Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

SIMERGE

• Title: Statistical Inference for the Management of Extreme Risks and Global Epidemiology

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • UGB (Senegal) - LERSTAD - Abdou Ka Diongue

• Starting year: 2015

• See also: http://mistis.inrialpes.fr/simerge

• Entered in the LIRIMA in January 2015, this team federates researchers from LERSTAD (Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches en Statistiques et Développement, Université Gaston Berger), on the one part, and mistis (Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes) on the other part. This project consolidates the existing collaborations between these two Laboratories.

  The team also involves statisticians from EQUIPPE laboratory (Economie QUantitative Intégration Politiques Publiques Econométrie, Université de Lille) and associated members of Modal (Inria Lille Nord-Europe) as well as an epidemiologist from IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) at Dakar.

  The following two research themes are developed : (1) Spatial extremes with application to management of extreme risks ; (2) Classification with application to global epidemiology.

• F. Durante, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

• K. Qin, H. Nguyen and D. Wraith resp. from Swinburne University and La Trobe university in Melbourne, Australia and Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

• E. Deme and S. Sylla from Gaston Berger university and IRD in Senegal.

• M. Stehlik from Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria and Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile.

• M. Houle from National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

• N. Wang and C-C. Tu from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

• R. Steele, from McGill university, Montreal, Canada.

• Guillaume Kon Kam King, Stefano Favaro, Igor Prünster, University of Turin, Italy.

• Bernardo Nipoti, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

• Yeh Whye Teh, Oxford University, UK.

• Stephen Walker, University of Texas at Austin, USA.