Forthcoming Meetings


UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN		KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN		UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN		UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

The Department of Statistics and Actuarial – Financial Mathematics of University of the Aegean is pleased to host the 5^th Samos Conference. Detailed information can be found on the website:

This event, jointly organized with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Københavns Universitet, provides a forum for state-of-the-art results and the latest advances in the area of actuarial science and finance. The meeting is open to people from Universities, Insurance Companies, Banks, Consulting Firms, or Regulatory Authorities interested in actuarial-financial mathematics.

Extremes and Large Deviations in Actuarial Science (Chair, H. Drees)

Measuring Risk in Non-Life Insurance (Chair, H. Schmidli)

Integrated Risk Management (Chair, Th. Zariphopoulou)

Modelling Dependence in Multivariate Risk (Chair, G. Samorodnitsky)

Mortality Risk Management in Life, Health, and Pension Insurance (Chair, M. Steffensen)

Risk and Stochastic Control (Chair, S. Asmussen)

Armelle Guillou – University of Strasbourg, France

Alfred Müller – Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

Patrick Brockett - University of Texas at Austin, USA

Jan Rosinski – University of Tennessee, USA

Biffis Enrico - City University, United Kingdom

Andreas Kyprianou – University of Bath, United Kingdom

Rama Cont – Columbia University, USA

A short course will take place before the conference (September 1-3) under the title:

Asmussen Soeren
Drees Holger
Foss Serguei
Frangos Nicolaos
Gerber Hans

Goovaerts Marc
Guillen Montserrat
Konstantinides Dimitrios
Makov Udi
Marceau Etienne

Mikosch Thomas
Morettin Pedro
Ng Kai Wang
Papaioanou Takis (Chair)

Samorodnitsky Gena
Steffensen Mogens
Teugels Jef
Verrall Richard
Zariphopoulou Thaleia

Flexible Modelling: Smoothing and Robustness

The International Workshop on "Flexible Modelling: Smoothing and Robustness" (FMSR 2008), is to be held at Leuven, Belgium, November 12-14, 2008. The general theme of the workshop is semi- and nonparametric analysis and robust statistical methods. More specific themes are, among others, flexible smoothing and penalization, model selection, nonparametric functional estimation, modelling dependencies and inference for copulas, robust multivariate outlier detection, and semi- and nonparametric methods in time-series analysis. There will be invited talks, contributed talks, and poster sessions. The workshop will be followed by a short course for doctoral students.

List of Invited Speakers: Anestis Antoniadis (Grenoble, France), Graciela Boente (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Jianqing Fan (Princeton, USA), Peter Hall (Melbourne, Australia), Xuming He (Urbana-Champaign, USA), Bruno Rémillard (Montréal, Canada), Qiwei Yao (London, UK), Bernard Silverman (Oxford, UK)
Information: Irène Gijbels, Dominik Sznajder
E-mail: dominik.sznajder@wis.kuleuven.be
Website: wis.kuleuven.be/stat/fmsr2008.php

Fifth Colloquium on Mathematics and Computer Science, Algorithms, Trees, Combinatorics and Probabilities

The Henry-Fabri-Institute in Blaubeuren will host during the week September 22-26, 2008 an international Fifth Colloquium on Mathematics and Computer Science Algorithms, Trees, Combinatorics, and Probabilities.

The main topic of the meeting is the analysis of algorithms with probabilistic and combinatorial tools. The main purpose of the meeting is to join forces in mathematics and in computer science for the mathematical analysis of algorithms.

EURANDOM jubilee in 2008

In September 2008, EURANDOM will exist 10 years; the first postdocs and Ph.D. students arrived in September and October of 1998. EURANDOM is an international Research Institute in the areas of probability, statistics, and stochastic operations research, located on the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) campus. The scientific staff of EURANDOM consists of about 25 postdocs from Europe and abroad, guided by senior scientists, mainly coming from Dutch universities, including TU/e. The research is fundamental as well as application oriented. Some of the application areas are: physics, biology, image analysis, and communication and risk management. Many postdocs find tenured positions after their period of research at EURANDOM at Dutch or international universities and/or at research positions in industry, including banks. EURANDOM is known for its workshops and visitor programs: around 10 workshops per year, with around 400 participants and around 40 visitors a year visit the institute during periods of a few days up to several months. The 10th anniversary will be celebrated with a conference on August 27 and 28, 2008. During this conference the founders of EURANDOM, former postdocs, and keynote speakers from science and industry shall reflect on 10 years of EURANDOM and will look forward to new developments. More information will be given later on www.eurandom.tue.nl. For the moment, we would like to suggest making a reservation in your agenda for these dates.

Current Trends and Challenges in Model Selection and Related Areas

The workshop on Current Trends and Challenges in Model Selection and Related Areas will be held on July 24-26, 2008, University of Vienna, Austria. It will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of current trends and challenging problems in model selection and related shrinkage methods. Invited speakers include Yannick Baraud (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipoli), Rudy Beran (UCC Davis), Ed George (The Wharton School), Patrik Guggenberger (UCLA), Ching-Kang Ing (Academia Sinica), Paul Kabaila (LaTrobe Univ.), Gabor Lugosi (Pompeu Fabra Univ.), Alexander Tsybakov (Paris 6), and Yuhong Yang (Univ. of Minnesota).

XII th Brazilian School of Probability