Farewell Colloquium for Claudia Czado
Forschung, Statistics |
The Department of Mathematics cordially invites you to a Farewell Colloquium in recognition of the academic career and contributions of Prof. Claudia Czado.
The colloquium will feature scientific talks reflecting Prof. Czado’s influential work in vine copula theory, dependence modeling, and applied statistics.
Program
| 14:00 | Greetings |
| Oliver Junge and Matthias Scherer | |
| Laudatio | |
| Dorota Kurowicka and Manfred Denker | |
| Coffee Break | |
| Keynotes | |
| Thomas Nagler | |
| Roger Cooke | |
| 17:30 | End |
If you would like to join us for a self-paid dinner at Gasthof Neuwirt (at 18:30) following the colloquium, please confirm your attendance by emailing Aleksey Min (min@tum.de).
| Location | Technical University of Munich Department of Mathematics Boltzmannstraße 3 Garching bei München Lecture room: 5606.EG.011 (MI HS3) |
| Date | February 23, 2026 |
| Language | English |
| Local organizers | Aleksey Min, Thomas Nagler, Mathias Drton, Andrea Grant, Stephan Haug |
Festschrift in Honor of Claudia Czado:
Statistical Dependence Modeling
Mini-Workshop
The colloquium will be complemented by a mini-workshop on topics related to Claudia Czado's research areas. The workshop will take place on February 23, 2026, from 9:00 to 12:00 in room MI HS3.
Invited speakers: Ariane Hanebeck, David Jobst, Annette Möller, Özge Sahin, Thibault Vatter
Program:
| 09:00-09:10 | Welcome |
| 09:10-09:35 | Özge Sahin Structure selection in simplified vine copulas: when does the Dissmann algorithm struggle, and which diagnostics highlight it? |
| 09:35-10:00 | Thibault Vatter Throwing vines at the wall: structure learning via random search |
| 10:00-10:25 | Ariane Hanebeck Vine tree-based optimal augmentation selection for image classification with an application to autonomous driving |
| 10:25-10:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50-11:15 | Annette Möller Vine Copula based Univariate Probabilistic Weather Forecasting |
| 11:15-11:40 | David Jobst Vine Copula based Multivariate Probabilistic Weather Forecasting |
Participation: Everyone interested in vine-copulas and their applications is invited to attend the workshop. There is no registration fee. A live stream (Zoom link) will be provided for participants unable to travel to Garching.