Namur Institute For Complex Systems

Stefanella Boatto (Department of Applied mathematics, Institute of Mathematics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2023-01-24 10:30 - 11:30 (Europe/Brussels)
Title: A journey into the mathematical universe: Topological Data Analysis. A briefintroduction and some applications.
Abstract: Data Science is a highly evolving discipline that presents many challenges. Forexample, in the case of an epidemic, how can we identify which socio–economic and socialparameters, tourist mobility, prevention and control measures have the greatest impact onthe dynamics of an epidemic? In recent years Topological Data Analysis has proved to be apowerful tool, a lens to highlight some dominant features of collective phenomena andexplore large and complex data sets. In this lecture we will see a brief introduction and howthis new discipline is highly multidisciplinary within mathematics itself, bringing togetherareas such as Space–Time Analysis, Algebraic Topology, Complex Networks, Alg. Linear andComputation.
The seminar will take place in Room S08 at the Faculty of Sciences.

FNRS - EDT Stat - PhD School Nonparametric classification and machine learning - introduction, comparison and applications
2023-01-25 - 2023-01-27
Lecturers: Professor Christophe Ley (University of Luxembourg) and Professor Germain Van Bever (University of Namur)
In this short course, we shall make an introduction to classical tools in nonparametric classification. We shall also take a stroll along Machine Learning from a statistical perspective (discussing inter alia Random Forests), including a comparison to statistical learning. We shall illustrate the working of Machine Learning via some concrete applications, including a prediction of international football tournaments.
The school will take place at University of Namur (Room PA02, Faculty of Sciences) in the mornings (9h30-12h45) of the days 25-26-27 of January. The lectures will be only in person.
Website: https://www.unamur.be/sciences/mathematique/EDStat
The school is organized by the department of Mathematics of Université de Namur and naXys, the Namur Institute for Complex Systems and funded by the FNRS and Université de Namur.
