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]