Future meetings:
Past meetings and talks:
2021
-
Workshop in honor of Piet Groenboom's 80th birthday. Invited
speaker.
September 23, 2021, Delft, The Netherlands.
- 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
(UAI 2021).
Program co-chair.
July 27-30, 2021, online.
-
BMS-ANed meeting: Graphical
Models and their Applications in
Genomics. Invited speaker.
May 21, 2021, online. Slides.
2020
- Symposium "Statistical and Computational Aspects of
Machine Learning”. Keynote speaker.
December 2020, Ghent, Belgium. [postponed]
- 43th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS
2020). Breiman lecture.
December 5-12, 2020, online. Slides.
- Swiss Statistics Seminar. Co-organizer.
November 13, 2020, University of Bern, Switzerland [postponed].
- BIRS Workshop on Causal
Inference with Big Data. Co-organizer.
August 16-21, 2020, Banff International Research Station, Banff,
Canada. [cancelled]
- 36th Conference on Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence (UAI
2020).
Accepted
paper.
August 4-6, 2020, online.
- 6th
International Conference on Computational Social Science
(IC2S2
2020). Accepted paper.
July 17-20, 2020, online.
- Online
causal inference seminar. Invited talk.
June 30, 2020, online.
- AIM SQuaRE.
March 23-27, 2020, San Jose, CA, USA [online].
- VVSOR
Annual Meeting. Invited speaker.
March 12, 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands [online talk].
- Oberwolfach workshop "Statistics
meet machine learning".
January 27-31, 2020, Oberwolfach, Germany.
2019
- World Minds. Invited participant.
December 12, 2019, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Workshop Graphical
Models: Conditional Independence and
Algebraic
Structures. Invited speaker.
October 23-25, 2019, Munich, Germany.
- ECML
PKDD 2019. Progam co-chair.
September 16-20, 2019, Würzburg, Germany.
- Risk
Day ETH. Invited speaker.
September 13, 2019, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress 2019 (ISI WSC 2019). Organizer
of an invited session (not attending).
August 18–23, 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Statistics
Conference in Honor of Aad van der Vaart's 60th Birthday. Participant.
June 17-21, 2019, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Workshop Causality
and extremes at EPFL. Participant.
June 13, 2019, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Oberwolfach workshop on Foundations and New
Horizons for Causal Inference. Invited speaker.
May 26 - June 1, 2019, Oberwolfach, Germany.
- European Causal
Inference Meeting
(EuroCIM 2019). Invited speaker.
March 27-29, 2019, Bremen, Germany.
- Statistical Methods for Post Genomic Data (SMPGD 2019). Keynote
speaker.
January 31 - February 1, 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
2018
- CMStatistics
2018. Organizer of an invited session.
December 14-16, 2018, University of Pisa, Italy.
- World Minds.
Invited participant.
December 6 2018, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Swiss
Statistics Seminar. Co-organizer.
November 9, 2018, Bern, Switzerland
- Workshop Phase
Transitions in Living Systems. Invited speaker.
October 24-25, 2018, Aachen, Germany.
- Joint 2018 IMS Annual
Meeting / 12th International Vilnius Conference. Organizer of an
invited session and invited speaker.
July 2-6, 2018, Vilnius, Lithuania.
- Summerschool on Graphical
Models: From Mathematical Foundations to
Biological Applications. Invited speaker.
June 25-29, 2018, Basel, Switzerland.
- Workshop on
High-Dimensional Statistics and Random Structures at
the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum.
Invited speaker.
June 18-19, Barcelona, Spain.
- Workshop:
Theoretical and
algorithmic underpinnings of Big Data. Invited participant.
January 15-19, 2018, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK.
2017
-
CMStatistics
2017. Organizer of an invited session and co-chair of the Causality
Track.
December 16-18, 2017, University of London, UK.
- Dagstuhl Seminar: Addressing
the Computational Challenges of
Personalized Medicine. Invited participant and speaker.
November 19-22, 2017, Wadern, Germany.
- Symposium in honor of Richard Gill:
Statistical Theory and the Real World.
Invited speaker.
September 12-15, 2017, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- RSS
2017 Annual Conference. Keynote talk.
September 5-7, 2017, Glasgow, Scotland.
- European Meeting of
Statisticians (EMS 2017). Organizer of an
invited session.
July 24-28, 2017, Helsinki, Finland.
- 61st World Statistics Congress
- ISI 2017. Organizer of an invited session.
July 16-21, 2017, Marrakech, Marocco.
- ARS'17
International Workshop: Challenges in Social Network Research. Invited
speaker.
May 16-17, 2017, Naples, Italy.
-
Workshop Learning
Graphical Models in High-Dimensional Settings.
Invited speaker.
April 4-7, 2017, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), Edinburgh, UK
- Science
and Development Forum on Mathematical and Data Sciences
for Development. Co-organizer.
March 1, 2017, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Applied ML Days.
Plenary speaker.
January 30-31, 2017, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2016
- CMStatistics 2016. Session organizer and invited speaker.
December 9-11, 2016, Seville, Spain.
- Distinguished
Lecture in Causal Modeling and Discovery.
November 11, 2016, Pittsburgh, USA.
-
Workshop on Statistical Causal Inference and its Applications to
Genetics. Co-organizer.
July 25 - August 19, 2016, Montreal, Canada.
- 9th
World Congress on Probability and Statistics. Invited talk.
July 11-15 2016, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada.
- UAI Workshop Causation: Foundation
to Applications. Co-organizer.
June 29, 2016, Jersey City, USA.
Workshop Proceedings.
- NORDSTAT 2016:
The 26th Nordic Conference in Mathematical
Statistics. Plenary speaker.
June 27-30 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 48èmes
Journées de Statistiques de la SFdS. Invited talk.
May 30-June 3 2016, Montpellier, France.
- 8èmes
Journées Statistiques du Sud. Minicourse.
May 28-29 2016, Montpellier, France.
- DAGStat 2016:
Fourth Joint Statistical Meeting of the Deutsche
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik.
Invited speaker in session on Graphical Models and Causal Inference.
March 14-18 2016, Göttingen, Germany.
- EPFL Statistics
Seminar.
March 4 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2015
- CMStatistics
2015 (ERCIM 2015).
Organizer of invited session on
Graphical Models and Causality (not attending).
December 12-14 2015, London, UK.
- Colloquium Four
Facets of Modern Statistics, and a Surprise!.
Invited talk.
December 3 2015, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- ZURICH.MINDS. Invited
participant.
November 11 2015, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 26th Swiss Day on
Mathematics and Education. Workshop for gymnasium
teachers.
September 9 2015, Zurich, Switzerland.
- IMS Annual
Meeting / Joint Statistical Meetings. Speaker in
invited session on Causality.
August 8-13, 2015, Seattle, USA.
- 30th European Meeting of
Statisticians. Organizer of invited
session on Causal Inference.
July 6-10 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Workshop
on Statistical Learning of Biological Systems from
Perturbations. Keynote speaker.
May 31 - June 5, 2015, Monte
Verita, Ascona, Switzerland.
2014
-
7th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on
Computational and Methodological Statistics.
Invited speaker in organized session on latent variables and feedback
in
graphical Markov models.
December 6-8 2014, Pisa, Italy.
- Colloquium From
Robust to High-dimensional Statistics:
50 Years of Statistics at ETH Zurich. Co-organizer.
November 24 - 25 2014, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Workshop on high-dimensional,
high-frequency and spatial time series
data. Invited speaker.
October 29-31 2014, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
- International
Conference of the Royal Statistical
Society.
Invited speaker in session on "Exploiting Large Genetic Data Sets".
September 1-4 2014, Sheffield, UK.
- IMS Annual Meeting. Organizer
of an invited session on Graphical
Models and Causality.
July 7-11 2014, Sydney, Australia.
- 22nd
meeting of PhD students in Stochastics in the Netherlands.
Short course on graphical models.
Slides: 1a,
1b,
2,
3a,
3b,
4,
5, and some R-code.
May 12-14 2014, Hilversum, the Netherlands.
- Mid-program workshop on
Statistical Inference in Sparse
High-dimensional Models: Theoretical and Computational Challenges in
SAMSI's
2013-14 Program on Low-dimensional Structure in High-dimensional
Systems. Co-organizer.
February 24-26 2014, SAMSI, USA.
2013
- Seminar, Stats Lab,
University of Cambridge.
"High-dimensional causal inference".
November 22 2013, Cambridge, UK.
- Workshop
on Case Studies of Causal Model Search. Invited talk.
"Learning gene regulatory networks:
instability of constraint-based causal
structure learning methods". Video.
October 25-27, 2013, Pittsburgh, USA.
- 24. Schweizerischer Tag für
Mathematik Unterricht. Invited talk.
"2013 - Das Jahr der Statistik".
Slides (in German).
September 11 2013, Chur, Switzerland.
- Scientifica 2013.
Short lecture.
"Risiken einschatzen: die wahren Ursachen feststellen".
Slides (in German).
September 1 2013, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical
Biostatistics (ISCB34). Invited
talk.
"Causal search in high-dimensional settings". Video.
August 25-29 2013, Munich, Germany.
- Workshop Approaches
to Causal Structure Learning, UAI 2013.
Co-organizer.
July 15 2013, Bellevue, WA, United States.
- Workshop
on Statistical Genomics and Data Integration for
Personalized Medicine. Participant.
May 12-17 2013, Ascona, Switzerland.
- Seminar, Johns Hopkins University.
"Estimating causal effects in
high-dimensional systems".
March 25 2013, Baltimore, United States.
- Seminar, Department
of Philosophy, Carnegie
Mellon University.
"Estimating causal effects in
high-dimensional systems" and "Backdoor criterion for MAGs and PAGs".
March 21 2013, Pittsburgh, United States.
- Workshop Statistics
for Complex Networks: Theory and
Applications at EURANDOM. Invited
talk.
"High-dimensional graphical models and
causal inference".
January 30-February 1 2013, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
2012
- Seminar, Bison group, ETH Zurich.
December 4, 2012, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Oxford-Stanford Conference on Big Data,
University of Oxford. Invited talk.
November 28-29, 2012, Oxford, UK.
-
Causal
Structure Learning Workshop at UAI 2012.
Co-organizer.
August 18, 2012, Catalina Island, United States.
-
8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics. Invited
talk (delivered by Diego Colombo).
July 9-14, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Seminar, Department
of Econometrics, University of Geneva.
May 11 2012, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Workshop Frontiers
in Nonparametric Statistics. Invited talk.
March 11-17, 2012, Oberwolfach,
Germany.
- Seminar at the Department of Mathematics,
VU University
Amsterdam.
February 3, 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2011
2010
- Zurich
Colloquium in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, ETH
Zurich. Invited talk.
"Causal inference in high-dimensional systems based on observational
data"
October 26 2010, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Workshop
Learning from Perturbation
Effects at ECCB 2010. Invited
talk.
"Predicting perturbation effects in large-scale systems from observational
data"
September 26-29 2010, Ghent, Belgium.
-
EMS 2010. Invited talk.
"Causal inference in high-dimensional systems based on observational data"
August 17-22 2010, Piraeus, Greece.
-
Conference
From Probability to Statistics and Back: High-Dimensional
Models and Processes. Co-organizer.
Conference in honor of Jon Wellner's 65th birthday.
July 28-31 2010, Seattle, Washington.
-
Seminar at the Institute of Social and
Preventive Medicine,
University of Bern.
"Predicting causal effects in large-scale systems from observational
data"
June 28 2010, Bern, Switzerland.
2009
-
2009 Conference of the Working Group "Statistical Methods in
Bioinformatics". Invited talk.
"Estimating high-dimensional intervention effects
from observational data".
September 17-18 2009, Munich, Germany.
- JSM
2009. Invited talk.
"Confidence intervals for current status data with competing risks".
August 1-6 2009, Washington DC.
- TANDEMplusIDEA,
an international
mentoring programme
and personal development scheme for female postdocs in the fields
of natural science and engineering. Invited speaker on the topic of dual
careers.
March 11 2009, Zurich, Switzerland.
2008
- Seminar at the Institute
of Statistics, University of
Neuchatel.
"Variable importance based on intervention calculus".
November 25 2008, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
- Swiss Statistics Seminar. Invited talk.
"Variable importance based on intervention calculus".
October 24 2008, Bern, Switzerland.
- Workshop Understanding
the New Statistics: Expanding Core Statistical Theory. Invited
talk.
"Variable importance based on intervention calculus".
September 14-19 2008, Banff International Research Station for
Mathematical Research and Discovery (BIRS), Canada.
- XXIVth
International Biometric Conference. Poster presentation.
"Confidence intervals for current status data with competing
risks".
July 13-18, 2008, University College Dublin, Ireland.
- ISBIS-2008
International Symposium on Business and Industrial
Statistics. Invited talk.
"Variable importance based on
intervention calculus".
July 1-4 2008, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Workshop High
Dimensional Statistics in Biology. Invited participant.
March 31 - April 4, 2008, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK.
- Inaugural lecture at ETH Zurich (Einfuehrungsvorlesung).
"Statistical estimation with censored data". Slides. Video.
March 7 2008, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
2007
- Seminar at the Institute of
Mathematics, Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.
"Computation of the MLE for bivariate interval censored data".
Slides.
December 7 2007, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Swiss Statistics Seminar. Invited talk.
"Limiting distribution of the MLE for current status data with competing risks".
Slides.
November 16 2007, Luzern, Switzerland.
- Oberwolfach workshop:
Reassessing the Paradigms of Statistical Model-Building. Invited participant.
October 21-27 2007, Oberwolfach, Germany.
- Workshop on
Algorithms in Complex Systems. Invited talk.
"Computation of the MLE for bivariate interval censored data".
Video,
slides,
Rscript, example data set.
September 24-26 2007, EURANDOM, The Netherlands.
- 2007 WNAR/IMS Meeting. Invited talk.
"Inconsistency of the MLE for the joint distribution of interval
censored survival times and continuous marks."
Slides.
June 24-27 2007, University of California Irvine.
- Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Seminar, University of Washington.
"Estimating the distribution of the incubation period of HIV/AIDS".
Slides.
April 5 2007, Seattle, Washington.
- Seminar at Penn State
University.
February 16 2007, State College, Pennsylvania.
- Seminar at Rutgers
University.
February 14 2007, University Park, Pennsylvania.
- Seminar at the Free
University of Amsterdam.
February 5 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Seminar at the ETH
Zurich.
January 31 2007, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Seminar at the University
of California Berkeley.
January 22 2007, Berkeley, California.
- Seminar at Iowa
State University.
January 16 2007, Ames, Iowa.
2006
- Oberwolfach workshop:
Qualitative assumptions and regularization in high-dimensional statistics. Invited talk.
"Limiting distribution of the MLE for current status data with competing risks".
Slides.
November 5-11 2006, Oberwolfach, Germany.
- The Eighth Northwest Probability Seminar. Participant.
October 22 2006, Seattle, Washington.
- Seminar, University of Groningen.
"Nonparametric estimation for current status data with competing risks".
Slides.
September 6 2006, Groningen, The Netherlands.
- JSM 2006.
Topic contributed talk.
"Limiting distribution of the MLE for current status data with competing risks".
Slides.
August 5-10 2006, Seattle, Washington.
-
Conference on statistical methods in epidemiology and observational studies. Participant.
In honor of Norman E. Breslow.
August 4 2006, Seattle, Washington.
- Asymptotics, particles,
processes and inverse problems. Invited talk.
On the occasion of the 65th birthday of Piet Groeneboom.
"Nonparametric estimation for current status data with competing risks".
Slides.
July 10-14 2006, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- 2006 ENAR spring meeting. Invited talk.
"Nonparametric estimation for current status data with competing risks: rates of convergence".
Slides.
March 26-29 2006, Tampa, Florida.
2005
2004
- JSM 2004. Topic contributed talk.
"Reduction algorithm for the NPMLE for the distribution function of bivariate interval censored data".
Slides
and
paper.
August 8-12 2004, Toronto, Canada.
- Dutch Statistical Day 2004. Invited talk.
"Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation for bivariate censored data".
Slides.
April 27 2004, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.