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 colloquia take place in Room B78 of Sidlerstrasse 5 (ExWi) while Master thesis presentations take place in Room -203 of Alpeneggstrasse 22 (IMSV).

 

FS 2026
Date & Venue Speaker Title

FRI, 23.01. (16:15 h)
ExWi, B5

 Tommaso Visonà
Geometric Aspects of Stochastic Processes and Statistical Testing (PhD Defense)

MON, 26.01. (16:15 h) 
IMSV, -203

 Ivana Peric

A Monte Carlo study of the distribution of the absorption time of the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process subject to stochastic resetting and mixed boundary conditions (Master Thesis)

WED, 25.02. (16:15 h)
ExWi, B78

Katerina Papagiannouli
(University of Pisa)

Beyond NNGP: Large Deviations and Feature Learning in Bayesian Neural Networksn (Colloquium, Abstract)

FRI, 27.02. (12:15 h) 
IMSV, -203

 Raphael Rüfenacht The Expressive Power of Self-Attention in Transformers (Master Thesis)

WED, 04.03. (16:15 h)
ExWi, B77

Nathan Kirk
(University of St Andrews)

Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods via Combinatorial Discrepancy (Colloquium, Abstract)
WED, 11.03. (16:15 h)
ExWi, B78
 Catherine Wolfram
(ETH Zürich)

The dimer model in three dimensions (Colloquium, Abstract)

THU, 23.04. (16:15 h)
ExWi, B7

Jelle J. Goemann
(Leiden University)

 tba (Colloquium)