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  • 15/12/06
  • March 2007
  • 18/02/2008
  • April 2008
  • 15/05/08
  • Calendar 2008-2009

Academic year 2006-2007

• Two-days workshop on "longevity, securitization and transfer of risks", Groupe Sciences Actuarielles, UCL, November 9-10, 2006, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

• Journée de Contact FNRS, Groupe Sciences Actuarielles, ULB, November 17, 2006.

• Séminaire «Solvabilité II» organisé par Insert et Assuralia, 21 décembre 2006 (version FR - version NL).

• 7èmes Journées Francophones "Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances" (EGC 2007), Namur, 23-26 janvier 2007

• Short course given by Christian Genest on "Modelling dependence with copulas" on January 29, 30, 2007 and February 1, 2007 at the Institut de statistique, Louvain-la-Neuve.
  Course 1
  Course 2
  Course 3-1
  Course 3-2
  Course 4
  Course 5

• Contactforum: 5th Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Day
  Brussels, Friday February 9, 2007
  Online registration on the webpage is open until January 16, 2007.
  Participants are invited to be a discussant of one of the contributed papers. Please indicate your choice(s) on the online registration form. In January, the discussants will be contacted and full papers will be available.

• Official opening afternoon of our Graduate School with participation of all members: Friday, February 16, 2007, Louvain-la-Neuve (schedule and presentations).

• Short Course on "Business forecasting" given by Professor Andrea Guizzardi, Facoltà di Scienze Statistiche, Università di Bologna : March 26 - April 7, 2007 at the Institut de statistique, UCL, voie du Roman Pays, 20, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (program)
  

• Summer school with three short courses on "Advanced nonparametric statistics" of the Graduate School: May 21-24, 2007, Institut de statistique, Louvain-la-Neuve. Speakers are : Oliver Linton (LSE), Jean Opsomer (Iowa State) and Marten Wegkamp (Florida State). Each of these international experts will give a 6 hrs lecture during this summer school. In addition informal contacts between participants and speakers will be encouraged during coffee, lunch and social activities. For detailed information, please see here.

• The FUSAGX invites to a series of lectures given by Geert Molenberghs on biostatistics - at the following dates: Wednesday April 18, May 2, 23, June 4 and 6. More details can be found here

• The FUSAGX invites to a series of lectures on Méthodes et algorithmes de reconstruction phylogénétique given by Pr. G. CARAUX, SupAgro, Montpellier (France) on Wednesday, May 23 from 09:00 to 12:00 and Thursday, May 24 from 09:00 to 12:00 and from 13:40 to 16:40 - program

• Half-day course at the FUSAGX on "La consultation statistique en entreprise : pour qui, pour quoi, comment ?" on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - Information

• Half-day course at the FUSAGX on "De l'Enquête sur le Budget des Ménages à l'assiette des consommateurs" on Tuesday, June 5, 2007 - Information and registration

Academic year 2007-2008

• November 22 and 23, 2007, Louvain-la-Neuve: Amy Anderson (Department of Mathematics, Western Washington University, USA) will give a short course on statistics and genomics. The course will take place according to the following schedule:
  • 6 hours course on Thursday November 22, 10h30-18h00, Institute of Statistics, UCL - Room C115
  • 2 hours of computer lab with SAS JMP Genomics on Friday November 23, 10h00-12h00, Salle informatique SOCRATE (SOCR 30 or 31 to be confirmed).
  Note: This event is completed on November 23 by an afternoon on biostatistics with two speakers in the seminar series of the Institute of Statistics, UCL.

• December 20 and 21, 2007, ULB: Matías Salibián-Barrera (http://www.stat.ubc.ca/~matias/), University of British Columbia, is going to give a short course (6 hrs) on "Inference based on robust statistics" (asymptotics, bootstrap, and robustness of inference methods (robust confidence intervals, etc.)).
  Schedule: Thursday Dec 20: 10-12h and 14h-16h, Friday Dec 21: 10-12h. The course is followed by a 1hr seminar on Friday afternoon (14h-15h). (details)

• December 21, 2007, 9:20 - room: c045, UCL, Institut des sciences actuarielles : "FNRS MEETING : Longevity Risk", actuarial seminars by Steven Haberman, Cass Business School, City University, London, UK; Annamaria Olivieri, University of Parma, Italy and Ermanno Pitacco, University of Trieste, Italy.

• January 21 and 22, 2008, UCL, Institut de statistique: Lutz Dümbgen (http://www.imsv.unibe.ch/~duembgen/), University of Bern, is going to give a 8h-short course on "Statistical Inference for Curve Estimation and Classification" (2-3 times 2h on curve estimation with shrinkage and multiscale methods, 1-2 times 2h on classification).
  Schedule: 2 sessions on each of the two days (10h-12h and 14h-16h) room : c045 of the Institute of statistics.
  Talk 1 - Talk 2
  Reference 1 - Reference 2 - Reference 3 - Reference 4
  Outline References

• January 28-29, 2008, UCL : Institut des sciences actuarielles, Louvain-la-Neuve : short course on "Semi Markov Processes" given by Professor Raimondo Manca, Università La Sapienza di Roma.
  Schedule (room D360, on the third floor of the Institute of statistics)
  - Monday 28 January : 11:00-12:30 : general introduction (conference on semi markov processes)
  - Monday 28 January : 14:00-17:00 : course - part 1
  - Tuesday 29 January : 14:00-17:00 : course - part 2

• February 4-6, 2008 "Introduction à la modélisation bayésienne" by Pr C. ABRAHAM, SupAgro, Montpellier (France) at FUSAGx.

• February 7-8, 2008, Brussels, "Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Conference: Interplay between Finance and Insurance".

• February 12 and 15, 2008, UCL, Institut de statistique, Louvain-la-Neuve: short course on "Goodness-of-fit testing in regression" by Wenceslao Gonzalez Manteiga, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
  Schedule (room C115): Tuesday, February 12, 2008 : 10:45-12:45 and 14:00-16:00 - Friday, February 15, 2008 : 9:45-12:45. Wenceslao Gonzalez Manteiga is also going to give a seminar on Friday, February 8 at 14:30 (room: c115)

• March 4-10, 2008, UCL, Institut de statistique, voie du Roman Pays 20, Louvain-la-Neuve: short course on "Local parametric estimation with applications in volatility estimation and risk management" given by Professor Vladimir Spokoiny, Weierstrass Institute, Berlin
  Schedule (room : c115):
  Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 10h45-12h45 and 16h15-18h15
  Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 8h30-10h30
  Monday, March 10, 2008, 16h15-18h15

• April 3-4, 2008, UCL, Institut de statistique, voie du Roman Pays, 20 : short course on "L'interface R/C et la création de package R" by Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux (Grenoble). An introduction to the interface between C and R, and to the writing of R packages.
  Limited number of places available. More information here.

• April 15-18, 2008, ULB, ECARES, 44 Avenue Jeanne, 1050 Brussels : short course on "An Introduction to the Bootstrap" by Professor Russell Davidson (McGill University and Greqam, Marseille).
  Schedule (room S12.227 : 12th floor of building S):
  Tuesday, April 15: 16-18 h
  Wednesday, April 16: 16-19 h
  Thursday, April 17: 16-18 h
  Friday, April 18: 16-19 h

• April 29-30, 2008, UCL, ACTU, voie du Roman Pays, 20 in Louvain-la-Neuve: Hansjoerg Albrecher (Radon Institute, Linz, Austria) will give a short course on "Advanced Ruin Theory". After having recalled the techniques in the classical Cramer-Lundberg model, related with renewal models and discounted penalty functions, the course will describe how to account for dependence, dividends, and taxes. Stochastic simulation techniques will also be discussed.
  Schedule (room: d363)
  Tuesday 29/4: 10-12h and 14-17h
  Wednesday 30/4: 10-12h and 14-15h

• May 19, 2008 (9h30-15h30): Annual Doctoral Workshop of our Graduate School, ULB (G. Deelstra, C. Dehon, M. Dramaix, G. Mélard and D. Paindaveine): PLEASE NOTE THIS IMPORTANT DATE - the idea is that we have 10-15 oral presentations of our PhD students during three parallel sessions in the morning and possibly beginning of the afternoon - after a convivial lunch. Some senior speakers will complete the programme. More details on the webpage : http://edtworkshop.redirectme.net

• May 20 - 21, 2008, UCL, STAT, voie du Roman Pays 20, Louvain-la-Neuve: Sidney Resnick (Cornell University) will give a short course on "Modeling with Heavy Tails and Extremes".
  Schedule (room: c115) :
  Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-16:00
  Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-16:00
  Course part 1
  Course part 2-4
  Course part 5

Academic year 2008-2009

• September, 1-3, 2008, UCL-Brussels
  Motto: Probability is a divine subject, whereas statistics is human (S Senn).
  Prof Melania PINTILIE from Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto will give a course "Competing risks. A practical perspective."
  Survival introduction - Survival - Competing Risk - Solution

• On Monday 15 September, you are welcome to Conferences in statistics in genetics at ULg
  Prof Amy ANDERSON from Western Washington University will give a course for researchers on the bridge between genetics and statistics, at UCL-Brussels, on September, 16 to 18, 2008. (détails)

• On October 20 and 21, short course by Prof. Timo Terasvirta, Aarhus University, on "Nonlinear Time Series Econometrics" at the Institut de statistique, voie du Roman Pays 20, Louvain-la-Neuve
  Schedule:
  Monday, October 20
  10h45-12h45 Lecture 1 (room : c115)
  14h-16h Lecture 2 (room : c115)
  
  Tuesday, October 21
  10h45-12h45 Lecture 3 (room : c115)
  14h-16h Lecture 4 (room : c045)

• On 28 and 29 October 2008, Mhamed Mesfioui from Université du Québec, Canada, will give a short course at the Institut de statistique, voie du Roman Pays, 20, Louvain-la-Neuve (room: D363), on "Multivariate stochastic orderings and their applications"

• From Thursday 5 February 2009 at 9h00 to Friday 6 February 2009 at 18h00 : Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Conference (AFMathConf 2009), "Interplay between Finance and Insurance", Brussels, February 5-6, 2009.

• On May 7, at FUSAGx, Seminar on "Introduction to mixed models" by Clarice G.B. DEMETRIO (Université ESALQ/USP de Piracicaba S.P., Brésil)

  Academic year 2009-2010

• October 1-8, 2009 : short course on "Statistical analysis of network data" by Professor Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University (USA) visiting the Institute of statistics, UCL, from Sept 28 - October 10, 2009.
  Practical information:
  Place : Institut de statistique, voie du Roman Pays 20, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (seminar room: c045)
  
  • Thursday, October 1, 10h45-12h45 (slides1a - slides1b)
  • Thursday, October 1, 14h00-16h00 (slides2)
  • Tuesday, October 6, 10h45-12h45 (slides3a - slides3b)
  • Thursday, October 8, 10h45-12h45 (slides4a - slides4b)

• October 14, 2009: UCL, Inaugural session by Professor E. Pitacco, University of Trieste.

• Monday and Tuesday, January 25 and 26 (2010), 10h-12h45 : Short course on "An Introduction to Statistical Inverse Problems", by Prof. Axel Munk (University of Goettingen, Germany) at UCL, Institut de statistique, lecture hall C 045, voie du Roman Pays 20, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.
  Slides
  
  • Statistical Inverse Problems - an Example Based Tutorial
  • Statistical Inverse Problems: Theory II.1 (Deconvolution)
  • Statistical Inverse Problems : Theory II.2 (Spectral Regularisation)
  • III. Statistical Multiscale Analysis and SIPs
  • Statistical Inverse Problems Example 1: Regression (R. S. Wilson)

• April 23, 2010 : "Journée de Contact FNRS, Groupe Sciences Actuarielles" organized by the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
  Program
  Registration (.doc)  Registration (.pdf)