Seminars
- Academic Year 2018-2019
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Thursday, 27/9/2018, 13:00: Αχιλλέας Τζιούφας, University de Sao Paulo: "An introduction to certain recent advances on the contact process particle system"
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Wednesday, 3/10/2018, 13:00: Jonas Andersson, Norwegian School of Economics: "A dynamic binomial model with application to the propensity to use tax amnesty"
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Tuesday, 16/10/2018: 13:00: Prof. Dr. Meinhard Kieser, Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Germany: "Phase II trials in oncology – is Simon’s optimal design the optimum?"
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Tuesday, 12/12/2018: 13:00: John Kornak, University of California: "A new approach to Bayesian image analysis"
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Thursday, 10/1/2019, 13:00: Anable Forte Deltell, University of Valencia: "Group invariance for objective prior elicitation in testing problems"
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Thursday, 21/2/2019, 13:00: John Forster, University of Southampton: "Inference for population change from diverse categorical data"
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- Academic Year 2017-2018
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Monday, 21/5/2018, 13:00: Dimitrios Asteriou, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics,Oxford Brookes University: "Structural Breaks and Herding Behaviour in Cryptocurrencies"
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Thursday, 10/5/2018, 13:15: Nial Friel, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin: "Interlocking directorates in Irish companies using a latent space model for bipartite networks"
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Thursday, 3/5/2018, 13:10: Gianluca Baio, Department of Statistical Science, University College London: "Bayesian methods in health economics" (οι διαφάνειες της παρουσίασης βρίσκονται εδώ) και στις 14:20, Giacomo Zanella, Bocconi University: "Complexity and optimization of the Gibbs Sampler for multilevel Gaussian models" (οι διαφάνειες της παρουσίασης βρίσκονται εδώ)
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Thursday, 19/4/2018: Ateev Mehrotra, Department of Health Care Policy and Medicine, Harvard Medical School: "Is a Visit to the Doctor Now Obsolete? Delivery Innovation as a Means of Fixing Health Care"
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Monday, 16/4/2018 έως και Παρασκευή, 20/4/2018: Helene Massam, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Canada: "A short Course on GRAPHICAL MODELS"
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Friday, 30/3/2018: Georgios Bartzis, Department of Plant Sciences, Group of Mathematical and Statistical Methods – Biometrics, :Wageningen University and Research Center: "Estimating metabolite networks using a multi-step network approach that integrates information from lower leveled omic graphical structures"
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Wednesday. 21/3/2018, 13:30: Guido Consonni, Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy: "Learning Markov Equivalence Classes of Directed Acyclic Graphs: an Objective Bayes Approach"
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Tuesday, 6/3/2018, 15:15: Prof. Dr. Meinhard Kieser, Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Germany: "Phase II trials in oncology – is Simon’s optimal design the optimum?"
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Friday, 22/12/2017, 13:15: Konstantinos Perrakis, DZNE: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn: "Scalable Bayesian regression in high dimensions with multiple data sources"
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Thursday, 14/12/2017, 13:15: Nickolas Protonotarios, Doctoral Researcher, Academy of Athens, Founder and Organizer of Hub Science: "Attenuated spline reconstruction technique for nuclear emission tomography"
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Thursday, 23/11/2017, 12:15: Taps Maiti, Professor, Graduate Director, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University: "High-dimensional model building for Spatial Regression"
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Thursday, 2/11/2017, 13:00: Brendan Murphy, Professor of Statistic, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University College Dublin: "Latent Space Stochastic Block Model for Social Networks"
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Wednesday, 13/9/2017, 13:00: Nikos Kavalaris, Professor, University of Chester, UK: "Optimal portfolio and Consumption allocation under a Disappointment Aversion Type Utility Function"
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Thursday, 7/9/2017, 12:30: George Athanasopoulos, Associate Professor and Deputy Head, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Victoria, Australia: "Forecasting cross-sectional and temporal hierarchies through trace minimization"
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- Academic Year 2016-2017
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- Thursday, 26/1/2017, 13:00: Christina Parpoula, Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business: "Analyzing supersaturated designs for discrete responses via generalized linear models"
- Tuesday, 10/1/2017, 13:00: Stefanos Kechagias, SAS Institute
- Friday, 23/12/2016, 13:00: Nikolas Kantas, Dept. of Mathematics, Imperial College London: "Particle filtering: a survey on the methodology and some extensions that are useful for high dimensional systems"
- Thursday, 15/12/2016, 13:00: Dionissios Hristopulos, Technical University of Crete: "Modeling Earthquake Recurrence Times using Physical Insights and Statistical Analysis"
- Monday, 12/12/2016, 14:00: Panos Toulis, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business: "PART A: Causal inference in statistics and econometrics and PART B: Research Opportunities for Statistics Graduates in the University of Chicago"
- Thursday, 10/11/2016, 13:00 (exactly): Athanassios Rakitzis, Department of Mathematics, University of Aegean: "Control Charts for Monitoring Correlated Zero-Inflated Counts"
- Wednesday, 26/10/2016, 15:00: Gonzalo Garcia-Donato, Department of Economy and Finance, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: "Criteria for Bayesian model choice and implications on the n<<p problem"
- Wednesday, 5/10/2016, 15:00: Brendan McCabe, Management School, University of Liverpool: "Attempting to Model the Timing, Severity and Duration of Seasonal Influenza"
- Academic Year 2015-2016
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- Wednesday, 22/6/2016, 13:00: Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Universitat Pompeu Fabra και David Rossell, University of Warwick : "Scalable Bayesian variable selection and model averaging under block orthogonal design"
- Friday, 10/6/2016, 13:00: Constantin T. Yiannoutsos, Indiana University School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics: "Adjusting for incomplete death ascertainment in joint models: A multiple-imputation approach"
- Monday 16/5/2016, 13:00: Gerda Claeskens, University of Leuven, Belgium: "Confidence intervals after selection by Akaike's information criterion"
- Wednesday, 20/4/2016, 13:00: Mihail Loulakis, National Technical University of Athens: "A large deviations theorem for subexponential r.v.’s with an application to Interacting Particle Systems"
- Friday, 15/4/2016, 13:30: Andrei Sirchenko, ICEF, Higher School of Economics, Moscow: "Modeling discrete-valued time series with abundant and heterogeneous zeros"
- Friday, 1/4/2016, 13:00: Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Department of Psychological Methods, University of Amsterdam: "Bayesian Analyses with JASP: A Fresh Way to do Statistics"
- Wednesday, 30/3/2016, 13:00: Athanassios Tsanas, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK: "Information fusion approach using signal quality indices, and information-theoretic feature selection: practical approaches and applications"
- Wednesday 27/1/2016, 13:00: Luca Tardella, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche – Sapienza Universita di Roma: "A novel Bayesian mixture of Poisson estimation for expressed sequence tag sampling"
- Wednesday 13/1/2016, 13:00: Konstantinos Daskalakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Testing Properties of Distributions"
- Tuesday 22/12/2015, 13:00: Nikolaos Karnesis, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics: "Finding Buried signals in noise: The hunt for Gravitational Waves"
- Wednesday 21/10/2015, 15:00: Apostolos Bournetas, University of Athens, Department of Statistics: "Optimal Adaptive Policies in the Multi-Armed-Bandit Problem and Extensions"
- Academic Year 2014-2015
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- Friday 19/6/2015, 13:00: Andrew J. Womack, Assistant Professor, University of Indiana, Department of Statistics: "Bayesian Model Selection Under Heredity Constraints"
- Third Athens Probability Colloquium - 09/05/2015
- Tuesday, 28/4/2015, 12:15: Pantelis Bagos, Associate Professor, University of Thessaly: "Integration of data from multiple sources: meta-analysis and synthesis analysis"
- Wednesday, 22/4/2015, 13:00: Asgharian Masoud, The Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University: "Prevalent Cohort Studies: Length-Biased Sampling with Right Censoring"
- Friday, 3/4/2015, 13:00: Charalampos Chanialidis, School of Mathematical Sciences University College, Dublin: "Flexible regression models for count data"
- Wednesday, 1/4/2015, 15:00: David Rossel, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick: "Integrating high-dimensional estimation and model selection with non-local priors"
- Thursday, 26/3/2015 & Friday 27/3/2015, 12:00 - 15:00: Dr. Silvia Cagnone, Associate Professor, University of Bologna: "Structural equation models (SEM): theory and applications"
- Thursday, 5/2/2015, 13:00: Dimitris Mavridis, University of Ioannina School of Medicine: "Allowing for uncertainty due to missing data in pairwise and network meta-analysis"
- Wednesday, 17/12/2014, 13:00: Xanthi Penteli, Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business: "Likelihood estimation for the INAR(p) model by saddlepoint approximation"
- Wednesday, 10/12/2014, 11:30: Loukia Meligotzidou, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens: "Particle MCMC and Augmentation Schemes"
- Wednesday, 26/11/2014, 13:00: Mihalis Titsias, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business: "Hamming Ball Slice Sampling for Factorial Hidden Markov Models"
- Tuesday, 11/11/2014, 13:15: Maria Kateri, Institute of Statistics, RWTH Aachen University: "Tampered Failure Rate Step-Stress Models: Continuous vs. Interval Monitoring"
- Wednesday, 22/10/2014, 15:00 - 16:00: Brunilda Balliu: "A Retrospective Likelihood Approach for Efficient Integration of Multiple Omics Factors in Case-Control Association Studies"
- Academic Year 2013-2014
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- Thursday, 19/06/2014: Oliver Ratmann: "Statistical modeling of summary values leads to accurate Approximate Bayesian Computations"
- Thursday, 12/06/2014: Konstantinos Petrakis: "On the use of marginal posteriors in marginal likelihood estimation
via importance sampling" - Friday, 6/06/2014: Valantis Malesios: "Bayesian spatio-temporal epidemic models with applications to sheep pox"
- Thursday, 5/06/2014: Ioulia Papageorgiou: "Pairwise likelihood estimation based on a sample of pairs"
- Thursday, 29/05/2014: Fotios Siannis: "Meta-analysis of time-to-event end points"
- Monday, 2/06/2014: Panagiotis Moutafis: "Improving Recognition Accuracy: Application in Biometrics"
- Thursday, 22/05/2014: Debasis Kundu: "On Bivariate (Marshall-Olkin) Weibull Geometric Distribution "
- May - June 2014: Seminar Cycle for Master, PhD, Post PhD students and faculty members
- Wednesday, 30/04/2014 (11:00): Open presentation and discussion regarding Start Ups
- Monday, 7/04/2014 (15:30): Kostas Hrisis PhD Presentation
- Thursday, 10/04/2014 (12:00): Erengul (Ozkok) Dodd: "Modelling the time delay in Critical Illness Insurance using GB2 family of distributions"
- Wednesday, 9/04/2014 (18:15): University of Southampton, Department of Statistics Master in Statistics Presentation
- Thursday, 4/02/2014 (12:00) Gideon KD Zamba: "A Flexible Test for longitudin
al data: The case of Recurrent Events" - Vasiliki Vitoratou PhD Presentation
- Georgios Tzougas PhD Presentation
- Stavroula Poulopoulou PhD Presentation
- Academic Year 2012-2013
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- Dr. Luca Andriani Lecture
- Thursday, 18/04/2013 (15:00-16:00): Shrinking bias to benefit estimation and inference in statistical models
Giannis Kosmidis, University College London
- Academic Year 2011-2012
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· Wednesday, 13/06/2012 (17:00): PhD Presentation, Georgios Mitalas
· Thursday, 26/01/2012 (13:00-14:00): Control Charts with Estimated Parameters
Philippe Castagliola, University of Nantes· Friday 13/01/2012 (09:00-17:00): Latent Gaussian models with R-INLA
Daniel Simpson, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)· Wednesday, 28/09/2011 (16:30): PhD Presentation, Evaggelia Kalpinelli
- Academic Year 2010-2011
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Friday 01/07/2011 (10:30): PhD Presentation, Anastasios Plataniotis
· Thursday 24/03/2011 (12:00): PhD Presentation, Xanthi Penteli
- Academic Year 2009-2010
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Monday, 01/06/2010 (11:30-12:30): PhD Presentation, Athanasios Petralias
· Thursday, 27/05/2010 (15:00-16:00): Nonlinear regression with missing responses
Ursula U. Muller, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University· Tuesday 25/05/2010 (15:00-16:00): Statistical Seismology: Past events and future issues
David Vere-Jones, Emeritus Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand· Thursday, 06/05/2010 (16:00-17:00): Estimating Value-at-Risk with Product Partition Models
Claudia Tarantola, University of Pavia. In cooperation with Bormetti Giacomo, De Giuli M. Elena and Delpini Danilo.· Tuesday, 02/03/2010 (15:00-16:00): The Effective Sample Size to Measure the Amount of Information in a Correlated Data Setting
Christel Faes, Professor, University of Hasselt, Belgium· Tuesday, 23/02/2010 (15:00-16:00): Inspection Policies and Their Impact on Delay in Queueing Systems, George Mytalas, Ph.D. s