06/11/2026 - 14:30 - ISBA C.115 + Teams Sigrid Knops & Matthias Mertens(CSR,Climate director & Data Engineer, Korian Belgium)Will give a presentation on : Data-smart Nursing Homes: Using Data for Well-being and SustainabilitySummary:How can data help nursing homes use energy and water more efficiently while maintaining residents’ and employee’s well-being?At Korian, a large netwo

29-30/10/2026 - 9:30 - Room D251 Margaux Zaffran (Laboratoire de Mathématiques d’Orsay) The course will be held at ISBA, UCLouvain (54 Grand Rue, Louvain-la-Neuve) on:Thursday October, 29th, 2026, 9h30-12h30 and 13h30-15h (Room D251);Friday October, 30th, 2026, 9h30-12h30 and 13h30-15h (Room D251).To better organize the event, may we kindly ask you to register (before October 19th a

16/10/2026 - 14:30 - ISBA C115 -  Thomas Jaki  (Cambridge University) Will give a presentation on : Controlling false decision errors in platform trialsAbstract: Platform trials are a new class of clinical study design that allow treatment arms to enter and leave the trial over time and have proven to be particularly popular during the COVID-19 pandemic

09/10/2026 - 14:30 - ISBA C115 -  Jing Zhou(University of Manchester) Will give a presentation on : Dense High-Dimensional Huber Regression under HeteroscedasticityAbstract: We study Huber regression in a heteroscedastic linear model when the number of predictors is comparable to the sample size.

02/10/2026 - 14:30 - ISBA C115 -  Consulting Showcase: Revisiting a project from the 2025/26 CourseResults from the collaboration between the Consulting Class of 2025/26 with the Belgian Foreign ServiceWith participation by Mohamed Achraf Saidi, Maxime Dejean, Lucie Rascol, Gauss Dountsop, Christian Ritter (UCLouvain) and Lev Lhommeau (SPF Affaires Etrangères) In person in room C-11

25/09/2026 - 14:30 - ISBA C115 -  Kayvan Sadeghi  (University College London) Will give a presentation on : Characterising and Identifying Graphical Causal ModelsAbstract: Using a characterization of faithfulness, we describe the foundational graph orientation rule in constraint-based causal structure learning and the assumptions under which it recovers the “corr

18/09/2026 - 09:00 - ISBA C115 -  9h00  Introduction9h10  Tommaso Martini"Smoothing Copulas Without Smoothing Away Tail Dependence"Abstract:Smooth nonparametric copula estimators have been found to improve finite-sample performance over the empirical copula in a range of settings. A prominent example is the empirical beta copula introduced by Segers, Sibuya, and Tsukahara.

24/07/2026 - 14:30 - ISBA D.119 -  Ruting Wang (City University of Hong Kong) will give a presentation on : Measuring Carbon Risk Dynamics Abstract:  Competing asset-pricing theories offer divergent views on carbon risk: risk-based models predict higher returns for carbon-intensive firms, whereas preference-based models imply outperformance of low-carbon ass

17/07/2026 - 16:00 - Maison des langues : ML-01 - Didier Schwab (Université Grenoble Alpes) Will give a presentation on : Du texte et de la parole : nouveaux horizons multimodaux pour les modèles de langue en françaisAbstract: Depuis 2019, les grands modèles de langue pour le français ont profondément évolué.

19/06/2026 - 14:30 - ISBA C.115 -  Kris Sankaran (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Will give a presentation on : A Brief Introduction to Shapley Values  Abstract: This workshop will introduce Shapley values, a game-theoretic concept adapted to explain predictions from black-box machine learning models.