T e c h n i o n - Israel Institute of Technology
The William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management

Workshop on Extreme Values

The Statistics and Probability Area is organizing a workshop on Extreme Values in honor of Professor Ishay Weissman, upon his retirement. The workshop will take place on December 7th, 2009 at the Coler Visitors Center, Technion, Haifa.

Participants are requested to register with Shlomit Forte

Robert Adler

The Workshop Program

P r i n t

9:30- 9:45	Get together with light refreshments.
9:45-10:00	Greetings:	Paul Feigin, Senior Vice President Boaz Golany, Dean
10:00-11:00	Modeling Data Network Sessions: Multivariate Heavy Tails and Conditional Extremes	Sidney Resnick, Cornell University
11:00-12:00	From Theory to Practice: A Mathematical History of Order Statistics and Application to Strength of Materials, Economics and Climate Change	Richard Smith, University of North Carolina
12:00-13:00	Validity of the Expected Euler Characteristic Heuristic	Robert Adler, Technion
13:00-14:30	Lunch Break
14:30-15:30	Sequential Selection of a Quality Group	Ester Samuel-Cahn, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
15:30-16:30	Harnessing Extreme Value Theory to an Information Theoretic Problem	Tsachy Weissman, Technion and Stanford University
16:30-17:30	My First and Latest Research plus Autobiographical Notes	Ishay Weisman, Technion

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