WORKSHOP
MODEL SELECTION, REGULARIZATION,
AND INFERENCE

Basic Information

Date:	July 12 - 14, 2018
Location:	University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria,
Organizers:	Hannes Leeb and Benedikt M. Pötscher, University of Vienna Department of Statistics and Operations Research
Description:	The workshop is centered around the general theme of estimation and inference in situations where shrinkage methods based on model selection or regularization are employed, including high-dimensional scenarios where the number of parameters exceeds the sample size.
Submission:	Closed.

Scientific Program

The workshop will consist of a series of invited and contributed presentations with discussion.

Invited speakers include:

Alexandre Belloni (Duke University),
Yoav Benjamini (Tel Aviv University),
Rudy Beran (UC Davis),
Larry Brown (1940 - 2018); represented by Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla (University of Pennsylvania)
Noureddine El Karoui (UC Berkeley),
Lucas Janson (Harvard University),
John Storey (Princeton University),
Hannes Leeb (University of Vienna),
Ian McKeague (Columbia University),
David Preinerstorfer (Université libre de Bruxelles),
Lukas Steinberger (Universität Freiburg),
Jon Taylor (Stanford University),
Ryan Tibshirani (Carnegie Mellon University)

Workshop program: Thursday July 12, 2018 Friday July 13, 2018 Saturday July 14, 2018

Workshop Location

Faculty of Business, Economics and Statisticss
Sky Lounge
Oskar Morgenstern Platz 1
1090 Wien

City Map,
Top Floor Access Map

Registration

Registration has been closed. A list of participants will be published here soon.

Additional Information

For a related conference in Vienna see Data Science, Statistics and Visualisation 2018.

Accomodation Information

We have reserved blocks of rooms at the following centrally located hotels.
Participants (except for invited speakers) have to take care of their own booking. In order to be eligible for the reduced workshop rate you need to mention the reservation code "MSRAI 2018" when booking the room.

Hotel De France	Double room single use € 125 per night (including breakfast) Double room € 145 per night (including breakfast) Please fill out this reservation form (PDF) and send it directly to defrance@gerstner-hotels.at or fax it to +43 1 319 59 69. Deadline: May 15, 2018
Hotel Regina	Double room single use € 120 per night (including breakfast) Double room € 137 per night (including breakfast) Single room € 100 per night (including breakfast) Please fill out this reservation form (PDF) and send it directly to regina@kremslehnerhotels.at. Deadline: June 11, 2018
Hotel & Palais Strudlhof	Double room single use € 99 per night (including breakfast) Please make your reservation via email to aliz.toldi@strudlhof.at. Deadline: June 11, 2018
Hotel Deutschmeister	Double room € 104 per night (including breakfast) Single room € 80 per night (including breakfast) Please make your reservation via email to deutschmeister@city-hotels.at. Deadline: June 11, 2018
Riess City Hotel	Single room € 75 per night (without breakfast) Double room € 115 per night ((without breakfast) (no air conditioning) Please make your reservation via email to office@riess-city-hotel.at. Deadline: May 15, 2018
Meininger Hotel Vienna Downtown Sissi	Single room € 75 per night (including breakfast) Double room € 80 per night (including breakfast) (no air conditioning) Please make your reservation via email to welcome@meininger-hotels.com. Deadline: May 11, 2018
Hotel Boltzmann	Double room single use € 82 per night (including breakfast) Double room Comfort € 104 per night (including breakfast) Please make your reservation via email to info@hotelboltzmann.at. Deadline: May 30, 2018

Further hotels (no blocks of rooms reserved)	Hotel Academia (no A/C) Hotel Atlanta (no A/C) Hotel-Pension Lehrerhaus (no A/C) Hotel Madara (no A/C) Hotel Zipser Vienna Hotels Online

Travel

Vienna is conveniently reached by air through Vienna International Airport (VIE), or by train via the Austrian Federal Railroad.

Vienna travel guides are provided by The City of Vienna, Lonely Planet, The New York Times, and WikiTravel, among others.

WORKSHOP MODEL SELECTION, REGULARIZATION, AND INFERENCE