News&Events
08/10/2021
Igor Pruenster President of International Society for Bayesian Analysis
Founded in 1992, ISBA approaches its 30th anniversary. Over these years, it has promoted the development and application of Bayesian statistics. This approach to modeling and prediction is based on the celebrated theorem by Thomas Bayes, where available knowledge about the parameters in a probabilistic model is updated with the information contained in the data.
24/05/2021
Daniele Durante Awarded by the Italian Statistical Society
The Assistant Professor has been awarded for the first edition of the prize assigned to early-career scholars, under the age of 40, for the contributions to the Statistical Sciences.
05/05/2021
Marta Catalano wins an IMS New Researcher Travel Award
This distinguished award allows the winner to attend and present her work in a future IMS Meeting. Notably Marta is the only recipient based in Europe.
06/04/2021
Synthesizing Big, Wide and Dirty Data to Predict Election Outcomes
An Applied Social Science problem inspired Professor Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, new BIDSA Fellow, to investigate new scalable Bayesian computation strategies.
01/04/2021
Navigating Uncertainty: Why We Need Decision Theory During a Pandemic
Massimo Marinacci and Valentina Bosetti investigate how modern Decision Theory can assist policymakers in critical times such as the Covid19 crisis in a paper co-authored by the Nobel Laureate Lars Peter Hansen.
05/03/2021
BIDSA Spring Webinar Series 2021
BIDSA presents its current webinar series, with five talks during this semester.
19/01/2021
Marta Catalano and Sirio Legramanti Awarded for Their Papers
The PhD candidates in Statistics are among the winner of thr SSBS 2021 student paper competition and will fly to Seattle for JSM 2021, pandemic permitting.
29/10/2020
How to Summarize Graphs and Hypergraphs
Luca Trevisan has recently published an article about how to summarize these data structures in order to save memory and computational time while preserving their characteristic features.
17/08/2020
Daniele Durante wins the Leonardo Da Vinci Medal
Daniele Durante has won the Leonardo Da Vinci Medal, awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research to the best scientific contributions by junior researchers.
24/06/2020
Two Generations of Bayesian Statisticians in a Bocconi BayesLab Webinar Series
BayesLab will host and online seminar series in which outstanding young researchers have the opportunity to present their work and get discussion from toplevel senior scholars.