STATISTICS 523
Advanced Theory of Probability

Spring Quarter 1999



TENTATIVE TALK SCHEDULE AND TITLES



M, 5/24: Dick Hwang Poisson approximation via the Stein-Chen method
M, 5/24: David White Cut times for simple random walk
W, 5/26: Bin Nan Martingale Central Limit Theorems
W, 5/26: Shuguang Song Embedding and empirical processes
F, 5/28: Elizabeth Sugar Edgeworth expansions and confidence intervals for
    quantile estimators with censored data
F, 5/28: Russell Steele Consistent order estimation for mixture models
M, 5/31: Holiday  
W, 6/2: Peter Craigmile Central limit theorems for quadratic forms with dependence
W, 6/2: Amy Anderson Kingman's subadditive ergodic theorem and its
    application to the length of the longest
    increasing subsequence of a random permutation
F, 6/4: Jeremy Tantrum The length of the longest increasing subsequence
    of a random permutation via an interacting particle system
F, 6/4: Jon Wellner Limiting distribution for the length
    of the longest increasing subsequence of a random permutation




JON Wellner
1999-04-08