Walter Saxer Prize 2018
The two junior scientists Philippe Deprez and Matthias Kirchner have received the 2018 Walter Saxer Prize in recognition of their exceptional doctoral theses.
Awarded works:
- Philippe Deprez
external pageRandom graph modeling and network analysis
Doctoral thesis supervised by Prof. Mario Wüthrich (D-MATH), Prof. Paul Embrechts (D-MATH) and Prof. Thomas Hurd (McMaster University)
- Matthias Kirchner
external pagePerspectives on Hawkes Processes
Doctoral thesis supervised by Prof. Paul Embrechts, Prof. Valérie Chavez-Demoulin (University of Lausanne), Prof. Alan Hawkes (Swansea University) and Prof. Thomas Mikosch (University of Copenhagen)
This year's award ceremony was organized together with the ETH Risk Center. On this occasion, Professor Pablo Koch Medina (University of Zurich) gave a talk on "Internal models are dead. Are they really?".
Matthias Kirchner and Philippe Deprez
Hansjörg Furrer, Mario Wüthrich, Valérie Chavez-Demoulin, Matthias Kirchner, Philippe Deprez, Paul Embrechts