Xavier Pennec and Olivier Bisson were plenary speakers at the workshop “Statistical Foundations for the Analysis of Non-Euclidean Data,” held from October 19 to 23, 2026 at the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) in Chicago, as part of the long-term program “Connectomics – Non-Euclidean Data Analysis for Brain…
Tony Zaayter attended the Geometry & Computing 2026 conference, held from October 5 to 9, 2026, at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM) in Luminy, Marseille, France. He was also one of the organizers of the Young Researchers in Geometry Day (JCGeo 2026), held on October 9, the last…
Xavier Pennec (Inria, Université Côte d’Azur) gave six lectures at the Introductory School “Geometric Statistics”, held from September 14 to 18, 2026, at the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM), University of Bonn, Germany, as part of the Dual Trimester Program “Geometric Statistics: Theory, Application, and Computation”. His lectures covered…
Xavier Pennec, Olivier Bisson, Tony Zaayter and Tom Szwagier (now at IRIT, Toulouse) participated in the Foundations of Computational Mathematics 2026 conference, held from 8 to 18 July 2026 at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria. More information is available on the conference programme. Xavier was one of…
Xavier Pennec participated to the shape workshop “Math in Aquitaine” from June 27th to July 4th in Bergerac to discuss burning mathematical questions related to shape spaces.
Reda Chhaibi (LJAD – Université Côte d’Azur) Wednesday, 10 June 2026, 2pm Title: On the fluctuations of rank-based estimators for sensitivity indices Abstract: A first goal is to advertise a new class of sensitivity estimators, which can be useful in a variety of contexts, including feature selection, detecting causality, computer…
Xavier Pennec and Tony Zaayter, members of the MEDITWIN project, which aims to create digital twins for tomorrow’s medicine, attended the symposium held on 3 June 2026 at PariSanté Campus. They participated in the organisation of the workshop on Diffeomorphic and Multimodal Registration. Tony gave a presentation in that workshop,…
Tom SZWAGIER was awarded the first prize of the ATSI (Automatic Images and Signal Processing) speciality of the ED-STIC Doctoral School of Université Côte d’Azur for his PhD work on “Rethinking statistical methods with flags” under the supervision of Dr Xavier Pennec. Congratulations!
Stephen Marsland (Victoria University of Wellington ) Thursday, May 23, 2024, 3:30pm Evolutionary game theory and the origins of money and sex In this talk I will provide a brief introduction to evolutionary game theory, illustrated by two very different examples. In the first we ask how money-like systems can…
