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 

          

11:3012:15  Contributed Session I (pitch presentations*)

                   

12:15– 14:00 Lunch  break

14:0514:50  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