These half-day workshops are organized by various research groups at Swiss universities in cooperation with the Swiss Statistical Society (SSS), Section Education and Research. Coordinator and local organizer is Lutz Dümbgen. 

Usually these events take place at the University of Bern on a Friday afternoon. About every second year the fall seminar is embedded into a Swiss Statistics Meeting, an annual conference of the SSS.

Spring 2013
Friday, April 26, 2012
University of Bern
Lecture Room B7

• 14:15-15:15
  Hein PUTTER (Leiden)
  The Landmark Approach: An Introduction and Application to Dynamic Prediction in Competing Risks »
  
  Coffee break
   
• 15:30-16:30
  Johanna F. ZIEGEL (Bern)
  Coherence and Elicitability »
  
  Break
   
• 16:45-17:45
  Piotr FRYZLEWICZ (London)
  Wild Binary Segmentation for Multiple Change-Point Detection »

Fall 2012 (October 26)

• Nanny WERMUTH (Chalmers)
  Traceable Regressions in a Prospective Study of Child Development
• Jennifer L. WADSWORTH (EPF Lausanne)
  Dependence Modelling for Extreme Values
• Anatoli JUDITSKY (Grenoble)
  Accuracy Guarantees for ℓ1 Recovery of Block-Sparse Signals

Spring 2012 (April 20)

• Anestis ANTONIADIS (Grenoble)
  Wavelet Methods for Continuous-Time Prediction by Means of Markov Switching Autoregressive Hilbert Space Processes
• Guillaume OBOZINSKI (ENS Paris)
  Convex Relaxation for Combinatorial Penalties
• Jon WELLNER (Seattle)
  On and Off Semiparametric Models

Fall 2011 (October 25; Swiss Statistics Meeting in Fribourg)

• Dominic SCHUHMACHER (Bern)
  Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of a Log-Concave Density based on Censored Data
• Lutz DÜMBGEN (Bern)
  Comments on Projection Pursuit in High-Dimensional Settings

Spring 2011 (April 15)

• Stefan SPERLICH (Genève)
  Imposing Structure by Prior Knowledge in Semiparametric Analysis
• Gilles BLANCHARD (Potsdam)
  On Optimal Rates for Kernel Conjugate Gradient Regularization under Random Design and Noise
• Geurt JONGBLOED (Delft)
  Everything is Getting Worse... Or Not?

Fall 2010 (October 22)

• Richard NICKL (Cambridge)
  On Adaptive Nonparametric Inference
• Juliette BLANCHET (SLF Davos)
  Spatial Modeling of Extreme Snow Depth in Switzerland
• Gilles CELEUX (Orsay)
  Comparing Different Points of View for Analyzing Finite Mixture Models

Spring 2010 (April 23)

• Catalin STARICA (Neuchâtel)
  The stock markets of Europe: Globalization or European Integration?
• Niko BEERENWINKEL (ETH Zürich/Basel)
  Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer
• Tilmann GNEITING (Heidelberg)
  Making and Evaluating Point Forecasts

Fall 2009 (October 30; Swiss Statistics Meeting in Genève)

• Reinhard FURRER (Zürich)
  Climate Change: The Uncertainty of Certainty
• Christian KLEIBER (Basel)
  Majorization (not only) in Inequality Measurement
• Sylvain SARDY (Genève)
  L₁-Penalized Likelihood Smoothing of Volatility Processes Allowing for Abrupt Changes

Spring 2009 (April 24)

• Alan WELSH (Canberra)
  Recent Reflections on Extra Zeros in Count Data
• Regina LIU (Rutgers)
  Mining Massive Text Data: Classification, Tracking Statistics and Inference under Misclassification
• Richard GILL (Leiden)
  Statistics on Trial: The Case of Lucia de Berk

Fall 2008 (October 24)

• Fabrizio RUGGERI (Milano)
  Some Results in Bayesian Reliability
• Fred HAMPRECHT  (Heidelberg)
  Active Learning in Industrial Quality Control
• Omiros PAPASPILIOPOULOS (Barcelona)
  Representations and Posterior Simulation for Dirichlet Hierarchical Models with Applications to Inference for Non-Parametric Hidden Markov Models

Spring 2008 (April 25)

• Hajo HOLZMANN (Karlsruhe)
  Likelihood Inference for Mixtures and Hidden Markov Models under Non-Standard Conditions
• Richard E. CHANDLER (London)
  Space-time Modelling Using Independence and Generalised Estimating Equations
• Leonard HELD (Zürich)
  Multivariate Modelling of Infectious Disease Surveillance Data

Fall 2007 (November 16; Swiss Statistics Meeting in Luzern)

• Victor PANARETOS (Berkeley; EPF Lausanne)
  Partially Observed Stochastic Epidemics
• Marloes MAATHUIS (Seattle; ETH Zürich)
  Limiting Distribution of the MLE for Current Status Data with Competing Risks
• Laurie DAVIES (Essen)
  Approximation Regions and Nonparametric Regression

Spring 2007 (May 11)

• Yanyuan MA (Neuchâtel)
  Parameter and Functional Estimation in Semiparametric Models
• Yuedong WANG (Santa Barbara)
  ASSIST: A Suite of S Functions Implementing Spline Smoothing Techniques
• Nicola SARTORI (Venezia)
  Likelihood Inference for a Problem in Particle Physics
• Markus REISS (Heidelberg)
  Statistical Inverse Problems with Error in the Operator

Fall 2006 (December 8)

• Marc GENTON (Genève)
  Modeling and Inference Based on the Multivariate Skew-t Distribution
• Juan José EGOZCUE (Cataluña)
  The Sample Space of Compositional Data
• Tony ROSSINI (Basel)
  Modeling, Simulation, Computing and Pharma
• Christophe CROUX (Leuven)
  Robust Discrimination: An Influence Function Appraoch

Spring 2006 (May 19)

• Davy PAINDAVEINE (Bruxelles)
  Rank-Based Tests of Multivariate Independence in Independent Component Models
• Martin SCHLATHER (Hamburg)
  Simulation of Gaussian Random Fields
• Ian L. DRYDEN (Nottingham)
  Travels in Shape Spaces

Fall 2005 (November 11; Swiss Statistics Meeting in Zürich)

• Sara van de GEER (Leiden, ETH Zürich)
  A Comparison of Exponential and Hinge Loss in Classification
• Nicolai MEINSHAUSEN (ETH Zürich)
  Detection of Rare and Weak Signals: Multiple Testing for Astronomical Data
• A. Phil DAWID (London)
  Causality: Conceptions, Connexions, Confusions, Contentions

Spring 2005 (May 20)

• Axel MUNK (Göttingen)
  Statistical Inverse Problems
• Samuel MÜLLER (Bern)
  Model Selection in Linear and Partially Linear Models
• Gerda CLAESKENS (Leuven)
  Focussed Model Selection for Cox' Hazard Regression Model
• Steven PORTNOY (Urbana-Champaign)
  Conditional Quantiles: Reveling in the Charm of Variety