Program

23rd European Young Statisticians Meeting (EYSM), Ljubljana, Slovenia (in virtual mode)

September 11-15, 2023

Final Program

(all times are in Central European Summer Time/CEST)

Monday, September 11

10:30 - 11:00 OPENING CEREMONY

11:00 - 12:40 Session 1 – Chairman: Federico Camerlenghi

11:00 - 11:25 Bálint Horváth: Constructing Nonparametric Simultaneous Confidence Bands for Band-Limited Functions

11:25 - 11:50 Kimon Ntotsis: Exploring Nonlinear Associations between Features: A Tool for Capturing Complex Relationships

11:50 - 12:15 Mathieu Sauvenier: Multivariate Multiscale model for Locally Stationary Processes

12:15 - 12:40 Mario Beraha: Frequency and cardinality recovery from sketches: a statistical viewpoint

12:40 - 14:00 Mid-day Break

14:00 - 15:15 Session 2 – Chairman: Aliaksandr Hubin

14:00 - 14:25 Matej Benko: Bayesian Estimation of the Battery State of Charge Model Parameters

14:25 - 14:50 Jon Lachmann: Subsampling MCMC for Bayesian Variable Selection and Model Averaging in Bayesian Generalized Nonlinear Models

14:50 - 15:15 Francesca Romana Crucinio: Divide-and-Conquer sequential Monte Carlo with applications to high dimensional filtering

15:15 - 15:40 Short Break 1

15:40 - 16:40 Keynote Lecture 1, Chairman: Federico Camerlenghi

Aad VAN DER VAART, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands: Nonparametric Bayesian uncertainty quantification: a review and some open problems

16:40 - 17:00 Short Break 2

17:00 - 18:40 Session 3 – Chairman: Hrvoje Planinić

17:00 - 17:25 Predrag Pilipovic: Parameter Estimation in First and Second-Order Nonlinear Stochastic Differential Equations using the Strang Splitting Scheme

17:25 - 17:50 Petra Lazić: Subgeometric ergodicity of regime-switching diffusion processes

17:50 - 18:15 Miha Brešar: Lower bounds for convergence rates of ergodic strong Markov processes

18:15 - 18:40 Zhongwei Zhang: Extremal Dependence of Stochastic Processes Driven by Exponential-Tailed Lévy Noise

Tuesday, September 12

11:00 - 12:40 Session 1 – Chairman: Jan Vávra

11:00 - 11:25 Lídia André: Joint modelling of the bulk and tail of bivariate data

11:25 - 11:50 Aoife Hurley: Joint Species Spatial Modelling of Deer Count Data

11:50 - 12:15 Tiia-Maria Pasanen: A Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Markets During the Finnish 1860s Famine

12:15 - 12:40 Ana Martins: On the theory of space-time models for counts

12:15 - 13:40 Mid-day Break

13:40 - 15:20 Session 2 – Chairman: Chengchun Shi

13:40 - 14:05 Sarah Pirenne: Approximate Post-Selection Inference For Variables Selected by Adaptive and Group Lasso

14:05 - 14:30 Marouane Il Idrissi: Cooperative game theory and importance quantification

14:30 - 14:55 Vlad Raul Constantinescu: Interpolation property of shallow neural networks

14:55 - 15:20 Lars Henry Berge Olsen: Estimating Conditional Shapley Values in Model Explanation

15:20 - 15:40 Short Break 1

15:40 - 16:40 Keynote Lecture 2, Chairman: Andrej Srakar

Mihael PERMAN, University of Ljubljana and University of Primorska, Slovenia: Kolmogorov's statistic and point processes

16:40 - 17:00 Short Break 2

17:00 - 18:40 Session 3 – Chairman: Andrej Srakar

17:00 - 17:25 Katarina Halaj: On diagnostic tests for circular regression models

17:25 - 17:50 Qin Fang: On the Modelling and Prediction of High-Dimensional Functional Time Series

17:50 - 18:15 Jaakko Pere: On extreme behavior of multivariate and infinite dimensional observations

18:15 - 18:40 Alessia Caponera: Functional estimation of anisotropic covariance and autocovariance operators on the sphere

Wednesday, September 13

11:00 - 12:15 Session 1 – Chairman: Dario Azzimonti

11:00 - 11:25 Alexandre Lecestre: Robust estimation in finite state space hidden Markov models

11:25 - 11:50 Carlos de la Calle-Arroyo: Design augmentation: a tool for experimenters

11:50 - 12:15 Henrik Imberg: Optimal Subsampling in Measurement-Constrained Experiments

12:15 - 13:40 Mid-day Break

13:40 - 15:20 Session 2 – Chairman: Jakob Peterlin

13:40 - 14:05 Erika Lettrichová: Stochastic modeling of age-specific fertility rates

14:05 - 14:30 Ana Zalokar: Optimal switching among hedging strategies in equity-linked products with guarantees

14:30 - 14:55 Razvan-Cornel Sfetcu: Ordering Awad-Tsallis Quantile Entropy and Applications to Some Stochastic Models

14:55 - 15:20 Žikica Lukić: On a Novel Two-Sample Test for Matrix Distributions and Application in Finance

15:20 - 15:40 Short Break 1

15:40 - 17:20 Session 3 – Chairman: Alexandre Jacquemain

15:40 - 16:05 Sophia Loizidou: A data-adaptive algorithm for multiple change-point detection

16:05 - 16:30 Victor Gallego: Fast Adaptation with Bradley-Terry Preference Models in Text-To-Image Retrieval and Generation

16:30 - 16:55 Jonathan Henderson: Using Spatial Point Process Models to Understand Cell Loss in Glaucoma

16:55 - 17:20 Tomasz Skalski: Pattern Recovery by SLOPE

17:20 - 17:40 Short Break 2

17:40 - 18:40 Keynote Lecture 3, Chairman: Anne van Delft

Daniela M. WITTEN, University of Washington, United States: Data thinning and its applications

Thursday, September 14

11:00 - 12:00 Keynote Lecture 4, Chairman: Dario Azzimonti

Vladimir BATAGELJ, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: Analysis of bibliographic networks

12:00 - 13:40 Mid-day Break

13:40 - 14:55 Session 1 – Chairman: Hrvoje Planinić

13:40 - 14:05 Diana Avetisian: Parameter estimation in stochastic heat equations driven by fractional and mixed fractional Brownian motion

14:05 - 14:30 Tomislav Kralj: CLT for the perimeter of the convex hull spanned by two independent random walks

14:30 - 14:55 Tobias Overgaard: Adding unit clauses to the random 2-SAT problem

14:55 - 15:20 Short Break 1

15:20 - 16:20 Keynote Lecture 5, Chairman: Andrej Srakar

Nina HOLDEN, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, United States: Random curves and surfaces

16:20 - 16:40 Short Break 2

16:40 - 18:20 Session 2 – Chairman: Marija Cuparić

16:40 - 17:05 Arianna Casanova Flores: Desirability: some developments and applications

17:05 - 17:30 Małgorzata Łazęcka: Resampling methods in conditional independence testing

17:30 - 17:55 Marianna Lakatos-Szabó: Parametric post-processing of dual-resolution precipitation forecasts

17:55 - 18:20 Saifuddin Syed: Non-reversible parallel tempering on optimized paths

Friday, September 15

11:00 - 12:15 Session 1 – Chairman: Christina Parpoula

11:00 - 11:25 Spiros Dafnis: Weak Runs in Multistate Trials and Applications in Statistical Process Monitoring

11:25 - 11:50 Shauna Mooney: Using service statistics to inform modern contraceptive prevalence estimates for all women of reproductive age

11:50 - 12:15 Maria Nareklishvili: Feature Selection for Personalised Policy Analysis

12:15 - 13:40 Mid-day Break

13:40 - 14:55 Session 2 – Chairman: Andrej Srakar

13:40 - 14:05 Mykyta Yakovliev: Asymptotic Properties of Parameter Estimators for Mixed Fractional Brownian Motion with Trend

14:05 - 14:30 Martina Petráková: Some notes about Poisson–Laguerre tessellation with unbounded weights

14:30 - 14:55 Jana Reker: Multi-Point Functional Central Limit Theorem for Wigner Matrices

14:55 - 15:20 Short Break

15:20 - 16:20 Keynote Lecture 6, Chairman: Alexandre Jacquemain

Davy PAINDAVEINE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium: Inference in principal component analysis under weak identifiability

16:20 - 17:00 CLOSING CEREMONY