Institutional Grant project

In 2005 STINT approved funding for a project in the Institutional Grants Programme (IGP) to establish cooperation between the Department of Mathematical Statistics in Lund and several universities in Australia and South Korea in a period of four years started in January 2006. The main foreign partner is Professor Peter Hall in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. The collaboration will be extended by entering into an agreement with the Centre for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS). Detailed information on MASCOS can be found in their homepage but a brief history follows. MASCOS was established by the Australian Research Council (ARC) a couple of years ago and it comprises 13 Chief Investigators from The University of Melbourne, Australian National University, The University of New South Wales, The University of Queensland and La Trobe University. In addition, we also plan to collaborate with a couple of other universities which are not directly involved in the MASCOS, namely University of Western Australia, University of Sydney and University of Suwon, Suwon, South Korea.

The IGP-project aims at initiating joint research projects in different levels between department of Mathematical Statistics at Lund University and the above mentioned foreign partners in Australia and South Korea. Another main objective is to develop joint graduate courses in several universities involved in the program.

Instructions on how to find the Centre for Mathematical Sciences can be found here.

Program for 2007

Marc Raimondo will be visiting our department from January 15 to February 14, 2007. He is Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney. This page summarizes the planned activities.
Nader Tajvidi will give a course on extreme value theory in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. The course is scheduled for mid February to mid May in the first semester; see here for further information.
John Maindonald will be visiting our department from May 9 to June 17, 2007. This page summarizes the planned activities.

Program for 2008

Nader Tajvidi will give a course on extreme value theory in the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications at the Australian National University. The course is scheduled for March to April in the first semester; see here for further information.
Peter Hall from Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne will give a course on Methodology and Theory for the Bootstrap. Further details about the schedule and how to sign up for the course will be anounced here later on.
Heping He from Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne will give a course on Introduction to Likelihood Methods.
Berwin Turlach from School of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Western Australia (currently on leave working at the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at National University of Singapore) will visit our department from June 15-28. A seminar entitled "Monotone penalized spline smoothing" will be organized ; see the homepage of our seminars for the abstract and further info.
Mervyn Silvapulle from department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University will visit our department in October 14-25. He will present a course on Constrained Statistical Inference in Parametric Models in October 20-22.
Shelton Peiris from School of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Sydney will give a course on Time series analysis and forecasting with financial applications .

Nader Tajvidi
Matematisk Statistik / Mathematical Statistics
Matematikcentrum / Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Lunds Tekniska Högskola / Lund Institute of Technology
Box 118
SE-221 00 Lund
Sweden

Telefon: 046-2229612
Telefax: 046-2224623
Datorpost: nader@maths.lth.se

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