Morning sessions :
09h15 - Introduction
09h30 - Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zürich): "Borrowing Strength from Others (A Lesson from Large-Scale Intensive Care Data)"
09h55 - Johannes Lederer (University of Hamburg): "Sparse Score Matching: From Classical Statistics to Generative Models"
10h20 - Lutz Dümbgen (University of Bern): "Nonparametric Smoothing of Directional and Axial Data"
10h45 - Coffee break
11h15 - Qiwei Yao (London School of Economics): "Cointegration Between Two Intrinsically Stationary Spatial Processes"
11h40 - François Roueff (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris): "Some recent advances in variational inference"
12h15 - Lunch
Afternoon session :
14h00 - Guy Nason (Imperial College London): "Locally Stationary Wavelet Processes: A Celebration of the Contributions of Professor Rainer von Sachs"
14h25 - Michael H. Neumann (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): "Wavelet thresholding for polynomial-tailed noise"
14h50 - Hernando Ombao (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology): "Modeling Dependence in Time Series Analysis: A Journey"
15h15 - Coffee break
15h45 - Véronique Delouille (Royal Observatory of Belgium): "A journey in nonparametric statistics with Rainer, from design-adapted wavelet to characterization of uncertainty in the International Sunspot Number"
- Sophie Mathieu and Joris Chau (Open Analytics): "Chemometric applications of Gaussian processes in the frequency domain"
- Hilmar Böhm: "Rainer’s Deepest Secrets, Revealed by His Personal Psychoanalyst"
17h15 - Drink and social activity
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September 11, 2025
AULA MAGNA (Foyer royal, 1st floor)
Place Raymond Lemaire 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
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REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED
In case you need accommodation, we suggest Martins hotel, in the city center of Louvain-la-Neuve (2 minutes away from the venue).
Other options are available in the area of the campus or outside the campus. Commuting to Louvain-la-Neuve is then possible via public transport or hotel shuttles.