27/02/2025 - 14:00 - Prof. Yves Moreau (KULeuven) will give a presentation on : "Human genetic research in the age of mass surveillance". Abstract : Human genetic research is advancing rapidly, facilitated by the availability of large-scale genomic data sets and the development of high-throughput sequencing technologies.

14:30 - "Projection inference for high-dimensional covariance matrices" -  Fabian Mies (TU Delft) Projection inference for high-dimensional covariance matrices Abstract: Analyzing large samples of high-dimensional data under dependence is a challenging statistical problem as long time series may have change points, most importantly in the mean and the marginal covariances,