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Winter Term 2020/21

The Institute for Statistics and Mathematics cordially invites everyone interested to attend the talks in our Research Seminar Series on Fridays at 9:00 am.

Online talks take place via Zoom. A direct link to the respective stream will be posted at each date. 

While it is possible to join a Zoom meeting directly from the browser, it is recommended to download the Zoom desktop or mobile app.
Members of WU may find more information here and download/sign in to Zoom here.

Schedule

  • October 16, 2020
    // 9:00-10:30 // online talk
    Alejandra Avalos-Pacheco (Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science, Harvard Medical School and Department of Data Science of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA):
    Factor Regression for Dimensionality Reduction and Data Integration Techniques with Applications to Cancer Data
    > Abstract
    > Paper
    > Talk
    [Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]
     

  • October 23, 2020
    // 9:00-10:30 // online talk
    Klaus Nordhausen (Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, research group Computational Statistics (CSTAT), TU Wien):
    Blind Source Separation for Spatial Data
    > Abstract
    > Paper
    > Talk
    [Host: Bettina Grün]
     

  • November 6, 2020
    // 9:00-10:30 // online talk 
    Hannes Leeb (Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Vienna):
    Conditional Predictive Inference for High-Dimensional Stable Algorithms
    > Abstract
    > Paper
    > Talk
    [Host: Kory Johnson]
     

  • November 11, 2020 - Wednesday evening
    // 17:30-19:00 // online talk
    Igor Cialenco (Department of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA):
    Adaptive Robust Stochastic Control with Applications to Finance
    > Abstract
    > Paper
    > Talk n/a
    [Host: Birgit Rudloff]
     

  • November 27, 2020
    // 9:00-10:30 // online talk 
    Konstantin Posch (Department of Statistics, University of Klagenfurt):
    Correlated Parameters to Accurately Measure Uncertainty in Deep Neural Networks
    > Abstract
    > Paper
    > Talk
    [Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]
     

  • +++ CANCELLED -> POSTPONED TO March 10, 2021, 12:15-13:30 (Brown Bag Seminar) +++
    December 4, 2020
    // 9:00-10:30 // online talk
    Irene Monasterolo (Institute for Ecological Economics, WU Wien):
    On the Dependence of Investor’s Probability of Default to Climate Policy Scenarios
    > Abstract
    > Paper
    [Host: Rüdiger Frey]
     

  • December 9, 2020 - Wednesday evening
    // 17:30-19:00 // online talk
    Johanna G. Nešlehová (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Canada):
    On Attainability of Kendall's Tau Matrices and Concordance Signatures
    > Abstract
    > Paper
    > Talk
    [Host: Rüdiger Frey]
     

  • January 15, 2021
    // 9:00-10:30 // online talk
    Tilmann Gneiting (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS gGmbH) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)):
    Isotonic Distributional Regression (IDR): Leveraging Monotonicity, Uniquely So!
    > Abstract
    > Paper
    > Talk
    [Host: Tobias Fissler]
     

  • January 22, 2021
    // 9:00-10:30 // online talk
    Christa Cuchiero (Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Vienna):
    From Signature SDEs to Affine and Polynomial Processes and Back
    > Abstract
    > Talk
    [Host: Rüdiger Frey]
     

  • January 29, 2021
    // 9:00-10:30 // online talk
    Immanuel M. Bomze (Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Vienna):
    Towards Responsible Game Theory - From Kant to a Copositive View on a Parametric QP
    > Abstract
    > Paper
    > Talk
    [Host: Birgit Rudloff]