Ernst Wit

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USI's informatics faculty (top 3 in Switzerland and top 125 in the world; THE 2023) is pleased to announce the new Bachelor in Data Science: join.usi.ch/en/bachelor-data…

Riots in Lyon tonight resulting into damaged shops in the city centre.

The Bernoulli Society workshop on Sparse Inference of Complex Networks in Lugano was a huge success. Excellent talks, great interactions and convivial discussions celebrated the end of the SNF project 188534. Big thanks to all speakers and participants.

2nd Prize for Best Poster for KATERINA RIGANA at the Bernoulli Workshop at USI, Lugano today! CONGRATULATIONS

Best Poster Prize for GIULIA CAPITOLI at the Bernoulli Workshop on Sparse Inference of Complex Networks at USI, Lugano. CONGRATULATIONS!

Statistical methods and models for complex data may sound like a cliché, but it's in fact and excellent (excellence) programme at the University of Padova. Final conference from 21-23 September.

#IWSM2022 welcoming party.

#IWSM2022 in Trieste showing the light on il Formaggino...

#IWSM2022 sunset in Trieste

#IWSM2022 is on its way.

Not overstating its impact in any way or form, but as much as I would love to go to the EMS in Moscow this year, it would be improper to our #Ukrainian colleagues. @BernoulliSoc, although Spokoiny and Raygorodsky don't deserve being punished, but nor do our colleagues in Ukraine.

... And a talk by @SachMukherjee about graphical models for heterogenous data. @BMS_ANed

... and a talk by Marloes Maathuis on FDR control in graphical models. @BMS_ANed

Covid-19 reporting on the right was a mess, but on the left should also be more honest and factually accurate. Bill Maher has a nice piece: youtu.be/Qp3gy_CLXho – at Muzzano, Svizzera

Together with Simon Wood we re-analyzed the recent claim that only the #lockdown brought down the viral reproduction number R_t below one. Spoiler alert: it didn't. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…

This video made by the COSTNET Action (CA15109) explains the use of Monte Carlo tests in detecting fraudulent transactions in financial networks. Detecting fraud in financial networks (COSTNET) youtu.be/DDBa36YiFHc via @YouTube

Now that Covid-19 vaccines are becoming available, it might be worth discussing strategies for smart dissemination. Our #COSTNET action made a movie about it at the beginning of the pandemic. youtu.be/1BnFpmKPKos – at Muzzano, Svizzera

About the surprising relationship between substance abuse and social relationships and how mathematics in the guise of the SOAM can give insight in which causes what! – at Muzzano, Svizzera

My academic home -- informatics at USI -- got just ranked in the top 150 computer science departments in the world in the authoritative WUR ranking.