Seminars
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The seminars are usually held on Friday at 14h30 and 16h00, alternately with Applied statistics workshops.
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Statistics Seminars/Actuarial Seminars
Invited speakers present their research results. Talks are usually given in English.
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Applied Statistics workshops
This seminar focuses on problem driven statistics.
Usually, presentations in this seminar present case studies satisfying the following requirements :
- A real problem of substantial practical interest is treated,
- Statistics played a major role in solving the problem or in obtaining a better understanding of the situation.
Occasionally, they also concern a methodological presentation of wide general interest.
Link to ISBA calendar
LIDAM seminar series / Statistics Seminar by Clement Berenfeld
27 Mar
27/03/2025 - 14:30 - ISBA C115 - Clement Berenfeld (Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique) Will give a presentation on : A causal framework for reliable membership inference attack evaluationAbstract : Quantifying memorization is central for assessing privacy risks in machine learning.
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LIDAM seminar series / Statistics Seminar by Clement Berenfeld
27 Mar
27/03/2025 - 14:30 - ISBA C115 - Clement Berenfeld (Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique) Will give a presentation on : A causal framework for reliable membership inference attack evaluationAbstract : Quantifying memorization is central for assessing privacy risks in machine learning.
LIDAM seminar series / Statistics Seminar by Swati Chandna
28 May
28/05/2025 - 14:30 - ISBA C115 - Swati Chandna (Birkbeck, University of London) Will give a presentation on : Understanding structure in networks observed with covariates via profile least squaresAbstract: Network data across various domains (e.g.
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LIDAM seminar series / Statistics Seminar by Swati Chandna
28 May
28/05/2025 - 14:30 - ISBA C115 - Swati Chandna (Birkbeck, University of London) Will give a presentation on : Understanding structure in networks observed with covariates via profile least squaresAbstract: Network data across various domains (e.g.
ISBA Young Researchers Day / YRD
06 Feb
06/02/2026 - 09:00 - ISBA C115 - More information coming soonMathias Dah Fienon Title : "Dynamic risk-parity portfolio with independent components"Abstract:Portfolio diversification involves investing in many different securities and types of assets in order to mitigate risk and maximize returns. One approach to achieve such diversification is the factor-risk-parity model.
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ISBA Young Researchers Day / YRD
06 Feb
06/02/2026 - 09:00 - ISBA C115 - More information coming soonMathias Dah Fienon Title : "Dynamic risk-parity portfolio with independent components"Abstract:Portfolio diversification involves investing in many different securities and types of assets in order to mitigate risk and maximize returns. One approach to achieve such diversification is the factor-risk-parity model.
LIDAM seminar series / Statistics Seminar by Gianluca Bontempi
27 Feb
27/03/2025 - 14:30 - ISBA C115 - Gianluca Bontempi (ULB) Will give a presentation on : Ethics2vec: aligning automatic agents and human preferencesAbstract : Though intelligent agents are supposed to improve human experience (or make it more efficient), it is hard, from a human perspective, to grasp the ethical values that are explicitly or implicitly embedded in an
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LIDAM seminar series / Statistics Seminar by Gianluca Bontempi
27 Feb
27/03/2025 - 14:30 - ISBA C115 - Gianluca Bontempi (ULB) Will give a presentation on : Ethics2vec: aligning automatic agents and human preferencesAbstract : Though intelligent agents are supposed to improve human experience (or make it more efficient), it is hard, from a human perspective, to grasp the ethical values that are explicitly or implicitly embedded in an
EOS workshop - UCLouvain/KULeuven
27 Mar
27/03/2025 - 08:30 - D.251 - EOS workshopRegistrationProgram8h30 : Yevhen Havrylenko, Lausanne University(45 min)Synthetic tabular data for ratemaking: deep generative models vs imputation-based methodsActuarial ratemaking depends on high-quality data, yet access to such data is often limited by the cost of obtaining new data, privacy concerns, and competitive sensitivity.
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EOS workshop - UCLouvain/KULeuven
27 Mar
27/03/2025 - 08:30 - D.251 - EOS workshopRegistrationProgram8h30 : Yevhen Havrylenko, Lausanne University(45 min)Synthetic tabular data for ratemaking: deep generative models vs imputation-based methodsActuarial ratemaking depends on high-quality data, yet access to such data is often limited by the cost of obtaining new data, privacy concerns, and competitive sensitivity.