One-Day Meeting on Advanced Statistics Topics
The role of Statistics in Machine Learning
2nd Edition
7th February 2025
University of Aveiro, Department of Mathematics, Room Sousa Pinto
Program
Program:
10:30 Opening Session
10:45 – 11:15 Statistical modeling and/or machine learning?
Isabel Natário
NOVA Math & NOVA Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
11:30 – 12:15 Contributed Session I (pitch presentations*)
12:15– 14:00 Lunch break
14:05 – 14:50 Statistics and machine learning: the synergistic intersection
David Hand
Department of Mathematics - Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London
14:55 – 15:40 Causal Discovery: Overview and Some Recent Advances
Mário A. T. Figueiredo
IT& Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
15:45 – 16:30 Contributed Session II (pitch presentation*)
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 17:45 Round Table: The role of statistics in machine learning
Moderator: Luís Meira Machado, University of Minho and President of SPE
* posters exhibited during the whole meeting