Conference on Conditional Independence Structures and Extremes

October 12-14, 2016

The scientific topics include graphical models, networks and extremes.

One aim of the conference is to celebrate the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awarded to Steffen Lauritzen from University of Copenhagen.

Confirmed invited speakers

Conference Programme

Book of Abstracts

08:30 - 09:00       Registration
09:00 - 09:15       Welcome Words
09:15 - 10:00       Steffen Lauritzen
                                Total positivity and Markov structures
10:00 - 10:45       Peter Green
                              Bayesian inference with and about decomposable models
10:45 - 11:15       Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:00       John Einmahl
                                A continuous updating weighted least squares estimator of tail
                                dependence in high dimensions
12:00 - 12:45       Johan Segers
                                Regularly varying Markov trees
12:45 - 14:00       Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:45       Claudia Klüppelberg
                                Max-linear models on graphs
14:45 - 15:30       Nadine Gissibl
                                Estimation of max-linear models on directed acyclic graphs
15:30 - 16:00       Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45       Bernhard Schölkopf
                                Toward causal machine learning
16:45 - 17:30       Jonas Peters
                                Invariances and causality
17:30 - 20:00       Poster Session with drinks and snacks
                            (Location: Faculty of Mathematics, ground floor, room 00.10.011)

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09:00 - 09:45       Adrien Hitz
                                Graphical modelling of extremes
09:45 - 10:30       Sven Buhl
                                Semiparametric estimation for max-stable space-time processes
10:30 - 11:00       Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45       Bernd Sturmfels
                          Convexity in tree spaces
11:45 - 12:30       Caroline Uhler
                                Learning DAGs based on sparsest permutations
12:30 - 14:00       Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:45       Sebastian Engelke
                              Extremes on River Networks
14:45 - 15:30      Holger Rootzén
                                Multivariate GP distributions: portfolio risk estimation, prediction of flu
                                epidemics, spatial rainfall modelling
15:30 - 16:00       Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45       Nanny Wermuth
                                On palindromic Ising models with graph structure
16:45 - 17:30       Daniel Straub
                                Conditional independence in risk analysis of engineered systems
18:00 - open end Conference Dinner

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09:00 - 09:45 Piotr Zwiernik
                                 The correlation space of Gaussian latent treemodels and model selection
                                 without fitting
09:45 - 10:30 Alberto Roverato
                                Path weights, networked partial correlations and their application to the
                                analysis of genetic interactions
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 Philippe Naveau
                                Detecting changes in climate records
11:45 - 12:30 Richard Davis
                                Applications of distance correlation to time series
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Conference location

Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (LRZ)
Boltzmannstraße 1
85748 Garching

Room: H.E. 009

Scientific organizers

Claudia Klüppelberg and Steffen Lauritzen

Local organizers

Sven Buhl, Ruth Flechtner, Nadine Gissibl, Andrea Grant and Péter Kevei