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. |
Schedule:
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
// 18:15-19:45 // online talk - link to Zoom meeting
Max H. Farrell (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, USA):
Deep Neural Networks for Estimation and Inference
> Abstract
> Paper 1, Paper 2
[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
[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)
[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):
The Automatic Construction of Bootstrap Confidence Intervals
> Abstract
> Paper
[Host: Kurt Hornik]
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
// 18:15-19:45 // online talk
Ronnie Sircar (Operations Research & Financial Engineering (ORFE) Department, Princeton University, USA)
[Host: Birgit Rudloff]
Friday, May 7, 2021
// 09:00-10:30 // TC.3.21 Hörsaal (60 U)
Ulrike Schneider (Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, TU Wien)
[Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]
Friday, May 21, 2021
// 09:00-10:30 // TC.3.21 Hörsaal (60 U)
Matthias Scherer (Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Munich)
[Host: Rüdiger Frey]
Friday, May 28, 2021
// 09:00-10:30 // TC.3.21 Hörsaal (60 U)
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)
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)
Siegfried Hörmann (Institute of Statistics, Graz University of Technology)
[Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]