Departmental seminar series

All seminars will be in person and will start at 13h10 in room 2048 of the Van der Sterr Building, c/o Victoria and Bosman Streets, Stellenbosch.

Enquires:           Elizna Huysamen
Telephone:       021 808 3244
E-mail:               krugere@sun.ac.za

First semester of 2025

14 February

Luca Steyn (Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Open-set recognition using extreme value theory

21 February

Jane Hutton (Department of Statistics, University of Warwick)
Healthcare serial killer or coincidence? The Royal Statistical Society 2022 report

28 February

Jan Beirlant (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Non-parametric cure models through tail estimation

14 March

Tertius de Wet (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Nonparametric estimation of the extreme quantiles of compound frequency distributions

28 March

Janette Larney (Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics, NWU)
Modelling the time to write-off of non-performing loans using a promotion time cure model with parametric frailty

11 April

 

Gcina Maziya (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Capital flows-at-risk: push, pull and the role of policy

25 April

 

Susan Lourens (Heineken, Stellenbosch)
Compositional biplots for log ratio analysis and visualisation of milk fatty acids

9 May

 

Trudie Sandrock (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Last things first: perspectives on first year Data Science

Second semester of 2025

First semester of 2024

16 February

Jan Beirlant (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
RTail Classification using Non-liniear Regression on Tail Model Plots​

1 March

Priyanka Nagar (Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Statistics on Manifolds: An introduction to directional methods

15 March

Nelson Kyakutwika (Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Joint Modelling of SPX Options, VIX Options, and VIX Futures

12 April

Zoe-Mae Adams (Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Embedded word MCA biplots for sentiment visualisation

26 April

Daniel Polakow (Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Honey do I look leptokurtic in this denominator? Conditional correlations in investment portfolios, and the Gerber Statistic

10 May

 

Alexis Levendis (Metropolitan, Cape Town)
VStatic hedging of vanilla and exotic options in a South African context

Second semester of 2024

2 August

 

Janet van Niekerk (King Abdullah University, Saudi Arabia)

Approximate Bayesian inference – INLA 2.0

30 August

 

Ruan Buys (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)

bipl5: An R package for reactive calibrated axes PCA biplots

20 September

 

27 September

 

Thomas Farrar (Department of Mathematics and Physics, CPUT)

Auto-generating full solutions to mathematical statistics online assessment questions using R

11 October

 

Amy Langston (Department of Statistics, Rhodes University)

A point process approach to modeling better-than-minimal, minimal, and worse-than-minimal repairs

18 October

 

Chris Muller (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)

Hybrid Learning – Can three full-time academic staff successfully teach a module to 2050 students? An overview and review of Theory of Interest 152, a module presented in hybrid format

First semester of 2023

24 February

Jan Beirlant (KU Leuven, Belguim & Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Estimation of tail parameters with missing observations

10 March

Elmarie Nel (Research Analytics, City of Cape Town)
Data-driven decision-making

24 March

Johan Fourie (Department of Economics, SU)
Big data in history: Challenges and opportunities

14 April

Wesley Pretorius (Allan Gray, Cape Town)
Monte Carlo simulations to determine the rate of work completion in an agile IT team

5 May

 

Michael Meyer (Hudsonthames, Johannesburg)
Meta Labelling Architecture

Second semester of 2023

29 July

Natalie van Zyl (Statistics and Actuarial Science)
Considering a basic income grant for SA: it all depends on perspective

 Talk was cancelled

12 August

Nicholas Danks (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Principle components, PLS components, or sum scores: from conceptual variable to statistical representation

25 August

Stephan Britz (Statistical Sciences, UCT)
Is gcForest-CS a viable alternative to deep learning for diseased cassave leave image?

8 September

Barto van der Vyfer (FNB, Johannesburg)
Credit risk with focus on credit pricing

29 September

Daniel Polakow (Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Honey do I look leptokurtic in this denominator? Conditional correlations in investment portfolios, and the Gerber Statistic

13 October 

Schalk Engelbrecht (KPMG, Johannesburg)
Virtue, democracy, and Data Science after Babel

27 October

Lizanne Raubenheimer (Statistics, Rhodes University)
Bayesian accelerated life testing

First semester of 2022

28 July

Natalie van Zyl (Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Reforming social security in SA: Is there a place for a basic income grant or NSSF?

11 August

Richard Mullins (Wunderman & Thompson Data, Cape Town)
The intelligence advantage: Where creativity and data meet

25 August

Stephan Britz (Statistical Sciences, UCT)
Is gcForest-CS a viable alternative to deep learning for diseased cassave leave image?

8 September

Barto van der Vyfer (FNB, Johannesburg)
Credit risk with focus on credit pricing

29 September

Daniel Polakow (Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Honey do I look leptokurtic in this denominator? Conditional correlations in investment portfolios, and the Gerber Statistic

13 October 

Schalk Engelbrecht (KPMG, Johannesburg)
Virtue, democracy, and Data Science after Babel

27 October

Lizanne Raubenheimer (Statistics, Rhodes University)
Bayesian accelerated life testing

Second semester of 2022

28 July

Natalie van Zyl (Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Reforming social security in SA: Is there a place for a basic income grant or NSSF?

11 August

Richard Mullins (Wunderman & Thompson Data, Cape Town)
The intelligence advantage: Where creativity and data meet

25 August

Stephan Britz (Statistical Sciences, UCT)
Is gcForest-CS a viable alternative to deep learning for diseased cassave leave image?

8 September

Barto van der Vyfer (FNB, Johannesburg)
Credit risk with focus on credit pricing

29 September

Daniel Polakow (Statistics and Actuarial Science, SU)
Honey do I look leptokurtic in this denominator? Conditional correlations in investment portfolios, and the Gerber Statistic

13 October 

Schalk Engelbrecht (KPMG, Johannesburg)
Virtue, democracy, and Data Science after Babel

27 October

Lizanne Raubenheimer (Statistics, Rhodes University)
Bayesian accelerated life testing

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Second semester of 2021

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