General chair of the 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2022), Eindhoven, the Netherlands (with Cassio de Campos)
Program chair of the 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2021), online (with Cassio de Campos)
Program chair of the 2019 European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2019), WĂĽrzburg, Germany (with Ulf Brefeld, Andreas Hotho and Celine Robardet)
2023
Florence Nightingale Lecture 2023, Oxford University, UK
2020
Breiman lecture at the 43th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020). December 5-12, 2020, online.
2019
Statistical Methods for Post Genomic Data (SMPGD 2019). Keynote speaker.
January 31 - February 1, 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
2017
Royal Statistical Society Annual Conference. Keynote talk.
September 5-7, 2017, Glasgow, Scotland.
Applied Machine Learning Days. Plenary speaker.
January 30-31, 2017, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2016
Distinguished Lecture in Causal Modeling and Discovery.
November 11, 2016, Pittsburgh, USA.
NORDSTAT 2016: The 26th Nordic Conference in Mathematical Statistics. Plenary speaker.
June 27-30 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2021
Workshop in honor of Piet Groenboom's 80th birthday. Invited speaker.
September 23, 2021, Delft, The Netherlands.
BMS-ANed meeting: Graphical Models and their Applications in Genomics. Invited speaker.
May 21, 2021, online.Â
2020
Online causal inference seminar. Invited talk.
June 30, 2020, online.
VVSOR Annual Meeting. Invited speaker.
March 12, 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Oberwolfach workshop Statistics Meets Machine Learning. Invited participant.
January 27-31, 2020, Oberwolfach, Germany.
2019
Workshop Graphical Models: Conditional Independence and Algebraic Structures. Invited speaker.
October 23-25, 2019, Munich, Germany.
Risk Day ETH. Invited speaker.
September 13, 2019, Zurich, Switzerland.
Oberwolfach workshop on Foundations and New Horizons for Causal Inference. Invited speaker.
May 26 - June 1, 2019, Oberwolfach, Germany.
European Causal Inference Meeting 2019. Invited speaker.
March 27-29, 2019, Bremen, Germany.
2018
World Minds. Invited participant.
December 6 2018, Zurich, Switzerland.
Workshop Phase Transitions in Living Systems. Invited speaker.
October 24-25, 2018, Aachen, Germany.
Joint 2018 IMS Annual Meeting / 12th International Vilnius Conference. Organizer of invited session and invited speaker.
July 2-6, 2018, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Summerschool on Graphical Models: From Mathematical Foundations to Biological Applications. Invited speaker.
June 25-29, 2018, Basel, Switzerland.
Workshop on High-Dimensional Statistics and Random Structures at the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. Invited speaker.
June 18-19, Barcelona, Spain.
Workshop: Theoretical and algorithmic underpinnings of Big Data. Invited participant.
January 15-19, 2018, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK.
2017
CMStatistics 2017. Organizer of an invited session and co-chair of the Causality Track.
December 16-18, 2017, University of London, UK.
Dagstuhl Seminar: Addressing the Computational Challenges of Personalized Medicine. Invited participant and speaker.
November 19-22, 2017, Wadern, Germany.
Symposium in honor of Richard Gill: Statistical Theory and the Real World. Invited speaker.
September 12-15, 2017, Leiden, The Netherlands.
ARS'17 International Workshop: Challenges in Social Network Research. Invited speaker.
May 16-17, 2017, Naples, Italy.
Workshop Learning Graphical Models in High-Dimensional Settings. Invited speaker.
April 4-7, 2017, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), Edinburgh, UK
Science and Development Forum on Mathematical and Data Sciences for Development. Co-organizer.
March 1, 2017, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
2016
CMStatistics 2016. Session organizer and invited speaker.
December 9-11, 2016, Seville, Spain.
Workshop on Statistical Causal Inference and its Applications to Genetics. Co-organizer.
July 25 - August 19, 2016, Montreal, Canada.
9th World Congress on Probability and Statistics. Invited talk.
July 11-15 2016, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada.
UAI Workshop Causation: Foundation to Applications. Co-organizer.
June 29, 2016, Jersey City, USA. Workshop Proceedings.
48èmes Journées de Statistiques de la SFdS. Invited talk.
May 30-June 3 2016, Montpellier, France.
8èmes Journées Statistiques du Sud. Minicourse.
May 28-29 2016, Montpellier, France.
DAGStat 2016: Fourth Joint Statistical Meeting of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik. Invited speaker.
March 14-18 2016, Göttingen, Germany.
EPFL Statistics Seminar. Â Invited talk.
March 4 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2015
Colloquium Four Facets of Modern Statistics, and a Surprise!. Invited talk.
December 3 2015, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
ZURICH.MINDS. Invited participant.
November 11 2015, Zurich, Switzerland.
26th Swiss Day on Mathematics and Education. Workshop for gymnasium teachers. Invited speaker.
September 9 2015, Zurich, Switzerland.
IMS Annual Meeting / Joint Statistical Meetings. Invited speaker.
August 8-13, 2015, Seattle, USA.
Workshop on Statistical Learning of Biological Systems from Perturbations. Keynote speaker.
May 31 - June 5, 2015, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland.
2014
7th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics. Invited speaker.
December 6-8 2014, Pisa, Italy.
Colloquium From Robust to High-dimensional Statistics: 50 Years of Statistics at ETH Zurich. Co-organizer.
November 24 - 25 2014, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Workshop on high-dimensional, high-frequency and spatial time series data. Invited speaker.
October 29-31 2014, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society. Invited speaker.
September 1-4 2014, Sheffield, UK.
22nd meeting of PhD students in Stochastics in the Netherlands. Short course on graphical models.
May 12-14 2014, Hilversum, the Netherlands.
Mid-program workshop on Statistical Inference in Sparse High-dimensional Models: Theoretical and Computational Challenges in SAMSI's 2013-14 Program on Low-dimensional Structure in High-dimensional Systems. Co-organizer.
February 24-26 2014, SAMSI, USA.
2013
Seminar at Stats Lab, University of Cambridge.
November 22 2013, Cambridge, UK.
Workshop on Case Studies of Causal Model Search. Invited talk. Video.
October 25-27, 2013, Pittsburgh, USA.
24. Schweizerischer Tag fĂĽr Mathematik Unterricht. Invited talk.
September 11 2013, Chur, Switzerland.
Scientifica 2013. Short lecture.
September 1 2013, Zurich, Switzerland.
34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB34). Invited talk. Video.
August 25-29 2013, Munich, Germany.
Workshop on Statistical Genomics and Data Integration for Personalized Medicine. Participant.
May 12-17 2013, Ascona, Switzerland.
Seminar at Johns Hopkins University.
March 25 2013, Baltimore, United States.
Seminar at Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University.
March 21 2013, Pittsburgh, United States.
Workshop Statistics for Complex Networks: Theory and Applications at EURANDOM. Invited talk.
January 30-February 1 2013, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
2012
Seminar at Bison group, ETH Zurich.
December 4, 2012, Zurich, Switzerland.
Oxford-Stanford Conference on Big Data, University of Oxford. Invited talk.
November 28-29, 2012, Oxford, UK.
Causal Structure Learning Workshop at UAI 2012. Co-organizer.
August 18, 2012, Catalina Island, United States.
8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics. Invited talk (delivered by Diego Colombo).
July 9-14, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
Seminar at the Department of Econometrics, University of Geneva.
May 11 2012, Geneva, Switzerland.
Workshop Frontiers in Nonparametric Statistics. Invited talk.
March 11-17, 2012, Oberwolfach, Germany.
Seminar at the Department of Mathematics, VU University Amsterdam.
February 3, 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2011
Workshop High-Dimensional Problems in Statistics. Co-organizer.
September 19-23 2011, Zurich, Switzerland.
Seminar at the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science of the University of Bern.
May 5 2011, Bern, Switzerland.
Seminar at the Statistics Group in the Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol.
March 18 2011, Bristol, UK.
2010
Zurich Colloquium in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich. Invited talk.
October 26 2010, Zurich, Switzerland.
Workshop Learning from Perturbation Effects at ECCB 2010. Invited talk.
September 26-29 2010, Ghent, Belgium.
EMS 2010. Invited talk.
August 17-22 2010, Piraeus, Greece.
Conference From Probability to Statistics and Back: High-Dimensional Models and Processes. Co-organizer.
Conference in honor of Jon Wellner's 65th birthday.
July 28-31 2010, Seattle, Washington.
Seminar at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern.
June 28 2010, Bern, Switzerland.
2009
2009 Conference of the Working Group "Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics". Invited talk.
September 17-18 2009, Munich, Germany.
JSM 2009. Invited talk.
August 1-6 2009, Washington DC.
TANDEMplusIDEA, an international mentoring programme and personal development scheme for female postdocs in the fields of natural science and engineering. Invited speaker on the topic of dual careers.
March 11 2009, Zurich, Switzerland.
2008
Seminar at the Institute of Statistics, University of Neuchatel.
November 25 2008, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Swiss Statistics Seminar. Invited talk.
October 24 2008, Bern, Switzerland.
Workshop Understanding the New Statistics: Expanding Core Statistical Theory. Invited talk.
September 14-19 2008, Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Research and Discovery (BIRS), Canada.
XXIVth International Biometric Conference. Poster presentation.
July 13-18, 2008, University College Dublin, Ireland.
ISBIS-2008 International Symposium on Business and Industrial Statistics. Invited talk.
July 1-4 2008, Prague, Czech Republic.
Workshop High Dimensional Statistics in Biology. Invited participant.
March 31 - April 4, 2008, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK.
Inaugural lecture at ETH Zurich (Einfuehrungsvorlesung). Video.
March 7 2008, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
2007
Seminar at the Institute of Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.
December 7 2007, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Swiss Statistics Seminar. Invited talk.
November 16 2007, Luzern, Switzerland.
Oberwolfach workshop: Reassessing the Paradigms of Statistical Model-Building. Invited participant.
October 21-27 2007, Oberwolfach, Germany.
Workshop on Algorithms in Complex Systems. Invited talk. Video.
September 24-26 2007, EURANDOM, The Netherlands.
2007 WNAR/IMS Meeting. Invited talk.
June 24-27 2007, University of California Irvine.
Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Seminar, University of Washington.
April 5 2007, Seattle, Washington.
Seminar at Penn State University. February 16 2007, State College, Pennsylvania.
Seminar at Rutgers University. February 14 2007, University Park, Pennsylvania.
Seminar at the Free University of Amsterdam. February 5 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Seminar at the ETH Zurich. January 31 2007, Zurich, Switzerland.
Seminar at the University of California Berkeley. January 22 2007, Berkeley, California.
Seminar at Iowa State University. January 16 2007, Ames, Iowa.
2006
Oberwolfach workshop: Qualitative assumptions and regularization in high-dimensional statistics. Invited talk.
November 5-11 2006, Oberwolfach, Germany.
The Eighth Northwest Probability Seminar. Participant.
October 22 2006, Seattle, Washington.
Seminar, University of Groningen.
September 6 2006, Groningen, The Netherlands.
JSM 2006. Topic contributed talk.
August 5-10 2006, Seattle, Washington.
Asymptotics, particles, processes and inverse problems. Invited talk.
On the occasion of the 65th birthday of Piet Groeneboom.
July 10-14 2006, Leiden, The Netherlands.
2006 ENAR spring meeting. Invited talk.
March 26-29 2006, Tampa, Florida.
2005
Network on methodological challenges in developing adaptive treatment strategies. Invited participant.
September 15-16 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
JSM 2005. Contributed talk.
August 7-11 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Research in pairs program with Fadoua Balabdaoui, Moulinath Banerjee and Jon Wellner. Invited participant.
On shape constrained estimation and testing and related inverse problems.
March 13 - April 1 2005, Oberwolfach, Germany.
2004
JSM 2004. Topic contributed talk.
August 8-12 2004, Toronto, Canada.
Dutch Statistical Day 2004. Invited talk.
April 27 2004, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.