IS1 - Bayesian nonparametrics
Organizer:
Nils L. Hjort (University of Oslo)

Speakers:
Peter Mueller (University of Texas, Austin)
Dilan Görür (University of California, Irvine)
Nils L. Hjort (University of Oslo)

IS2 - Composite likelihood inference
Organizer:
Nancy Reid (University of Toronto)

Speakers:
Michael L. Stein (University of Chicago)
Manuela Cattalan (University of Padova)
Nancy Reid (University of Toronto)
 
IS3 - Geometric Perspectives on High-Dimensional Data
Organizer:
Bejamin Recht (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Speakers:
Venkat Chandrasekaran (University of California, Berkeley)
Deanna Needell (Claremont McKenna College)
Benjamin Recht (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

IS4 - Copula models
Organizer:
Johanna Nešlehová (McGill University )

Speakers:
Roger Cooke (TU Delft)
Bruno Remillard (HEC Montreal)
Elif Fidan Acar (McGill University)

IS5 - Data Depth
Organizer:
Regina Liu (Rutgers University)

Speakers:
Regina Liu (Rutgers University)
Anil Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute)
Robert Serfling (University of Texas at Dallas)
Davy Paindaveine (Universit´e libre de Bruxelles)

IS6 - Decision theory, control theory and games
Organizer:
Adolfo Minjarez-Sosa (University of Sonora)

Speakers:
Anna Jaskiewicz (Politechnika Wroclawska)
Rosario Romera (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Oscar Vega-Amaya (University of Sonora)

IS7 - Extremes for complex phenomena
Organizer:
Thomas Mikosch (University of Copenhagen)

Speakers:
Richard A. Davis (Columbia University)
Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell University)
Thomas Mikosch (University of Copenhagen)

IS8 - Functional data analysis
Organizer:
Hans-Georg Mueller (University of California, Davis)

Speakers:
Peter Hall (University of Melbourne)
Damla Senturk (University of California, Los Angeles)
Victor Panaretos (Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne)

IS9 - Graphical models, networks and causality
Organizer:
Vanessa Didelez (University of Bristol)

Speakers:
Marloes Maathuis (ETH)
Rhian Daniel (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Vanessa Didelez (University of Bristol)

IS10 - High-dimensional inference
Organizer:
Sara van de Geer (ETH )

Speakers:
Peter Bühlmann (ETH)
Arnak Dalayan (École des Ponts ParisTech)
Martin Wainwright (University of California at Berkeley)

IS11 - Interacting particle systems
Organizer:
Timo Seppailainen (University of Wisconsin, Madison )

Speakers:
Ivan Corwin (Microsoft Research / MIT)
Neil O'Connell (University of Warwick)
Benedek Valko (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

IS12 - Large-scale multiple comparisons
Organizer:
Wenguang Sun (University of Southern California)

Speakers:
Helmut Finner (University of Düsseldorf )
Jelle J. Goeman (Leiden University)
Wenguang Sun (University of Southern California)

IS13 - Long-lange dependence and self- similarity
Organizer:
Ingemar Kaj (Uppsala University)

Speakers:
Murad S. Taqqu (Boston University)
Alan Hammond (University of Oxford)
Renaud Marty (Nancy University)

IS14 - Machine learning
Organizer:
Gilles Blanchard (University of Potsdam)

Speakers:
Ingo Steinwart (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Sylvain Arlot (INRIA)
Rui Castro (Eindhoven University of Technology)

IS15 - Modern applications of Malliavin calculus
Organizer:
Andrey Dorogovtsev (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences)
 
Speakers:
Giovanni Peccati (Université du Luxembourg)
Nicolas Privault (Nanyang Technological University)
Andrey Dorogovtsev (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences)

IS16 - Markov processes
Organizer:
Haya Kaspi (Technion)

Speakers:
Krzysztof Burdzy (University of Washington)
Nathalie Eisenbaum (Universite Paris VI)
Kavita Ramanan (Brown University)

IS17 - MCMC: Adaptive, likelihood free, particle filters and other samplers
Organizer:
Gareth Roberts (University of Warwick)

Speakers:
Dawn Woodard (Cornell Un iversity)
Petros Dellaportas (Athens University of Economics and Business)
Gareth Roberts (University of Warwick)

IS18 - Probability and computer science
Organizer:
Devavrat Shah (MIT)

Speakers:
David Gamarnik (MIT)
Devavrat Shah (MIT)
Martin Wainwright (University of California, Berkeley)

IS19 - Quantile regression
Organizer:
Roger Koenker (University of Illinois)

Speakers:
Xuming He (University of Michigan)
Victor Chernozhukov (MIT)
Roger Koenker (University of Illinois)

IS20 - Random combinatorial structures
Organizer:
Christina Goldschmidt (University of Warwick)

Speakers:
Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill University)
Shankar Bhamidi ( University of North Carolina)
Charles Bordenave (Université de Toulouse)

IS21 - Random matrices and applications
Organizer:
Arup Bose (Indian Statistical Institute)

Speakers:
Jamal Najim (CNRS)
Wei Biao Wu (University of Chicago)
Manjunath Krishnapur (Indian Institute of Science)

IS22 - Random media
Organizer:
Fabio Toninelli (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

Speakers:
Nikolaos Zygouras (Warwick University)
Simone Warzel (Technische Universitaet Munich)
Firas Rassoul-Agha (University of Utah)

IS23 - Rare-event Monte Carlo methods
Organizer:
Jose Blanchet (Columbia University)

Speakers:
Jun Liu (Harvard University)
Pierre del Moral (INRIA)
Jingchen Liu (Columbia University)

IS24 - SLE and conformal invariance
Organizer:
Greg Lawler (University of Chicago)

IS25 - Space time data
Organizer:
Alexandra M. Schmidt (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Speakers:
Peter Craigmile (Ohio State University)
Alexandra M. Schmidt (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Johan Lindström (Lund University)

IS26 - Sparse signals
Organizer:
Ming Yuan (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Speakers:
Tony Cai (University of Pennsylvania)
Richard Samworth (Cambridge University)
Ming Yuan (Georgia Institute of Technology)

IS27 - Spatial stochastic models
Organizer:
Omer Angel (University of British Columbia)

IS28 - Statistical climatology
Organizer:
Richard Chandler (University College London)

IS29 - Statistical inference for stochastic differential equations
Organizer:
Masayuki Uchida (Osaka University)

Speakers:
Michael Sørensen (University of Copenhagen)
Mark Podolskij (University of Heidelberg)
Nakahiro Yoshida (University of Tokyo)

IS30 - Statistical Methods for Genomics and Systems Biology
Organizer:
Sandrine Dudoit (University of California, Berkeley)

Speakers:
James Bullard (Pacific Biosciences)
Sunduz Keles (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Jean-Philippe Vert (Mines ParisTech and Institut Curie)

IS31 - Statistical methods for neuroscience
Organizer:
Matthew Harrison (Brown University)

Speakers:
Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
Uri Eden (Boston University)
Robert Kass (Carnegie Mellon University)

IS32 - Statistical methods in finance
Organizer:
Per A. Mykland (University of Chicago)

Speakers:
Jianqing Fan (Princeton University)
Marc Hoffmann (ENSAE-CREST and Université Paris-Est)
Lan Zhang (University of Illinois at Chicago)

IS33 - Stochastic control in finance


IS34 - Dynamics and cubature for stochastic non-linear systems
Organizer:
Terry Lyons (University of Oxford)

Speakers:
Lajos Gergely Gyurko (University of Oxford)
Christian Litterer (Imperial College London)
Dan Crisan (Imperial College London)

IS35 - Stochastic geometry and spatial point porcesses
Organizer:
Eva B. Vedel Jensen (University of Aarhus)

Speakers:
Joseph Yukich (Lehigh University)
Christoph Thäle (University of Osnabrück)
Jesper Møller (Aalborg University)

IS36 - Stochastic methods and finance
Organizer:
Nizar Touzi (Ecole Polytechnique)

Speakers:
Masaaki Fukasawa (Osaka University)
Jean-François Chassagneux (Imperial College London)
Mathieu Rosenbaum (University Pierre et Marie Curie)

IS37 - Stochastic models of cancer
Organizer:
Jasmine Foo (Harvard University)

Speakers:
Tibor Antal (Edinburgh University)
Kevin Leder (University of Minnesota)
Jasmine Foo (University of Minnesota)

IS38 - Stochastic networks with applications
Organizer:
Avi Mandelbaum (Technion)

Speakers:
Johan van Leeuwaarden (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Lea Popovic (Concordia University)
Itai Gurvich (Northwestern University)

IS39 - Stochastic partial differential equations with applications
Organizer:
Martin Hairer (University of Warwick)

Speakers:
Hendrik Weber (The University of Warwick)
Zdzislaw Brzezniak (The University of York)
Ivan Corwin (Microsoft Research / MIT)

IS40 - Stochastic population genetics and evolution
Organizer:
Sylvie Méléard (École Polytechnique)

Speakers:
Peter Pfaffelhuber (University of Freiburg)
Frank Redig (Technical University Delft)
Chi Viet Tran (Universite des Sciences et Technologie)