Welcome to APSPS

Board Members

Anirvan Chakraborty (IISER, Kolkata),
Sanjay Chaudhuri (Univ. Nebraska-Lincoln),
Feng Chen (UNSW, Sydney)
Jie Yen Fan (Monash U, Melbourne)
Jesse Goodman (U Auckland)
Martin Hazelton (U Otago, Dunedin)
Mark Holmes (U Melbourne, currently at UBC, Vancouver)
Ajay Jasra (Chinese U of Hong-Kong, Shenzhen), Chair
Estate Khmaladze (VUW, Wellington)
Chenxu Li (Peking U)
Hiroki Masuda (U Tokyo)
Stephen Muirhead (U Melbourne)
Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee (ISI, Kolkata),
Teppei Ogihara (U Tokyo), Deputy Chair
Spiro Penev (UNSW, Sydney)
Rahul Roy (ISI, Delhi)
Lijiang Yang (Tsinghua U, Beijing)
Nakahiro Yoshida (U Tokyo).

Next Speaker

Date: 17 September (Wed), 2025

Time: 10:30 (India) =

13:00 (Singapore)=

14:00 (Japan) =

16:00 (Syd, Australia) =

18:00 (NZ)

Name: TBC

About

The Asia-Pacific Seminar in Probability and Statistics was created in September 2020 as a permanent forum for good research in the field. It was our way to counterbalance, then, the restrictions imposed on us by pandemic and to still promote scientific exchange and cooperation. It is run using Zoom.

Topics: probabilistic models for natural phenomena in general, stochastic processes and statistical inference, statistical problems in high-dimensional spaces, asymptotic methods, statistical theory of diversity. At the same time, there are no restrictions on other topics for the seminar presentations.

Style: In this seminar series the emphasis is on novelty, beauty, and clarity. Where possible, heuristic arguments are preferred to presentation of technical details. Speakers are encouraged to discuss meaningful applications and open problems. Good reviews are welcome. Presentations should be accessible to good postgraduate students in probability and mathematical statistics.

The seminar’s Founding Chair (September 2020 – December 2024) was Estate Khmaladze.