Academic Year 2016-2017

• Wednesday, 21/6/2017, 12:15: Ioannis Thomas Pavlidis, Eckhard-Pfeiffer Professor, Computational Physiology Lab, University of Houston: "Reforming Data Management in Human Experiments"
• Thursday, 8/6/2017, 12:15: Liang Feng, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo: "Scalable Approximation Algorithms for Bayesian Variable Selection"
• Monday, 22/5/2017 - Friday, 26/5/2017: Alan Agresti, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Florida: A short Course on Categorical Data Analysis
• Thursday, 25/5/2017, 12:15: Kostas Kalogeropoulos, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, London School of Economics: "Sequential and Hybrid Monte Carlo for continuous time stochastic volatility models with memory"
• Thursday, 4/5/2017, 12:15: Stavros Nikolakopoulos, University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Biostatistics: "Dynamic borrowing through empirical power priors that control type I error"
• Thursday, 27/4/2017, 12:15: Helene Massam, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics York University: "Existence of the maximum likelihood estimate in discrete graphical models"
• Tuesday, 25/4/2017, 12:15: Andreas Karambis, Director, Head of Modeling and Evidence Synthesis Services, Mapi Group Utrecht, the Netherlands: "Μέρος Α: Mapi Group: Παρουσίαση της εταιρείας και των ευκαιριών απασχόλησης για φοιτητές και επαγγελματίες Μέρος: Ο ρόλος της μετα-ανάλυσης στον κύκλο ζωής φαρμάκου"
• Thursday, 6/4/2017, 12:15: Athanassios Sachlas, Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business: "An One-Sided Procedure for Monitoring Variables Defined on Contingency Tables"
• Thursday, 26/1/2017, 13:00: Christina Parpoula, Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business: "Analyzing supersaturated designs for discrete responses via generalized linear models"
• Tuesday, 17/1/2017, 13:00: Aris Spanos, Wilson Schmidt Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Virginia Tech, USA: "Revisiting the Statistical Foundations of Panel Data modeling"
• Tuesday, 10/1/2017, 13:00: Stefanos Kechagias, SAS Institute
• Friday, 23/12/2016, 13:00: Nikolas Kantas, Dept. of Mathematics, Imperial College London: "Particle filtering: a survey on the methodology and some extensions that are useful for high dimensional systems"
• Thursday, 15/12/2016, 13:00: Dionissios Hristopulos, Technical University of Crete: "Modeling Earthquake Recurrence Times using Physical Insights and Statistical Analysis"
• Monday, 12/12/2016, 14:00: Panos Toulis, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business: "PART A: Causal inference in statistics and econometrics and PART B: Research Opportunities for Statistics Graduates in the University of Chicago"
• Thursday, 10/11/2016, 13:00 (exactly): Athanassios Rakitzis, Department of Mathematics, University of Aegean: "Control Charts for Monitoring Correlated Zero-Inflated Counts"
• Wednesday, 26/10/2016, 15:00: Gonzalo Garcia-Donato, Department of Economy and Finance, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: "Criteria for Bayesian model choice and implications on the n<<p problem"
• Wednesday, 5/10/2016, 15:00: Brendan McCabe, Management School, University of Liverpool: "Attempting to Model the Timing, Severity and Duration of Seasonal Influenza"

Academic Year 2015-2016

• Wednesday, 22/6/2016, 13:00: Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Universitat Pompeu Fabra και David Rossell, University of Warwick : "Scalable Bayesian variable selection and model averaging under block orthogonal design"
• Friday, 10/6/2016, 13:00: Constantin T. Yiannoutsos, Indiana University School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics: "Adjusting for incomplete death ascertainment in joint models: A multiple-imputation approach"
• Monday 16/5/2016, 13:00: Gerda Claeskens, University of Leuven, Belgium: "Confidence intervals after selection by Akaike's information criterion"
• Wednesday, 20/4/2016, 13:00: Mihail Loulakis, National Technical University of Athens: "A large deviations theorem for subexponential r.v.’s with an application to Interacting Particle Systems"
• Friday, 15/4/2016, 13:30: Andrei Sirchenko, ICEF, Higher School of Economics, Moscow: "Modeling discrete-valued time series with abundant and heterogeneous zeros"
• Friday, 1/4/2016, 13:00: Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Department of Psychological Methods, University of Amsterdam: "Bayesian Analyses with JASP: A Fresh Way to do Statistics"
• Wednesday, 30/3/2016, 13:00: Athanassios Tsanas, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK: "Information fusion approach using signal quality indices, and information-theoretic feature selection: practical approaches and applications"
• Wednesday 27/1/2016, 13:00: Luca Tardella, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche – Sapienza Universita di Roma: "A novel Bayesian mixture of Poisson estimation for expressed sequence tag sampling"
• Wednesday 13/1/2016, 13:00: Konstantinos Daskalakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Testing Properties of Distributions"
• Tuesday 22/12/2015, 13:00: Nikolaos Karnesis, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics: "Finding Buried signals in noise: The hunt for Gravitational Waves"
• Wednesday 21/10/2015, 15:00: Apostolos Bournetas, University of Athens, Department of Statistics: "Optimal Adaptive Policies in the Multi-Armed-Bandit Problem and Extensions"

 Academic Year 2014-2015

• Friday 19/6/2015, 13:00: Andrew J. Womack, Assistant Professor, University of Indiana, Department of Statistics: "Bayesian Model Selection Under Heredity Constraints"
• Third Athens Probability Colloquium - 09/05/2015
• Tuesday, 28/4/2015, 12:15: Pantelis Bagos, Associate Professor, University of Thessaly: "Integration of data from multiple sources: meta-analysis and synthesis analysis"
• Wednesday, 22/4/2015, 13:00: Asgharian Masoud, The Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University: "Prevalent Cohort Studies: Length-Biased Sampling with Right Censoring"
• Friday,  3/4/2015, 13:00: Charalampos Chanialidis, School of Mathematical Sciences University College, Dublin: "Flexible regression models for count data"
• Wednesday, 1/4/2015, 15:00: David Rossel, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick: "Integrating high-dimensional estimation and model selection with non-local priors"
• Thursday, 26/3/2015 & Friday 27/3/2015, 12:00 - 15:00: Dr. Silvia Cagnone, Associate Professor, University of Bologna: "Structural equation models (SEM): theory and applications"
• Thursday, 5/2/2015, 13:00: Dimitris Mavridis, University of Ioannina School of Medicine: "Allowing for uncertainty due to missing data in pairwise and network meta-analysis"
• Wednesday, 17/12/2014, 13:00: Xanthi Penteli, Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business: "Likelihood estimation for the INAR(p) model by saddlepoint approximation"
• Wednesday, 10/12/2014, 11:30: Loukia Meligotzidou, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens: "Particle MCMC and Augmentation Schemes"
• Wednesday, 26/11/2014, 13:00: Mihalis Titsias, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business: "Hamming Ball Slice Sampling for Factorial Hidden Markov Models"
• Tuesday, 11/11/2014, 13:15: Maria Kateri, Institute of Statistics, RWTH Aachen University: "Tampered Failure Rate Step-Stress Models: Continuous vs. Interval Monitoring"
• Wednesday, 22/10/2014, 15:00 - 16:00: Brunilda Balliu: "A Retrospective Likelihood Approach for Efficient Integration of Multiple Omics Factors in Case-Control Association Studies"

 Academic Year 2013-2014

• Thursday, 19/06/2014: Oliver Ratmann: "Statistical modeling of summary values leads to accurate Approximate Bayesian Computations"
• Thursday, 12/06/2014: Konstantinos Petrakis: "On the use of marginal posteriors in marginal likelihood estimation
  via importance sampling"
• Friday, 6/06/2014: Valantis Malesios: "Bayesian spatio-temporal epidemic models with applications to sheep pox"
• Thursday, 5/06/2014: Ioulia Papageorgiou: "Pairwise likelihood estimation based on a sample of pairs"
• Thursday, 29/05/2014: Fotios Siannis: "Meta-analysis of time-to-event end points"
• Monday, 2/06/2014: Panagiotis Moutafis: "Improving Recognition Accuracy: Application in Biometrics"
• Thursday, 22/05/2014: Debasis Kundu: "On Bivariate (Marshall-Olkin) Weibull Geometric Distribution "
• May - June 2014: Seminar Cycle for Master, PhD, Post PhD students and faculty members
• Wednesday, 30/04/2014 (11:00): Open presentation and discussion regarding Start Ups
• Monday, 7/04/2014 (15:30): Kostas Hrisis PhD Presentation
• Thursday, 10/04/2014 (12:00): Erengul (Ozkok) Dodd: "Modelling the time delay in Critical Illness Insurance using GB2 family of distributions"
• Wednesday, 9/04/2014 (18:15): University of Southampton, Department of Statistics Master in Statistics Presentation
• Thursday, 4/02/2014 (12:00) Gideon KD Zamba: "A Flexible Test for longitudinal data: The case of Recurrent Events"
• Vasiliki Vitoratou PhD Presentation
• Georgios Tzougas PhD Presentation
• Stavroula Poulopoulou PhD Presentation

  Academic Year 2012 - 2013

• Dr. Luca Andriani Lecture
• Thursday, 18/04/2013 (15:00-16:00): Shrinking bias to benefit estimation and inference in statistical models
  Giannis Kosmidis, University College London

    Academic Year 2011 - 2012

·         Wednesday, 13/06/2012 (17:00): PhD Presentation, Georgios Mitalas

·         Thursday, 26/01/2012 (13:00-14:00): Control Charts with Estimated Parameters
Philippe Castagliola, University of Nantes

·        Friday 13/01/2012 (09:00-17:00): Latent Gaussian models with R-INLA
Daniel Simpson, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

·         Wednesday, 28/09/2011 (16:30): PhD Presentation, Evaggelia Kalpinelli
 

    Academic Year 2010 - 2011

·         Friday 01/07/2011 (10:30): PhD Presentation, Anastasios Plataniotis

·         Thursday 24/03/2011 (12:00): PhD Presentation, Xanthi Penteli

    Academic Year 2009-2010

·         Monday, 01/06/2010 (11:30-12:30): PhD Presentation, Athanasios Petralias

·         Thursday, 27/05/2010 (15:00-16:00): Nonlinear regression with missing responses
Ursula U. Muller, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University

·         Tuesday 25/05/2010 (15:00-16:00): Statistical Seismology: Past events and future issues
David Vere-Jones, Emeritus Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

·         Thursday, 06/05/2010 (16:00-17:00): Estimating Value-at-Risk with Product Partition Models 
Claudia Tarantola, University of Pavia. In cooperation with Bormetti Giacomo, De Giuli M. Elena and Delpini Danilo.

·         Tuesday, 02/03/2010 (15:00-16:00): The Effective Sample Size to Measure the Amount of Information in a Correlated Data Setting 
Christel Faes, Professor, University of Hasselt, Belgium

·         Tuesday, 23/02/2010 (15:00-16:00): Inspection Policies and Their Impact on Delay in Queueing Systems, George Mytalas, Ph.D. s