Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science

Schedule

  • Colloquium: The colloquia with external speakers are organized by the lecturers of IMSV. You may receive announcements via a mailing list.

  • Seminar: Members, students and guests of our institute talk informally about ongoing work, or topics of general interest. Every now and then, projects from statistical consulting are also presented. External participants are welcome! If you are interested in giving a talk, please contact Lea Friedli at lea.friedli@unibe.ch.

  • PhD defense and master thesis presentation: Join us as our PhD students defend their theses and our Master's students present their work.

Date and Venue: Unless specified otherwise, the events take place in Room -203 of Alpeneggstrasse 22. Masters student presentations are typically scheduled for Thursday lunchtimes (12:15pm), while all other events are on Friday afternoons (4:15pm).

HS 2024
Date Type Speaker Title
Thursday, 26.09. Master thesis (joint talk) Julia Schmid and 
Anna Gruetter 		 Kredibilitätsmodelle: mehrdimensionale und evolutionäre Aspekte
Thursday, 17.10 Master thesis Jonas Hofer Predicting Solar Energy Production from Meteorological Data
Friday, 01.11. Seminar Lutz Dümbgen Connecting model-based and model-free approaches to linear regression
Friday, 08.11. Colloquium Fadoua Balabdaoui
(ETHZ)		 Linear Regression With Unmatched Data: A Deconvolution Perspective (Abstract)
Thursday, 14.11. Master thesis Jasmin Christen Gaussian Processes for Interval-Valued Data with Applications in Chemical Space Exploration
Friday, 22.11. Seminar Oliver Warth Projection Pursuit via Kernel Mean Embeddings
Friday, 06.12. Seminar Philip Stange Approximation by totally positive distributions
Wednesday, 11.12.
Hauptgebäude, 501
 Talk Geir Evensen (NORCE) Ensemble Parameter Estimation: Conditioning Models on Dynamic Data (Flyer)
Thursday, 12.12.
Hauptgebäude, 501
 Crash Course Geir Evensen (NORCE) Fundamentals of data assimilation: From Bayes' to ensemble methods. (Flyer)
Friday, 13.12.
ExWi, B6		 PhD defense Juan Magalang Stochastic models of drug resistance development
FS 2025
Date Type Speaker Title
Friday, 28.03.2025 Swiss Statistics Seminar