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Workshop on Probability and Machine Learning, in Guanajuato, Mexico

Next week, we organize the first Montréal – Guanajuato Workshop on Probability and Machine Learning, at CIMAT, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas.

with Arturo Jaramillo Gil (CIMAT), Saraí Hernández-Torres (UNAM), Emilien Joly (CIMAT), Sandra Palau (UNAM), Courtney Paquette (McGill), Elliot Paquette (McGill), José Luis Pérez (CIMAT), James Melbourne (CIMAT), and Jean-François Renaud (UQAM), among invited speakers.

The Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT), located in Guanajuato, Mexico, is a leading research institution focused on mathematics, statistics, and computer science. Part of Mexico’s National System of Public Research Centers (CONACYT), CIMAT excels in both theoretical and applied research, fostering innovation and solving complex real-world problems. Its vibrant academic environment supports advanced studies, offering master’s and doctoral programs, while promoting interdisciplinary collaboration. Housed in the picturesque city of Guanajuato, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, CIMAT attracts top researchers and students from around the globe, contributing significantly to scientific and technological advancement in Mexico and beyond.

The first goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers, and scholars from Québec and Mexico in the field of probability theory, and Machine learning. With an emphasis on both theoretical foundations and practical applications, the conference will feature research presentations from speakers who represent a range of career stages at the faculty level. This will foster the exchange of ideas and opportunities for new collaborations.

The second goal was to encourage and promote student mobility between Mexico and Québec. The workshop will feature short talks by graduate students and postdoc fellows, who will have opportunity to present their work, but also to exchange with different researchers. This will enable them to enrich their academic network, and may well open up mobility opportunities for them in the future. Yet, Dante Mata Lopez is sharing the office with the team (Agathe, Marouane), and this summer, two interns will join our team: Allison Lara Nieva, from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Agathe Fernandes Machado will be involved in the supervision) and Fabian Dominguez Lopez, from the Universidad de Guanajuato, working with Hélène Guérin and Arsène Brice Zotsa Ngoufack, who will be involved in the supervision.

Picture credit for the poster: Yuko Nishikawa (Yuko Nishikawa is a Brooklyn-based Japanese multidisciplinary artist and designer, known for her organic, dreamlike works. She grew up in the seaside town of Chigasaki (茅ヶ崎市), south of Tokyo).

Workshop “Networks, Games and Risk”

Monday we had our workshop “Networks, Games and Risk“,

with Renaud Bourles (Centrale Marseille, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, and Institut Universitaire de France, France), Vincent Boucher (Université Laval, Québec, Canada), Federico Bobbio (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada), Leonie Baumann (McGill University, Montréal, Canada), Fallou Niakh (CREST, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France) and Philipp Ratz (Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada)

It was extremely interesting !

Multivariate Attribute Utility and Risk

Thursday and Friday, we organize, with Olivier, Debrah and Christoph a small workshop, at Université de Rennes 1, on Multiattribute Utility and Risk. The workshop will take place place Hoche, at the Economics faculty. Speakers are

It should be a nice informal workshop, organized with the financial support of the Actinfo Chair.

Uncertainty in claims reserving (WIM)

I will be talking on Friday, at the 1st Québec-Ontario Workshop on Insurance Mathematics (so called WIN, already mentioned here). The program is now online here. My talk will be on Solvency II requirements in claims reserving (slides can be found here). Even if Canada will not adapt the Solvency II European capital test, it looks like Solvency II will matter to Canadian insurance companies (as mentioned here).