STATSCALE SEMINARS
CURRENT SEMINARS
12th March 2021 - 3-4pm UK time
Speaker: Sumanta Basu (Cornell University)
Title: Learning Financial Networks with Graphical Models of Time Series Data
Abstract: After the 2007-09 financial crisis, there has been a growing interest in measuring systemic risk, broadly defined as the risk of widespread failure of the entire financial system. In a highly interlinked financial market, a large body of recent works have proposed to use network connectivity amongst financial institutions to assess their systemic importance. In this work, we will present some graphical modeling techniques for learning interactions among the components of a large dynamic system from multivariate time series data, where the core idea is to learn from lead-lag relationships (commonly known as Granger causality) between time series in addition to their co-movements. In the context of modeling networks of interactions amongst financial institutions and measuring systemic risk, we will demonstrate how linear and quantile-based Granger causality analyses using vector autoregressive (VAR) models can provide insight. We will present some non-asymptotic statistical theory for our proposed algorithms, estimate these graphical models using stock returns of large financial institutions in U.S. and India, and demonstrate their usefulness in detecting systemically risky periods and institutions.
26th March 2021 - 4-5pm UK time
Speaker: Hao Chen (UC Davis)
Title: A universal event detection framework for neuropixels data.
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29th January 2021 - Holger Dette (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum)
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4th December 2020 - Priyanga Dilini Talagala (University of Moratuwa)
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20th November 2020 - Florian Pein (University of Cambridge)
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6th November 2020 - Alex Aue (UC Davis)
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23rd October 2020 - Yoav Zemel (University of Cambridge)
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9th October 2020 - Solt Kovacs (ETH Zurich)
17th July 2020 - Tobias Kley (University of Bristol)
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3rd July, 2020 - Claudia Kirch (Otto-von-Guericke University)
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19th June, 2020 - Martin Tveten (Dept. of Mathematics, University of Oslo)
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5th June, 2020 - Yudong Chen (University of Cambridge)
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