- 1987-1988 "Some tests of normality based on transforms", Invited 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
fü 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". Invited talk, University
of Neuchatel, Swutzerland.
- 1998 "SEMIFAR models in an analysis of some tree ring data". INTECOL,
Florence, Italy.
- 1999 "Replicated time series with applications". 52nd Session of the International
Statistical Institute, 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.", JSM, Denver, Colorado, USA.
- 2010 Chair and Organizer of the Special Invited Session on "Long Memory Processes" at the IISA Conference, Jan 4-8, 2010, Visakhapatnam, Andhra University, Waltair, India.
- 2010 "Nonparametric estimation of distribution functions for Gaussian subordination models and applications", Invited Session on "Nonparametric Inference", at the IISA Conference, Jan 4-8, 2010, Visakhapatnam, Andhra University, Waltair, India.
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