Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science

Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science

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The Institute pursues research in statistics and related fields. It is responsible for the education of students in these topics. At the University of Bern, statistics is part of the Bachelor and Master programs in Mathematics. Moreover, the Institute is home to the Master program in Statistics and Data Science, which includes courses on probability theory, statistics, mathematical finance and actuarial science.

In addition to the training of students from other fields (natural sciences, economics, medicine, etc.), the Institute also offers continuing education programs.

The Institute is involved in collaborative research and transfer activities. This includes joint projects as well as consultancy cases with academic partners and various public and private organisations. While part of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the Institute also has strong ties to the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research.

The Institute is led by Professors Lutz Dümbgen, David Ginsbourger, and Ilya Molchanov. Current acting director is Lutz Dümbgen.

News and Events

Ensemble parameter estimation: conditioning models on dynamic date

The OCCR, the CSH, and the IMSV are happy to announce a talk by Prof. Geir Evensen on December 11th 2024, 16h15, in the main building of the University of Bern. Room: 501/Kuppelraum,
Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern. The talk is followed by an apéro.

New Professor at IMSV

Andrea Agazzi (currently at University of Pisa) will join our institute in December 2024 as a Professor of Applied Stochastics. We are looking forward to welcome and work with him!

IMSV Workshop July 2024

IMSV Summer Research Workshop July 1st-2nd 2024, Bern

Disputation Sebastian Arnold

Sebastian Arnold has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the title "On Isotonic Conditional Laws and Sequential Forecast Evaluation".

Ilya Molchanov named IMS Fellow

Ilya Molchanov, Professor, University of Bern, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).

Cédric Travelletti received the Christian Moser Award 2023

Cédric Travelletti has been awarded the Christian Moser Prize for his dissertation. Congratulations!

Disputation Cédric Travelletti

Cédric Travelletti has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the title "Efficient Gaussian process updating under linear operator data for uncertainty reduction on implicit sets in Bayesian inverse problems".

Disputation Athénaïs Gautier

Athénaïs Gautier has successfully defended her PhD thesis under the title "Modelling and predicting distribution-valued fields with applications to inversion under uncertainty".

Master's open days March 21 to 23, 2023

Are you about to change from a bachelor's to a master's degree program and still have a lot of questions? We will inform you on site and online during this year's Master's open days!

David Ginsbourger elected ISI member

Prof. Dr. David Ginsbourger has become an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.

Riccardo Gatto appointed Associate Editor of Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability

Riccardo Gatto was appointed as an Associate Editor of Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability starting from February 2023.

Philip A. Stange received the Christian Moser Award

In December 2022, Philip A. Stange received the Christian Moser Award for outstanding dissertations.

Johanna Ziegel gave SoFiE keynote lecture

Johanna Ziegel had the honor to present a keynote lecture at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE).

Johanna Ziegel appointed Associate Editor of International Journal of Forecasting

Johanna Ziegel has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Forecasting, and delivered a keynote lecture at the 42nd International Symposium on Forecasting.

‘Stationary Stochastic Models’ by Riccardo Gatto

In his new book, Riccardo Gatto presents a unified introduction to stationary time series models and to continuous time stationary processes.

Johanna Ziegel Elected ISI Member

Prof. Dr. Johanna Ziegel has become an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.

Athénaïs Gautier MASCOT-NUM Prize

Athénaïs Gautier has been awarded a best PhD student oral presentation prize at MASCOT-NUM 2022.

PhD defence Alexander Henzi

Alexander Henzi has successfully defended his PhD thesis under the titel "Isotonic Distributional Regression".

Riccardo Turin

PhD defence Riccardo Turin

Riccardo Turin has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Statistics with the title "Distributional Approximations and Set-Valued Sublinear Expectations".

Swiss Statistics Seminar

The next edition of the Swiss Statistics Seminars takes place on 25. March at University of Bern. Invited speakers are Arnaud Doucet (Oxford) and Mats Stensrud (EPFL).

LIKE22 videos

Die video presentations of the LIKE22 (Lifting Inference with Kernel Embeddings) workshop and winter school are now accessible online.

Moser Award 2021

Alexandre Mösching and Sebastian Arnold have received the C. Moser Award for extraordinary dissertations at IMSV.

Contact

University of Bern

Institut für Mathematische Statistik und Versicherungslehre
Alpeneggstrasse 22
3012 Bern

Phone: +41 31 684 88 11

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