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Tutorials will take place 10th to 12th December 2025.

The tutorials are organized by the COST Action HiTEc (see HiTEc Winter Course 2025). The conference participants can register for each one of the tutorials separately. For further information send an email to info@CMStatistics.org.

Dates: 10-12 December 2025.
Venue: TBA

Further details will be provided in due course.

Tutorial I (7 hours)

Probabilistic programming for statistical analysis in Julia

Presenters: Mattias Villani, Stockholm University, Sweden and TBA, University of Cambridge, UK.
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Dates: 10th December 2025.

Julia has emerged as an important language for statistical data analysis and machine learning. It is a high-level language that is easy to learn, but with a speed close to C/C++ from its just-in-time compilation. Despite its relatively young age, Julia already has an impressive set of libraries for statistics, and can be easily integrated with a workflow in R or Python.

This first half of this tutorial introduces the Julia programming language with a focus on statistical analysis. The second half focuses on likelihood and Bayesian inference using the Turing.jl probabilistic programming ecosystem in Julia. Participants are encouraged to install Julia and some statistical packages before the tutorial, to follow along on their own laptops. More details with installation instructions will be posted as we approach the conference.

The following topics will be covered:

Part 1

  • introduction to the Julia programming language
  • the package manager and tooling
  • statistical distributions
  • optimization and automatic differentiation

Part 2

  • probabilistic programming for statistical inference using Turing.jl

Tutorial II (6 hours)

Bayesian variable selection

Presenter: Jim Griffin, UCL, UK.
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Dates: 11th December 2025.

TBA.

Tutorial III (4 hours)

TBA.

Presenter: Sophie Dabo,University of Lille, France.
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Dates: 12th December 2025 (morning).

TBA.

Tutorial IV (4 hours)

High-dimensional time series and factor models.

Presenter: Marc Hallin,Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Email: Contact

Dates: 12th December 2025 (afternoon).

TBA.

Organizers and sponsors

Organized by the HiTEc COST Action CA21163 with the collaboration of CFE-CMStatistics.

Sponsored by COST.

HiTEc Grants

PhD students and young researchers, according to the COST definition (under 40 years), from eligible COST countries* can apply for a limited number of grants. The granted participants will be reimbursed a daily allowance of 180 euros per day plus travel expenses of up to 350 euros.

  • In order to apply for the grants, candidates should submit their CV by e-mail to hiteccostaction@gmail.com.
  • Deadline for applications: 5th September 2025.
  • Granted candidates will be informed by e-mail after the deadline and must send their flight tickets and registration 7 days after the notification to secure their grants. Otherwise, their grants will be revoked and assigned to other candidate.
  • The granted candidates must attend all the sessions and sign the attendance list in order to obtain their grants.
*Eligible COST countries: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, The Netherlands, The Republic of North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Israel.