Research Seminar Summer Term 2012

You are cordially invited to attend the talks in the seminar room of our institute, UZA II, Level 4, 2H415, on Fridays at 9:15am.

March 16

        Justinas Pelenis (Department of Economics and Finance, Institute for Advanced Studies/IHS):
        Bayesian Semiparametric Regression
        > Abstract      > Talk

April 20

        Matt Taddy (The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, USA):
        Design of Text Mining Experiments
        > Abstract      > Talk

April 27

        Alexander McNeil (Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, School of Mathematical and
        Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland):
        Multivariate Stress Testing for Solvency
        > Abstract      > Talk

May 4

        Martyn Plummer (Infection and Cancer Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on
        Cancer, Lyon, France):
        Sampling Methods for Generalized Linear Models
        > Abstract      > Talk

May 11

        Claudia Czado (Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München):
        The World of Vines
        > Abstract      > Talk

June 1 - TWO TALKS

9:15am - Gregor Heinrich (Leitung Forschung und Entwicklung, vsonix GmbH, Darmstadt):
        A Generic Approach to Topic Models
        > Abstract      > Talk

10:45am - Marco Gori (Faculty of Engineering, University of Siena, Italy):
        Learning From Constraints
        > Abstract      > Talk

June 15

        Nalan Bastürk (Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, The Netherlands):
        Bayesian Testing for Multimodality Using Mixture Distributions
        > Abstract      > Talk

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