Seminars 1st 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

19/09/2014	Young Researchers Day
	The doctoral students of ISBA give talks on the topics of their current research Programme

26/09/2014

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

14h30

Rainer von Sachs, ISBA, UCL
"Shrinkage Estimation of the Dependence Structure of High-Dimensional Time Series"

03/10/2014	Applied statistics workshops : An Afternoon for those Interested in Statistical Practice
14h30	Christian Ritter, SMCS, UCL and Ritter & Danielson Consulting "Communicating Statistics by Graphs and Tables"
16h00	Christian Ritter, SMCS, UCL and Ritter & Danielson Consulting "Non-statistical Tools and Skills for Practicing Statisticians"

10/10/2014	Statistics seminars
*14h30*	Moritz Jirak, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany "Simultaneous confidence bands for change point tests in high dimensions"
16h00	Gao Zhengyan, CORE, UCL (TBC) "Embedding, Auxiliary and Mis-specification"

13/10/2014	Lunch seminars / ARC Seminar "Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models"
*! 13h*	Paul Yingwei Peng, Queen's University, Canada "Generalized Estimating Equations for Clustered Survival Data"

17/10/2014	Statistics seminars / ARC Seminar "Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models"
*14h30*	Nathalie Graffeo, SESTIM, ORS, Marseille, France "A Log-Rank type test to compare net survival distributions"

24/10/2014	Special workshop on « Big Data » in Business Jungle : Survival challenges for the statistician and data science as new weapon
*! 14h - 15h15*	Tine Van Duyck and Elisabeth Versailles, SAS "Big Data Analytics"
15h30 - 16h45	Eric Lecoutre, Business and Decision "Tangible big (and bigger?) data: a consultancy company point of view" 16h45-17h Round Table

31/10/2014	Statistics seminars
*14h30*	Axel Bücher, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany "On the block maxima method in multivariate extremes"
16h00	Stanislav Volgushev, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany "Quantile and Copula Spectra"

07/11/2014

10/11/2014	Actuarial seminars
17h00	Slaven MIĆKOVIĆ, ABANKA VIPA, Slovenia "Bad bank as a solution to financial crisis – case of Slovenia"

14/11/2014	Applied statistics workshops
*14h30*	Perceval Sontag, Arlenda “Equivalence margins for parallelism testing in Bioassay”
16h00	Bruno Renaux, B. Renaux SPRL “Utilisation pratique des outils statistiques - Le point de vue d’un consultant Six Sigma”

21/11/2014	Statistics seminars Joint UCL - ULB à l'UCL
*14h30*	Thomas Verdebout, Dpt. de Mathématique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium “Asymptotic inference for directional data”
16h00	Alina Nicolaie, ISBA, UCL "New approaches in competing risks cure models"

28/11/2014	Applied statistics workshops
*14h30*	An Vandenbosch, Janssen R&D, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, Beerse, Belgium "Assessing futility at interim evaluations using early predictors for response in a phase 3 clinical trial"
16h00	Aline Van Maanen, Institut Roi Albert II, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, UCL, Bruxelles "Le travail de statisticien en Oncologie : rôle et applications à l’Institut Roi Albert II"

05/12/2014	Statistics seminars
*14h30*	Emilie Chautru, MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, Fontainebleau, France "Tail index estimation based on survey data"

12/12/2014	Statistics seminars
*14h30*	Anna Simoni, CNRS and Thema, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France "Adaptive Bayesian estimation in Gaussian sequence space models"
16h00	Jan Johannes, Ensai Rennes, and UCL "Local functional linear regression"