April 2025 - SIPTA News - lists.sipta.org

(Not so random) new post on the SIPTA blog (on randomness and imprecision)

by Alexander Erreygers

Dear imprecise probabilities enthusiasts, Ever thought about the question “when can/should one call an infinite sequence of 0s and 1s random”? You’re not alone! While you may have never thought about this question for more than a couple of minutes, hours or days, Floris Persiau spent about 5 years thinking about this question, over the course of obtaining his doctoral degree. Curious about his way of thinking about this problem (which, of course, included allowing for imprecision), and curious to find out whether he managed to come up with a satisfactory answer? Head over to the SIPTA blog now, where Floris Persiau is handing out small bites of the big cake that is his doctoral dissertation — all for free, no strings attached. Kind regards, Alexander Erreygers

April 28, 2025

ISIPTA 2025: call for poster submissions (submission deadline: 5 may)

by sdesterc

*** The organizers would be grateful if you could inform potentially interested participants of this conference. *** ================================================================ 14th International Symposium on imprecise probabilities: theories and applications (ISIPTA 2015) Call for posters The ISIPTA 2025 conference will take place between July 15 and July 18 in Bielefeld, Germany. It will welcome researchers working on imprecise probability theories and connected fields from all over the world, to discuss recent advancements. If you did not have the time to submit a paper, there is still time to submit a poster abstract. This will not only allow you to actively participate in the event, but will also enable you to register at a reduced fee or, if you are a non-tenured scholar, to register for free. Following past ISIPTA traditions, poster submissions will receive substantial attention: each poster is presented at a plenary session as well as at the poster session that follows it, alongside the regular full paper contributions. We therefore encourage you to submit your work as a poster. This could be work in progress that you’d like to present or get feedback on, as well as existing published material that you’d like to present to the ISIPTA audience. Submissions consist of a one page abstract that summarizes the work to be presented. The deadline for poster submissions is May 5, 2025. Acceptance of poster submissions will be notified shortly after the submission. The ISIPTA steering committee • Jasper De Bock • Sébastien Destercke • Alexander Erreygers • Max Nendel • Frank Riedel • Matthias Troffaes ================================================================

April 24, 2025

Next SIPTA seminar, Krikamol Muandet on 24th April 15h Paris time, "Imprecise generalisation"

by sdesterc

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce our upcoming SIPTA online seminar on imprecise probabilities (IP). These monthly events are open to anyone interested in IP, and will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion. They also provide an occasion for the community to meet, keep in touch and exchange between in-person events. The next seminar will take place on the 24th of April (Thursday). The zoom link for this seminar is https://utc-fr.zoom.us/j/88932866889 For this new seminar, we are very happy to have Krikamol Muandet as our speaker. Krikamol Muandet is currently a chief scientist and tenure-track faculty (fast track) at CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security which is within the Helmholtz Association where he leads the Rational Intelligence (RI) Lab. While Krikamol prime interest lies in machine learning, a field in which he has many contributions, he has also a strong interest in its intersections with imprecise probabilities, and in particular the idea of imprecision in learning. On the 24th of April at 15:00 CEST:paris time (up to 17:00 CEST, with a talk duration of 45min/1h), he will talk about "Imprecise generalisation”. Curious? Then check out the abstract on the webpage of the SIPTA seminars: sipta.org/events/sipta-seminars. The zoom link for attending the seminar can be found on that same page. So please mark your calendars on the 24th of April, and join us for the occasion. And for those who missed the previous seminar and want to catch up, or simply want to see it again and again, it is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeGpbYNe5-Q See you at the seminar! Sébastien, Enrique and Jasper

April 17, 2025