International year of statistics (2013)

"Statistics, your friend in daily life; whether you like it or not"
October 25, 2013

Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA),
UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Auditoire BARB 94

Place Sainte Barbe, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve

Pictures of the event 01 - 02 - 03 - 04
Presentations

Programme

10h00-10h30: Welcome coffee

Chair: Céline Bugli (UCL, SMCS)
10h30-11h30: Prof. Jean-Paul Van Bendegem, VUB
"How democratic is a pie-chart? The origins of visual statistics and its relevance today"
11h45-12h45: Walthère Dewé, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
"A Biostatistician in the Pharma Industry: A True Story - From the Assay Tube to the Human"

12h45-14h00: Lunch

Chair: Prof. Anouar El Ghouch (UCL, ISBA)
14h00-15h00: Prof. Johan Segers, UCL, ISBA
"Modelling Storms, Crashes, and Records: A Tale of Tails"
15h15-16h15: Prof. Paul Embrechts, ETH Zurich
"The Mathematics of Quantitative Risk Management: from Theory to Practice and Back"
16h15-16h30: Concluding remarks

16h30-17h30: Networking drink

Abstracts

Scientific/Organising committee

Céline Bugli (UCL)
Anouar El Ghouch (UCL) - Main organizer
Paul Janssen (U Hasselt)
Geert Molenberghs (U Hasselt and KULeuven)
Ingrid Van Keilegom (UCL)

Registration

We thank you in advance for participating in our conference and kindly ask to register ONLINE
Registration is free but mandatory. Registration deadline: September 23, 2013.

Venue

The workshop will take place in:

Auditoire BARB 94

Place Sainte Barbe, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.

Please find a map of Louvain-la-Neuve here
The lecture room BARB94 is located in the "building 6" on the map (coordinates E8, use "zoom-in").

UCL Parking: "Sainte-Barbe"
Free Parking: "Rédimé" and "Baudouin 1er"

How to get to Louvain-la-Neuve ?

If you want to stay in Louvain-la-Neuve overnight:

Hotel ibis Styles. Booking has to be done as soon as possible!
Boulevard de Lauzelle 61
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Tel: (+32)10/450751
@: h2200@accor.com
Hotel Leonardo (more difficult public transportation to LLN)
Rue de la Wastinne 45
B-1301 Wavre
Tel: (+32)10/411363
@: info.wavre@leonardo-hotels.com
At Home Hotel (more difficult public transportation to LLN)
Place Bosch 33
B-1300 Wavre
Tel: (+32)10/228383
@: contact@at-homehotel.be
Hotels in Brussels (30km/45' by train)