News from CoCaLa

Jeffrey Adams joined the department as a PhD student on 1 September 2020 and is associated with the Copenhagen Causality Lab in the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory.

Predrag is employed as a research assistant working with the section for Statistics and Probability Theory. Later he will begin as a PhD student under supervision from Susanne Ditlevsen.

Rikke is employed from 1 September 2020 as a PhD student at the section for Statistics and Probability, working with the Copenhagen Causality Lab with Jonas Martin Peters as supervisor.

Sorawit is employed as a research assistant until he can start as a PhD student in Copenhagen Causality Lab at the section for Statistics and Probability Theory. His PhD will be co-supervised by Jonas Peters and Niklas…

On July 1st 2020, Rune starts a position as postdoc in the section for Statistics and Probability Theory, associated with the research group Copenhagen Causality Lab.

Niklas has been employed as a tenure track assistant professor at the section for Statistics and Probability Theory in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Team CoCaLa, four PhD students and two postdocs from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, won the international competition "Causality 4 Climate" by proposing models and solutions in 34…

At the conference of the International Biometric Society in Adelaide, Australia, Rune received the award of the best student talk for his presentation about causal inference on spatio-temporal data.

Snorre Jallbjørn enrolled as an industrial PhD student at the department in cooperation with ATP on 1 October 2019. Snorre is part of the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory, and his main supervisor is…

Since 1 September 2019, Sebastian Weichwald is a postdoctoral researcher with the Copenhagen Causality Lab at the Statistics and Probability Theory Section within the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Gherardo Varando started on August 1st, 2018, as a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, working with the Copenhagen Causality Lab.

The paper Sparse Learning in Gaussian Chain Graphs for State Space Models by L. Petersen has been accepted for poster presentation at PGM 2018.

Lasse Petersen is employed as a PhD student from 1 May 2018 and is associated with the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory and the Copenhagen Causality Lab.

Søren Wengel Mogensen will participate in the ACIC 2018 meeting in Pittsburgh, May 22-23, where he will give an oral presentation in the session Causal inference and learning from stochastic processes using graphical…

The paper Causal Learning for Partially Observed Stochastic Dynamical Systems by S.W. Mogensen, D. Malinsky and N.R. Hansen has been accepted for oral presentation at UAI 2018.

CoCaLa is co-organizing the workshop Statistics in Complex Systems, which takes place April 11-13, 2018.

The paper Penalized estimation in large-scale generalized linear array models is published. It presents the theory behind the glamlasso R package for penalized estimation in generalized linear array models.

Rune Christiansen started 1 July 2017 as a PhD under the supervision of Jonas Peters in the research group “Causal Inference with Incomplete Data” – under the section of statistics and probability theory (SPT).

Adam Lund was employed at the department 1 June 2017. As a researcher in statistics Adam is part of the Section for Statistics and Probability Theory (SPT).

Søren Wengel Mogensen is employed as a PhD student in the section for Statistics and Probability Theory as of December 1, 2016. He is a part of the research project “Causal inference with incomplete data” headed by Niel…