Workshop for section 2 - October 2025

This was an internal workshop for the section of Statistics and Data Science at the department where we both discussed new/hot topics within statistics and discussed what we wanted with our section.

Organizers: Camilla Lingjærde, Yael Friedman, Johan de Aguas, Leiv Rønneberg, Clara Bertinelli Salucci

Time and place: –, Skøyen Hovedgård
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Programme

09:00 – 09:15: Coffee & Arrival

09:15 – 10:30: Hot Topics in Statistics

  • Post-Bayes: Leiv Rønneberg
  • Challenges in Causal Inference: Johan De Aguas
  • TabPFN: Kushagri Tandon
  • AI Ethics and Epistemology: Yael Friedman

10:30 – 10:45: Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:00: Daily Challenges for Statisticians

12:00 – 13:00: Lunch Break

13:00 – 14:15:  Focus Session: Conformal Prediction

  • Introduction: Johan Pensar
  • Hands-on Workshop: Anders Hjort

14:15 – 14:30: Coffee Break

14:30 – 15:45: Statistics from a Mathematical Perspective: We as a Section and the Way Forward

  • Adapting Teaching and Research to the Time of LLMs: August Arnstad & Hedvig Reiersrud. Script for multinormal distribution
  • What is Our Role as a Section? Geir Storvik & Emil Stoltenberg
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