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
University of Aveiro, Department of Mathematics, Room Sousa Pinto
Full program and Book of Abstracts available here.
Program:
10:30 Opening Session
10:45 – 11:30 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