Events

Joint Econometrics and Statistics Workshops

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Statistics Seminars

The Department of Statistics hosts seminars throughout the year. Seminars take place on Friday afternoons at 2pm, unless otherwise stated, in the Leverhulme Library (B617). All are very welcome to attend and refreshments are provided. Please contact the seminar administrator, Sabina Allam, for further information about any of these seminars.

25 September

Hernando Ombao (Brown University)
Time-frequency measures of dependence for multivariate time series
Ioannis Ntzoufras (Athens University of Economics and Business)- 3.15pm
Incorporating cost in Bayesian Variable Selection, with application to cost-effective measurement of quality of health care

2 October

Nikos Demiris (Agricultural University of Athens)- 3.30pm
Survival Extrapolation with applications in Health Economics

9 October

Wicher Bergsma (LSE)
Marginal Models for Dependent, Clustered, and Longitudinal Categorical Data

30 October

Rong Chen (Rutgers University)
Functional Time Series Driven by Dynamic Systems

4 December

Jian Zhang (University of York)
Model based biclustering

11 December

Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge)
Confidence Bands in Density Estimation

5 February

Guy Nason (University of Bristol)
Costationarity of locally stationary time series

19 February

Alexy Koloydenko (Royal Holloway University)
A New Hybrid Risk-Based Approach to Hidden Layer Inference in Hidden Markov Models

26 February

Krzysztof Latuszynski (University of Warwick)
Making black boxes out of black boxes - the Bernoulli Factory problem and its applications

5 March

Robert Gramacy (University of Cambridge)- 4.00pm
Particle Learning for Trees with Applications to Sequential Design and Optimization

14 May

Juan- Pablo Ortega (Université de Franche-Comté)

 


Risk and Stochastics Seminars

Please contact the seminar administrator, Sabina Allam, for further information about any of these seminars. All are very welcome to attend.

29 October

Andreas Kyprianou
Simulation of the maximum of a Levy and applications in finance

19 November

Anja Richter
The differentiability of quadratic BSDEs driven by martingales and an application to utility maximization

26 November

Selim Gokay
Binomial market for Cetin-Jarrow-Protter model of liquidity  

7 December

David Stanford
Credibility for Phase-type Distributions with a Single Risk Parameter

21 January

Savas Dayanik (Joint Risk and Stochastics and Financial Maths Seminar )
Wiener disorder problem with observations at fixed discrete time epochs

11 February

Paolo Guasoni
The Incentives of Hedge Fund Fees and High-Water Marks

15 February

Daniel Dufresne
Beta-Gamma Algebra, Discounted Cash-Flows, and Barnes' Lemmas

18 February

Damien Lamberton (Joint Risk and Stochastics and Financial Maths Seminar  )
Critical price near maturity for the American put in an exponential Lévy model

25 February

Tomas Bjork (Joint Risk and Stochastics and Financial Maths Seminar )
Time inconsistent stochastic control

4 March

Marc Yor
Construction of self -similar Martingales, using the Azéma -Yor algorithm for Skorokhod embedding

11 March

Hans Rudolf Lerche (Joint Risk and Stochastics and Financial Maths Seminar  )
Blackwell Prediction

22 March

Risk and Stochastics Day 2010-click here

29 April

Yulya Mishura (Joint Risk and Stochastics and Financial Maths Seminar )
Financial applications of the models with long-range dependence

6 May

Michael Schmutz
Symmetry based Semi-Static Hedging Strategies for several Multi-Asset Options with Barriers

20 May

Miklos Rasony
TBA

 


Previous Events

Full details of  previous events in the Department of Statistics can be found here.

Events 2008-9

Events 2007-8

Events 2006-7

Events 2005-6

Last updated 29 Jan 10

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