1st Semester 2015-2016

All seminars take place at the Seminar Room: C115 at ISBA, Voie du Roman Pays, 20 - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve

Applied statistics workshops

Statistics seminars

Actuarial seminars

Young Researchers Day

IMMAQ seminars

September

18/09/2015	Young Researchers Day
	The doctoral students of ISBA give talks on the topics of their current research programme

October

2/10/2015	Statistics seminars ARC Seminar "Stochastic Modelling of Dependence: Systems under Stress"
*14h30*	Jean-Marc Freyermuth, Cambrigde University, United Kingdom "Minimax optimal detection of structure for multivariate data"
	IMMAQ-LSM Quantitative Finance seminars
16h00	Andrew Cairns, Maxwell Institute and Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, United Kingdom "Multi-population Mortality Modelling"

9/10/2015	Applied statistics workshops
*14h30*	Christian Ritter, SMCS, UCL and Ritter & Danielson Consulting "See and Show"
16h00	Christian Ritter, SMCS, UCL and Ritter & Danielson Consulting "Surfing the Seas of Data"

16/10/2015

BSS 2015 conference, Antwerp

Tuesday
20/10/2015
16h15-18h00

WORLD STATISTICS DAY

Drink and Statistics seminar : Christian Robert, Université Paris-Dauphine, France

"Le délicat dilemme des tests d’hypothèse et de leur résolution bayésienne"

23/10/2015

Statistics seminars
ARC Seminar "Stochastic Modelling of Dependence: Systems under Stress"

14h30

Annabel Prause, RWTH Aachen, Germany
"Sequential Nonparametric Detection of High-Dimensional Signals under Dependent Noise"

16h00

Hernando Ombao, UC Irvine, USA
"FreSpeD: Frequency-Specific Change-Point Detection Method with Applications to Brain Signals"

30/10/2015	Actuarial seminars
*10h45*	Donatien Hainaut, ESC Rennes Business School & CREST, France "Clustered Lévy processes"

	Applied statistics workshops
*14h30*	Julien Boccard, University of Geneva, Switzerland "Approches chimiométriques pour la fusion de données métabolomiques"
16h00	Jérôme Paul, DNAlytics, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium "Understanding diseases mechanisms via feature selection"

November

13/11/2015

Applied statistics workshops: Après-midi STAT/SMCS

14h15 à 16h00

Accueil café à 14h15
Le Kaléidoscope du SMCS : Céline Bugli, Sabrina El Bachiri, Alain Guillet, Catherine Rasse,
    Matthieu Van Pachterbeke
Dans une formule qui pourrait devenir annuelle, le Service en Méthodologie et Calcul Statistique
    va présenter une série de petites études de cas. Ces études de cas ont été sélectionnées pour
    représenter la gamme des activités et pour mettre en évidence le potentiel de collaborations
    entre les consultants du SMCS et les chercheurs de l'UCL.

20/11/2015	Statistics seminars Joint UCL - ULB à l'UCL
*14h30*	Marc Hallin, ULB "Monge-Kantorovich Ranks and Signs"
16h00	Yuwei Zhao, UCL "The integrated periodogram of a dependent extremal event sequence"

27/11/2015	IMMAQ-LSM Quantitative Finance seminars
*14h30*	Anne MacKay, ETH Zurich, Switzerland "Risk Management of Policyholder Behavior in Equity-Linked Life Insurance"
	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Stochastic Modelling of Dependence: Systems under Stress"
16h00	Jennifer Wadsworth, Lancaster University, United Kingdom "Where does the tail begin? Threshold selection for extremes"

December

4/12/2015	Applied statistics workshops
*14h30*	Isabelle Thomas, CORE, UCL "Spatial issues in data analysis and model building: distance, scale and complexity"
16h00	Olivier Janssens, SiriusInsight, Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium "Using spatial analytics in the world of retail"

11/12/2015	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models"
*14h30 - 15h30*	Ying-Ying Lee, Oxford University, United Kingdom (ISBA, Seminar Room C115) Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice with Interval-data on Income
	IMMAQ-LSM Quantitative Finance seminars
13h30 - 15h00	Cancelled Arthur Charpentier, Université Rennes 1, France (ISBA, Seminar Room C319) Machine learning vs. Econometric models in Insurance

17-18/12/2015

Complex time-to-event data - December 17-18, 2015 : More information