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
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April 20

Matt Taddy (The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, USA):
Design of Text Mining Experiment
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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
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May 4

Martyn Plummer (Infection and Cancer Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France):
Sampling Methods for Generalized Linear Models
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May 11

Claudia Czado (Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München):
The World of Vines
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June 1 - TWO TALKS

9:15am - Gregor Heinrich (Leitung Forschung und Entwicklung, vsonix GmbH, Darmstadt):
A Generic Approach to Topic Models
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10:45am - Marco Gori (Faculty of Engineering, University of Siena, Italy):
Learning From Constraints
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June 15

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