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Talks on Financial engineering

  Analytical Pricing of Basket Default Swaps: A dynamic model with automatic calibration to CDS curves
Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
Joint Econometrics - LSM Finance Seminar
February 19, 2011, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).

  Analytical Pricing of Basket Default Swaps: A dynamic model with auto-calibration to CDS curves
European Institute for Statistics, Probability, Stochastic Operations Research (EURANDOM)
Advances in Financial Mathematics Lecture Series
January 19, 2011, Eindhoven (The Netherlands).

  Introduction to Copulas with application to structured credit
Université de Louvain, Ecole Polytechnique (MLG)
Machine Learning Group Seminars
October 30, 2008, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).

 
Talks on Entropy-based Blind Source Separation

  Contrast properties of entropic criteria for blind source separation : a unifying framework based on information-theoretic inequalities
Université de Liège (Montefiore Institute). Invited Talk.
March 22, 2007, Liège (Belgium).

  Zero-Entropy Minimization for Blind Extraction of Bounded Sources (BEBS)
ICA'06, 6th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation
March 5-8, 2006, Charleston (South-Carolina, USA).

  Can We Always Trust Entropy Minima in the ICA Context ?
EUSIPCO'05, 13th European Signal Processing Conference.
September 4-8, 2005, Antalya (Turkey).
Special session on novel directions in information theoretic approaches to source separation and estimation

 
Talks on Endpoint-based Blind Source Separation

  A least absolute bound approach to ICA - Application to the MLSP 2006 competition,
September 6-8, 2006, Maynooth (Ireland).

  Discriminacy of the minimum range approach to the simultaneous blind separation of bounded sources
ESANN'06, 14th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks.
April 26-28, 2006, Bruges (Belgium).

  Minimum Support ICA Using Order Statistics. Part I: Quasi-Range Based Support Estimation
ICA'06, 6th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation
March 5-8, 2006, Charleston (South-Carolina, USA).

  Minimum Support ICA Using Order Statistics. Part II: Performance Analysis
ICA'06, 6th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation
March 5-8, 2006, Charleston (South-Carolina, USA).

  Filtering-Free Blind Separation of Correlated Images
IWANN'05, International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
June 8-10, 2005, Barcelona (Spain).
Special Session on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation

  SWM : A Class of Convex Contrasts for Source Separation
ICASSP'05, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.
March 19-23, 2005, Philadelphia (USA).

  Entropy Minima and Distribution Structural Modifications in Blind Separation of Multi-modal Sources
MaxEnt'04, the 24th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering.
July 25-30, 2004, Garching/Munich (Germany).

 
Talks on FECG Extraction

  Sensor Array and Electrode Selection for Non-Invasive Fetal Electrocardiogram Extraction by Independent Component Analysis
ICA'04, the 5th Int. Conf. on Independent Component Analysis.
September 22-24, 2004, Granada (Spain).

  Abdominal Electrodes Analysis by Statistical Processing for Fetal Electrocardiogram Extraction
BioMED'04, the 2nd IASTED Int. Conf. on Biomedical Engineering. February 16-18, 2004, Innsbruck (Austria).

  Improving Independent Component Analysis Performances by Variable Selection
NNSP'03, the 13th IEEE workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing.
September 17-19, 2003, Toulouse (France).

 
Other

  On the Extraction of the Snore Acoustic Signal by Independent Component Analysis
BioMED'04, the 2nd IASTED Int. Conf. on Biomedical Engineering.
February 16-18, 2004, Innsbruck (Austria).

  Towards a Local Separation Performances Estimator using Common ICA contrast Funtions ?
ESANN'04, the 12th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks.
April 28-30, 2004, Bruges (Belgium).
Special Session on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation