19/12/2025 - 16:00 - ISBA C115 -  SMCS and friendsOrganized and moderated by Christian Ritter and Catherine RasseThe following seminar will be given in presence in room C-115 and in the cafeteria.

19/12/2025 - 14:30 - ISBA C115 -  Maria Lanzerath(W.L. Gore & Associates, Germany)Will give a presentation on : From Nose to Tail - a  DOE in Chemical ProductionThe session will go about an application of DOE to gain fundamental understanding of a chemical process.

14:30 - "Nonparametric tests of treatment effect heterogeneity for policy-makers" -  Oliver Dukes (UGent) Nonparametric tests of treatment effect heterogeneity for policy-makersAbstract: Recent work has focused on nonparametric estimation of conditional treatment effects, but inference has remained relatively unexplored.

14:00 - "Socio-economic mortality curves: the Belgian case"  Jeroen Kerkhof (VUB & UGent)Socio-economic mortality curves: the Belgian caseAbstract:In this paper, we create up-to-date socio-economic mortality tables for Belgium. These socio-economic mortality tables provide superior out-of-sample predictions for mortality compared to the commonly used pure gender-based models.

16:00 - "Microbiota dynamics in dairy cows around calving and its associations with health" Lisa Arnalot (doctorante à l’université de Toulouse) Microbiota dynamics in dairy cows around calving and its associations with healthAbstract: The transition period (± 3 weeks around calving) is critical for the health and productivity of dairy cows.

14:30 - "Borrowing through the evolving vaccine preclinical research plan: Prior elicitation in absence of recurrent designs or controls" Cedric Taverne (GSK) (joint work with Mario Becerra Contreras, Mathias Schmitz, Oluwafemi Daniel Olusoji, all GSK)Borrowing through the evolving vaccine preclinical research plan: Prior elicitation in absence of recurrent designs or controlsSummary:The

7/11/25 - 14:30 - "Multi-Output Conformal Regression" -  Matteo Fontana (Royal Holloway, University of London) Multi-Output Conformal Regression Abstract: This presentation offers a unified comparative study of conformal prediction methods for multi-output regression.

   October 24 - 14:30 - "Bruno Deprez & Olivier Caelen" -  14h30:Bruno Deprez (U Antwerpen)"Network-based  anti-money laundering"Abstract:Network analytics has proven to be essential for anti-money laundering (AML), since money laundering schemes span many transactions between multiple parties.

12:50 - "The Pivotal Information Criterion" - !!! Schedule change !!! Sylvain Sardy (Université de Genève) The Pivotal Information Criterion Abstract: The Bayesian and Akaike information criteria aim at finding a good balance between under- and over-fitting. They are extensively used everyday by practitioners.

   October 3 - 14:30 - "Universal Copulas" -  Gery Geenens (UNSW Sydney) Universal Copulas Abstract: Copulas have emerged over the last decades as primary statistical tools for modelling dependence between random variables.