OktoberGyörfiFest: Laci Györfi is 60!

Time and place. October 18-19, 2007. Technical University of Budapest. Building I ("I" for "Informatika"), Room B.134 (Thursday) and Room B.110 (Friday). Address: Magyar tudósok körútja 2. Map. Campus map. (Building I is at the bottom.) Participants. András Antos Jan Beirlant Gerard Biau Luc Devroye András György Zoltán Györfi Sándor Györi István Kerekes Adam Krzyzak Gábor Lugosi James Massey György Ottucsák László Pap Márta Pintér Gábor Szekeres Frederic Udina Igor Vajda István Vajda István Vajda Jr. Edward C. van der Meulen

• Pictures of the meeting.

  These photos were taken and arranged by Luc.

  
  

• Talks.

  András Antos. Minimax bounds on the distortion of empirically designed vector quantizers.

  Gerard Biau. Performance of clustering in Hilbert spaces.

  Jan Beirlant. On the h-index of publication impact and activity.

  Luc Devroye. A mathematical cobweb.

  Zoltán Györfi. Demand and Supply - can they be satisfied simulteneously?

  András György. Individual convergence rates in empirical vector quantizer design.

  Adam Krzyzak. Optimal global rates of convergence for nonparametric regression with unbounded data.

  Gábor Lugosi. Random forests in classification.

  Jim Massey. Minimum mathematics.

  György Ottucsák. Sequential prediction of unbounded stationary time series

  László Pap.

  Frederic Udina. Universal portfolio selection.

  Igor Vajda. On asymptotic distributions of f-divergence statistics.

  István Vajda. Private authentication.

  István Vajda Jr. Portfolio optimization with constraint.

  Edward C. van der Meulen. Twenty years of a happy research cooperation with Laci Györfi.

  
  

• Program.

  Thursday, 18/10. Talks from 10am to 12am. Lunch. Talks from 3pm to 5pm. At 6pm dinner at Gundel Restaurant

  Friday, 19/10. Talks from 10am to 12am. Lunch. Talks from 3pm to 5pm. Dinner at the Belgian brewery Pater Marcus

  
  

• Weather.

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