Most events/ conference organized under the IBS (including Belgian region Quetelet) propose reduced rates. Be sure to check on websites and with organizer !
Events
Summer School on Advanced Bayesian Methods
September 14-18 2026
The Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics organizes for the 8th time the Summer School on Advanced Bayesian Methods, focusing on novel Bayesian methods relevant to the applied statistician.
Two courses will be organized in Leuven from 14 to 18 September 2026:
- Two-day course (14–15 September) on Bayesian Finite Mixture Analysis, taught by Prof. em. Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria).
- Three-day course (16–18 September) on Bayesian Smoothing and Distributional Regression, taught by Prof. Thomas Kneib and Johannes Brachem (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany).
The summer school targets statisticians and epidemiologists with a solid background in statistics and Bayesian methodology. Both courses include practical sessions; participants are expected to bring a laptop with the required software installed.
More information on the course contents, instructors and practicalities can be found on the Summer School webpage.
Registration is only confirmed once the registration fee has been paid.
Early bird registrations (registration up to and including May 31, 2026, payment before August 1, 2026) benefit from a reduced rate. In all cases, registration must be completed before August 1, 2026, with payment due by August 31, 2026.
Bayes 2025: Bayesian Biostatistics Conference 2025
October 22-24 2025: Leiden
The Quetelet Society is pleased to announce that the 2025 edition of the Bayes conference will be held in Leiden on October 22-24.
A short Course on Bayesian Networks with bnlearn by Mario Scutari is planed October 22.
Asbtract Submission now Open. Deadline for submission is May 15th.
Summer school on Advanced Bayesian Methods
15-19 September 2025
The Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics organizes for the 7th time the Summer School on Advanced Bayesian Methods, on novel Bayesian methods relevant to the applied statistician.
The following two courses will be organized in Leuven from 15 to 19 September 2025:
- Three-day course (15-17 September) on Bayesian Additive Regression Trees by Prof. Rodney Sparapani (Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, US) and Prof. Antonio Linero (University of Texas, Austin, US)
- Two-day course (18-19 September) on AI in Bayesian Methods: Computation and Exploration by Prof. Ricardo Silva (University College London, London, UK)
More information about the courses and practicalities can be found in here.
Note that one is registered to the course, ONLY when the registration costs have been paid.
Early bird registrations (registration before June 30, 2025 and payment before July 31, 2025) enjoy the reduced rate. In any case, registration should be before August 15, 2025 and payment before August 31, 2025 (at the full rate).
10th Channel Network Conference
19-21 May 2025
The Channel Network Conference is a biennial conference organized by the International Biometric Society (IBS) channel network. The channel network comprises the Belgian, French, British & Irish, and Dutch regions of the IBS. This conference gathers statisticians, mathematicians, and data scientists to discuss the latest methodology for the analysis of data in the biosciences, including agriculture, biomedical science, environmental science, and allied disciplines. It is a 3-day conference with short courses, invited and contributed sessions. Usually, around 150 researchers from both academia and industry participate in the conference. In 2025, the Belgian Region will host the conference in Liege city.
We are proud to announce that Maria Xose Rodriguez-Alvarez (University of Vigo) and Ruth Keogh (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) will deliver keynote sessions.
Courses will be held on the 19th of May:
– Simon Wood: Generalized Additive Models
– Peter Goos: (exact title tbc)
– Hein Putter: Time dependent effects and covariates in survival analysis
For more information please go to the following website of the event: https://cnc25.sciencesconf.org/
You can register here: https://quetelet.be/cnc25
31th Annual Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society of Belgium
7-8 November 2024
The Royal Statistical Society of Belgium will organize its 31st Annual Meeting in the Drongen Abbey near Ghent on the 7th and 8th of November 2024.
This year the Quetelet Invited Speaker is Annette Kopp-Schneider who will present a talk entitled : Borrowing from external information in clinical trials: methods, benefits and limitations.
Furthermore the two Quetelet Prize winners
Roel Jude Bagaforo (UHasselt) and Elin Boiy (UGent) are presenting on Friday.
For more information and registration please go to the following website of the RSSB: https://rssb.be/activities/annual-meeting
Summer school on Advanced Bayesian Methods
16-20 September 2024
The Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics organizes for the 6st time the Summer School on Advanced Bayesian Methods. As before, the focus is on novel Bayesian methods relevant to the applied statistician.
The following two courses will be organized in Leuven from 16 to 20 September 2024:
- Two-day course (16-17 September) on Bayesian causal inference by Prof Chris Holmes and Dr Andrew Yiu (University of Oxford, UK)
- Two-day course (19-20 September) on Advanced Bayesian Methods: Theory and Applications in R by Prof. Nikolaus Umlauf (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Note that one is registered to the course, ONLY when the registration costs have been paid.
The deadline for registration and payment is July 31, 2024.
More information about the courses and practicalities (registration, location, transportation, etc.) can be found in due time on https://ibiostat.be and in the attached document.
Summer school on Advanced Bayesian Methods
16-20 September 2024
The Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics organizes for the 6st time the Summer School on Advanced Bayesian Methods. As before, the focus is on novel Bayesian methods relevant to the applied statistician.
The following two courses will be organized in Leuven from 16 to 20 September 2024:
- Two-day course (16-17 September) on Bayesian causal inference by Prof Chris Holmes and Dr Andrew Yiu (University of Oxford, UK)
- Two-day course (19-20 September) on Advanced Bayesian Methods: Theory and Applications in R by Prof. Nikolaus Umlauf (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Note that one is registered to the course, ONLY when the registration costs have been paid.
The deadline for registration and payment is July 31, 2024.
More information about the courses and practicalities (registration, location, transportation, etc.) can be found in due time on https://ibiostat.be and in the attached document.
Call for Abstract: Joint Conference of ISCB and SIB, University of Milano-Bicocca, 27-31 August 2023
We have the pleasure to announce that is now open the abstract submission for the 44th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) joint with the 14th Biannual Italian Region of the International Biometric Society (SIB),Milan (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy), 27-31 August 2023.
Submit your abstract at http://iscb2023.onlinecongress.it/ISCB44/scientific
Deadline for Abstract Submission is 10 March 2023
Keynote speakers
Lisa McShane (Chief of the Biometric Research Program of the National Cancer Institute, USA)
Vanessa Didelez (Professor of Statistics and Causal Inference at the University of Bremen, Germany)
The scientific program committee selected 8 invited sessions and 5 pre-conference courses (details can be found at https://www.iscb2023.info/programme/).
Save the date: Channel Network Conference 2023 !
The Channel Network Conference (CNC) is a biennial conference organized by the IBS regions of Belgium, France, Great-Britain/Ireland and the Netherlands. This conference aims at gathering Statisticians and Data Scientists to discuss the newest methodology for the analysis of biological and medical data. The 2023 CNC will be organized at Wageningen university and research, from Wednesday August 23rd to Friday August 25th 2023 as an in-person event. Wageningen University is located in the historical city of Wageningen, the Netherlands. More information will follow soon. For now: save the date!
International Biometric Conference, 10 – 15 July 2022
31st edition, Riga, Latvia
Experience a diverse program built by IBS members, statisticians, mathematicians, biological scientists, students, and other devoted to interdisciplinary efforts in advancing the collection and interpretation of information in biosciences. Hosted by the Nordic-Baltic Region of the IBS, we look forward to welcoming you safely to Riga for a valuable educational and inclusive community event.
Summer school on Advanced Bayesian Methods
12-16 September 2022
The Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics can finally organize for the 4th time the summer school on Bayesian methods. After two years that the pandemic ruled the world and blocked our initiative, we are glad that we can restart our summer school on Advanced Bayesian methods. As before, the focus is on novel Bayesian methods relevant for the applied statistician.
In the third edition of the summer school, the following two courses will be organized in Leuven from 12 to 16 September 2022:
- Three-day course (12-14 September) on Bayesian analysis of infectious disease outbreak data by Dr. Philip O’Neill (University of Nottingham, UK)
- Two-day course (15-16 September) on Bayesian inference in latent variable models by Dr. Paul Gustafson (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Note that one is registered to the course, ONLY when the registration costs have been paid. The deadline for registration is July 31, 2022.
More information about the courses and practicalities (registration, location, transportation, etc.) can be found in due time on https://ibiostat.be or in the attached document.
8th Channel Network Conference (CNC)
Wednesday 7th April 2021 to Friday 9th April 2021
The Quetelet Society organises together with the British, French, Irish and Netherlands regions the Channel Network Conference (CNC). This was supposed to take place in the wonderful city of Paris. However, because of the pandemic, it will take place as an online conference. I hope that this will not withhold you from joining us!
Apart from the contributed sessions, we have selected a few invited sessions on emerging topics, all with very good speakers:
- Integrating and analyzing data from different sources (Data Integration)
- Statistical modeling in movement ecology
- Infectious diseases
Two keynotes will be given by Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat and Mathias Drton.
Finally, we offer three short courses:
- Deep learning with R
- Co-data learning in high dimensional prediction problems
- Non-parametric Bayesian methods for classification
Check it out yourself: https://cnc21.sciencesconf.org/