Dear members of the Luxembourg Statistical Society,

On September 25, 2026 we will have our summer fest.

We start at 18:00 on the Kirchberg Campus of the University of Luxembourg with a seminar from Eric Sassel on his Pancreas Navigator, a multidimensional clinical reasoning score which is explainable (Glass Box) and FAIR-aligned, designed for the early detection of pancreatic pathologies in general. Its mathematical architecture incorporates Gaussian normalisation on the BACAP cohort (n=1,950), chronocritical temporal weighting, score velocity (CHRONO), a non-monotonic barotonicity index (BARO), and an ECO inter-score tensor.

After the seminar, we will continue the evening in a restaurant in Kirchberg with our annual summer fest.

Details about seminar room and restaurant will follow in due time.

===> For organisational reasons, we would appreciate it if you could register by return of this email before September 15.

Best regards,

The LSS Board

We are delighted to invite you to our next LSS Talk:

A combined and enhanced statistical learning model for the prediction of the EURO 2024 tournament

with Prof. Dr. Andreas Groll

(Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund University)

Event Details:

📅 Monday, 23 March 2026, from 18:00 to 19:00
📍 Belval Campus, Room MNO 1.020

Taking Back What’s Yours: Regaining Ownership of Data

Your data are vital data source for everything from marketing decisions to artificial intelligence. But here’s a simple yet important question: Who actually owns your data?

In this talk, Prof. Dr. Renana Peres (Hebrew University Business School and Visiting Scholar at the University of Luxembourg) explores a future where each of us owns and controls our personal data. This idea goes far beyond privacy protection. Imagine being able to decide:

• Who can access your data
• What it can be used for
• Whether, and how much, you charge for it

Could such a shift transform how businesses, platforms, and consumers interact? Could it reshape the entire data economy?

Drawing on her newest research, Prof. Peres will introduce the three pillars of data ownership — Protection, Control, and Monetization — and invite us to think about what happens when consumers, not intermediaries, sit at the center of the data ecosystem.

📅 When: Wednesday, 17 September 2025, at 18:00 (welcome from 17:30)
📍 Where: Belval Campus, Room MSA 3.160
🥂 Followed by informal drinks

Join us as we kick off the new academic year with this thought-provoking talk and lively exchange of ideas.

The Luxembourg Statistical Society is organizing its first LSS prize ceremony.

This event will award for the first time a LSS prize for the best internship report for a master thesis of the University of Luxembourg.

The aim of this event is to reinforce the importance of statistics as an applied discipline and bring people together with a shared interest in applied statistics. It awards the students that did an exceptional work contributing to statistics via their internship report.

When and where? This event will take place on the 31st of January 2025 at 6 pm at Campus Belval (room to be announced soon)

Save the date!

Who are the nominees?

• Aleksandra Frania, Master in Data Science: Causal inference Methods and Tools (Internship done at Goodyear)

• Fatéma Goulamaly, Master in Industrial Mathematics: Predicting the Degradation of Li-ion Battery Using Hybrid Machine Learning and Empirical Methods (Internship done at Siemens Industry Software SAS)

• Rym Kaced, Master in Financial Mathematics: Insurance and ALM: Introduction to Strategic Asset Allocation (Internship done at PWC)

Program:

• 18:00: Welcome words by Christophe Ley, president of the LSS and introduction to the LSS prize by Yves Dominicy, scientific jury president.
• 18:10: Presentations by the Nominees
• 19:00: Jury Deliberation
• 19:15: Announcement of the Winner

If you are interested, please register to this event by sending an email to luxstatsoc@gmail.com.