2nd Semester 2014-2015

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

27/01/2015	Internal IMMAQ worshop 2015 on Pension and Ageing
*9h - 12h30*	Programme and more information

February

06/02/2015	Young Researchers Day
	The doctoral students of ISBA give talks on the topics of their current research Programme

13/02/2015	Applied statistics workshops
14h30	Jean-Philippe Villaréal, The MathWorks B.V., Eindhoven, The Netherlands "Using statistical methods to build intelligent systems with MATLAB"
16h00	Nathan Uyttendaele, ISBA, UCL "Faster with R!"

27/02/2015	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Stochastic Modelling of Dependence: Systems under Stress"
14h30	Ioannis Papastathopoulos, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom "Statistical analysis of safety data and drug-induced liver injury"
	Statistics seminars
16h00	Christian Haedo, Università di Bologna, Representación en Buenos Aires, Argentina "Specialized Agglomerations with Lattice Data: Model and Detection"

March

06/03/2015	Applied statistics workshops
14h30	Céline Bugli, SMCS, UCL "Les statistiques : un atout supplémentaire pour les demandeurs d’emploi ? Histoire du développement d’une formation"
16h00	Christian Ritter, SMCS, UCL animera la discussion au sujet du Workshop de 14h30

13/03/2015	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models" Joint UCL - ULB à l'ULB
14h30	Justin Chown, ISBA, UCL "A new approach in testing for heteroskedastic errors of a nonparametric regression"
	Statistics seminars Joint UCL - ULB à l'ULB
16h00	Christine De Mol, ULB "Sparsity for Big Data"

18/03/2015	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models"
*13h00*	Samuel Maistre, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France "A general approach to goodness-of-fit tests for regression models: application to single-index hypotheses and functional data models and bootstrap considerations"

20/03/2015	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models"
*11h30*	Uschi Müller, Texas A&M University, TX, USA "Efficient estimation in regression with missing responses"

27/03/2015	*"LSBA Info & Job Day" (aimed at future students)*
*14h15 - 18h00*	INFO - JOB DAY - programme "Les métiers de la statistique" et "Etudier la statistique et travailler comme statisticien"

31/03/2015	Statistics seminars
*15h40*	Claudia Kirch, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany "Change-point tests based on estimating functions"

April

03/04/2015	Statistics seminars
*14h30*	Patrice Bertail, CREST, Université Paris X, France "Extreme values statistics for Markov chains, with applications to Finance and Insurance"

20/04/2015	Seminars FRAUD in CLINICAL TIALS organized jointly by Catherine Legrand and Marc Buyse
*11h00 - 12h45*	Stephen L. George, Duke University Durham, NC, USA "Fraud in Clinical Trials: Definitions, incidence, examples, causes" Edmund Gehan, Georgetown University, WDC, USA "Fraud in Clinical Trials: The Krebiozen story" Jay Herson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, M, USA "We Found Fraud. Now What?"
*13h00 - 14h00*	Walking lunch Registration and programme

24/04/2015	Applied statistics workshops
*14h30*	Jean-Jacques Droesbeke, Université Libre de Bruxelles "Des hommes et des idées : quelques points forts de l’histoire de la statistique"
16h00	Catherine Timmermans, Cluepoints S.A, Mont Saint Guibert "Data-Driven Identification of Risks using Central Statistical Monitoring in Clinical Trials"

May

08/05/2015	Statistics seminars
*14h30*	Olivier Thas, Ghent University "A regression framework for rank tests based on the probabilistic index model"
16h00	Romain Azaïs, INRIA Nancy, France "Optimal choice among a class of nonparametric estimates of the jump rate for a piecewise-deterministic Markov process"

22/05/2015	IMMAQ-LSM Quantitative Finance seminars - Inauguration
*14h30*	Paul Embrechts, ETH Zurich "An Extreme Value approach to Modelling Operational Risk losses depending on covariates"
	Statistics seminars
16h30	Jean-Pierre Florens, Toulouse School of Economics, France "Functional Linear Models"

June

1/06/2015	Statistics seminars / Econometrics seminars Joint ISBA - CORE
*14h30*	Taisuke Otsu, London School of Economics & Political Science, United Kingdom "Extending the scope of cube root asymptotics "

12/06/2015	Statistics seminars / Econometrics seminars Joint ISBA - CORE
*14h30*	Alfred Galichon, Sciences Po, Economics Department, Paris, France "Vector Quantile Regression"