Programme

Auditorium CH3

9:00 Coffee

9:10 Welcome word (Prof. Davy PAINDAVAINE)

9:20 Invited session (Chairman: Prof. Eric DEPIEREUX)

Prof. Jacques VAN HELDEN (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

100 ways of detecting exceptional words in genomic sequences

Discussant: Damien HERMAND (Université de Namur)

10:20 Coffee break

10:40-12h40 Senior PhD Students invited session (Chairman: Prof. Davy PAINDAVAINE)

• Bertrand DE MEULDER (Université de Namur)

Methodology to explore co-expression in microarray data

Discussant: Michaël PIERRE (Université de Namur)

• Grégory RAYEE (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Pricing derivatives by taking into account volatility and interest rates risks

• Christel RUWET (Université de Liège)

The breakdown behavior of the TCLUST procedure

Discussant: Cédric Heuchenne

12:40-13h40 Lunch (Arsenal – Room FOUQUET) (first floor)

13:40-14h10 Coffee and Poster session (room MA3)

• Abbelkamel ALJ (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Evaluating exact quasi-likelihood of time-dependent VARMA models with Matlab

• Michaël PIERRE (Université de Namur)

Genes regulated by hypoxia and involved in metastasis picked out from a microarray meta-analysis

• Rudolf SCHENK (Université Catholique de Louvain)

On rate optimal local estimation in functional linear regression

• Maik SCHWARTZ (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Nonparametric frontier estimation from noisy data

14:10 Parallel contributed sessions

• Contributed session STAT (room MA1) (Chairman: Prof. Marcel Rémon)

• 14h10-14h35

Germain VAN BEVER (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Local depth from depth-based neighbourhoods

• 14h35-15h00

Teh AMOUH (Université de Namur)

A decision tree for complex type data classification

• 15h00-15h25

Johan BARTHELEMY (Université de Namur)

Synthetic population in presence of data inconsistencies

• 15h25-15h50

Rémi DENDIEVEL (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

The odds algorithm with unknown odds and its importance for clinical trials

•  Contributed session ACTU (room MA2) (Chairman: Prof. Johan Segers)

• 14h10-14h35

Rabih BADRAN (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

A new approach to dependency: the mixture-shock model

• 14h35-15h00

Tassa HABIBA (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Pension valuation and solvency

• 15h00-15h25

Carine BARTHOLME (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Some remarks on the exponential functional of Levy processes

• Contributed session BIOSTAT (room MA2) (Chairman: Prof. Cédric Heuchenne)

• 15h25-15h50

El Maâti ALLAOUI (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Robust cross-checking estimators for the two-parameter Weibull distribution

• 15h50-16h15

Sophie DEPIEREUX (Université de Namur)

Molecular mechanisms underlying germ cell bipotentiality in teleost fish exposed to xenoestrogens by in silico, in vitro and in vivo genomic approaches

 

16h15 Coktail (sponsored by Naxys (Namur Research Center On Complex Systems)) (room MA3)

Room CH3: Faculty of Sciences, Grafé street, Namur

Rooms MA1, MA2, MA3: department of Mathematics, 8 Rempart de la Vierge (second floor), Namur

Arsenal : Bruno street, Namur (see map)