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Schedule: 

On-campus talks take place in building D4, with the speaker present.
We aim to stream all on-campus talks via Zoom. A direct link will be posted at each date.

The Institute for Statistics and Mathematics cordially invites everyone interested to attend the talks in our Research Seminar Series.

• Wednesday, March 5, 2025
  // 17:15-18:30 // on-campus talk: room D4.0.127 & stream
  David Rügamer (Department of Statistics, LMU Munich; Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)):
  Semi-Structured Regression: Current Advances and Challenges
  > Abstract
  > Various related papers
  > Talk
  [Host: Lucas Kook // Technical Assistant: Niklas Hey]
   

• Wednesday, March 19, 2025
  // 17:15-18:30 // on-campus talk: room D4.0.127 & stream
  Damir Filipovic (EPFL Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute):
  Joint Estimation of Conditional Mean and Covariance for Unbalanced Panels
  > Abstract
  > Paper
  > Talk
  [Host: Zehra Eksi-Altay // Technical Assistant: Niklas Hey]
   

• Wednesday, March 26, 2025
  // 17:15-18:30 // on-campus talk: room D4.0.127 & stream
  Ulrike Schneider (Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, TU Wien):
  Understanding the Adaptive LASSO in Predictive Regressions
  > Abstract
  > Paper n/a
  > Talk n/a
  [Host: David Preinerstorfer // Technical Assistant: Niklas Hey]
   

• Wednesday, April 2, 2025
  // 17:15-18:30 // on-campus talk: room D4.0.127 & stream
  Sara Wade (School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh):
  Understanding Uncertainty in Bayesian Cluster Analysis
  > Abstract
  > Paper 1, Paper 2
  > Talk n/a
  [Host: Gertraud Malsiner-Walli // Technical Assistant: Jan Greve]
   

• Wednesday, April 9, 2025
  // 17:15-18:30 // on-campus talk: room D4.0.127 & stream
  Gonçalo dos Reis (School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh):
  Simulation of Mean-Field SDEs: Some Recent Results
  > Abstract
  > Paper 1, Paper 2
  > Talk
  [Host: Aleksandar Arandjelovic // Technical Assistant: Jan Greve]
   

• Wednesday, April 23, 2025
  // 17:15-18:30 // on-campus talk: room D4.0.127 & stream
  Carolin Strobl (Department of Psychology, University of Zurich):
  Detecting Parameter Heterogeneity in Psychometric Models by Means of Model-Based Recursive Partitioning with psychotree, stablelearner & Co.
  > Abstract
  > Various related papers
  > Talk
  [Host: Thomas Rusch // Technical Assistant: Jan Greve]
   

• Wednesday, May 7, 2025
  // 17:15-18:30 // on-campus talk: room D4.0.127 & stream
  Sascha Desmettre (Institute of Financial Mathematics and Applied Number Theory, JKU Linz):
  Equilibrium Control Theory for Kihlstrom-Mirman Preferences in Continuous Time
  > Abstract
  > Paper
  > Talk
  [Host: Rüdiger Frey // Technical Assistant: Natalie Frantsits]
   

• Wednesday, May 14, 2025
  // 17:15-18:30 // on-campus talk: room D4.0.127 & stream
  Alessandro Casa (Faculty of Economics and Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano):
  Truncated Pairwise Likelihood for Sparse High-Dimensional Covariance Estimation
  > Abstract
  > Paper
  > Talk
  [Host: Bettina Grün // Technical Assistant: Natalie Frantsits]
   

• Wednesday, June 4, 2025
  // 17:15-18:30 // on-campus talk: room D4.0.127 & stream
  Søren Wengel Mogensen (Center for Statistics, Department of Finance, Copenhagen Business School):
  Weak Equivalence of Local Independence Graphs
  > Abstract
  > Paper
  > Talk
  [Host: Lucas Kook // Technical Assistant: Natalie Frantsits]
   

• Wednesday, June 11, 2025
  // 17:15-18:30 // on-campus talk: room D4.0.127 & stream
  Victor Panaretos (Institute of Mathematics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)):
  Statistical Inference for/via Covariance Operators
  > Abstract
  > Paper 1, Paper 2
  > Talk n/a
  [Host: Thomas Masak // Technical Assistant: Niklas Hey]
   

• Wednesday, June 25, 2025
  // 17:15-18:30 // on-campus talk: room D4.0.127 & stream
  Camilla Damian (Department of Mathematics, VU Amsterdam):
  Statistical Inference for Stochastic Volatility via Backward Filtering Forward Guiding
  > Abstract
  > Talk n/a
  [Host: Zehra Eksi-Altay // Technical Assistant: Jan Greve]

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Contact:
Katrin Artner
katrin.artner@wu.ac.at
T: +43 1 31336 4469