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Previous Meetings

One day Meeting February 22, 2002, at the UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve

One-day Meeting May 24, 2002, at the UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve

Meeting 30 November 2004, KUL-2 and LUC

Meeting May 13-14, 2005, at ULB, Brussels

Meeting November 17, 2005, KUL-2 - UCL - UHasselt at KUL-2

Past Workshops

WORKSHOP I
    International Workshop on "Statistical Modelling and Inference for Complex Data Structures",
    May 21-23, 2002, at the UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve

WORKSHOP II : Workshop on "Statistical Modelling for Complex data", March 31 - April 2, 2003, at LUC

WORKSHOP III : May 12-13, 2005 at ULB, Brussels

WORKSHOP IV : September 30, 2005 at KUL, Leuven
     Y. Goegebeur        Slide of presentation
     D. Giannone          Slide of presentation
     E. Lesaffre            Slide of presentation
     A. Komarek          Slide of presentation

The WORKSHOP V

    will take place at UCL March 16-17, 2006                                                                                    
   
    Auditorium Socrate 11
    Place du Cardinal Mercier 10-12
    1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Past Seminars (2004-2005-2006)

• Tom Snijders (University of Groningen, The Nederlands),
  'Frequentist MCMC estimation methods for multilevel logistic regression'
  17 December 2004, UCL, Institute of statistics
  
  
  
• Anestis Antionadis (Université Joseph Fourier, France),
  'Penalized likelihood regression for generalized linear models with nonquadratic penalties'
  17 december 2004, UCL, Institute of statistics
  
  
  
• Seok-Oh Jeong (UCL),
  'Linearly interpolated FDH estimator for nonconvex frontiers'
  29 october 2004, UCL, Institute of statistics
  
  
  
• Prof. Pieter Kroonenberg, Universiteit Leiden, Holland
  'Three-way data : what they are and how to analyse them '
  18 october 2005, Mgr. Sencie Institute Leuven
  
  
  
• Christian Hafner (UCL),
  'Semiparametric multivariate volatility models'
  23 september 2005, UCL, Institute of statistics
  
  
  
• Davit Varron (UCL),
  'Large deviations for the increments of the empirical distribution function'
  23 september 2005, UCL, Institute of statistics
  
  
  
• Olivier LINTON, London School of Economics, UK
  "A quantilogram approach of evaluating directional predictability"
  25 November, 2005 , Institute of Statistics, UCL
  
  
  
• Domenico GIANNONE, ULB, Belgium
  "Nowcasting GDP and inflation : the real-time informational content of Macroeconomic data releases"
  25 November, 2005 , Institute of Statistics, UCL
  
  
  
• Manfred GILLI, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  "Optimization Heuristics : Overview and Classification"
  6 December, 2005 , Auditorium Zeger van Hee (DV 91.56), College De Valk, Tiensestraat 41, Leuven
  
  
• Iven VAN MECHELEN, KUL Leuven, Belgium
  "Applications in psychologie"
  10 February, 2006 , Institute of Statistics, UCL
  
  
• Francis TUERLINCKX, KUL Leuven, Belgium
  "Applications in psychologie"
  10 February, 2006 , Institute of Statistics, UCL
  
  
• Anestis ANTONIADIS, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
  "Dimension reduction in Functional Regression with Applications"
  24 March, 2006 , Institute of Statistics, UCL
  
  
• Christine DE MOL, ULB, Belgium
  "Sparsity-enforcing regularization"
  September 22, 2006(16h00 - 17h00), Institute of Statistics, UCL
  
  
  
• Jorge Cabrera, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
  "A comparison of two wild-bootstrap schemes on goodness of fit tests in presence of selection bias
  November 24, 2006 (16h00 - 17h00), Institute of Statistics, UCL
  
  
  

Past Short Courses (2004-2005-2006)

• Peter Hall (Australian National University, Canberra),
  'Advanced bootstrap methods'
  UCL December 2004, Institute of statistics
  
  
  
• Steve Portnoy (University of Illinois, USA),
  'Regression quantiles and applications'
  ULB/KUL February-May 2005
  
  
  
• Geert Verbeke (KUL-2, Belgium) and Geert Molenberghs (Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium),
  'Mixed Models and Incomplete Data'
  UCB Pharma 31st March - 1st April 2005
  
  
  
• Nicky Best (Imperial College, London, UK),
  'Introduction to bayesian inference in biomedical applications'
  UCL May 3-4, 2005
  
  
  
• Veronique Delouille (Royal Observatory of Belgium),
  'Statistical denoising of images, with applications in astronomy'
  UCL March 2005, Institute of Statistics
  
  
  
• Byeong Park (Seoul National University, South Korea),
  'Advanced nonparametric regression techniques'
  UCL, April 12 - May 15, 2005, Institute of statistics
  
  
  
• Eliana Scheihing (Universided Austral de Chile, Valdivia, CHILE),
  'Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods'
  UCL, August 30 - September 1 , 2005, Institute of Statistics
  
  
• Roger Koenker (University of Illinois) - Ivan Mizera (University of Alberta) - Bas Werker (Tilburg University) and S. Heiler (University of Konstanz),
  'Regression quantiles and applications'
  September 12 - September 16 , 2005, La Roche-en-Ardennes, Belgium
  
  
• Yoav Benjamini (Tel Aviv University, Israël),
  'Introduction of the FDR approach for multiple inference : concepts, methods and applications in Biostatistics and Genomics'
  Monday October 17 , 2005 , Institute of Statistics, UCL   Slide of presentation
  Thursday October 20 , 2005 , Institute of Statistics, UCL  Slide of presentation
  Monday October 24 , 2005, Institute of Statistics, UCL    Slide of presentation
  
  
• Guadalupe Gómez (1),M.Luz Calle (2), Ramon Oller (2) and Klaus Langhor (1)
  ((1) : Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, (2) : Universitat de Vic, Barcelona),
  'Interval Censoring with Medical Applications'
  November 15-16, 2005, KUL-2.
  
  
• Davit Varron, Institute of Statistics, UCL
  'Empirical processes'
  December 5 - 7 - 12, 2005 , Institute of Statistics, UCL
  
  
• Geert Molenberghs, Universiteit Hasselt - Geert Verbeke, KUL Leuven
  'Mixed models and incomplete data'
  February 22 - 23, 2006 , KUL Leuven
  
  
• Anestis Antionadis, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble, France
  'Support Vector Machines and Statistical Learning'
  March 6-8-13-15, 2006 , Institute of Statistics, UCL
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• Geert Molenberghs (UHasselt), Geert Verbeke (K.U.Leuven), Francis Tuerlinckx (K.U.Leuven)
  'Introduction to numerical techniques for statisticians'
  May 2-3, 2006 , K.U.Leuven, Belgium
  
  
• Hernando Ombao, University of Illinois,USA
  "Topics in Applied Time Series Analysis"
  June 21-23-28-29, 2006, Institute of Statistics, UCL
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Past Meetings (2006)

• One-day meeting, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
      "Recent developments in the Analysis of Repeated Measurements Studies in the Presence of Missing Data"
       May 19, 2006
  
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• One-day meeting, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium
      "Survival Analysis"
       May 19, 2006
  
  
  
  

Past Visitors (2004-2005)

Institution	Visitor (affiliation)	Dates
UCL	Peter Hall (Australian National University Canberra)	2004-10 / 2004-11 and 2005-03
KUL-1	Ernesto San Martin (PUC, Santiago de Chile)	2004-12 / 2005-03
UH	Joseph Ibrahim (University of North Carolina, USA)	2005-05 / 2005-06
ULB	Steve Portnoy (University of Illinois, USA)	2004 - 2005
UCL	Yoav Benjamini (Tel Aviv University, Israël)	14 - 26/10/2005
UCL	Anestis Antoniadis (Université Joseph Fourier, France)	28 - 29/11/2005
UCL	Jorge Luis Cabrera (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)	16/09/2005 - 16/12/2005
UCL	Valentin Zelenuyk	08/01/2006 - 15/01/2006

Past Scientific Personnel (2002-2005)

Name (nationality)	Status	Affiliation	Period
Seok-Oh Jeong (Korean)	Post-doctoral student	UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve	01/09/2003-31/08/2004
Bigot Jeremie (French)	Post-doctoral student	UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve	01/10/2003-30/09/2004
Alexandra Daskovska (Ukranian)	Doctoral student	UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve	15/01/2004-31/08/2005
Zelenuyk Valentin (Ukranian)	Post-doctoral student	UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve	01/09/2004-31/08/2005
Cimadomo Jacopo (Italian)	Doctoral student	ULB, Brussels	06/01/2002-31/08/2002
Liska Roman (Czechoslovakian)	Doctoral student	ULB, Brussels	01/01/2002-15/03/2002
Nieczyk Jerzy (Polish)	Doctoral student	ULB, Brussels	10/01/2002-30/09/2003
Raciborski Rafal (Polish)	Doctoral student	ULB, Brussels	01/10/2003-31/12/2004
De Knop Stijn (Belgian)	Doctoral student	KUL-1, Leuven	15/05/2002-14/05/2004
Kocmanova Dora (Czechoslovakian)	Doctoral student	KUL-1, Leuven	01/09/2002-31/12/2003
Hidegkuti Istvan (Hungarian)	Doctoral student	KUL-1, Leuven	01/11/2003-28/07/2005
Rizopoulos Dimitris (Greek)	Doctoral student	KUL-1, Leuven	01/10/2004-30/09/2005
Tsonaka Spyridoula (Argentinian)	Doctoral student	KUL-1, Leuven	01/10/2004-30/09/2005
Schmitz Volker (German)	Doctoral student	RWTH, Aachen	01/01/2002-28/02/2003
Nordhoff Ole (German)	Doctoral student	RWTH, Aachen	01/10/2004-31/10/2004
Geys Helena (Belgian)	Post-doctoral student	UH, Hasselt	03/02/2002-30/09/2002
Montenegro Osvaldo Norman (Cuban)	Doctoral student	UH, Hasselt	09/10/2003-20/12/2003
Lichun Wang (Chinese)	Post-doctoral student	UH, Hasselt	16/02/2004-16/02/2005