Seminars 2nd Semester 2013-2014

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

January

31/01/2014

Young Researchers Day 9h - 12h30

February

05/02/2014	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models"
16h15	Svetlana Gribkova, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France "Some nonparametric methods in studying dependence in presence of censoring"

07/02/2014	Applied statistics workshops
14h30	Benoit Frénay, ICTEAM Institute, Machine Learning Group, UCL "Robust Hidden Markov Models Inference in the Presence of Label Noise"
16h00	Grégoire Vincke et Géraldine Marchand, UCL-LSBA "Hybridation collaborative de l'enseignement de la statistique à la LSBA"

14/02/2014	Statistics seminars
14h30	Yvik Swan, Université de Liège "Entropy and the fourth moment phenomenon”
	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Stochastic Modelling of Dependence: Systems under Stress"
16h00	Anne Leucht, Universität Mannheim, Germany "A model specification test for GARCH(1,1) processes"

21/02/2014	Applied statistics workshops
14h30	Pierre Maurage et Alexandre Heeren, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) Institut de Recherche en Sciences Psychologiques (IPSY) "Chocolate will make you smart", ou comment faire dire tout (et n'importe quoi) aux corrélations
16h00	Christian Ritter, Statistical Methods and Computing Service, UCL and Ritter & Danielson Consulting "Spotting and Fighting Misleading Statistics" (history of designing, preparing, and giving a workshop to political administrators)

28/02/2014	Statistics seminars
14h30	Lutz Mattner, Universität Trier, Deutschland "Partially complete sufficient statistics are jointly complete"
	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models"
16h00	Hein Putter, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands "Dynamic frailty models based on compound birth-death processes"

March

07/03/2014	Statistics seminars Joint UCL / ULB à l'ULB
14h30	Laure Sansonnet, ISBA, UCL "A model of Poissonian interactions: detection of dependence and nonparametric estimation"
16h00	Dominik Liebl, ULB "Modelling Electricity Prices as Functional Data on Random Domains"

10/03/2014	Actuarial seminars
14h15	Ermanno Pitacco, DEAMS, University of Trieste, Italy "Guarantees in life annuities and pension products: a survey"

14/03/2014	Applied statistics workshops
14h30	Céline Bugli, Matthieu Vanpachterbeke, SMCS, UCL "La perception du monde des télécommunications: réalisation d’une enquête grand public demandée par l’IBPT"
16h00	Lieven Desmet, ISBA, UCL "Towards a plug-and-play approach to clinical trial monitoring"

21/03/2014	Statistics seminars
14h30	Yves Rozenholc, University Paris Descartes and INRIA Select, France "Laplace deconvolution for angiogenosis follow-up using DCE imaging"
	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Stochastic Modelling of Dependence: Systems under Stress"
16h00	Ansgar Steland, RWTH Aachen, Germany "Nonparametric Monitoring of time series"

28/03/2014	Statistics seminars
14h30	Anne Vanhems, Toulouse School of Economics, France "Nonparametric instrumental regression with non-convex constraints"
16h00	Pierre Maréchal, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, France "The variational approach to mollification for inverse problems"

April

25/04/2014	Applied statistics workshops
14h30	Olga Reznikova, Risk Dynamics, Germany "Operational risk modelling"
16h00	Sophie Béreau, ILSM - UCL "Systemic risk: Methods, measures and new challenges"

May

02/05/2014	Statistics seminars
14h30	Anna Dudek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland "A Generalized Block Bootstrap for Seasonal Time Series"

09/05/2014	Statistics seminars
14h30	Yizao WANG, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA "Extreme value theory: light tails vs. heavy tails"

June

18/06/2014	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models"
14h30	Alexander Tsodikov, Department of Biostatistics School of Public Health, University of Michigan, MI, USA "Modeling Outcomes of Cancer Screening"