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SIPTA School 2024: A journey from IP in quantum to kayaking in the beautiful city of Ghent

Posted on August 22, 2024 in Event Reports by Adrián Detavernier

The eleventh SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities took place from Monday 12 to Friday 16 August 2024 in the beautiful city of Ghent. The goal of this week was to bring interested researchers together and introduce them to the world of imprecise probabilities. The organisers, Alexander Erreygers and Floris Persiau, from the research group “Foundations Lab for imprecise probabilities” at Ghent University, did a wonderful job at achieving that goal. They succeeded at organising a school at which not only everything went by very smoothly, but they also succeeded in bringing a diverse group of people together from across the world (the Netherlands, Spain, US, UK, …). The presence of the wide variety of profiles - PhD students, master students, researchers from the private sector, experienced lecturers/professors - made the SIPTA school even more interesting.

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A report on WPMSIIP 2015

Posted on November 6, 2015 in Event Reports by Christoph Jansen and Julia Plass

The 8th Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability, organized by the working group “Foundations of Statistics and Their Applications” of the Department of Statistics and the “Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP)” of the Department of Philosophy from the LMU Munich took place from the 1st to the 6th of September 2015 (actually we ended at the 5th, because unfortunately our excursion was cancelled because of bad weather forecast…).

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A report on ISIPTA 2015

Posted on November 2, 2015 in Event Reports by Serena Doria

The 9th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications was held from Monday 20 to Friday 24 July 2015 in the Italian city of Pescara. This conference was a result of the productive cooperation among the members of the Steering  Committee, formed by Thomas Augustin, Gert de Cooman, Enrique Miranda, Erik Quaeghebeur, Teddy Seidenfeld, and myself.  I wish to thank  the members of the Local Organizing Committee, Attilio Grilli, Mariangela Scorrano and Andrea Di Cencio for their valuable help and the Department of Engineering and Geology of the University G. d’Annunzio for its financial support.

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A report on the 6th SIPTA school on imprecise probabilities

Posted on January 5, 2015 in Event Reports by Enrique Miranda

The sixth SIPTA school on imprecise probabilities was held in the beautiful city of Montpellier (France), on July 21-25, 2014.The school was composed of twenty five participants, from no less than ten different coutnries. It was organized by Kevin Loquin from LIRMM in Montpellier, with the collaboration of Olivier Strauss, Erik Quaeghebeur and Enrique Miranda.


The school was held in the beautiful botanic institute, built in the end of the nineteenth century, situated just next to the oldest french botanic garden.

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A report on WPMSIIP 2014

Posted on October 27, 2014 in Event Reports by Arthur Van Camp and Stavros Lopatatzidis

The 7th edition of the Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability (abbreviated as WPMSIIP in the most pronounceable way), organised by the SYSTeMS Research group of Ghent University, took place in Ghent from 8 until 12 September 2014.

There were 17 participants from 6 countries.

Every morning and afternoon had its own session in which 2 or 3 persons presented something about a specific topic, in order to stir up the debate, allowing for ample time to discuss and work together.

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Report on a workshop on Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Philosophy

Posted on July 30, 2014 in Event Reports by Seamus Bradley

A workshop on Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Philosophy took place at LMU Munich on the 27th and 28th of June. The workshop was co-organised by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy and the LMU statistics department. There were speakers from four continents, and a broad range of views in philosophy and statistics were represented. The conference was a great success and we hope that this leads to closer ties between the philosophy and statistics communities.

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Alessandro Antonucci reports on WPMSIIP 2013

Posted on January 7, 2014 in Event Reports by Alessandro Antonucci

The sixth edition of WPMSIIP, the Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability was held in Lugano (Switzerland) between the first and the second week of September 2013. The workshop was a follow-up to previous editions, held in Durham (2008, 2010), Munich (2009, 2012), and Lublijana (2011).

The 2013 edition was organized by the Imprecise Probability Group of IDSIA. About 25 participants from ten different countries attended the workshop. Since its first edition, WPMSIIP is intended as an open forum for researchers interested in interval (and imprecise, thus of great interest for the SIPTA community) probability. Almost all the participants took actively part to the workshop by presenting in their talks ongoing research topics and/or open challenges. Each talk was followed by an open discussion, with no strict time constraints. Yet, despite some very long and intense discussions, the original program was (of course in an imprecise way!) met.

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The Eighth International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA '13)

Posted on September 24, 2013 in Event Reports by Sebastien Destercke

The Eighth International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA ‘13) took place in the nice city of Compiègne, from July 2nd to July 5th. We have to thank Fabio Cozman, Thierry Denoeux, Teddy Seidenfeld (and myself) for the scientific organization, and Cédric Baudrit, Véronique Berger-Cherfaoui, Thierry Denoeux, Mylène Masson, Benjamin Quost, Mohamed Sallak (and myself) for the local organization. With the participants, they all contributed to make of this ISIPTA a very interesting and friendly meeting.

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Report on WPMSIIP 2012: the fifth Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability

Posted on October 23, 2012 in Event Reports by Gero Walter

From September 10 to 15, the Working Group Methodological Foundations of Statistics and their Applications of the Department of Statistics at LMU Munich hosted the Fifth Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability in Munich.

WPMSIIP ‘12 Group Portrait

During one week, recent research in the field of Imprecise Probability Theory and the potential of imprecise methods to improve statistical analysis was vividly discussed by the workshop’s participants, who included international guests from the UK, France, Russia, Iran, Slovenia, Canada, and Switzerland. An updated programme is available on the workshop’s website.

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A brief report on ISIPTA 2011

Posted on October 3, 2011 in Event Reports by Enrique Miranda

The 7th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications was held in the beautiful city of Innsbruck (Austria), on July 25—28, 2011. It was organized by Frank Coolen, Gert de Cooman, Thomas Fetz and Michael Oberguggenberger, with the help in the local organization of Anna Bombasaro, Bernhard Schmelzer and Reinhard Stix.

A total of 40 papers dealing with theoretical and practical aspects of imprecise probabilities were presented, both with a poster and with a short talk.

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