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Research Showcase 2024

Thursday 20 June - Friday 21 June 

 MAR.1.08, Marshall Building, LSE campus.

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This two-day in-person event is an opportunity to find out more about the Department's research. It takes the form of a series of short talks and will provide an overview of the research activities of the Department's four research groups: Data Science, Probability in Finance and Insurance, Social Statistics, and Time Series and Statistical Learning.

The presentations will be accompanied by a poster session on the evening of 20 June, combined with a reception (Great Hall, ground floor of Marshall Building).

This event takes place from 10.00am to 8.30pm on Thursday 20 June and from 10.00am to 3.30pm on Friday 21 June 2024 in the Marshall Building on LSE campus. Please see the map below for directions. 

Please register your place!

Thursday 20 June

10.00am-10.30am Wicher Bergsma (Social Statistics)
Some aspects of Gaussian dependence modelling

10.30am-11.00am Tom Dorrington Ward (Engage Smarter)
Evaluating and assuring AI Agents for financial services

11.00am-11.30am Ieva Kazlauskaite (Data Science - from September)
Calculating exposure to extreme sea level risk from multi-resolution ice sheet models

(11.30am-12.00pm Break)

12.00pm-12.30pm Despoina Makariou (St. Gallen)
Estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects in the primary catastrophe bond market using causal forests

12.30pm-1.00pm Zoltan Szabo (Data Science)
Minimax Rate of HSIC Estimation

(1.00pm-2.30pm Lunch)

2.30pm-3.00pm Yining Chen (Data Science / Time Series and Statistical Learning)
Detecting changes in production frontiers

3.00pm-3.30pm Kostas Kardaras (Probability in Finance and Insurance)
Production equilibrium with capacity expansion

3.30pm-4.00pm Tengyao Wang (Data Science / Time Series and Statistical Learning)
Multiple output composite quantile regression via optimal transport

(4.00pm-4.30pm Break)

4.30pm-5.00pm Giulia Livieri (Probability in Finance and Insurance)
On Mean Field Games and Applications

5.00pm-5.30pm Chengchun Shi (Data Science / Time Series and Statistical Learning)
Switchback designs can enhance policy evaluation in reinforcement learning

6.00pm-8.30pm Poster Session & Reception

Friday 21 June

10.00am-10.30am Joshua Loftus (Data Science)
Causality for interpretable machine learning

10.30am-11.00am Anoushka Gupta (Illuma Technology)
Application of Contextual Advertising in a Cookieless World

11.00am-11.30am Sara Geneletti (Social Statistics)
Using an interrupted time series design to understand the impact of austerity measures in the UK

(11.30am-12.00pm Break)

12.00pm-12.30pm Xuewen Yu (Social Statistics)
Title to be confirmed

12.30pm-1.00pm Qiwei Yao (Time Series and Statistical Learning)
Autoregressive dynamic networks

(1.00pm-2.30pm Lunch)

2.30pm-3.00pm Kostas Kalogeropoulos (Data Science / Social Statistics / Time Series and Statistical Learning)
Exchangeable Gaussian Processes

3.00pm-3.30pm Dima Karamshuk (Meta)
Title to be confirmed


  

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Got a question? Please email the event organisers:
Professor Zoltan Szabo
Penny Montague