Good news for flags! Soon after the PhD defense of Tom Szwagier, two of his main thesis contributions have been accepted for publication in statistics journals. The paper “The Curse of Isotropy: from Principal Components to Principal Subspaces“ from Tom Szwagier and Xavier Pennec has been accepted for publication in Statistical…
Tom Szwagier’s PhD defense took place on November 28th, 2025 at 2:00 PM at Centre Inria Université Côte d’Azur. The presentation is now on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g2zJ-Qmk6U. Rethinking Statistical Methods with Flags A flag is a sequence of nested linear subspaces of increasing dimension. It can also be defined as a…
Stefan Sommer visited our group on November 23, 2023 in the context of Morten Akhøj Pedersen’s PhD defence to present and discuss his work on conditioned diffusions in geometric statistics.
Guillaume Olikier visited our group on June 08, 2023 to present and discuss his work on first-order optimization on stratified sets.
Elena Di Bernardino visited our group on June 07, 2023 to present and discuss her work on geometry of random excursion sets.
Alain trouvé visited our group on May 30, 2023 to present and discuss his work on shaping metrics and spaces in computational anatomy.
Xavier Pennec gave a seminar on geometric statistics to the Probability and Statistics team of the Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Nice.
Luís presented Geomstats at SIAM CSE 23, in a minisymposium titled “Geometry and Shape Analysis for Neuroscience.”
Benjamin Eltzner visited our group on February 23, 2023 to present and discuss his work on smeary Fréchet means.
Grégoire Sergeant-Perthuis visited our group on January 19, 2023 to present and discuss his work on regionalized optimization.
