EDT-Day – March 28th

The EDT STAT-ACTU is organizing its EDT-day on Friday March 28, 2025. It will take place in room “Salle des professeurs” on the 9th floor of the NO building (La Plaine, ULB). The program can be found below:

Registration, free but compulsory, can be made on this page:

Session 1 

9.30am – 10am: Welcome (coffee and tea)
10am – 11am: Ines Wilms (Maastricht University): Sparse regression for large data sets with outliers

11am – 12.15pm: Actuarial Sciences Session

• 11am – 11.45am: Karim Barigou (UCLouvain): Granular mortality modelling with temperature and epidemic shocks: a three-state regime-switching approach
• 11.45am – 12.15pm: Pierre-Alexandre Simon (ULB): TBA

12.15pm – 1.15pm: Lunch break

Session 2

1.15pm – 2.15pm: Aymeric Dieuleveut (Ecole Polytechnique): TBA

2.15pm – 3.15pm: BEAMM Session

• 2.15pm – 2.45pm: Alexandre Jacquemain (UCLouvain, USaintLouis): Developing BEAMM: Data Integration, Statistical Learning, and Software for Policy Analysis
• 2.45pm – 3.15pm: Hugues Annoyes (UCLouvain, USaintLouis): BEAMM project : How do we deal with data? Statistical matching and WGAN generation

3.15pm – 3.30pm: Coffee break

Session 3 

3.30pm – 4.30pm: Biostatistics Session

• 3.30pm – 4pm: Luc Boone (EORTC, UCLouvain): TBA
• 4pm – 4.30pm: Hortense Doms (UCLouvain): TBA

4.30pm – 5.30pm: Mathematical Statistics Session

• 4.30pm – 5pm: Maxime Boucher (UNamur): Goodness-of-fit in circular data : a trigonometric moments story
• 5pm – 5.30pm: Lídia André (UNamur): Neural Bayes inference for extremal dependence models

5.30pm – 6.30pm: Drink