About

Once a week we meet to discuss the selected topics in the Yale course “Statistics 607b, Inequalities for probability and statistics”. Speakers also prepare short handouts. The list of topics, speakers, and handouts can be found below.

Topics and speakers

Date	Speakers	Topic	Notes
30-05-2024	Shakeel and Pietro	Tails of the normal distribution	link
07-06-2024	Zetai	Convexity (part I)	link
13-06-2024	Xuzhi	Convexity (part II)	TBA
20-06-2024	Di and Shakeel	Metric entropy	TBA
27-06-2024	Zetai and Xuzhi	Distances between measures	TBA
04-07-2024	Pietro and x	Covariance inequalities	TBA

Group members

• Zetai
• Shakeel
• Pietro
• Di
• Xuzhi

Advice for speakers

If you are preparing a talk see here for some suggestions.