MIDAS stands for Modelling - Interdisciplinary - Data (Science) - Applied - Statistics. Of course, if you wish to interpret in it the King Midas who turned everything in gold that he touched, you are free to do that... not that we had that intention anyhow in mind!
MIDAS stands for Modelling, Interdisciplinary, Data (Science) and Applied Statistics.
The team is composed of various profiles and backgrounds from different parts of the globe, all with one common denominator: mathematics.
The team works on various projects that span from sports statistics, hydrology, model interprability or space weather.
The MIDAS team regularly participates and organizes seminars or conferences.
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With a growing team and new projects coming, more visibility in the news are coming and awards attributed.
Check all publications from the research group in the different fields.
Christophe Ley is awarded Bernoulli Prize
has been awarded the 2024 Bernoulli prize for an Outstanding Survey Article in Probability by the Bernoulli Society for the paper "Stein's method for comparison of univariate distributions".
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Team MIDAS meet the Japanese Ambassador
Team MIDAS was invited at the Japanese Embassy in Luxembourg for a fruitful discussion around traditional lunch.
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Team MIDAS at Math4Sports conference in Bilbao
Christophe Ley was invited to give the keynote talk to the Math4Sports experts meeting organised in Bilbao.
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Waseda Conference to Highlight Japan-Luxembourg Ties
The Luxembourgish journal Chronicle.lu wrote an article about the conference organized by the MIDAS team in January together with Waseda University on Modelling and Inference for Complex Data.
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