2nd 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

January

27/01/2016	Statistics seminars
*14h30*	Richard Samworth, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom "Random projection ensemble classification"

February

05/02/2016	Young Researchers Day
9:00 - 12:30	The doctoral students of ISBA give talks on the topics of their current research programme YRD

12/02/2016	Applied statistics workshops
*14h30*	Adeline Decuyper, CORE, UCL "On the use of mobile phone data for good: challenges and opportunities"
16h00	Shirley Coleman, Newcastle University, United Kingdom "Big data and small enterprises"

19/02/2016	IMMAQ-LSM Quantitative Finance seminars
*14h30*	Damir Filipovic , Head of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland "Linear-Rational Term Structure Models"
	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models"
16h00	Pierre Dupont, UCL "A balanced hazard ratio to evaluate survival risk groups"

26/02/2016	Applied statistics workshops
*14h30*	Marina Vives-Mestres, University of Girona, Spain - Seminar "Introduction to Compositional Data Analysis with Applications to Industrial Process Monitoring"
16h00	Marina Vives-Mestres, University of Girona, Spain - Workshop Hands-on session: Descriptive analysis of traffic composition and the effect of bus lane introduction

March

04/03/2016	Statistics seminars ARC Seminar "Stochastic Modelling of Dependence: Systems under Stress"
14h30	Alexander Aue, University of California, Davis, USA "Dating structural breaks in functional data without dimension reduction"
16h00	Paul Wilson, Clemson University, USA "Testing the “Separability" Condition in Two-Stage Nonparametric Models of Production"

11/03/2016	Applied statistics workshops
*14h30*	Hélène Soyeurt, Agro-Bio Tech, ULG "Création d’une équation de prédiction de composés laitiers à partir de spectres issus du moyen infrarouge: Quand le terrain guide la pratique statistique et vice-versa"
16h00	Marie Tremblay-Franco, INRA, Toulouse, France "Workflow4metabolomics : une interface WEB dédiée à l’analyse des données de métabolomique" (part 1) "Analyse de données longitudinales de métabolomique avec la méthode A-SCA" (part 2)

18/03/2016	IMMAQ-LSM Quantitative Finance seminars
*14h30*	Monique Jeanblanc, University of Evry-Val-d'Essone, France "Some models of default times"
	Statistics seminars ARC Seminar "Stochastic Modelling of Dependence: Systems under Stress"
16h00	Michael Vogt, Université de Bonn, Germany "Classification of nonparametric time trends"

25/03/2016	Applied statistics workshops
*14h30*	Catherine Legrand, ISBA, UCL "DALY, QALY, CEA: le cas du mélanome … et le point de vue du statisticien"

April

15/04/2016	Applied statistics workshops
*14h30*	David Gohel, Ar Data, Paris, France "Reporting automation with ReporteRs"
16h00	Manon Martin, ISBA, UCL "Flexible and dynamic reporting with KnitR"

22/04/2016	"LSBA Info & Job Day"
*14h15 - 17h15*	INFO - JOB DAY - complete programme http://www.uclouvain.be/509093.html Studio 13, Place Agora, Louvain-la-Neuve

29/04/2016	Statistics seminars Joint UCL - ULB à l'ULB
*14h30*	Ingrid Van Keilegom, ISBA, UCL "Wilks' Phenomenon in Two-Step Semiparametric Empirical Likelihood Inference"
16h00	Pierre-Olivier Goffard, ULB "Polynomial approximations of probability density function with applications to insurance"

May

02/05/2016	Statistics seminars ARC Seminar "Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models"
*13h00*	Nicole Barthel, Technical University Munich, Germany "Vine copula based inference of multivariate event time data"

13/05/2016	Applied statistics workshops in the framework of the ARC project « Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models »
*14h30*	Geert Silversmit, Research Department of the Belgian Cancer Registry, Brussels, Belgium "Population-based Cure of Cancer in Flanders using Relative Survival"
	Statistics seminars ARC Seminar "Stochastic Modelling of Dependence: Systems under Stress"
11h00 16h00	Valentin ZELENYUK, University of Queensland, Australia (Joint CORE/ISBA seminar) "Nonparametric Dynamic Discrete Choice Models for Time Series Data" Thomas Opitz, INRA, France "Modified Gaussian models for subasymptotic extremal dependence in space"
	Actuarial seminars in the framework of the DKV CHAIR "HEALTH INSURANCE AND LONGEVITY"
*14h00 - 16h30 SOCR -242*	Jan-Philipp Schmidt, University of Ulm, Germany “Actuarial aspects of private health insurance in Germany”

20/05/2016	IMMAQ-LSM Quantitative Finance seminars
*14h00*	Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics, United Kingdom "Asset management contracts and equilibrium prices"
	Statistics seminars ARC Seminar "Stochastic Modelling of Dependence: Systems under Stress"
15h30	Jan Johannes, Heidelberg University, Germany “Adaptive Bayesian estimation in indirect Gaussian sequence space models”

June

22/06/2016	Actuarial seminars in the framework of the DKV CHAIR "HEALTH INSURANCE AND LONGEVITY"
14:00	Frédéric Planchet, ISFA, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France “L'assurance dépendance dans le nouvel environnement réglementaire”

August

26/08/2016

Workshop on Extremal Dependence Modelling
ARC Seminar "Stochastic Modelling of Dependence: Systems under Stress"

8:45 - 19:30

John Einmahl (Tilburg University)               Holger Rootzén (Chalmers University)
Holger Drees (University of Hamburg) Richard Davis (Columbia University)
Anna Kiriliouk (UCL) - PhD defense       Michal Warchol (UCL) - PhD defense

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