Summer Term 2021
The Institute for Statistics and Mathematics cordially invites everyone interested to attend the talks in our Research Seminar Series.
| Online talks take place via Zoom. A direct link 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. |
Next talk:
| Friday, May 21, 2021 // 09:00-10:15 // online talk (meeting opens at 8:55 to start on time)zoom link to join Matthias Scherer (Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Munich): A Comprehensive Model for Cyber Risk Based on Marked Point Processes and Its Application to Insurance > Abstract / Paper [Host: Rüdiger Frey] |
Schedule:
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
// 18:15-19:45 // online talk
Max H. Farrell (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, USA):
Deep Neural Networks for Estimation and Inference
> Abstract / Paper 1 / Paper 2 / Related video / Talk
[Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
// 18:15-19:45 // online talk
Peter Hoff (Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, USA):
An Empirical Bayes Framework for Improving Frequentist Multigroup Inference
> Abstract / Articles & Software / Talk
[Host: Kurt Hornik]
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
// 18:15-19:45 // online talk
Luitgard A. M. Veraart (Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics and Political Science):
When Does Portfolio Compression Reduce Systemic Risk?
> Abstract / Paper / Talk n/a
[Host: Rüdiger Frey]
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
// 18:15-19:45 // online talk
Brad Efron and Balasubramanian Narasimhan (both: Department of Statistics, Stanford University, USA):
Easy to Use Programs for Bootstrap Confidence Intervals
> Abstract / Paper / Talk
[Host: Kurt Hornik]
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
// 18:15-19:45 // online talk
Ronnie Sircar (Operations Research & Financial Engineering (ORFE) Department, Princeton University, USA):
Cryptocurrencies, Mining & Mean Field Games
> Abstract / Paper / Talk
[Host: Birgit Rudloff]
Friday, May 7, 2021
// 09:00-10:30 // online talk
Ulrike Schneider (Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, TU Wien):
On the Geometry of Uniqueness and Model Selection of LASSO, SLOPE and Related Estimators
> Abstract / Paper / Talk n/a
[Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]
Friday, May 21, 2021
// 09:00-10:15 // online talk (meeting opens at 8:55 to start on time)
zoom link to join
Matthias Scherer (Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Munich):
A Comprehensive Model for Cyber Risk Based on Marked Point Processes and Its Application to Insurance
> Abstract / Paper
[Host: Rüdiger Frey]Friday, May 28, 2021
// 09:00-10:30 // TC.3.21 Hörsaal (60 U) tbc
Arne Bathke (Research Group Statistics and Probability, University of Salzburg):
Synthesizing Information from Multivariate Data: Inference Methods for Global and Local Questions
> Abstract
[Host: Kurt Hornik]
Friday, June 18, 2021
// 09:00-10:30 // TC.3.21 Hörsaal (60 U) tbc
Arnošt Komárek (Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Charles University in Prague):
Classification Based on Mixed Type Numeric, Ordinal and Binary Longitudinal Data
[Host: Bettina Grün]
Friday, June 25, 2021
// 09:00-10:30 // TC.3.21 Hörsaal (60 U) tbc
Siegfried Hörmann (Institute of Statistics, Graz University of Technology):
Preprocessing Functional Data by a Factor Model Approach
> Abstract / Paper 1 / Paper 2
[Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]