Performance | Federico Nardari (University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 17/3/17 |
| Social Interaction, Stochastic Volatility, and Momentum | Xuezhong He (UTS) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 24/3/17 |
| Political Representation and Governance: Evidence from the Investment Decisions of Public Pension Funds | Yael Hochberg (Rice University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 31/3/17 |
| Index Membership and Capital Structure: International Evidence | Vidhan Goyal (HKUST) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 7/4/17 |
| Cost Reduction, Informational E_ciency, and Prices of Options | Sophie Xiaoyan Ni (HKUST) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 10/4/17 |
| Communication in a Complicated World | Steven Callander (Stanford University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 21/4/17 |
| Cryptocurrencies from an Austrian perspective | Alistair Milne (Loughborough University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 1/5/17 |
| History Matters – Rating under Asymmetric Information | Alexander Szimayer (University of Hamburg) | 13:00 - 14:00 Wed 10/5/17 |
| The risk-return tradeoff among equity factors | Paulo Maio (Hanken, Finland) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 22/5/17 |
| Inflation and Professional Forecast Dynamics: An Evaluation of Stickiness, Persistence, and Volatility | James Nason (University NC State) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 26/5/17 |
| Short-Sales Constraints and Aftermarket IPO Pricing | Richard Sloan (Berkeley) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 29/5/17 |
| Locked in by Leverage: Job Search during the Housing Crisis | Jennifer Brown (University of British Columbia) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 2/6/17 |
| The Unintended Consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act on Bank Credit Supply | Louis Nguyen (St. Andrews) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 9/6/17 |
| Do Academics Respond to Incentives? Evidence from pre- and post-tenure publication behavior | Jonathan Brogaard (University of Washington) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 16/6/17 |
| The Effect of Superstar Firms on College Major Choice | Darwin Choi (CUHK) | 11:00 - 12:30 Tue 20/6/17 |
Semester 2, 2016
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Geographic Concentration of Institutions, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value | Jun-koo Kang (NTU) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 18/7/16 |
| Geographic Concentration of Institutions, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value | Kai Li (University of British Columbia) | 11:00 - 12:30 Wed 20/7/16 |
| The Effect of Star Analyst Tournaments on Firms' Information Environment | Joshua Shemesh (University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 29/7/16 |
| Expectations and Risk Premia at 8:30AM: Understanding the Response of Bond Yields to Macroeconomic Announcements | Giorgio Valente (City University of HK) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 8/8/16 |
| A Reexamination of Contingent Convertibles with Stock Price Triggers | George Pennacchi (University of Illinois) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 12/8/16 |
| Lion over Elephant: The Power of Structured Volume Disclosure in Explaining the Capitalization of Firm-Specific Information | Agnes Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 19/8/16 |
| Why do high dispersion stocks earn low returns? Evidence from institutional ownership | Keith Wong (University of Hong Kong) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 26/8/16 |
| Systemic Default and Return Predictability in the Stock and Bond Markets | Kewei Hou (Ohio State University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 2/9/16 |
| Labor-Force Heterogeneity and Asset Prices: the Importance of Skilled Labor | Jun Li (University of Texas at Dallas) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 16/9/16 |
| The Dividend Disconnect | David Soloman (University of Southern California) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 23/9/16 |
| Something in the Air: Projection Bias and the Demand for Health Insurance | Tom Chang (University of Southern California) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 30/9/16 |
| Quant Trading in A-Share Market | Hua He (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business) | 11:00 - 12:30 Tue 4/10/16 |
| Transparency, Investor Information Acquisition, and Money Market Fund Risk Rebalancing during the 2011-12 Eurozone Crisis | Lawrence Schmidt (University of Chicago) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 28/10/16 |
| Political information, firm value and information networks: Evidence from the Chinese National Social Security Fund | Yong Li from the University of Queensland. | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 18/11/16 |
| Acquiring Banking Networks | Chen Lin (University of Hong Kong) | 11:00 - 12:30 Wed 23/11/16 |
| The Externalities of Corruption: Evidence from Entrepreneurial Activities in China | Xiaoyun Yu (Indiana University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 25/11/16 |
| Market Power and Production (Mis)Allocation A Study of the World Oil Market | John Asker (UCLA) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 5/12/16 |
| Principal Component Analysis of High Frequency Data | Yacine Ait-Sahalia (Princeton University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 12/12/16 |
Semester 1, 2016
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Ambiguity and the Corporation: Group Decisions, Time Inconsistency, and Underinvestment | Ron Giammarino (University of British Columbia) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 19/2/16 |
| International Liquidity Rents | Maya Eden (World Bank) | 11:00 - 12:30 Wed 23/3/16 |
| Financial Network and Systemic Risk - A Dynamic Model | Tan Wang (SAIF) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 8/4/16 |
| Leaning against the Wind: Debt Financing in the Face of Adversity | Michael Brennan (UCLA) | 11:00 - 12:30 Tue 12/4/16 |
| Optimal Portfolio Selection with and without Risk-Free Asset | Raymond Kan (University of Toronto) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 22/4/16 |
| Optimal Portfolio Selection with and without Risk-Free Asset | Chu Zhang (HKUST) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 29/4/16 |
| The Rookie Director | Angie Low (NTU) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 6/5/16 |
| Retail and Institutional Trades and the Cross-Section of Corporate Bond Returns | Jason Wei (University of Toronto) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 13/5/16 |
| Do Bondholders Value Senior Loan Lender Control Rights? | Wei Wang (Queen's University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 20/5/16 |
| Clustering Huge Number of Financial Time Series | Tomohiro Ando (University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thu 26/5/16 |
| A Portfolio Rebalancing Theory of Disposition Effect | Hong Liu (Washington University St. Louis) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 30/5/16 |
| Dealer Behavior in Highly Illiquid Risky Assets | Michael Goldstein (Babson College) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 10/6/16 |
| Why does idiosyncratic risk increase with market risk? | Söhnke Bartram (University of Warwick) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 17/6/16 |
| Does Speculative Activity Have Real Effects? | Mark Loewenstein (University of Maryland) | 11:00 - 12:30 Wed 22/6/16 |
| Another Test of the Efficiency of a Given Portfolio" | Paskalis Glabadanidis (University of Adelaide) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 1/7/16 |
| Institutions and Innovation | Kose John (NYU) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 11/7/16 |
Actuarial Studies seminars
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
|---|---|---|
| Time-inconsistent Personal Finance Beyond Mean-Variance | Professor Mogens Steffensen | Tuesday, November 18, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Learning Before, During, and After Class | Associate Professor Diana Skrzydlo | Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Dynamic derivative-based pension investment with stochastic volatility: A behavioral perspective | Associate Professor Yang Shen | Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Seizing policy opportunities: how Confucian culture promotes firm exports | Distinguished Professor Tong Fu | Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Professor Hong Li | Unveiling Nonlinear Dynamics in Catastrophe Bond Pricing: A Machine Learning Perspective | Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Individualised disability support schemes and their impact on autism diagnoses | Maathumai Ranjan | Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 14:00 |
| Threshold Autoregressive Nearest-Neighbour Models for Claims Reserving | Professor Tak Kuen Siu | Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 11:00 |
| A seminar by Dr Fei Huang | A seminar by Dr Fei Huang | Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 11:00 |
| A seminar by Associate Professor Jonathan Ziyeyi | A seminar by Associate Professor Jonathan Ziyeyi | Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Alpha-transformation and change-point detection for (high-dimensional) functional time series | Professor Hanlin Shang | Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Life cycle insurance and life annuity loads | Senior Lecturer Aleksander Arandjelovic, Maquarie University | Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Senior Lecturer Colin Zhang, Macquarie University | Thursday, August 31, 2023 - 11:00 | |
| Supply side obstacles to lifetime annuities: revisiting market design | Professor Anthony Asher, UNSW | Thursday, August 10, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Constrained portfolios in incomplete markets: a dynamic programming approach to Heston’s model | Dr Yevhen Havrylenko | Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Optimal Use of Housing Wealth in a Two-Generation Model | Associate Professor Katja Hanewald | Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Mean-variance longevity risk-sharing for annuity contracts | Dr Hamza Hanbali | Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Update on the Australian life insurance industry | Brendan Counsell | Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 11:00 |
| A systematic vector autoregressive framework for modelling and forecasting mortality | Professor Jacki Li, Monash University | Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 13:00 |
| Transition between inpatient rehabilitation and National Disability Insurance Scheme for Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury | Dr Simon Guthrie - Macquarie University | Thursday, November 10, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Estimating and modelling mortality rates in the absence of population denominators | Dr Andres Villegas Ramirez - UNSW | Thursday, November 3, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Improving Business Insurance Loss Models by Leveraging InsurTech Innovation | Professor Emiliano Valdez | Friday, October 7, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Multi-population modelling and forecasting life-table death counts | Professor Hanlin Shang - Macquarie | Thursday, August 11, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Dr Nii-Amah Okine - Appalachian State University | Ratemaking in a Changing Environment | Thursday, May 5, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Associate Professor Jae Kyung Woo, UNSW | Title: Factor modelling for high-dimensional functional time series | Thursday, February 24, 2022 - 10:00 |
| A Multi-parameter-level Model for Simulating Future Mortality Scenarios with COVID-alike Effects | Associate Professor Rui Zhou | Thursday, November 4, 2021 - 11:00 |
| Accommodation or Obfuscation? Product Innovation in the Variable Annuities Market (Joint work with Xiaochen Jing) | Professor Daniel Bauer - University of Wisconsin | Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Risk Sharing with Multiple Indemnity Environments | Dr Alfred Chong - University of Illinois at Chicago | Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 10:00 |
Semester 1, 2020
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
| Recent Advances in Portfolio Optimization | Marcos Escobar-Anel (Western University, Canada) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 20 Feb 20 |
| Long-term care insurance financing using home equity release: Evidence from an experimental study | Katja Hanewald (UNSW) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 12 Mar 20 |
| The Discriminating (Pricing) Actuary | Fei Huang and Edward (Jed) Frees (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 23 Apr 20 |
Semester 2, 2019
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
| The Heat Wave Model for Constructing Two-Dimensional Mortality Improvement Scales with Measures of Uncertainty | Johnny Li (University of Melbourne) | 14:30-16:00 Fri 16/8/19 |
| The Future of Risk-Class Prohibitions: A Conceptual Analysis | Michael Powers (Tsinghua University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 5/9/19 |
| Inference for univariate grouped data from actuarial application | Colin (Jinhui) Zhang (Macquarie University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 17/10/19 |
| A forecast reconciliation approach to cause-of-death mortality modeling | Anastasios Panagiotelis (Monash University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 21/11/19 |
Semester 1, 2019
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
| Estimating the key parameters of a long term care insurance scheme for Australia | David Cullen (NDIS) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 22/2/19 |
| Optimal Consumption and Investment Decisions under Time-Varying Preferences | Rudi Zagst (Technical University of Munich) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 21/3/19 |
| Affordable and Adequate Annuities with Stable Payouts: Fantasy or Reality? | Daniel Linders (University of Illinois) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 30/5/19 |
| Aspects of Tontine Pensions | Thomas Bernhardt (Heriott- Watt University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 13/6/19 |
Semester 2, 2018
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Risk Management Applications of Fuzzy Logic | (Penn State University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thu 19/7/18 |
| Claims Frequency Modeling Using Telematics Car Driving Data | (Renmin University of China ) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thu 18/10/18 |
| Life Made Simpler | (University of Copenhagen) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thu 22/11/18 |
| (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 10/12/18 |
Semester 1, 2018
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Competitive Equilibria in a Comonotone Market | (University of Amsterdam) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thu 15/3/18 |
| Topic 1: Momentum in a Multi-Period World, Topic 2: Member Defined Utility function | (Mine Wealth and Wellbeing) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thu 12/4/18 |
| Pricing and Hedging Insurance Risks Using Principle of Equivalent Forward Preferences | Alfred Chong (University of Illinois) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thu 17/5/18 |
| Techniques to Analyze and Forecast Mortality | Han Li (University of NSW) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thu 14/6/18 |
Semester 2, 2017
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Lifetime Dependence Modelling using a Generalized Multivariate Pareto Distribution | Dr Daniel Alai (University of Kent) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thu 21/9/17 |
Statistics seminars
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Pavel Krupskiy | Parsimonious Factor Models for Asymmetric Dependence in Multivariate Extremes | Thursday, February 19, 2026 - 11:00 |
| Model-Based Clustering: A Bayesian Nonparametric Perspective | Professor Rafaele Argiento | Thursday, February 5, 2026 - 11:00 |
| Unipolar Item Response Theory Modelling of Children’s Vocabulary and Grammatical Knowledge | Dr Seamus Donnelly | Thursday, October 23, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Doubly-Bounded Random Variables: The Boundary Cases Problem | Emeritus Professor Mike Smithson | Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Modelling and Estimation for Partially Observed Discrete-Time Semi-Markov Chains | Paul Malcolm | Thursday, September 18, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Paul Malcolm | Thursday, September 18, 2025 - 11:00 | |
| Professor Gillian Heller | Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 11:00 | |
| Ordinal regression models for continuous scales | Professor Gillian Heller | Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Reducing two-sample discrepancy via online thinning | Dr Gleb Smirnov | Thursday, August 14, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Utilising alternative data sources as auxiliary information in survey estimation | Professor James Brown | Thursday, July 31, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Spatial Models for Human Mobility Data | Professor Adrian Dobra | Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Not your everyday meta-analysis—Venturing into mixed methods, machine learning, or expert elicitation | Associate Professor Sama Low Choy | Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Inverse Problems in Solid Earth Geophysics | Associate Professor Andrew Valentine | Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Inverse modelling approaches in Thermochronology | Professor Kerry Gallagher | Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 13:00 |
| Bayesian transfer learning with multiple auxiliary datasets | Dr Donatello Telesca | Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Machine Learning in the Volatility | Assistant Professor Lingbing Feng | Wednesday, March 5, 2025 - 11:30 |
| Bayesian generalized additive model selection including a fast variational option | Professor Matt Wand | Thursday, February 20, 2025 - 11:00 |
| Professor Edward L Boone | Statistical Inference on Fractional Partial Differential Equations | Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Associate Professor Shogo Kato | Regression for spherical data using a scaled link function | Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Professor Dimitris Politis | Model-free Bootstrap and Conformal Prediction in Regression | Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Daniel Elazar | Practical approaches to accounting for statistical uncertainty when analysing linked data | Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Professor Katsuto Tanaka | Brownian motion, the Fredholm determinant, and time series analysis | Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Dr Yoshihiro Shirai | A L´evy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process for the valuations of credit index swaptions | Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Professor Steve Marron | Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces (DIVAS) | Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Geostatistical Regression as a Procedural Experimental Design | Dr Ewan Cameron | Monday, September 30, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Concentration of Randomized Functions of Uniformly Bounded Variation | Professor Rabee Tourky | Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Testing for Spurious Factor Analysis on High Dimensional Nonstationary Time Series | Dr Yi Hi | Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 11:00 |
| The Missing Link: Establishing the Parallels Between Censored and Missing Covariate Data | Associate Professor Tanya Garcia | Thursday, July 25, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Safety belt regression applied to the Growth Curve model. | Professor Dietrich von Rosen | Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Reciprocal Communication and Political Deliberation on Twitter | Professor Robert Ackland | Thursday, July 4, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Educational Measurements: Addressing Dispersion and Measurement Errors in Count Data | Associate Professor Cornelis Potgieter | Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Coherent Estimation and Criminal Justice Program Evaluation in Hierarchical Time Series | Dr Thomas Fung | Thursday, June 20, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Estimation and selection of non-normalized models | Associate Professor Takeru Matsuda | Thursday, June 6, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Mixed Models, Random Effects Misspecification and Prediction | A seminar by Dr Quan Vu | Thursday, May 30, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Sparse group variable selection to leverage pleiotropic association | Professor Benoit Liquet-Weiland | Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - 11:00 |
| A Tale of Two Datasets: Representativeness and Generalisability of Inference for Samples of Networks | Dr Pavel Krivitsky | Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Solving stochastic dynamic integrated climate-economy models using Least Squares Monte Carlo methods | Professor Pavel Shevchenko | Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 11:00 |
| The role of model selection and noise estimation when combining different data types in geophysical uncertainty quantification | Associate Professor Jan Dettmer | Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 11:00 |
| A seminar by Dr Thomas Yee | Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 11:00 | |
| Spatial prediction of non-negative spatial processes using asymmetric losses | Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie | Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Sample Size for Monitoring Disease in Free-Ranging Wildlife Populations | Professor James Booth | Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 11:00 |
| A Dialog with Self-normalized Limit Theory | Professor Qiman Shao | Monday, April 8, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Dr Weichang Yu | Optimal dynamic treatment regime inference – a tale of two methods | Thursday, April 4, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Penalized maximum likelihood estimation in factor analysis | Professor Kei Hirose | Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 11:00 |
| A seminar by Professor Alexander Aue | A seminar by Professor Alexander Aue | Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 11:00 |
| A seminar by Associate Professor Alex Petersen | A seminar by Associate Professor Alex Petersen | Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Large-scale Multi-layer Academic Networks Derived from Statistical Publications | Professor Rui Pan | Thursday, January 11, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Compositional quasi-likelihood and logit models | David Firth - University of Warwick | Tuesday, January 9, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Deep Learning for Censored Survival Data | Professor Jane-Ling Wang | Monday, January 8, 2024 - 14:30 |
| Modeling Distribution-Valued Random Trajectories With Optimal Transports | Professor Hans-George Müller | Monday, January 8, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Professor Jia Chen | Dynamic Quantile Panel Data Models with Interactive Effects | Wednesday, January 3, 2024 - 11:00 |
| Parameter Estimation and Pairs Trading for Lévy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Processes | Kevin Lu | Thursday, November 23, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Jump-size-based Bayesian detection of multiple change-points | Associate Professor Catherine Liu | Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Directional Tests in Gaussian Graphical Models | Professor Nicola Sartori | Thursday, October 12, 2023 - 11:00 |
| A Model-Agnostic Graph Neural Network for Integrating Local and Global Information | Professor Annie Qu | Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 11:00 |
| New challenges in electricity price modeling | Professor Gernot Müller, University of Augsburg | Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Professor Gulasekaran Rajaguru, Bond University | Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 11:00 | |
| Bayesian inference for partial orders | Dr Kate Lee | Thursday, July 6, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Adversarial Classification via Distributional Robustness with Wasserstein Ambiguity | Dr Nam Ho-Nguyen | Thursday, June 29, 2023 - 11:00 |
| The geometry of diet: using projections to quantify the similarity between sets of dietary patterns | Associated Professor Beatrix Jones | Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Forecasting high-dimensional functional time series: Application to sub-national age-specific mortality | Cristian Felipe Jimenez Varon | Friday, June 16, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Parsimonious Multiple Time Series Models | Associate Professor Marco Reale | Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 11:00 |
| A tractable and interpretable family of distributions on the circle, and its mixture model for traffic count data analysis | Associate Professor Shogo Kato | Thursday, June 8, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Luca Maestrini | Advances in Linear and Generalised Linear Mixed Models | Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Benign overfitting | Professor Peter Bartlett | Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Multivariate frameworks for the integration of longitudinal multi-omics data | Professor Kim-Anh Lê Cao | Thursday, May 4, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Estimating short-term capacity: Theory and an application to invasive coronary angiography for acute myocardial infarction | Ou Yang | Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Stock co-jump networks | Yingying Li | Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 15:00 |
| High-Dimensional Covariance Matrices Under Dynamic Volatility Models: Asymptotics and Shrinkage Estimation | Professor Xinghua Zheng | Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Particle Variational Bayes | Minh-Ngoc Tran | Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Bayesian causal synthesis for meta-inference on heterogeneous treatment effects | Associate Professor Shonosuke Sugusawa | Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Stein's Method on Manifolds | Professor Huiling Le | Thursday, March 9, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Dr Khue-Dung Dang | The University of Melbourne | Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Louis-Paul Rivest | Laval University | Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Information modelling: new type of filtration enlargement, representation property and applications | Anna Aksamit | Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Gauss and Earth’s Magnetic Field: Statistics Meet Observations | Professor Cathy Constable, University of California at San Diego | Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 11:00 |
| Binary Response Models for Heterogeneous Panel Data with Interactive Fixed Effects | Bin Peng - Monash University | Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - 15:30 |
| Variable selection and anomaly detection using PCA | Dr Insha Ullah - RSFAS ANU | Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Inference on nonstationarity and common trends in high-dimensional or functional time series | Dr Won-Ki Seo - Uni Sydney | Thursday, October 20, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Modeling spatial tail dependence with Cauchy convolution processes | Dr Pavel Krupskiy - Melbourne | Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 11:00 |
| The role of skewed distributions in Bayesian inference: conjugacy, scalable approximations and asymptotics | Daniele Durante - Bocconi University | Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 16:00 |
| Why interpolating neural nets generalize well: recent insights from neural tangent model | Dr Joe Zhong - UW Madison | Friday, September 23, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Dynamic Change Detection with Application to Skilled Funds Selection | Dr Lilun Du - HKUST | Thursday, September 8, 2022 - 16:00 |
| A Strange Summary of Spatial Covariance and a 60-Species Occupancy Detection Model | Dr Kassel Hingee - ANU | Thursday, September 1, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Federated and transfer learning for healthcare data integration | Dr Rui Duan - Harvard | Thursday, August 25, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Monte Carlo variance reduction using Stein operators | Dr Leah South - QUT | Thursday, August 18, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Model Misspecification and Posterior Pooling in Likelihood-free Inference | Professor David Frazier - Monash | Thursday, August 4, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Model-Assisted Uniformly Honest Inference for Optimal Treatment Regimes in High Dimension | Dr Yunan Wu - UT Dallas | Thursday, July 28, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Latency to treatment seeking in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: applying the transform both sides model | Professor Adriano Polpo - UWA | Thursday, July 21, 2022 - 11:00 |
| Dr. Edgar Dobriban - Wharton, Pennsylvania | T-Cal: An optimal test for the calibration of predictive models | Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Professor Ioannis Kosmidis - Warwick | Improved estimation of partially-specified models | Thursday, May 19, 2022 - 16:00 |
Professor Karthik Bharath - University of Nottingham
| The shape of functional data | Thursday, May 12, 2022 - 16:00 |
| Professor Johannes Schmidt-Hieber | Statistical analysis of machine learning methods | Thursday, April 14, 2022 - 16:00 |
| Professor Fan Yao | Thursday, April 7, 2022 - 11:00 | |
| Dr Ziwei Zhu, University of Michigan | Recent Development of Rank-Constrained and Distributed Statistical Learning | Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Dr Xinghao Qiao, London School of Economics and Political Science | Factor modelling for high-dimensional functional time series | Thursday, March 17, 2022 - 09:00 |
| Dr Chengchun Shi, LSE | Statistical Inference in Reinforcement Learning | Thursday, March 10, 2022 - 09:00 |
| Dr KaiZheng Wang Columbia University | Title to be advised | Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 10:00 |
Associate Professor Anru Zhang Duke University | Statistical Learning for High-dimensional Tensor Data | Thursday, February 17, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Professor Xinyu Zhang | Prediction using many samples with models possibly containing partially shared parameters | Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 10:00 |
| Dr Sumonkanti Das - ANU | Multilevel time series modelling of antenatal care coverage in Bangladesh at disaggregated administrative levels | Thursday, December 9, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Professor Hans-Georg Müller - UC Davis | Wasserstein Regression for Distributions and Distributional Time Series | Thursday, December 2, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Professor Iain Johnstone - Stanford and the ANU | PCA, likelihood ratios, and a transition to the Tracy-Widom law | Thursday, November 18, 2021 - 10:00 |
| High-dimensional MANOVA via Bootstrapping Max Statistics | Professor Zhenhua Lin | Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 11:00 |
| Selecting the number of components in high-dimensional CCA | Dr Fan Yang | Thursday, October 28, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Estimation of the Distribution of Episodically Consumed Foods Measured with Error | Professor Aurore Delaigle - University of Melbourne | Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Predicting Returns with Text Data | Professor Dacheng Xiu - the University of Chicago | Thursday, October 14, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Nonparametric Estimation of Repeated Densities with Heterogeneous Sample Sizes (Joint work with Jiaming Qiu and Zhengyuan Zhu) | Dr Xiongtao Dai - Iowa State University | Thursday, October 7, 2021 - 10:00 |
| On the choice of the regularization parameter in ridge regression | Dr Zdravko Botev - the University of New South Wales | Thursday, September 23, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Sampling for border biosecurity inspection | Dr Raphael Trouvé - the University of Melbourne | Thursday, September 16, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Autoregressive Networks | Associate Professor Binyan Jiang - the Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Thursday, September 9, 2021 - 10:00 |
| SIMPLE: Statistical Inference on Membership Profiles in Large Networks | Professor Xiao Han - the University of Science and Technology of China | Thursday, September 2, 2021 - 10:00 |
| When Does Fast Bootstrap Work? | Dr Nan Zou - Macquarie University | Thursday, August 19, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Dealing with multicollinearity in Geographically Weighted Regression | Dr Patricia Menéndez - Monash University | Thursday, August 12, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Tracy-Widom law for the extreme eigenvalues of large signal-plus-noise matrices | Zhixiang Zhang - Nanyan Technological University | Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 11:00 |
| Robust post-selection inference of high-dimensional mean regression with heavy-tailed asymmetric errors | Yuanyuan Lin - Chinese University of Hong Kong | Wednesday, July 28, 2021 - 15:00 |
| SIMPLE: Statistical Inference on Membership Profiles in Large Networks | Xiao Han - University of Science and Technology of China | Thursday, July 22, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Modelling systematic effects and latent phenomena in point referenced data | Dr Charlotte Jones-Todd - University of Auckland | Thursday, June 24, 2021 - 10:00 |
| On hyperparameter tuning in general clustering problems | Dr Rachel Wang (University of Sydney) | Thursday, June 10, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Weak differentiability applied to the profile likelihood estimation in a joint model of longitudinal and survival data. | Dr Yuichi Hirose (Victoria University of Wellington) | Thursday, June 3, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Most Powerful Test against High Dimensional Local Alternatives | Yi He (University of Amsterdam) | Thursday, May 27, 2021 - 15:00 |
| Estimating the number of clusters for high-dimensional mixture model | Dr Yiming Liu (Nanyang Technological University) | Thursday, May 13, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Central Limit Theorem for Linear Spectral Statistics of Large Dimensional Kendall's Rank Correlation Matrices and its Applications | Associate Professor Zeng Li - Southern University of Science and Technology | Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Estimating a Change Point in a Sequence of Very High-Dimensional Covariance Matrices | Dr Qing Yang - University of Science and Technology of China | Thursday, April 29, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Universal inference with composite likelihoods | Dr Hien Nguyen - La Trobe University | Thursday, April 15, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Projected Estimation for Large-dimensional Matrix Factor Models | Professor Xinbing Kong - Nanjing Audit University | Thursday, April 8, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Statistical inference for high dimensional principal components | Dr Xiucai Ding - University of California Davis | Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 10:00 |
| CLT for Spiked Eigenvalues of High-dimensional Sample Auto-covariance Matrices | Daning Bi and Adam Nie - Australian National University | Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 10:00 |
| Performance-complexity trade-off in large dimensional spectral clustering | Dr Zhenyu Liao - University of California, Berkeley | Thursday, March 4, 2021 - 10:00 |
| A gentle introduction to string-count distributions in random texts | Dr Ben O'Neill - Australian National University | Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 10:00 |
Semester 2, 2020
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
| Can we trust PCA on non-stationary Data? | Yanrong Yang (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 13 Aug 20 |
| Network Influence Analysis | Tao Zou (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 20 Aug 20 |
| Genomic prediction of cotton fibre quality traits using high dimensional linear models | Zitong Li (CSRIO) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 27 Aug 20 |
| Complete Sample Likelihood Analysis of Complex Surveys | A/Prof Robert Clark (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 3 Sept 20 |
| Robust multivariate lasso regression with covariance estimation | Dr Le Chang (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 24 Sept 20 |
| AdaptSPEC-X: Spectral analysis of multiple nonstationary time series | (University of Wollongong) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 8 Oct 20 |
| Approximate likelihood methods for stochastic differential equation models with high frequency sampling | Prof Andrew Wood (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 15 Oct 20 |
| Genome-Wide Association Studies and beyond | (Murdoch University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 22 Oct 20 |
| Generalized Whittle likelihood for Bayesian nonparametric spectral density estimation | (Universi ty of Auckland) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 29 Oct 20 |
| Continuous Time Capture-Recapture | Professor Richard Barker (PVC) (University of Otago) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 5 Nov 20 |
Semester 1, 2020
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
| Smoothed Quantile Regression: Fast Computation, Bootstrap Inference & Nonconvex Regularization | Wenxin Zhou (UCSD) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 6 Feb 20 |
| Assessing Dependence in Multivariate Heavy Tailed Data | Sidney Resnick (Cornell University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 13 Feb 20 |
| Handling Negative Correlation and/or Over/Underdisperson in Gaussian and Non-Gaussian Hierarchical Data | Geert Molenberghs (Universiteit Hasselt) | 11:00-12:00 Wed 19 Feb 20 |
| Testing Identification via Heteroskedasticity in Structural Vector Autoregressive Models | Helmut Lütkepohl German (Institute for Economic Research | DIW Berlin) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 27 Feb 20 |
| Distributions for parameters | Nancy Reid (University of Toronto) | 11:00-12:00 Wed 4 Mar 20 |
| Statistical Modelling to Support Mosquito Biocontrol Programs | Dan Pagendam (CSIRO Data61) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 5 Mar 20 |
| Stochastic Compactness of the Position of a Levy Process at a Two sided-Exit Time | David Mason (University of Delaware) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 19 Mar 20 |
| Model based Bayesian spatio-temporal survey design for species distribution modelling | Jia Liu (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 30 Apr 20 |
| Ensembles of Trees and CLT's: Inference and Machine Learning | Giles Hooker (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 14 May 20 |
Estimation of long-memory parameter in stationary and non-stationary curve time series | Hanlin Shang (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 28 May 20 |
| Calibration of multivariate Levy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes | Kevin Lu (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 4 Jun 20 |
Semester 2, 2019
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
| Statistical audits of election results | Damjan Vukcevic (University of Melbourne) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 4/7/19 |
| Species abundance information improves sequence taxonomy classification accuracy | Ben Keahler (UNSW Canberra) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 11/7/19 |
| Estimating Endogenous Treatment Effect Using High-Dimensional Instruments with an Application to the Olympic Effect | (Michael) Qingliang Fan (Xiamen University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 18/7/19 |
| Identifying the number of factors from singular values of a large sample auto-covariance matrix | Jeff Jianfeng Yao (Hong Kong University) | 11:00-12:00 Tue 23/7/19 |
| Sometimes having a continuous interpretation is useful. Sometimes it isn't. A story about Gaussian random fields | Daniel Simpson (University of Toronto) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 25/7/19 |
| First-exit time distribution of the finite mixture of Markov jump processes: properties and the EM estimation | Budhi Surya (Victoria University of Wellington) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 1/8/19 |
| Change point detection and identification for high dimensional data | Pingshou Zhong (University of Illinois at Chicago) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 8/8/19 |
| Species Sampling Models Generated by Negative Binomial Processes | Ross Maller (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 15/8/19 |
| Recursive Computational Methodologies and Win-Probabilities | Anthony Hayter (University of Denver) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 22/8/19 |
| Modeling Structured Correlation Matrices | Mohsen Pourahmadi (Texas A&M University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 29/8/19 |
| A bayesian perspective on an aperiodic condition-based maintenance program for degradation with unknown parameters | Sodi Shemehsavar (University of Tehran/ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 12/9/19 |
| Symbolic model formulae for linear mixed models illustrated with the analysis of agricultural data | Emi Tanaka (University of Sydney) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 19/9/19 |
| Dependence Modeling of Multivariate Longitudinal Data with Dropout | Edward W. (Jed) Frees (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 26/9/19 |
| Understanding the Ancient Geomagnetic Field: statistics on a sphere and beyond | Lisa Tauxe (UCSD) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 10/10/19 |
| Estimation in linear errors-in-variables models with unknown error distribution | Linh Nghiem (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 24/10/19 |
| Analysis and computation of the extended occupancy distribution | Ben O’Neill (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 31/10/19 |
| CARE: Sparse Precision Matrix Estimation for Compositional Data | Wei Lin (Peking University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 7/11/19 |
| Exploring and understanding the individual experience from longitudinal data, or "How to make better spaghetti (plots)" | Nicholas Tierney (Monash University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 14/11/19 |
| Inference on the dimension of the nonstationary subspace in functional time series | Morten Ø. Nielsen (Queen's University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 28/11/19 |
| Statistics on Manifolds: The next Frontier | James Ramsay (Mcgill University) | 11:00-12:00 Mon 16/12/19 |
Semester 1, 2019
| Topic | Speaker | Time and Day |
| Dominance of posterior predictive densities over plug-in densities for order statistics | Takeshi Kurosawa (Tokyo University of Science) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 7/2/19 |
| Flexible parametric model for survival data subject to dependent censoring | Ingrid Van Keilegom (KU Leuven) | 11:00-12:30 Fri 8/02/2019 |
| Why Model the Growth of Networks? | Sid Resnick (Cornell University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 14/2/19 |
| Small Area Estimation Methods for Poverty Estimation in Developing Countries | Steve Haslett (Massey University) | 11:00-12:00 Wed 20/2/19 |
| Space time trends and dependence of precipitation extremes in NW Germany | Ana Ferreira (University of Lisbon) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 21/2/19 |
| New models for symbolic data analysis | Boris Beranger (UNSW) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 28/2/19 |
| A Robust Bayesian Exponentially Tilted Empirical Likelihood Method | Catherine Forbes (Monash University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 7/3/19 |
| Central Limit Theorems for Trimmed Subordinators Preliminary Report | David Mason (University of Delaware) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 14/3/19 |
| Improved Estimation and Inference in Non-Cointegrated Functional-Coefficient Regression using Marginal Integration | Ying Wang (The University of Auckland) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 28/3/19 |
| Nonparametric regression for Directional Data | Charles Taylor (University of Leeds) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 4/4/19 |
| Sparse principal component analysis with preserved sparsity pattern | Karim Seghouane (University of Melbourne) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 11/4/19 |
| Modelling electricity prices and the infeed from renewable energies | Gernot Mueller (University of Augsburg, Germany) | 11:00-12:00 Wed 24/4/19 |
| Collective Nonparametric Density and Spectral Density Estimation with Applications in Bioinformatics | Mehdi Maadooliat (Marquette University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 9/5/19 |
| A comparison of Hurst exponent estimators in long-range dependent curve time series | Hanlin Shang (ANU) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 16/5/19 |
| Latent Variable Nonparametric Cointegrating Regression | Qiying Wang (The University of Sydney) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 23/5/19 |
| A popularity scaled latent space model for large-scale directed social network | Hansheng Wang (Peking University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 6/6/19 |
| Mean correction in mis-specified fractionally integrated models | Kanchana Nadarajah (Monash University) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 20/6/19 |
| #DebateNight: The Role and Influence of Socialbots on Twitter During the 1st 2016 U.S. Presidential Debate | Marian-Andrei Rizoiu (UTS) | 11:00-12:00 Thur 27/6/19 |
Semester 2, 2018
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Statistical sparsity | (University of Chicago ) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 26/7/18 |
| The Euler Characteristic Transformation | Henry Kirveslahti (Statistical Science Department, Duke University) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 2/8/18 |
| Semiparametric Time-varying Panel Data Models with Heterogeneity | Dr Fei Liu (Monash University) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 9/8/18 |
| Bootstrap Confidence Bands for Spectral Estimation of Levy Densities under High-Frequency Observations | (The University of Tokyo) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 23/8/18 |
| Modelling dispersed count with Mean-Parametrized Conway-Maxwell-Poisson (mpcmp) | (Macquarie University) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 13/9/18 |
| Dirty Central Limit Theorems on Noneuclidean Spaces | Professor Stephan Huckemann (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 20/9/18 |
| High Dimensional Unit Root Tests by Random Matrix Theory | (Monash University) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 4/10/18 |
| Species Sampling Models Generated by Negative Binomial Processes | (RSFAS ANU) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 11/10/18 |
| Estimating the covariance function from incompletely observed functional data | (The University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 25/10/18 |
| Weak convergence of ARMA and GARCH processes | Professor Beniamin Goldys (University of Sydney) | 11:00 - 12:00 Mon 3/12/18 |
| Trimmed Estimators - For Identifying Outliers - and a Hybrid-Censored Data Approach to Estimation | (Murdoch University) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 6/12/18 |
Semester 1, 2018
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Making better decisions in the face of uncertainty in Digital Agriculture: The Uncertainty Toolbox | Petra Kuhnert (CSIRO Canberra) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 22/2/18 |
| Frequentist Expectation Propagation | Matthew Wand (University of Technology Sydney) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 1/3/18 |
| Are Extreme Value Estimation Methods Useful for Network Data? | Sidney Resnick (Cornell University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 8/3/18 |
| Persistent homology rank function | Katharine Turner (Mathematical Sciences Institute ANU) | 11:10 - 12:30 Thur 22/3/18 |
| On quasi-infinitely divisible distributions | Alexander Lindner (Institute of Mathematical Finance, Ulm University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 23/3/18 |
| User-Centered Data Analytics and Modeling - A Scalable Probabilistic Tensor Factorization Model for Semantic-Aware Behaviour Prediction | Hongzhi Yin (University of Queensland) | 11:00 - 12:30 Mon 26/3/18 |
| Stochastic Compactness of Multidimensional Levy Processes | David Mason (ANU) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 29/3/18 |
| The Darling-Erdos theorem and Feller's integral test in Euclidean space | Uwe Einmahl (University of Brussel, Belgium) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 5/4/18 |
| Estimation and Testing for a partially linear single-index spatial regression model | Yan Sun (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 19/4/18 |
| A nonparametric regression model for cross-market prediction under conditional heteroscedasticity | Xibin Zhang (Monash University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 26/4/18 |
| Object Oriented Data Analysis | James Steve Marron (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 3/5/18 |
| Generalised latent variable models for multivariate abundances in ecology | David Warton (University of New South Wales) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 10/5/18 |
| Network Vector Autoregression | Xuening Zhu (PennStateScience) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 24/5/18 |
| Estimation of Gegenbauer-type seasonal long memory models | Andriy Olenko (La Trobe University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 7/6/18 |
| Elastic Functional Data Analysis | James Derek Tucker (Sandia National Laboratories) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 12/7/18 |
Semester 2, 2017
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Random Algebraic Polynomials with Symmetric and Non-symmetric Coefficients | Dr Soudabeh Shemehsavar (University of Tehran) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 27/7/17 |
| q-Hierarchical Latent Feature Models | Prof Lancelot James (HKUST Business School) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 3/8/17 |
| Gibbs Chinese restaurants, Abel-Riemann-Liouville operators and Beta identities derived from stable subordinators | Prof Lancelot James (HKUST Business School) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 10/8/17 |
| Risk management in retirement, identifying needs and the design of pension and insurance products and advice. | A/Prof Anthony Asher (University of New South Wales) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 17/8/17 |
| Extremes of Events with Heavy-tailed Inter-arrival Times | (University of New South Wales) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 24/8/17 |
| Maximum likelihood estimation under block maxima | Prof Ana Ferreira (University of Lisbon) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 31/8/17 |
| Extending Simulation-Based Bayesian Inference to Higher Dimensions | Dr Christopher Drovandi (Queensland University of Technology) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 7/9/17 |
| Hierarchical Likelihood Approach to Non-Gaussian Factor Analysis | (Seoul National University) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 14/9/17 |
| Sparse approximate inference for spatio-temporal point process models with application to armed confict | Dr Andrew Zammit Mangion (University of Wollongong) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 28/9/17 |
| Distributed Statistical Inference for Massive Data | Liuhua Peng (University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 5/10/17 |
| Bootstrap-Based Testing for Functional Time Series | Prof Stathis Paparoditis (University of Cyprus) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 19/10/17 |
| A Generalized Estimating Equation approach to Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline | Dr Jakub Stoklosa (University of New South Wales) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 26/10/17 |
| The very odd lattice of cumulative distributions: resolution of fixed point conjecture for decomposable valued mapping; with applications to Economics | (The Australian National University) | 13:30 - 14:30 Fri 27/10/17 |
| Schistosomiasis: Models and Data | Prof Andrew Barbour (University of Zurich) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 2/11/17 |
| Robust Empirical Bayes Small Area Estimation with Density Power Divergence | Dr Shonosuke Sugasawa (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan) | 11:30 - 12:30 Fri 3/11/17 |
| Bootstrap random walks | Assoc Prof Kais Hamza (Monash University) | 11:00 - 12:00 Thur 9/11/17 |
| Reexamining financial and economic predictability with new estimators of realized variance | Dr Isabel Casas (University of Southern Denmark) | 11:00 - 12:00 Mon 13/11/17 |
| On new developments in nonparametric Bayesian inference | Prof Mahmoud Zarepour (University of Ottawa) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 23/11/17 |
Semester 1, 2017
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| The Effects of Largest Claim and Excess of Loss Reinsurance on a Company's Ruin Time and Valuation | Yuguang Fan (University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Wed 2/3/16 |
| Statistical Challenges in Going from Raw Reads to Clinical Relevance in the Study of the Human Microbiome | (Stanford University) | 15:00 - 16:00 Mon 23/1/17 |
| Multivariate Power Laws and Fitting a Preferential Attachment Network Model | (Cornell University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 16/2/17 |
| Semiparametric Regression Using Variational Approximations | Francis K.C. Hui (Mathematical Sciences Institute, ANU) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 2/3/17 |
| Crunching Mortality and Annuity Portfolios with extended CreditRisk+ | Pavel Shevchenko (Macquarie University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 9/3/17 |
| Modelling the Causes and Effects of Poor Child Growth | Craig Anderson (UTS) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 16/3/17 |
| Graphons and Data | Ngoc Tran (University of Texas Austin) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 23/3/17 |
| Estimating Gradient Flow Lines of Densities: Application of a Uniform in Bandwidth Result | David Mason (University of Delaware) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 30/3/17 |
| Table Counting and Exact Conditional Inference for Contingency Tables | James Booth (Cornell University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 6/4/17 |
| Business Analytics: A Statistician’s Perspective | Haipeng Shen (University of Hong Kong) | 11:00 - 12:30 Wed 12/4/17 |
| Modelling Mortality by Cause of Death and Socio-Economic Stratification: An Analysis of Mortality Differentials in England | Andres Villegas Ramirez (UNSW) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 20/4/17 |
| P-Values and Evidence: A Counter Example | Garique Glonek (University of Adelaide) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 27/4/17 |
| The Notion of Optimality in Optimal Retirement Planning | Saisai Zhang (University of Waterloo) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 4/5/17 |
| Improved Algorithms for Computing Worst Value-at-Risk: Numerical Challenges and the Adaptive Rearrangement Algorithm | Marius Hofert (University of Waterloo) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 11/5/17 |
| The Glue that Binds Statistical Inference, Tidy Data, Grammar of Graphics, Data Visualisation and Visual Inference | Di Cook (Monash University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 18/5/17 |
| Forecast Mortality Improvement in Fourteen More Advanced Economies and Its Implication for Future Support Ratios | Nick Parr (Macquarie University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 25/5/17 |
Semester 2, 2016
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Two Applications with Varying-coefficient Models | Bin Peng (UTS) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 28/7/16 |
| Benchmarked Risk Minimization | Eckhard Platen (UTS) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 4/8/16 |
| Vector Regression with Minimal Assumptions | Alan Huang (University of Queensland) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 11/8/16 |
| Covariance Regression Analysis | Tao Zou (ANU) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 18/8/16 |
| Association Rule Mining for Genome-wide Association Study | Guoqi Qian (University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 25/8/16 |
| Estimating the COGARCH model using sequential Monte Carlo | William Dunsmuir (UNSW) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 15/9/16 |
| Forecasting Cross-Sectional and Temporal Hierarchies Through Trace Minimization (MinT) | George Athanasopoulos (Monash University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 22/9/16 |
| Convergence of functionals of long-range dependent random fields to Rosenblatt-type distributions | Andriy Olenko (LaTrobe) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 29/9/16 |
| Testing for Vector White Noise using Maximum Cross Correlations | Jinyuan Chang (University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 6/10/16 |
| Robust Independence Test for High Dimensional Data: A Unified Statistic | Yanrong Yang (ANU) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 20/10/16 |
| Network Tomography for Integer Valued Traffic | Martin Hazelton (Massey University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 27/10/16 |
| The Satisfiability Conjecture for Large k | Allan Sly (Uni of California, Berkeley and Princeton University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 3/11/16 |
| Generalised Poisson-Dirichlet Distributions Generated from Trimmed Levy Subordinators | Ross Maller (The Australian National University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 10/11/16 |
| Judicial Decision-Making Under Changing Legal Standards | Xiaodong Gong (University of Canberra) | 14:00 - 15:30 Thur 17/11/16 |
| Sub-state Immigration and Emigration Estimates for Australia | Tom Wilson (Charles Darwin University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 24/11/16 |
Semester 1, 2016
| Topic | Speaker | Time and day |
| Multivariate Power Laws with Full and Strong Asymptotic Dependence | (Cornell University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 18/2/16 |
| Limiting Local Powers and Power Envelopes of Panel AR and MA Unit Root Tests and Panel Stationarity Tests | (Gakushuin University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 26/2/16 |
| The Effects of Largest Claim and Excess of Loss Reinsurance on a Company's Ruin Time and Valuation | (University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Wed 2/3/16 |
| State-space Modeling for Mortality: Incorporating Heteroscedasticity and Stochastic Volatility | Simon Fung (CSIRO) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 3/3/16 |
| Stationarity Testing and Break Date Estimation with Functional Time Series | (University of Waterloo) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 10/3/16 |
| Bootstrapping the Student t-Statistic | David Mason (University of Delaware) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 17/3/16 |
| Likelihood Ratios for Eigenvalues in Spiked Multivariate Models | (Stanford University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 24/3/16 |
| Mixed Graphical Models with Applications to Integrative Cancer Genomics | (Rice University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Fri 1/4/16 |
| Influence Diagnostics in Integer-valued GARCH Models | (University of Canberra) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 7/4/16 |
| Methodology for Deconvolution When the Error Distribution Is Unknown | (University of Melbourne) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 14/4/16 |
| A Multi-step Classification Method for Identifying Cohort Heterogeneity Leading to Improved Accuracy of Prognostic Biomarkers | (University of Sydney) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 21/4/16 |
| SM Bonds – a New Product for Managing Longevity Risk | Piet de Jong (Macquarie University) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 5/5/16 |
| Standardizing the Giant: Mitigating Longevity Risk in China Through Capital Markets Solutions | Wai-Sum Chan (CUHK) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 12/5/16 |
| Financial planning calculators: Developing engagement and coherent utility elicitation | Anthony Asher (UNSW) | 11:00 - 12:30 Wed 18/5/16 |
| Extensions to State-Estimation Schemes for Partially-Observed Higher-order Mark Chains, Including Observation Dynamics with non-Gaussian Noise Processes | Paul Malcolm (Australian Department of Defence) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 2/6/16 |
| Inference for Social Network Models from Egocentrically-Sampled Data | Pavel Krivitsky (University of Wollongong) | 11:00 - 12:30 Thur 9/6/16 |