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 |
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| 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.) |
Spare 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.