Schedule for: 25w5482 - Game-Theoretic Statistical Inference: Optional Sampling, Universal Inference, and Multiple Testing based on E-Values

Beginning on Sunday, June 29 and ending Friday July 4, 2025

All times in Chennai, India time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, June 29
14:00 - 23:00 Check-in begins at 14:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours
Gokulam Park Sabari
(Hotel Gokulam Park Sabari - Front Desk)
Monday, June 30
07:30 - 08:50 Breakfast
Gokulam Park Sabari
(Hotel Gokulam Park Sabari - Restaurant)
08:50 - 09:20 Transport to CMI Institute
Meet at the hotel lobby
(Other (See Description))
09:20 - 09:30 Introduction and Welcome by CMI Staff (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
09:30 - 09:40 Aaditya Ramdas: Introductory Remarks (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
09:40 - 10:30 Nick Koning: Unifying Tests and E-Values: Fuzzy/Continuous Hypothesis Testing (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
11:00 - 11:30 Sanjit Dandapanthula: Multiple testing in multi-stream sequential change detection (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
11:30 - 12:00 Stephan Bongers: Anytime-valid off-policy evaluation for reinforcement learning (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Location will be announced at the start of each workshop.
(CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
14:00 - 14:30 Christopher Blier-Wong: Improved Thresholds for E-Values (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
14:30 - 15:00 Georgios Gavrilopoulos: Sequential Model Confidence Sets (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
15:00 - 15:30 Aytijhya Saha: Huber-robust likelihood ratio tests for composite nulls and alternatives (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
16:00 - 16:45 Patrick Flaherty: Hedging in Sequential Experiments (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
16:45 - 17:30 Eugenio Clerico: Optimal classes of e-variables (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
18:00 - 21:30 Dinner
Gokulam Park Sabari
(Hotel Gokulam Park Sabari - Restaurant)
Tuesday, July 1
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
Gokulam Park Sabari
(Hotel Gokulam Park Sabari - Restaurant)
09:00 - 09:30 Transport to CMI Institute
Meet at the hotel lobby
(Other (See Description))
09:30 - 10:00 David R. Bickel: The marginal e-value: Testing by betting given a prior probability of the null hypothesis (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
10:00 - 10:30 Vikas Deep: Asymptotically optimal adaptive A/B test for ATE (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
11:00 - 11:45 Francesco Orabona: STAR-Bets: Sequential TArget-Recalculating Bets for Tighter Confidence Intervals (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
11:45 - 12:30 Diego Martinez-Taboada: Empirical Bernstein in smooth Banach spaces (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
14:00 - 14:30 Sandeep Juneja: Optimal Best-Arm Identification in Bandits with access to Offline Data (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
14:30 - 15:00 Jonathan Williams: Asymptotic efficiency of inferential models and a possibilistic Bernstein–von Mises theorem (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
15:00 - 15:30 Claudia Di Caterina: Approximate mixture confidence sequences in generalized linear models (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
16:00 - 16:45 Etienne Gauthier: E-Values Expand the Scope of Conformal Prediction (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
16:45 - 17:30 Lasse Fischer: Improving Wald's (approximate) sequential probability ratio test by avoiding overshoot (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
18:00 - 21:30 Dinner
Gokulam Park Sabari
(Hotel Gokulam Park Sabari - Restaurant)
Wednesday, July 2
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
Gokulam Park Sabari
(Hotel Gokulam Park Sabari - Restaurant)
09:00 - 09:30 Transport to CMI Institute
Meet at the hotel lobby
(Other (See Description))
09:30 - 10:00 Jan Hannig: Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces (DIVAS) (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
10:00 - 10:30 Hien Nguyen: Universal inference without measurability (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
11:00 - 11:45 Zhenyuan Zhang: On the existence of powerful p-values and e-values for composite hypotheses testing (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
11:45 - 12:30 Francois Caron: Confidence sequences with informative, bounded-influence priors (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
14:00 - 18:00 Free Afternoon
Meeting outside of the auditorium
(Other (See Description))
18:00 - 21:30 Dinner
Gokulam Park Sabari
(Hotel Gokulam Park Sabari - Restaurant)
Thursday, July 3
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
Gokulam Park Sabari
(Hotel Gokulam Park Sabari - Restaurant)
09:00 - 09:30 Transport to CMI Institute
Meet at the hotel lobby
(Other (See Description))
09:30 - 10:00 Hamish Flynn: Confidence Sequences for Generalized Linear Models via Regret Analysis (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
10:00 - 10:30 Yo Joong Choe: Combining evidence across filtrations (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
11:00 - 11:45 Nikolaos Ignatiadis: Asymptotic and compound e-values: multiple testing and empirical Bayes (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
11:45 - 12:30 Ziyu Xu: Bringing Closure to FDR Control With a Uniform Improvement of the e-Benjamini-Hochberg Procedure (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
14:00 - 14:45 Ben Chugg: On admissibility in post-hoc hypothesis testing (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
14:45 - 15:30 Muriel Perez: Anytime-Valid Tests for Sparse Anomalies (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
16:00 - 16:45 Shubhada Agrawal: On Stopping Times of Power-one Sequential Tests: Tight Lower and Upper Bounds (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
16:45 - 17:30 Thorsten Dickhaus: Anytime-valid simultaneous lower confidence bounds for the true discovery proportion (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
18:00 - 21:30 Dinner
Gokulam Park Sabari
(Hotel Gokulam Park Sabari - Restaurant)
Friday, July 4
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
Gokulam Park Sabari
(Hotel Gokulam Park Sabari - Restaurant)
09:00 - 09:30 Transport to CMI Institute
Meet at the hotel lobby
(Other (See Description))
09:30 - 10:00 Wouter Koolen: The t-test is a supermartingale after all (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
10:00 - 10:30 Peter Grunwald: The E-Posterior (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
10:30 - 11:00 Aaditya Ramdas: Responding to E-rroneious Criticisms of E-Values (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
11:00 - 12:00 Coffee Break (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (CMI - Lecture Hall 202)