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Program Winter Term 2024/25

TopicDateSpeaker
Planetary Causal Inference: Understanding Society and Economy through Earth Observation (PDF, 97 KB)Wednesday, 23.10.2024, 4:15 pmConnor Jerzak
University of Texas
The Complexities of Differential Privacy for Survey Data (PDF, 75 KB)Wednesday, 13.11.2024, 4:15 pmJörg Drechsler
IAB/LMU
How Game-Theoretic Probability Makes Sense of Cournot's Principle (PDF, 90 KB)Wednesday, 20.11.2024, 4:15 pmGlenn Shafer
Rutgers University
Assumption-Lean (Causal) Modeling (PDF, 93 KB)Wednesday, 11.12.2024, 4:15 pmStijn Vansteelandt
Ghent University
Additive Density-on-Scalar Regression in Bayes Hilbert Spaces with an Application to Gender Economics (PDF, 79 KB)Wednesday, 15.01.2025, 4:15 pmSonja Greven
HU Berlin
A Novel Statistical Approach to Analyze Image Classification (PDF, 76 KB)Wednesday, 29.01.2025, 4:15 pmSophie Langer
University of Twente
PostponedIsabel Valera
Saarland University in Saarbrücken

Program Summer Term 2024

TopicDateSpeaker
Heat-related mortality in the context of climate change (PDF, 74 KB)Donnerstag, 25.04.2024 14.15Susanne Breitner Helmholtz Munich
Optimal convex M-estimation via score matching (PDF, 73 KB)Wednesday, 15.05.2024,
17.00
Richard Samworth
Cambridge University
Provable Boolean interaction recovery from tree ensemble obtained via random forests (PDF, 77 KB)Wednesday, 29.05.2024,
16.15
Merle Behr
University of Regensburg
Explainable Methods for Reinforcement Learning (PDF, 74 KB)Monday, 03.06.2024, 16.15Jasmina Gajcin
Trinity College Dublin
Multiverse Analysis: On the Robustness of Functional Form and Data Pre Processing Decisions (PDF, 76 KB)Wednesday, 05.06.2024,
16.15 (Department of Sociology, room 309)
Cristobal Young
Cornell University
Resampling-based inference for the average treatment effect in observational studies with competing risks (PDF, 73 KB)Wednesday, 19.06.2024,
16.15
Sarah Friedrich
University of Augsburg
The Complexities of Differential Privacy for Survey Data (PDF, 73 KB)Wednesday, 26.06.2024, 16.15Jörg Drechsler LMU
On extreme value copulas (PDF, 74 KB)Monday, 01.07.2024,
16.15
Berwin Turlach
University of Western Australia
Can today’s intention to treat have a causal effect on tomorrow’s hazard function? (PDF, 78 KB)Wednesday, 03.07.2024,
16.15
Jan Beyersmann
University of Ulm
Variational Learning for Large Deep Networks (PDF, 75 KB)Wednesday, 10.07.2024, 15.15Thomas Möllenhoff
Privacy, Data Privacy, and Differential Privacy (PDF, 77 KB)Tuesday, 16.07.2024, 11.00James Bailie

Program Winter Term 23/24

TopicDateSpeaker
Variational Inference for Cutting Feedback in Misspecified Models (PDF, 74 KB)Friday, 11/03/2023,
13.00 c.t.
Michael Smith
Melbourne Business School
Active learning-assisted neutron spectroscopy with log-Gaussian processes (PDF, 179 KB)Wednesday, 11/08/2023,
16.00 c.t.
Mario Teixeira Parente
Department of Statistics, LMU
Finite-sample exact prediction bands for functional data (PDF, 74 KB)Monday, 11/20/2023,
15.00 s.t.
Simone Vantini
Polytechnic University of Milan
The power of prediction (PDF, 71 KB)Monday, 11/27/2023,
4.15 pm
Moritz Hardt
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen
AutoML for tabular datasets and tabular datasets for AutoML (PDF, 71 KB)Wednesday, 12/06/2023,
4.15 pm
Matthias Feurer
Department of Statistics, LMU
In Search of Alignment between Social Media Posts and Survey ResponsesThursday, 12/14/2023,
4.15 pm
Frederick Conrad
Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science
From Couch to Poll: Media Content and the Value of Local Information (PDF, 75 KB)Wednesday, 01/10/2024, 4.15 pmMathias Bühler
Department of Statistics, LMU
Large-scale pretraining: the nitty-gritty details (PDF, 72 KB)New date: Wednesday, 02/21/2024, 2.15 pmRobert Baldock,
Aleph Alpha
Use Case for Bayesian Deep Learning in the Age of ChatGPT (PDF, 74 KB)Wednesday, 02/28/2024,
4.15 pm
Vincent Fortuin,
Helmholtz AI

Program Summer Term 2023

TopicDateSpeaker
Deriving interpretable thresholds for variable importance in random forests by permutation (PDF, 91 KB)Wednesday, 05/10/2023,
16.00 c.t.
Maria Blanco, Tim Müller, Laura Schlieker, Hannes Buchner, Armin Ott
Staburo GmbH, Munich
Fusing Statistics and Machine Learning (PDF, 71 KB)Wednesday, 05/31/2023,
16.00 c.t.
David Rügamer
Department of Statistics, LMU
V-Statistics and Variance Estimation: Inference for Random Forests and Other Ensembles (PDF, 72 KB)Thursday, 06/01/2023,
16.00 c.t.
Giles Hooker
University of California, Berkeley
Generalized Data Thinning Using Sufficient Statistics (PDF, 84 KB)Monday, 06/12/2023,
15.00 s.t.
Jacob Bien
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
New data, new questions, new problems? Online behavioral data in social science research (PDF, 71 KB)Wednesday, 06/14/2023;
16.00 c.t. (only online)
Ruben L. Bach
University of Mannheim
Rank-based support vector machines for highly imbalanced data using nominated samples (PDF, 72 KB)Wednesday, 06/21/2023,
16.00 c.t.
Mohammad Jafari Jozani
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Implicit models, latent compression, intrinsic biases, and cheap lunches in community detection in networks (PDF, 75 KB)Wednesday, 06/28/2023,
16.00 c.t.
Tiago de Paula Peixoto
Central European University, Vienna
Challenges in modern statistical network analysis: Data collection and covariate effect assessment (PDF, 77 KB)Thursday, 07/13/2023,
16.00 c.t.
Cornelius Fritz
Pennsylvania State University
Mean field variational Bayes for finite mixture of random coefficients models (PDF, 82 KB)Thursday, 07/27/2023,
10.00 s.t.
Anoop Chaturvedi
University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, India
StatTag and StatWrap for Conducting Collaborative Reproducible Research (PDF, 74 KB)Thursday, 09/28/2023,
10.00 c.t.
Leah J. Welty
Northwestern University, Chicago

Program Winter Term 22/23

TopicDateSpeaker
Decision Making under Complex Information with Applications to Statistics and Machine Learning (PDF, 73 KB)Wednesday, 10/19/2022,
16.00 c.t.
Christoph Jansen
Department of Statistics, LMU
Current Research Projects in the Statistics and Econometrics Group (PDF, 71 KB)Wednesday, 11/16/2022,
16.00 c.t.
Daniel Wilhelm
Department of Statistics, LMU
Testing for Global Covariate Effects in Dynamic Interaction Event Networks (PDF, 74 KB)Wednesday, 11/30/2022,
16.00 c.t.
Alexander Kreiß
Leipzig University
Collaborative real-time modelling during the COVID-19 pandemic (PDF, 73 KB)Wednesday, 12/21/2022,
16.00 c.t.
Johannes Bracher
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
E is the new P (PDF, 72 KB)Tuesday, 01/10/2023,
17.00 c.t.
Rianne de Heide
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
An interpretable machine learning workflow for statistical inference (PDF, 74 KB)Wednesday, 01/25/2023,
16.00 c.t.
Andreas Joseph
Bank of England, London
Benchmarking in the social sciences (PDF, 73 KB)Wednesday, 02/01/2023,
16.00 c.t.
Paulina Pankowska
University of Utrecht
The Generalized Linear Mixed Model Leading Terms (PDF, 73 KB)Wednesday, 02/08/2023,
16.00 c.t.
Matt Wand
University of Technology Sydney
Assessing goodness of fit for network models (PDF, 73 KB)Wednesday, 02/15/2023,
16.00 c.t.
Gesine Reinert
University of Oxford
Modeling biomarker ratios with gamma distributed components (PDF, 71 KB)Wednesday, 03/22/2023,
16.00 c.t.
Matthias Schmid
University of Bonn