2021
- 2021 Chair "Quantifying the Anthropogenic Fingerprint in Climate Change" — Invited Papers, Section on Statistics and the Environment, IMS, Section on Nonparametric Statistics, JSM 2021: Virtual Conference, August 8 - 12, 2021
- 2021 Speaker "Density Estimation in the Context of Deconvolution", IMS Speed, JSM 2021: Virtual Conference, August 8 - 12, 2021
2020
- 2020 Organizer of the Invited Session "On Structural Changes", JSM, August 1 - August 6, 2020, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- 2020 "On the crossing of a threshold under Gaussian subordination for spatial data", Invited Talk, JSM, August 1 - August 6, 2020, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
2019
- 2019 "On trend estimation and related issues under Gaussian subordination", Invited Talk, LASR (Leeds Annual Statistical Research) workshop, 24 - 26 June 2019, Leeds, UK
- 2019 "Exceedance locations in nonparametric regression under Gaussian subordination", Invited Talk, 4th International Workshop on Goodness-of-fit Change-Point, and Related Problems (GOFCP2019), 6 - 8 September 2019, Trento, Italy.
- 2019 Chair & Organizer of the Topic Contributed Session (with invited speakers) "Big Data in Time Series and Spatial Data Analysis: Theory & Applications", Session sponsored by the Royal Statistical Society, JSM, July 27 - August 1, 2019, Denver, CO, USA.
- 2019 "On some estimation and testing problems for distribution functions under dependence", Session Functional data and time series", JSM, July 27 - August 1, 2019, Denver, CO, USA.
- 2019 "On automatic detection of locations with high/low average values", Research Unit Colloquium Series, FOREMA, Sept 23, 2019, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
2018
- 2018 Organizer of the Topic Contributed Session (with invited speakers) "Curve Estimation under Dependence", Session sponsored by the Royal Statistical Society, JSM, July 28 - August 2, 2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- 2018 "Time-varying Regression Slope Estimation for Time series data", Royal Statistical Society International Conference, 3 – 6 September 2018, Cardiff, Wales.
- 2018 "Selected problems in inference for distribution functions", Departmental Seminar, ISRU, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.
- 2018 "Finding hotspots", Session "Curve Estimation under Dependence", JSM, July 28 - August 2, 2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2017
- 2017 "Estimation of the Variance of Nonparametric Trend Estimates from Time Series Replicates Using the Empirical Moment Generating Function", Session: "Recent Advances in Nonparametric Statistics", JSM 2017, July 29 - August 3, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- 2017 Chair & Organizer of the Topic Contributed Session (with invited speakers & discussants) "Empirical transforms, saddlepoint approximation and risk assessment with some applications", Session sponsored by the Section on Risk Analysis, Business and Economic Statistics and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, JSM 2017, July 29 - August 3, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- 2017 "On some local estimation problems in large scale spatial data analysis", Royal Statistical Society International Conference, 4 – 7 September 2017, Glasgow, Scotland.
2016
- 2016 "On kernel smoothing with Gaussian subordinated spatial data", Invited Talk [organizer: Anirban Dasgupta, Purdue], Session: Inference in High and Infinite Dimensional Problems under Sparsity and Shape Constraints, The 3rd conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics, June 11-16, 2016, Avignon, France.
- 2016 Chair & Organizer of the Topic Contributed Session (with invited speakers & discussants) "Topics in modern multivariate analysis: some recent results", Session sponsored by the Royal Statistical Society and the Section on Statistical Computing, JSM 2016, July 30 - August 4, Chicago, IL, USA.
- 2016 "On estimating the cumulative distribution function of a detrended series under long-range dependence", Session: "Quantiles, Extremes, Long Memory and Fractals", JSM 2016, July 30 - August 4, Chicago, IL, USA.
- 2016 "On Surface Estimation under Gaussian Subordination", Royal Statistical Society International Conference, September 5-8, Manchester, UK.
All Years (Chronological)
- 1987-1988 "Some tests of normality based on transforms", Research seminars 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, Research seminar, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
- 1992 "Slowly decaying correlations, testing normality, nuisance parameters" Invited talk [Organizer, Prof. Nancy Reid, Toronto], 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 [Organizer: Prof. Hans Künsch, ETH], Meeting of the Swiss Statistical Society, Bern, Switzerland.
- 1994 "Analysis of the forest damage inventory data in Switzerland". Research seminar, 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 long memory 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". Research seminar, 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". Research seminar Fachbereich Statistik, Universität Dortmund, Germany.
- 2001 "Quantile estimation to assess extreme climate events". Invited talk [Organizer: Dr. Christoph Frei, ETH] , Meeting of the European Geophysical Society, 26 - 30 March, Nice, France.
- 2002 "Estimation and prediction for linear processes". Invited talk [Organizer: Prof. Rob J Hyndman, Monash], 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 [Organizer: Prof. Otto Wildi, WSL], 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 [organizer: Prof. Sigfried Heiler, Konstanz], 54th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Berlin, Germany.
- 2004 "The T3 plots", Research seminar, 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." Research seminar, Seminar für Statistik, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland.
- 2005 "Selected problems related to inference for distribution functions", Research seminar, 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", Research seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of York, York, UK.
- 2006 "An algorithm for age-depth modeling", Invited talk [Organizer: Prof. Willy Tinner, Bern], 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". International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Conference, Jan 4-8, 2010, Visakhapatnam, Andhra University, Waltair, India.
- 2010 Chair and organizer 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 Statistical Meetings (JSM), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- 2011 "Gaussian subordination models on a lattice with environmental applications", Session on "Methods for non-Gaussian data", Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
- 2011 "Some nonparametric regression problems for Gaussian subordinated time series observations with long-memory." Session: "Statistical Modelling: Environment", International Statistical Institute (ISI), Dublin, Ireland.
- 2011 Chair of the 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: Prof. John Haslett, Trinity College, Dublin). 22nd Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society (TIES), Jan 3 - 6, 2012, University of Hyderabad, India.
- 2012 Chair of Invited session: "Energy and Environment Related Issues for Sustainable Development" (Organizer: Prof. 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 [organizer: Prof. Subir Ghosh, Riverside, CA], IISA meeting in Chennai, India, Jan 2-5, 2013.
- 2013 "On nonparametric curve estimation problems for certain non-Gaussian processes", Invited Talk [Organizer: Prof. Ilya Pavlyukevich, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena], 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 Chair & organizer of the Invited session "Patterns and extremes: developments & review of spatial data analysis", Session sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 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.
- 2014 Organizer of the Invited session "Estimation and Testing Problems in Large Spatial Datasets and Their Applications", Session sponsored by the Section on Statistics and the Environment, JSM 2014, August 2 - 7, 2014, Boston, MA, USA.
- 2014 "On Variance Estimation for Nonparametric Surface Estimates Under Gaussian Subordination", Session: Nonparametric (IMS), JSM 2014, August 2 - 7, 2014, Boston, MA, USA.
- 2014 "Local slope estimation in partial linear models under Gaussian subordination", Invited Talk [organizer: Prof. Yuanhua Feng, Paderborn], Session: "Semiparametric models for trend and volatility and their applications", International workshop on Semiparametric Volatility Models, July 24 - 26, 2014, University of Paderborn, Germany.
- 2015 "On Kernel Smoothing under Gaussian subordination", Research seminar, ISRU, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.
- 2015 "Kernel estimation in semiparametric and nonparamertic regression for one dimensional transformation of Gaussian processes", Session: "Functional Data Analysis and Nonparametrics",JSM 2015, August 8 - 13, Seattle, WA, USA.
- 2015 Chair & Organizer of the Topic Contributed Session (with invited speakers & discussant) "Large scale spatial processes: fundamentals, new developments, applications", Session sponsored by the Section on Statistics and the Environment, JSM 2015, August 8 - 13, Seattle, WA, USA.
- 2015 "A note on bandwidth selection in a nonparametric surface estimation problem", Session: Education & Research. Swiss Statistics Meeting 2015, August 24-26, 2015, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
- 2016 "On kernel smoothing with Gaussian subordinated spatial data", Invited Talk [organizer: Anirban Dasgupta, Purdue], Session: Inference in High and Infinite Dimensional Problems under Sparsity and Shape Constraints, The 3rd conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics, June 11-16, 2016, Avignon, France.
- 2016 Chair & Organizer of the Topic Contributed Session (with invited speakers & discussants) "Topics in modern multivariate analysis: some recent results", Session sponsored by the Royal Statistical Society and the Section on Statistical Computing, JSM 2016, July 30 - August 4, Chicago, IL, USA.
- 2016 "On estimating the cumulative distribution function of a detrended series under long-range dependence", Session: "Quantiles, Extremes, Long Memory and Fractals", JSM 2016, July 30 - August 4, Chicago, IL, USA.
- 2016 "On Surface Estimation under Gaussian Subordination", Royal Statistical Society International Conference, September 5-8, Manchester, UK.
- 2017 "Estimation of the Variance of Nonparametric Trend Estimates from Time Series Replicates Using the Empirical Moment Generating Function", Session: "Recent Advances in Nonparametric Statistics", JSM 2017, July 29 - August 3, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- 2017 Chair & Organizer of the Topic Contributed Session (with invited speakers & discussants) "Empirical transforms, saddlepoint approximation and risk assessment with some applications", Session sponsored by the Section on Risk Analysis, Business and Economic Statistics and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, JSM 2017, July 29 - August 3, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- 2017 "On some local estimation problems in large scale spatial data analysis", Royal Statistical Society International Conference, 4 – 7 September 2017, Glasgow, Scotland.
- 2018 Organizer of the Topic Contributed Session (with invited speakers) "Curve Estimation under Dependence", Session sponsored by the Royal Statistical Society, JSM, July 28 - August 2, 2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- 2018 "Time-varying Regression Slope Estimation for Time series data", Royal Statistical Society International Conference, 3 – 6 September 2018, Cardiff, Wales.
- 2018 "Selected problems in inference for distribution functions", Departmental Seminar, ISRU, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.
- 2018 "Finding hotspots", Session "Curve Estimation under Dependence", JSM, July 28 - August 2, 2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- 2019 "On trend estimation and related issues under Gaussian subordination", Invited Talk, LASR (Leeds Annual Statistical Research) workshop, 24 - 26 June 2019, Leeds, UK
- 2019 "Exceedance locations in nonparametric regression under Gaussian subordination", Invited Talk, 4th International Workshop on Goodness-of-fit Change-Point, and Related Problems (GOFCP2019), 6 - 8 September 2019, Trento, Italy.
- 2019 Chair & Organizer of the Topic Contributed Session (with invited speakers) "Big Data in Time Series and Spatial Data Analysis: Theory & Applications", Session sponsored by the Royal Statistical Society, JSM, July 27 - August 1, 2019, Denver, CO, USA.
- 2019 "On some estimation and testing problems for distribution functions under dependence", Session Functional data and time series", JSM, July 27 - August 1, 2019, Denver, CO, USA.
- 2019 "On automatic detection of locations with high/low average values", Research Unit Colloquium Series, FOREMA, Sept 23, 2019, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
- 2020 Organizer of the Invited Session "On Structural Changes", JSM, August 1 - August 6, 2020, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- 2020 "On the crossing of a threshold under Gaussian subordination for spatial data", Invited Talk, JSM, August 1 - August 6, 2020, Philadelphia, PA, USA.