Seminars 1st Semester 2010-2011 and 2011-2012

Séminaires de septembre à décembre 2011

- Salle ISBA c.115 - Dernière mise à jour le 21 décembre 2011

23/09/2011		Young Researchers Day  (YRD)
	9:00	Programme
30/09/2011		Applied statistics workshops
	14:30	Gilles San Martin - UCL - Earth and Life Institute - Biodiversity Research Center
		"Model selection and model averaging with an information criterion (AIC) approach"
	16:00	Christian Ritter, ISBA, UCL & Ritter and danielson Consulting, Belgium
		"Combining softwares tools to practice statistics"
07/10/2011		Statistics seminar
	14:30	Tim Verdonck, Katholieke universteit Leuven, Belgium
		"Analyzing the influence of outliers in claims reserving"
14/10/2011		SBS Annual Meeting
21/10/2011		Joint ISBA-Core seminar (in the frame of ARC Time Series) - ISBA C115
	14:30	Axel Bücher, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
		"New estimators of the Pickands dependence function and a test for extreme-value dependence"
28/10/2011		Applied statistics workshops
	14:30	Christian Ritter, ISBA, UCL & Ritter and danielson Consulting, Belgium
		"See and Show"
	16:00	Statistical Consultancy in Action - SMCS, UCL, Belgium
		"Why not to use simple ANOVA when testing for equivalence" by A. Benoît and A. Guillet
		"Champignons surgelés" by C. Rasse
4/11/2011		Joint UCL - ULB seminars
	14:30	Yvik Swan , ULB
		"Univariate and multivariate Chen-Stein characterizations -- a parametric approach "
	16:00	Philippe Lambert, ISBA, UCL
		"Nonparametric additive models for interval-censored data"
11/11/2011		Armistice
18/11/2011		Applied statistics workshops
	14:30	France Vrijens, Centre Fédéral d'Expertise des Soins de Santé (KCE), Brussels, Belgium
		"How to evaluate the quality of cancer care in Belgian hospitals? Statistical considerations "
	16:00	Bernard G. Francq, ISBA, UCL, Belgium
		"Quand le chirurgien ne coupe pas droit"
21/11/2011		Joint CORE-ISBA seminar (in the frame of ARC Time Series) - Core b-135
	14:30	Melanie Schienle , Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany
		Semiparametric Estimation with Generated Covariates
		Paper
25/11/2011		IAP workshop
2/12/2011		Statistics seminar
	14:30	Nathalie Neumeyer, University of Hamburg, Germany
		"Some specification tests in nonparametric quantile regression"
9/12/2011		Applied statistics workshops
	14:30	Evelien Vaes, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Department of Molecular Neurogenetics, Frankfurt, Germany
		"A statistical test relative to a fold change threshold used for NanoString data on studies of the mouse olfactory system"
	16:00	Heidi Wouters, Senior Biostatistician at Ablynx NV, Ghent/Zwijnaarde, Belgium
		"Generic DOE strategy for potency assay optimisation"
15/12/2011		Short course by Paul Doukhan, University of Cergy-Pontoise, Member of the French Universitary Institute (IUF), France
16/12/2011		Joint ISBA-CORE seminar (in the frame of ARC Time Series)
	14:30	Paul Doukhan, University of Cergy-Pontoise, Member of the French Universitary Institute (IUF), France
		"Modeling integer valued time series"
19/12/2011		Actuarial seminar
	14:30	Daniel Bauer, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
		"Coherent Modeling of the Risk in Mortality Projections: Theory and Applications"

			Contact
22/09/2010	14:30	Joint seminar CORE/ISBA (in the frame of ARC/Time Series)- Room Core b-135	L. Bauwens
		Lars Stentoft, HEC, Montreal
		"Option pricing with asymmetric heteroskedastic normal mixture models"
24/09/2010	9:00	Young Researchers Day  (YRD)	J. Segers
		Programme
01/10/2010	14:30	Christian Ritter, ISBA, UCL & Danielson Consulting, Belgium	C. Ritter
		"Communicating about statistics via graphs and tables"
	16:00	Christian Ritter, ISBA, UCL  & Danielson Consulting, Belgium
		"Combining software tools to practice statistics"
08/10/2010	14:30	François Roueff, TELECOM ParisTech, Paris, France	R. von Sachs
		"Multiscale analysis for long memory models, including non-stationary ones"
		Slides
	16:00	Anne Vanhems, Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France	I. Van Keilegom
		"Welfare analysis using nonseparable models"
		Slides
13 - 15/10/2010		Colloque annuel SBS à SPA
		Info:  http://bss2010.ulb.ac.be
20/10/2010	14:30	No seminar (bicycle race)	L. Bauwens
22/10/2010	14:30	Yves Brostaux, Université de Liège - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (GxABT), Belgium	C. Ritter
		"Détection du comportement agrégatif dans les dispositifs à choix binaires apport des modèles linéaires généralisés"
	16:00	Maria Key Prato, UCB Pharma SA, Brussels, Belgium
		"Quality by design principles applied to analytical methods for drug development"
29/10/2010	14:30	Veredas David, ULB, Brussels
		"Disentangling Systematic and Idiosyncratic Risk for Large Panels of Assets"
	16:00	Johan Segers, ISBA, UCL, Belgium
		"Nonparametric Bayesian inference on bivariate extremes"
05/11/2010	14:30	No seminars
	16:00
12/11/2010	14:30	Taoufik Bouezmarni, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec	A. El Gouch
		"Nonparametric estimation and inference for causality measures"
	16:00	Stanislas Volgushev, university of Bochum, Germany	A. El Ghouch
		"Some properties of Berans estimator for censored data"
18-19/11/2010		Workshop IAP - Leuven. Cross-fertilization within the IAP network
		Programme
19/11/2010	14:30	Postponed to 03/12/2010	B. Govaerts
	16:00
26/11/2010	14:30	Arne Kovac, Bristol University, United Kingdom	R. von Sachs
		"Penalized regression on a graph"
	16:00	Juan Carlos Pardo Fernandez, University of Vigo, Spain	I. Van Keilegom
		"Nonparametric tests for risk-return relationships"
03/12/2010	14:30	Rembert De Blander, Earth and Life Institute (ELI), UCL, Belgium	C. Ritter
		"Iterative estimation correcting for error auto-correlation applied to short panels"
	16:00	Vincent Scourneau, IRES/IMMAQ, UCL Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
		"Estimation de la fonction GEV par maximum de vraisemblance; une approche alternative"
08/12/2010	14:30	Joint CORE-ISBA and LSM Finance Seminar (in the frame of the ARC project on time series)
		Anthony G. Bellotti, Imperial College London, UK Support vector machines in finance: application to the prediction of bank ratings
10/12/2010	14:30	Abderrahim Taamouti, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain	A. El Gouch
		"Nonparametric tests for conditional independence using conditional distributions"
	16:00	Atika Cohen, ULB, Brussels, Belgium - EHTP, Casablanca, Morroco
		Comment créer et publier ses documents à l'aide de chaîne éditoriale Scenari
		Slides
15/12/2010	14:30	Joint seminar CORE/ISBA and LSM Finance - Room Core b-135	L. Bauwens
		Karim Abadir, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
		"Lies, damned lies, and statistics? Examples from finance and economics"
		Paper

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Calendar 2011 January 2011 - June 2011.                                                                              

			Contact
04/02/2011	9:00	Young Researchers Day  (YRD)  -  Programme
		IMMAQ Lecture Series (IRES)
10/02/2011	16:00	David Bloom - Havard School of Public Health
		"The health and wealth of nations"
		Applied statistics workshops
11/02/2011	14:30	Jacqueline Asscher, Technion (Haifa), Israel
		"Strategy employed in designing a series of small experiments to evaluate and improve the precision of a laboratory test"
	16:00	Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna, Austria
		"PISA - complex statistics meets educational policy"
16/02/2011	14:30	Joint seminar CORE/ISBA (in the frame of ARC/Time Series)- Room Core b-135
		Dimitris Korobilis, CORE
		On adaptative shrinkage priors for forecasting with many predictors
		Statistics seminars
18/02/2011	14:30	François Perron, University of Montreal, Canada
		"Polynomials Pickands Dependence Functions"
	16:00	Harry van Zanten, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
		"Adaptive Bayesian inference using location-scale mixture priors"
		Applied statistics workshops
25/02/2011	14:30	Olivier Van Overstraeten- Vadis Consulting - Bruxelles
		"Data cleaning through statistical tools: an example in entity resolution "
	16:00	Manuel Piette - BNP-Paribas-Fortis - Bruxelles
		"Marketing leads Optimization at Fortis RBB"
		Slides
		Joint ULB/UCL statistics seminars (site ULB Campus Plaine, Building NO, floor 9 )
04/03/2011	14:30	Auguste Gaddah, ISBA, UCL, Belgium
		Random censorship single-index quantile regression model
	16:00	Maarten Jansen, ULB, Bruxelles
		"Lifted smoothing and smoothed lifting"
09/03/2011	14:30	Joint seminar CORE/ISBA (in the frame of ARC/Time Series)- Room Core b-135	L. Bauwens
		Timothy J. Vogelsang, Michigan State University, USA
		Integrated Modified OLS estimation and Fixed-b inference for cointegrating regressions
		Paper
		Applied statistics workshops
11/03/2011	14:30	Jacques Marquet - IACCHOS - UCL - Louvain-la-Neuve
		"Modèles de couple : de l'influence normative des proches"
	16:00	Roselinde Kessels -  University of Antwerp, Belgium
		"Bayesian optimal designs for discrete choice experiments with full and partial profiles"
		Mathematical Finance and Risk Theory
16/03/2011	14:30	Carole Bernard, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
		"Financial Bounds for Insurance Prices"
		Statistics seminar
18/03/2011	14:30	Christian Haedo (Buenos Aires) - Michel Mouchart, ISBA, UCL
		"A Stochastic Independence Approach for different Measures of Global Specialization"
		Applied statistics workshops
25/03/2011	14:30	Tom Loeys, Ghent University, Belgium
		"A joint modeling approach for reaction time and accuracy in psycholinguistics experiments"
	16:00	Jérôme Ambroise, ICTEAM, UCL, Belgium
		"Les méthodes de reconstruction des réseaux d'interaction des gènes à partir de données de microarray d’expression"
		Mathematical Finance and Risk Theory
29 & 30/03/2011	15:00-18:00	Elena Vigna, Università di Torino, Italy
		"Theory and applications of doubly stochastic approach for stochastic mortality and longevity "
		Joint seminar ISBA/CORE (in the frame of ARC/Time Series)- Room ISBA c-115
01/04/2011	14:30	Piotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics (LSE)
		Haar-Fisz methodology for interpretable estimation of large, sparse, time-varying volatility matrices
	16:00	Olivier Wintenberger, CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France
		"Detecting multiple change points using Quasi Likelihood" (in collaboration with J.M. Bardet and W. Kengne)
		IMMAQ Lecture Series
08/04/2011	16:00	Adrian Bowman - University of Glasgow
		"Statistics with a human face"
27/04 & 02/05, 2011		Short course given by Olivier Lopez, Université Paris VI, Paris, France
		on "Single Index Model"
		Statistics seminars
29/04/2011	14:30	Carla Moreira, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
		Kernel density estimation with double truncated data
	16:00	Rawane Samb, ISBA, UCL, Belgium
		Nonparametric estimation of the residual density
		Francqui Chair Professor Anthony Davison  (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
		Invitation, programme and locations
		Inaugural Lecture Francqui Chair
March 28, 2011	15h	"Likelihood inference for a problem in particle physics "(Location Hasselt University)
		Francqui Lecture series:
March 29, 2011	14h & 16h30	"Likelihood Theory": (location: Hasselt University)
March 31, 2011	14h & 16h30	"Likelihood Theory": (location: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
May 4, 2011	14h & 15h30	"Statistics of Extremes" : (location: Université catholique de Louvain)
May 5, 2011	11h & 14h00	"Statistics of Extremes" : (location: Hasselt University)
		Closing Lecture Francqui Chair
	15h30	"Statistical models for spatial extremes" by Professor Anthony Davison
		Mathematical Finance and Risk Theory
10/05/2011	10:45 & 14h30	Isabel Maria Ferraz Cordeiro, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
11/05/2011	10:45 & 14:00	Short course on "Numerical Methods in Income Protection Models"
		IMMAQ Lecture Series
11/05/2011	16:00	Andrew Jones - University of York
		"Equality of opportunity in health?"
		Statistics seminars
13/05/2011	14:30	Ivan Kojadinovic, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France
		"Some non parametric tests for copulas: Tests of independence, exchangeability, extreme-value dependence, goodness of fit, ... "
	16:00	Hohsuk Noh, ISBA, UCL, Belgium
		Nonparametric Coefficient of Determination for Quantile Regression Analysis
25-27/05/2011		Interdisciplinary workshop on "Econometric and statistical modelling of multivariate time series"

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