Colloquium of the Department
Organization: Helmut Küchenhoff, Maximilian Weigert
The colloquium regularly takes place wednesdays at 16.00 c.t. at the seminar room of the Department of Statistics (Ludwigstraße 33, room 144). The talks can also be attended online via Zoom (Meeting-ID: 913-2473-4411; Password: StatsCol22; Link: https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/j/91324734411?pwd=eklMN2ZyOWxjanlySElvYkFNamtaQT09).
Please keep in mind the current COVID-19 regulations at LMU if you plan to attend in-person.
The colloquium presents and discusses current topics in statistics through lectures of professors or guests. Furthermore, theses of students and PhD candidates are presented.
Interested persons, especially students of statistics, are cordially invited to come.
Program Summer Term 2022:
| Topic | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Instrumental Variable Approaches To Individualized Treatment Regimes Under A Counterfactual World | Tuesday, 05/03/2022, 14.00 c.t. |
Yifan Cui National University of Singapore |
| Detecting parameter heterogeneity in psychometric models by means of model-based recursive partitioning with psychotree, stablelearner & co. | Wednesday, 05/04/2022, 17.30 s.t. |
Carolin Strobl University of Zurich |
| Surprises in topic model estimation and new Wasserstein document-distance calculations | Wednesday, 05/11/2022, 16.00 c.t. |
Florentina Bunea Cornell University, Ithaca, New York |
| Data 4 Policy: Towards a Data Culture | Wednesday, 05/18/2022, 16.00 c.t. (Geschw.-Scholl-Pl. 1, B 201) Meeting-ID: 942-6899-3687 Password: 630870 https://lmu-munich.zoom.us /j/94268993687?pwd=TzRON09 qYXhWTWtRT3ZySzRPR0ZWQT09 |
Walter J. Radermacher Department of Statistics, LMU |
| tba | Wednesday, 06/01/2022, 16.00 c.t. |
Working group presentation: Chair of Applied Statistics in Social Sciences, Economics and Business (Göran Kauermann) |
| On the Difficulty of Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification in Machine Learning: The Case of Direct Uncertainty Estimation through Loss Minimization | Wednesday, 06/08/2022, 16.00 c.t. |
Viktor Bengs Department of Statistics, LMU |
| Does Rising Inequality Reduce Social Cohesion? New Results Using Hybrid Multilevel Regression Models and Four Decades of Repeated Surveys in 32 Countries | Wednesday, 06/15/2022, 16.00 c.t. (Konradstr. 6, Room 309) https://lmu-munich.zoom.us /j/3744147750?pwd=MWpsWX JnQTZVSitMaHByZSt3SmNkZz09 |
Markus Gangl Goethe University Frankfurt |
| tba | Thursday, 06/23/2022, 16.00 c.t. |
Thomas Hotz Technische Universität Ilmenau |
| tba | Wednesday, 06/29/2022, 16.00 c.t. |
Maria Eduarda Silva University of Porto |
| tba | Wednesday, 07/06/2022, 16.00 c.t. |
Michael Schomaker Department of Statistics, LMU |
| Combining experimental and population data to estimate population treatment effects | Wednesday, 07/13/2022, 16.00 s.t. (online only) |
Elizabeth Stuart Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore |
| tba | Wednesday, 07/20/2022, 16.00 c.t. |
Thomas Nagler Department of Statistics, LMU |