Research Seminars

The research seminar is organized within the Master of science in Statistics and is open to all: students, PhD candidates, researchers and faculty. International speakers as well as members of our university present their current work. The main focus of the talks can be either methodological or applied.

Program of spring 2013

Schedule Speaker Subject
Friday, February 22nd 2013, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Domenico Piccolo & Maria Iannario
(Scienze Statistiche, Univ. di Napoli)
A mixture model for ordinal data: statistical issues and empirical evidence
Friday, March 1st 2013, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Paul Embrechts
(ETHZ)
Risk Aggregation and Model Uncertainty
Friday, March 8th 2013, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Francis Vella
(Dpt. of Economics, Georgetown University)
CANCELLED
Friday, March 15th 2013, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Holger Dette
(Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum)
Of Copulas, Quantiles, Ranks and Spectra - an L1-approach to spectral analysis
Friday, April 12th 2013, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Sylvain Sardy
(Université de Genève)
Blockwise and coordinatewise thresholds as pivots for modern ANOVA tests
Friday, April 19th 2013, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Peter Filzmoser
(Vienna Univ. of Technology)
Robust variable selection in linear regression with compositional explanatory variables
Friday, April 26th 2013, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Christian Genest
(McGill University)
Copula based regression modelling for multivariate binary data
Friday, May 3rd 2013, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Walter Zucchini
(Zentrum für Statistik, Göttingen Univ.)
Statistics and Animal Abundance Estimation
Friday, May 17th 2013, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Mikhail Zhelonkin
(DSEC & Research Center for Statistics, Univ. of Geneva)
Robustness in Sample Selection Models
Friday, May 24th 2013, at 11h15
Unimail, M2150
Trevor Hastie
(Statistics Dpt., Stanford Univ.)
Sparse Linear Models

Program of fall 2013

Schedule Speaker Subject
Friday, November 15th 2013, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Arnaud Doucet
(Oxford Univ.)
TBA

Program of fall 2012

Schedule Speaker Subject
Friday, September 28th 2012, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Alfio Marazzi
(IMSP, Lausanne)
Robust estimation of the generalized loggamma distribution
Friday, October 5th 2012, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Francesco Bartolucci
(University of Perugia, Italy)
Testing for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity in nonlinear panel-data model
Friday, November 2nd, 2012, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Vladimir Spokoiny
(Weierstrass Institute)
Sparse Non-Gaussian Component Analysis
Friday, November 16th, 2012, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Simon Broda
(University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute)
Tail Probabilities and Partial Moments for Quadratic Forms in Generalized Hyperbolic Vectors
Friday, December 14th, 2012, at 11h15
Unimail, M5220
Eva Cantoni
(Université de Genève)
Sharks and random effects, a.k.a. models for clustered count data with excess zeros

For the list of past seminars, click here.

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