Archives for UCLOUVAIN
March 01, 2018
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Simon Cornée, Université de Rennes I
A Theory of Social Finance
Simon Cornée, Université de Rennes I
Myriad different types of institutions are involved in social finance. This paper attempts to make sense of the diverse ways of operationalizing the delivery of funds by social financial institutions (SFIs). It explores the...
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February 28, 2018
Brown Bag Seminar
Jonas Striaukas, CORE UCLouvain
MIDAS-PRO-LASSO: Mixed Frequency Data Regression Models with Parameter Profiling and LASSO
Jonas Striaukas, CORE UCLouvain
In this article we propose an estimation method for high dimensional mixed frequency data sampling (MIDAS) regression model and study its properties. An extensive...
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February 27, 2018
INGI Seminar
Novel Pattern Mining Techniques for Genome-wide Association Studies
by Hoang Son Pham, Post-Doc UCLouvain
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are designed to discover single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) combinations associated with diseases.
Once new genetic associations are...
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February 27, 2018
Operations Research Seminar
Jenny Benois-Pineau, University of Bordeaux
Increasing stability of training of Deep CNNs with Stochastic Gradient Descent method. Application to Image classification tasks
Jenny Benois-Pineau, University of Bordeaux
Supervised learning for classification of visual data has been the major approach during the last two decades. With...
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February 27, 2018
Seminar
Macro Lunch - Eric Roca Fernandez
Èric Roca Fernández
(IRES, UCLouvain)
will give a presentation on
If Children Suffer when Mothers Work, Do Women Work Less?
Abstract : Mothers want children to survive. Yet, in developing countries, women can involuntarily endanger them by working if children are left unattended or...
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