Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

The Ertl Lecture Award was established in 2008 by the three Berlin universities (Humboldt University, Technical University and Free University) and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and is awarded once a year. It commemorates former FHI Director Gerhard Ertl's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he received in 2007. The prize honours outstanding personalities and researchers in the field of catalysis where Ertl carried out exceptional research for many decades. The prize, sponsored by BASF, includes a one-week research stay at the participating Berlin institutions and a keynote lecture. The winner is typically announced in Spring, the lecture takes place around the December 10th, the anniversary of Ertl's Nobel Prize reception.

Introduction to Approximate Bayesian Computation

• Online Seminar of the NOMAD Laboratory
• Date: Jan 21, 2021
• Time: 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. Antonietta Mira
• Director of the Data Science Lab, Università della Svizzera italiana, and University of Insubria
• Location: Join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87487369698?pwd=TnNaQmhoOUFxMXY5QUU0R1I0Z2xCdz09
• Room: Webinar ID: 874 8736 9698 I Password: NOMAD
• Host: NOMAD Laboratory

The goal of statistical inference is to draw conclusions about properties of a population given a finite observed sample. This typically proceeds by first specifying a parametric statistical model (that identifies a likelihood function) for the data generating process which is indexed by parameters that need to be calibrated (estimated). There is always a trade-off between model simplicity / inferencial effort / prediction power. [more]