DEPARTMENT NEWS

ACADEMIC YEAR 2016 - 2017

• Seminar: Wednesday, 21/6/2017, 12:15: Ioannis Thomas Pavlidis, Eckhard-Pfeiffer Professor, Computational Physiology Lab, University of Houston: "Reforming Data Management in Human Experiments"
• Seminar: Thursday, 15/12/2016, 13:00: Dionissios Hristopulos, Technical University of Crete: "Modeling Earthquake Recurrence Times using Physical Insights and Statistical Analysis"
• Seminar: Friday, 23/12/2016, 13:00: Nikolas Kantas, Dept. of Mathematics, Imperial College London: "Particle filtering: a survey on the methodology and some extensions that are useful for high dimensional systems"
• Seminar: Thursday, 10/11/2016, 13:00 (exactly): Athanassios Rakitzis, Department of Mathematics, University of Aegean: "Control Charts for Monitoring Correlated Zero-Inflated Counts"
• Seminar: Wednesday, 12/12/2016, 14:00: Panos Toulis, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business: "PART A: Causal inference in statistics and econometrics and PART B: Research Opportunities for Statistics Graduates in the University of Chicago"
• Call for abstracts:9th EMR and Italian Region of IBS conference, Thessaloniki, Greece at 8-12 May 2017
• Winter Semester 2016-17 Faculty Office Hours
• Seminar: Wednesday, 5/10/2016, 15:00: Brendan McCabe, Management School, University of Liverpool: "Attempting to Model the Timing, Severity and Duration of Seasonal Influenza"
• Seminar: Wednesday, 26/10/2016, 15:00: Gonzalo Garcia-Donato, Department of Economy and Finance, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: "Criteria for Bayesian model choice and implications on the n<<p problem"

ACADEMIC YEAR 2015 - 2016

• Seminar: Wednesday, 22/6/2016, 13:00: Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Universitat Pompeu Fabra και David Rossell, University of Warwick : "Scalable Bayesian variable selection and model averaging under block orthogonal design"
• Seminar: Wednesday, 30/3/2016, 13:00: Athanassios Tsanas, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK: "Information fusion approach using signal quality indices, and information-theoretic feature selection: practical approaches and applications"
• Seminar: Friday, 1/4/2016, 13:00: Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Department of Psychological Methods, University of Amsterdam: "Bayesian Analyses with JASP: A Fresh Way to do Statistics"
• Seminar: Friday, 15/4/2016, 13:30: Andrei Sirchenko, ICEF, Higher School of Economics, Moscow: "Modeling discrete-valued time series with abundant and heterogeneous zeros"
• Seminar: Wednesday, 20/4/2016, 13:00: Mihail Loulakis, National Technical University of Athens: "A large deviations theorem for subexponential r.v.’s with an application to Interacting Particle Systems"
• Seminar: Monday 16/5/2016, 11:30: Gerda Claeskens, University of Leuven, Belgium: "Confidence intervals after selection by Akaike's information criterion"
• Faculty Office Hours for the Spring Semester 2015-16
• Seminar: Wednesday 27/1/2016, 13:00: Luca Tardella, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche – Sapienza Universita di Roma: "A novel Bayesian mixture of Poisson estimation for expressed sequence tag sampling"
• Seminar: Wednesday 13/1/2016, 13:00: Konstantinos Daskalakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Testing Properties of Distributions"
• Seminar: Tuesday 22/12/2015, 13:00: Nikolaos Karnesis, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics: "Finding Buried signals in noise: The hunt for Gravitational Waves"
• Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology (5th - 18th June, 2016)
• Scholarships for PhD Studies in Hong Kong, for the academic year 2016-17
• Undergraduate Students Online Services - Account Activation (Instructions here)
• Wednesday 21/10/2015, 15:00: Apostolos Bournetas, University of Athens, Department of Statistics: "Optimal Adaptive Policies in the Multi-Armed-Bandit Problem and Extensions"
• Class Schedule  for Winter Semester 2015 (in Greek)
• Academic Calendar 2015-2016
• Faculty Office Hours for the Winter Semester 2015-16

ACADEMIC YEAR 2014 - 2015

• Seminar: Friday 19/6/2015, 13:00: Andrew J. Womack, Assistant Professor, University of Indiana, Department of Statistics: "Bayesian Model Selection Under Heredity Constraints"
• Third Athens Probability Colloquium - 09/05/2015
• Seminar: Thursday, 5/2/2015, 13:00: Dimitris Mavridis, University of Ioannina School of Medicine: "Allowing for uncertainty due to missing data in pairwise and network meta-analysis"
• Final External Evaluation Report - Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Bussiness
• Erasmus+ Presentation
• Sports and Cultural Activities 2014 - 2015
• AUEB Career Office
• Connection Instructions for the eduroam wireless web
• Seminar: Tuesday, 28/4/2015, 12:15: Pantelis Bagos, Associate Professor, University of Thessaly: "Integration of data from multiple sources: meta-analysis and synthesis analysis"
• Seminar: Wednesday, 22/4/2015, 13:00: Asgharian Masoud, The Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University: "Prevalent Cohort Studies: Length-Biased Sampling with Right Censoring"
• Seminar: Friday,  3/4/2015, 13:00: Charalampos Chanialidis, School of Mathematical Sciences University College, Dublin: "Flexible regression models for count data"
• Seminar: Wednesday, 1/4/2015, 15:00: David Rossel, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick: "Integrating high-dimensional estimation and model selection with non-local priors"
• Seminar: Thursday, 26/3/2015 & Friday 27/3/2015, 12:00 - 15:00: Dr. Silvia Cagnone, Associate Professor, University of Bologna: "Structural equation models (SEM): theory and applications"
• Seminar: Thursday, 5/2/2015, 13:00: Dimitris Mavridis, University of Ioannina School of Medicine: "Allowing for uncertainty due to missing data in pairwise and network meta-analysis"
• Seminar: Wednesday, 17/12/2014, 13:00: Xanthi Penteli, Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business: "Likelihood estimation for the INAR(p) model by saddlepoint approximation"
• Seminar: Wednesday, 10/12/2014, 11:30: Loukia Meligotzidou, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens: "Particle MCMC and Augmentation Schemes"
• Seminar: Wednesday, 26/11/2014, 13:00: Mihalis Titsias, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business: "Hamming Ball Slice Sampling for Factorial Hidden Markov Models"
• Seminar: Tuesday, 11/11/2014, 13:15: Maria Kateri, Institute of Statistics, RWTH Aachen University: "Tampered Failure Rate Step-Stress Models: Continuous vs. Interval Monitoring"
• Seminar: Wednesday, 22/10/2014, 15:00 - 16:00: Brunilda Balliu: "A Retrospective Likelihood Approach for Efficient Integration of Multiple Omics Factors in Case-Control Association Studies"