Talks
- 1987-1988 "Some tests of normality based on transforms", Talks given at: University of Toronto, California State University at Fullerton, CA; Cornell University, NY; University of Rochester, NY; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.
- 1989 Normality testing with transforms, Regional IMS meeting, University of California Davis, California, USA.
- 1990 Testing normality and symmetry via integral transforms, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
- 1992 "Slowly decaying correlations, testing normality, nuisance parameters" Invited talk, 12th conference on probability and statistics in the atmospheric sciences, June 22-26, 1992. Toronto, Canada.
- 1994 "Some topics on testing with the empirical characteristic function." Joint ASA-IMS-Bernoulli Society meeting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 1994.
- 1994 Chair of the session on EM algorithms, Joint ASA-IMS-Bernoulli Society meeting, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 1994.
- 1994 "A new graphical tool to detect non-normality." Invited talk, Meeting of the Swiss Statistical Society, Bern, Switzerland.
- 1994 "Analysis of the forest damage inventory data in Switzerland". Seminar für Statistik, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland.
- 1995 "Bootstrap analysis of a forest health monitoring data". 21st European Meeting of Statisticians, Aarhus, Denmark.
- 1996 "On slope estimation in a semiparametric regression model with longmemory errors". 4th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, Vienna, Austria.
- 1997 "Nonparametric conditional quantile estimation in the presence of long memory". 3rd International Conference on Statistical Data Analysis based on the L1-Norm and Related Methods, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.
- 1997 "Selected problems in nonparametric and semiparametric statistics with applications in the environmental sciences". Technische Universität München, Fakultät für Mathematik, Munich, Germany.
- 1998 "Stratified Random Sampling - An Introduction". University of Neuchatel, Swutzerland.
- 1998 "SEMIFAR models in an analysis of some tree ring data". International Congress of Ecology (INTECOL), Florence, Italy.
- 1999 "Replicated time series with applications". 52nd Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Helsinki, Finland.
- 2000 "Some applications of the moment generating function". Fachbereich Statistik, Universität Dortmund, Germany.
- 2001 "Quantile estimation to assess extreme climate events". Invited talk, Meeting of the European Geophysical Society, 26 - 30 March, Nice, France.
- 2002 "Estimation and prediction for linear processes". Invited talk, The 22nd International Symposium on Forecasting, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- 2002 "Estimating the moment generating function of a linear process". Invited talk. 4th International Conference on Statistical Data Analysis based on the L1-Norm and Related Methods, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.
- 2002 Organizer of Invited session: Quantile estimation, 4th International Conference on Statistical Data Analysis based on the L1-Norm and Related methods, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.
- 2002 "Nonparametric estimation and prediction of trend functions for time series", Invited talk, Statistische Woche, University of Konstanz, Germany.
- 2003 "Speaking of trend ...", Audit-Landscape, Special seminar series, January 2003, WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
- 2003 Chair and Organizer of the Invited and Contributed sessions on "Statistical Methods and their Applications" at the International Symposium on State of the Art in Vegetation Monitoring Approaches, 24-26 March, 2003, WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
- 2003 "On nonparametric smoothing for one dimensional transformations of Gaussian processes", Invited talk, 54th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Berlin, Germany.
- 2004 "The T3 plots", Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
- 2004 "Moment generating function estimation for linear processes", 6th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society and Probability and 67th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Barcelona, Spain.
- 2005 "On estimating species-area relationships - author's vocabulary and related counting problems." Seminar für Statistik, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland.
- 2005 "Selected problems related to inference for distribution functions", School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- 2005 "On the empirical cumulant generating function of some stationary long-memory processes", 25th European Meeting of Statisticians, Oslo, Norway.
- 2005 "Species counting", Department of Mathematics, University of York, York, UK.
- 2006 "An algorithm for age-depth modeling", Invited talk, Festschrift conference in honor of Professor Brigitta Ammann, Möschberg, Bern, Switzerland.
- 2007 "On species counting", 56th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Lisbon, Portugal.
- 2008 "Testing normality of a long-memory sequence using the empirical moment generating function.", Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Denver, Colorado, USA.
- 2010 "Nonparametric estimation of distribution functions for Gaussian subordination models and applications", Invited Session: "Nonparametric Inference". Also, organizer and chair of the Special Invited Session on "Long Memory Processes". International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Conference, Jan 4-8, 2010, Visakhapatnam, Andhra University, Waltair, India.
- 2010 "Applications of Gaussian Subordination Models in Climate Research", Session: "Stochastic Processes & Graphs", Joint Statitsical Meetings (JSM), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- 2011 "Gaussian subordination models on a lattice with environmental applications", Session on "Methods for non-Gaussian data", Joint Statitsical Meetings (JSM), Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
- 2011 "Some nonparametric regression problems for Gaussian subordinated time series observations with long-memory." Speaker & chair; Session: "Statistical Modelling: Environment", International Statistical Institute (ISI), Dublin, Ireland.
- 2012 "Some nonparametric curve estimation problems with applications to instrumental & proxy climate data", Invited talk, Session on "Statistical Issues in Climate: Past and Future" (Organizer: John Haslett, Trinity College, Dublin). Also, Invited session chair: "Energy and Environment Related Issues for Sustainable Development" (Organizer: M. N. V. Prasad, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad) and member of the Best Poster Judging Committee, 22nd Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society (TIES), Jan 3 - 6, 2012, University of Hyderabad, India.
-2012 "On nonparametric curve estimation with spatial data", Session: "On smoothing, dimension Reduction and functional data", Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), July 28-August 2, 2012, San Diego, California, USA.
-2013 "Computational aspects of long memory in space: Application to LiDAR & field data from Swiss forests", Invited talk, IISA meeting in Chennai, India, Jan 2-5, 2013.
-2013 "On nonparametric curve estimation problems for certain non-Gaussian processes", Invited Talk,Workshop of the ZiF Cooperation group on "Exploring climate variability: physical models, statistical inference and stochastic dynamics", ZiF - Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, Feb-Mar 2013.
- 2013 Invited session [IMS] (chair & organizer): "Patterns and extremes: developments & review of spatial data analysis". JSM 2013, August 3 - 8, 2013, Montréal, QC, H2Z 1H2, Canada.
-2013 "On estimation for partial linear models", Session: "Extensions and Generalizations of Linear Models", JSM 2013, Montreal, Canada
