Schedule

  • Colloquium: The colloquia with external speakers are organized by the lecturers of IMSV. You may receive announcements via a mailing list.

  • Seminar: Members, students and guests of our institute talk informally about ongoing work, or topics of general interest. Every now and then, projects from statistical consulting are also presented. External participants are welcome! If you are interested in giving a talk, please contact Prof. Andrea Agazzi at andrea.agazzi@unibe.ch.

  • PhD defense and master thesis presentation: Join us as our PhD students defend their theses and our Master's students present their work.

Date and Venue: Unless specified otherwise, the events take place in Room -203 of Alpeneggstrasse 22. Masters student presentations are typically scheduled for Thursday lunchtimes (12:15pm), while all other events are on Friday afternoons (4:15pm).

HS 2025
Date Type Speaker Title
Thursday, 25 September 2025

Master's thesis presentation

 Alain Maurer

New models in asset trading
Friday, 10 October 2025

Colloquium (Room B6, ExWi, Sidlerstrasse 5, Bern)

 Prof. Rüdiger Urbanke (EPFL)

Information-Theoretic Framework for Understanding Learning in Modern Machine-Learning Architectures (Abstract)
Friday, 17 October 2025

Colloquium (Room B77, ExWi, Sidlerstrasse 5, Bern)

 Prof. Bastian Rieck (Uni Fribourg)

Shapes, Spaces, Simplices, and Structure: Geometry, Topology, and Machine Learning (Abstract)
Friday, 07 November 2025 Colloquium Prof. Philippe Robert

Stochastic Models of Regulation of Gene Expression (Abstract)
Wednesday, 19 November 2025 Colloquium Francesco Triggiano

Optimization schemes: A stochastic analysis view (Abstract)
Friday, 28 November 2025 Colloquium (Room B6, ExWi, Sidlerstrasse 5, Bern)
Prof. Jean-Pierre Eckmann

Rolling stones reveal new structures in SO(3) (Abstract)
Thursday, 04 December 2025 Master's thesis presentation Jiamu Xu TBA
Thursday, 11 December 2025 Master's thesis presentation Anastasia Popkova What can Large Language Models offer to Event-based Vision?
Friday, 12 December 2025 Colloquium Vanessa Piccolo TBA
Friday, 23 January 2026 PhD Defense Tommaso Visonà
Geometric Aspects of Stochastic Processes and Statistical Testing