Talks will be held in the château (not the hotel) and will be 45 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion and 5 minutes for speaker changeover. See the Talks & Papers page for abstracts and background papers.
Sunday, June 29th
- 18:00 – Welcome reception in the château garden: Conferees and significant others are invited, champagne and hors d’oeuvres will be served
Monday, June 30th
- 9:20 – Borchard Foundation Welcome: Janna Beling
- 9:30 – Talk: Stéphane Boucheron, Entropy methods, order statistics, tail index estimation, infinite urn schemes and missing mass
- 10:30 – Coffee break
- 11:00 – Talk: Nathan Ross, Degree distributions in preferential attachment graphs and connections to urns, walks and trees, Part I: Multivariate Approximations
- 12:00 – Lunch
- 13:30 – Talk: Gesine Reinert, Comparing distributions via their canonical Stein operators: a new view of Stein’s method
- 14:30 – Coffee break
- 14:45 – Talk: Louis Chen, On the error bound in the normal approximation for Jack measures
Tuesday, July 1st
- 9:00 – Talk: Michel Ledoux, Stein’s method, logarithmic Sobolev and transport inequalities
- 10:00 – Coffee break
- 10:30 – Talk: Erol Peköz, Degree distributions in preferential attachment graphs and connections to urns, walks and trees, Part II: Biasing and coupling
- 11:30 – Talk: Laurent Decreusefond, Functional Poisson convergence
- 12:30 – Lunch
- 14:00 – Talk: Larry Goldstein, Concentration and Stein couplings
- 15:00 – Coffee break
- 15:15 – Talk: Jay Bartroff, Concentration inequalities for occupancy models with log-concave marginals
- Evening (time TBD) – Banquet at L’Ocean, Le Croisic
Wednesday, July 2nd
- 8:30 – Talk: Ciprian Tudor, Fourth moment theorem for diffusions
- 9:30 – Coffee break
- 10:00 – Talk: Adrian Röllin, Degree distributions in preferential attachment graphs and connections to urns, walks and trees, Part III: Urns, walks and trees
- 11:00 – Talk: Yvik Swan, Stein representation of information functionals
- 12:00 – Farewell lunch