Chaire "International Francqui Professor" - From Social Analysis to Political Influence: Reinventing Statistical Modeling

October 17, 2024

16:00

Foyer Royal Aula Magna

 

Chaire "International Francqui Professor"

From Social Analysis to Political Influence:
Reinventing Statistical Modeling

 

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Ernesto San Martin
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About the Chair Holder

Ernesto San Martin is currently a Full Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an Invited Professor at LIDAM/CORE, UCLouvain. He holds a degree in Mathematical Civil Engineering from the Universidad de Chile and earned his Ph.D. in Science, with a focus on Statistics, from the Institute of Statistics at UCLouvain, under the supervision of Professor Michel Mouchart. He then completed a postdoctoral stay at the Faculty of Psychology at KU Leuven, under the guidance of Professor Paul De Boeck.

  16:15: Opening
 

Welcoming by the UCLouvain EDI prorector

Presentation of the International Francqui medal by Mrs Greet T’Jonck, General Secretary of the Francqui Foundation

Introduction by Prof. Sébastien Van Bellegem (LIDAM/CORE)

  16:45: Inaugural lecture 
 

From Social Analysis to Political Influence: Reinventing Statistical Modeling
by Ernesto San Martin, Full professor of statistics, Pontificia Universidad de Chili

  18:00: Closing remarks by Prof. Catherine Legrand (LIDAM president)
  18:30: Cocktail

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About Chaire Francqui

The prestigious Chair promotes inter-university collaboration, expanding scientific partnerships with international institutions and broadening our academic community's global outlook. Visiting scholars contribute fresh ideas to ongoing research and inspire intellectual exchange, fostering vibrant academic dialogue across disciplines.

 

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