Probability Theory and Statistics in

High and Infinite Dimensions

Empirical Process Theory and Beyond

June 23-25, 2014,

Center for Mathematical Sciences

University of Cambridge, UK

Organisers:

Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech),

Sara van de Geer (ETH Zürich),

Jon Wellner (Seattle),

Richard Nickl (Cambridge)

Evarist Giné † 13^th March 2015 - Obituary

This conference takes place on the occasion of Evarist Giné’s 70th birthday. It will attempt to reflect recent developments in the many areas that Evarist has transformed and worked on in his distinguished career: from probability in Banach spaces, empirical, chaos- and U- process theory to mathematical and nonparametric statistics.

Here is the program, a list of abstracts, a list of participants and some local travel and contact information. For any queries please contact clc32@cam.ac.uk.

We gratefully acknowledge funding support from the US National Science Foundation.

Confirmed Speakers:

Radek Adamczak (Warsaw)

Yannick Baraud (Nice)

Rudy Beran (UC Davis)

Lucien Birgé (Paris)

Ismaël Castillo (Paris)

Victor Chernozhukov (M.I.T.)

Richard Dudley (M.I.T.)

Lutz Dümbgen (Bern)

Uwe Einmahl (Brussels)

Friedrich Götze (Bielefeld)

Adityanand Guntuboyina (Berkeley)

Ramon van Handel (Princeton)

Gerard Kerkyacharian (Paris)

Rafal Latala (Warsaw)

Michel Ledoux (Toulouse)

Gabor Lugosi (Barcelona)

Michael Marcus (CUNY)

David Mason (Delaware)

Pascal Massart (Paris)

Shahar Mendelson (ANU and Technion)

Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz (Warsaw)

Natesh Pillai (Harvard)

Sasha Rakhlin (UPenn)

Markus Reiß (Berlin)

Patricia Reynaud-Bouret (Nice)

Sasha Tsybakov (Paris)

Aad van der Vaart (Leiden)

Marten Wegkamp (Cornell)

Cun-Hui Zhang (Rutgers),

Joel Zinn (Texas A&M)