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

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.
Zoom meetings open for the audience 5 minutes before the scheduled beginning.

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

Schedule:

• Friday, October 7, 2022
  // 10:30-12:00 // on-campus talk: room TC.3.01 // & stream
  Andreas Löhne (Department of Mathematics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena):
  On Convex Polyhedron Computations Using Floating Point Arithmetic
  > Abstract
  > Paper
  > Talk
  [Host: Birgit Rudloff]
   

• Friday, October 14, 2022
  // 10:30-12:00 // on-campus talk: room TC.5.01 // & stream
  Johannes Moritz Jirak (Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Vienna):
  Relative Perturbation Bounds for Empirical Covariance Operators
  > Abstract
  > Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
  > Talk
  [Host: Kurt Hornik]
   

• Friday, October 21, 2022
  // 9:00-10:30 // online talk
  Erik Schlögl (School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia):
  Term Structure Modelling From the SOFR Perspective
  > Abstract
  > Paper 1, Paper 2 
  > Talk
  [Host: Rüdiger Frey]
   

• Wednesday, November 2, 2022
  // 17:30-18:45 // online talk
  Sara Svaluto-Ferro (Department of Economics, University of Verona):
  Signature-Based Models: Theory and Calibration
  > Abstract
  > Paper
  > Talk
  [Host: Paul Eisenberg]
   

• Friday, November 11, 2022
  // 10:30-12:00 // on-campus talk: room TC.3.01 // & stream
  Charles Bouveyron (Equipe Maasai, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis; Institut 3IA Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d’Azur)
  Statistical Learning With Interaction Data: Applications
  > Abstract
  > Paper 1, Paper 2
  > Talk
  [Hosts: Bettina Grün, Gertraud Malsiner-Walli]




• Friday, November 18, 2022
  // 10:30-12:00 // on-campus talk: room TC.3.01 // & stream
  Stefan Thonhauser (Institute of Statistics, Graz University of Technology):
  PDMP Based Risk Models
  > Abstract
  > Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
  > Talk
  [Host: Rüdiger Frey]




• Friday, November 25, 2022
  // 10:30-12:00 // on-campus talk: room TC.3.01 // & stream
  Aliaksandr Hubin (Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo):
  Boosting Performance of Latent Binary Neural Networks With a Local Reparametrization Trick and Normalizing Flows
  > Abstract
  > Paper n/a yet
  > Talk
  [Host: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter]
   

• Friday, December 2, 2022
  // 10:30-12:00 // on-campus talk: room TC.3.01 // & stream
  Marc-Oliver Pohle (Faculty of Economics and Business, Goethe University Frankfurt):
  Generalised Covariances and Correlations
  > Abstract
  > Paper n/a yet
  > Talk
  [Host: Tobias Fissler]
   

• Friday, December 16, 2022
  // 10:30-12:00 // on-campus talk: room TC.3.01 // & stream
  Gabriele Eichfelder (Institute of Mathematics, TU Ilmenau):
  Multiobjective Replacements for Set Optimization and Robust Multiobjective Optimization
  > Abstract
  > Paper 1, Paper 2
  > Talk
  [Host: Birgit Rudloff]




• Friday, January 13, 2023
  // 10:30-12:00 // on-campus talk: room TC.3.01 // & stream
  Delia Coculescu (Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich):
  A Non-Markov Approach for the Evolution of Contagious Phenomena
  > Abstract 
  > Talk
  [Host: Zehra Eksi-Altay]
   

• Friday, January 20, 2023
  // 10:30-12:00 // on-campus talk: room TC.3.03 // & stream
  Kenneth Benoit (Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science):
  A Better Wordscores: Scaling Text With the Class Affinity Model
  > Abstract
  > Paper
  > Talk n/a
  [Host: Kurt Hornik]

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