The Seminar in Geometry and Statistics takes place monthly at the Department of Mathematics and Data Science of VUB (Building G, Sixth Floor, Room 6.60). It is flexible in terms of schedule and topics, though topics revolve around geometry and statistics. The organizers are Dr. Susovan Pal and myself.

Forthcoming talks

 

 

DATE: 11 September 2025

 

SPEAKER: Martin Andersson (Uppsala University)

 

TITLE: Finite-sample inference for intrinsic dimension via Gaussian kernels 

 

ABSTRACT: We consider intrinsic-dimension estimation for data supported on an unknown d-dimensional submanifold in Euclidean space. We first introduce key concepts and existing approaches, then present new finite-sample concentration bounds for Gaussian-kernel estimators under mild regularity assumptions on the manifold and sampling distribution. We also discuss data-driven bandwidth selection methods.

 

 

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DATE: 16 Octobre 2025

 

SPEAKER: Marie Bormann (Bonn Universität)

 

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DATE: 20 November 2025

 

SPEAKER: Alexey Lazarev (Université de Toulouse)

 

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DATE: 11 December 2025

 

SPEAKER: Simon Jacobsson (KU Leuven)

 

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Past talks

DATE: 24 April 2025

SPEAKER: Alice Le Brigant (Sorbonne Université)

TITLE: The Lp Fisher-Rao metric and the alpha-connection

 

DATE: 18 March 2025

SPEAKER: Mauricio Che (University of Vienna)

TITLE: Spaces of Persistence Diagrams and Optimal Partial Transport

 

DATE: 13 February 2025

SPEAKER: Diego Bolón Rodríguez (ULB)

TITLE: A review on highest density region estimation

 

DATE: 23 January 2025

SPEAKER: Eddie Aamari (École Normale Supérieure de Paris)

TITLE: A theory of stratification learning: clustering-by-dimensionality with reconstruction

 

DATE: 12 December 2024

SPEAKER: Susovan Pal (VUB)

TITLE: Optimal lift, a tool for statistical testing on Singular Shape Spaces

 

DATE: 13 November 2024

SPEAKER: Claire Brécheteau (Nantes Université)

TITLE: Statistical tests for uniformity and iidness on homogeneous spaces

 

DATE: 11 September 2024

SPEAKER: Pierre-Antoine Absil (UCLouvain)

TITLE: Feasible and Infeasible Optimization on Manifolds