2018, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2018, Joint 2018 IMS Annual Meeting / 12th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics (invited speaker)
2018, Toulouse, France, 22 may (invited seminar talk)
2018, Paris, France, INRIA Mokameeting, 2 May (invited seminar talk)
2017, Bruxelles, October 2017, ECARES seminar (invited seminar talk)
2017, Gent, May 2017, Quetelet seminar (invited seminar talk)
2016, Sevilla, December 2016, ERCIM
2016, Leuven, November 2016 (invited seminar talk)
2016, Namur, October 2016, 24th meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society (Special "advanced" session organiser, Joint PHD talk and invited talk)
2016, Antwerp, June 2016, (invited seminar talk)
2016, Logroño (La Rioja), June 2016, BSL2016 (invited talk)
2016, Bonn, October 2016, invited lecturer at RTG Summer-School organized by Peter Eichelsbacher. Topic: “IT meets Stein’s method” (12 hours)
2016, Louvain la Neuve, February 2016, (invited seminar talk)
2015, Antwerp, October 2015, BSS Meeting (keynote speaker)
2015, Liège, September 2015, SRSL (invited talk)
2015, Brussels, September 2015, A path through probability in honour of F.Thomas BRUSS (invited talk)
2015, Amsterdam, European meeting of Statisticians (invited talk)
2014, Singapour, May 2015, Workshop on new directions in Stein's method (invited talk)
2014, Liège, May 2015, Comprehensible Seminar (seminar talk)
2014, Bucharest, Romania, December 2014: conference on stochastic analysis and applications (invited talk)
2014, Bristol, UK, November 2014, Seminar: "A canonical approach to Stein's method"
2014, Bruxelles, Belgium, August 2014, The 7th Brussels Summer School of Mathematics: (invited talk)
2014, Missilac, France, June 2014, International Colloquium on Stein's Method, Concentration Inequalities, and Malliavin Calculus (invited talk)
2014, Brussels, Belgium, May 2014, Workshop on Advances in Directional Statistics (invited talk)
2014, Liège, Belgium, March 2014, IAP seminar (invited seminar talk)
2014, UCL,Belgium, February 2014, weekly seminar (invited seminar talk)
2013, Nancy, France, October 2013, Workshop on Stein’s method and related topics (invited talk)
2013, Brussels, Belgium, October 2013, ULB maths department weekly seminar (seminar talk)
2013, Leuven, Belgium, June 2013, MathSport International (contributed talk)
2013, Bochum, Germany, June 2013, seminar: “Entropy, stein factors and the fourth moment phenomenon” (invited talk)
2012, Jerusalem, Israel, June 2012, IWAP 2012 (contributed talk)
2012, Liège, Belgium, June 2012, first joint meeting of the Belgian Mathematical Society (BMS), the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society (RSME) and the Luxembourg Mathematical Society (SML) (invited talk)
2012, Luxembourg-Ville, Luxembourg, May 2012, Probability Seminar (invited seminar talk)
2012, Lille, France, March 2012, Séminaire mensuel de statistique-économétrie à l'Université Lille 3 - Laboratoire EQUIPPE (invited seminar talk)
2012, Mainz, Germany, March 2012, 10th German Probability and Statistics Days (contributed talk)
2012, Nancy, France, January 2012, Séminaire de Probabilités et Statistiques (invited seminar talk)
2011, Luxembourg-Ville, Luxembourg, December 2011, Probability Seminar (invited seminar talk)
2011, Bruxelles, Belgium, November 2011, ULB-UCL seminar (invited seminar talk)
2011, Hasselt, Belgium, October 2011, 19th annual meeting of the belgian statistical society (contributed talk)
2011, Fort-Collins, Colorado, June 2011, Graybill 2011 (special invited paper).
2011, Bruxelles, Belgium, April 2011, ULB-VUB seminar (seminar talk)
2010, London, UK, December 2010, CFE10-ERCIM 10 (contributed talk)
2010, Madrid, Spain, July 2010, International Workshop on Applied Probability (contributed talk)
2010, Lille, France, May 2010, Séminaire mensuel de statistique-économétrie à l'Université Lille 3 - Laboratoire EQUIPPE (invited seminar talk)
2010, ORFE, Princeton, NJ, USA April 2010 (invited seminar talk)
2010, Leipzig, Germany, March 2010, 9th German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics (contributed talk)
2010, Lyon, France, Janvier 2010, Séminaire de probabilités, Institut Camille Jordan, Lyon 1 (invited seminar talk)
2009, Troyes, France, June 2009, International Workshop on Sequential methodologies (contributed talk)
2009, Bordeaux, France, May 2009, 45èmes Journées de Statistique (contributed talk)
2008, Brussels, Belgium, May 2008, FNRS Graduate School in Statistics and Actuarial Sciences (invited talk)
2008, Brussels, Belgium April 2008, Séminaire de Probabilités, ULB (seminar talk)
2008, Aachen, Germany, March 2008, 8th German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics (contributed talk)
2007, Antwerp, Belgium, October 18 to 20 2007, 15th Annual Meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society (contributed talk)
2007, Hejnice, Czech Republic, September 2 2007, Robust and Nonparametric Statistical Inference (contributed talk)
2006, Frankfurt am Maine, Germany, March 14 to 17 2006, Frankfurter Stochastic-Tage 2006, Goethe University (contributed talk)
2003, La Roche-en-Ardennes, Belgium, October 10 and 11 2003, 11th Annual meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society (contributed talk)
Events organised
2023, Main organiser (with Céline Esser and Joost Vercruysse) of the « Recent breakthroughs in Mathematics » afternoon of the Belgian Mathematical Society, December
2022, Co-organiser of the BMS "PhD day and job fair"
2022, Main organiser (with Céline Esser and Joost Vercruysse) of the « Recent breakthroughs in Mathematics » afternoon of the Belgian Mathematical Society, December (online)
2019, Invited session organiser at Palermo, Italy, 22-26 July, EMS
2019, Organising and scientific committee for the RBSS meeting in Lommel, Belgium
2018, Main organiser of the « Recent breakthroughs in Mathematics » afternoon of the Belgian Mathematical Society, December
Main organiser of MMDA “Workshop on Modern Mathematical Methods for Data Analysis”, June 4-6, Université de Liège (with Mokaplan Inria Paris)
Organisation committee of the « Journées MATh.en.JEANS » at ULiège
Amsterdam, March 2016, organising committee BeNeLuxMC 2016
Brussels, September 2015, main organiser of A path through probability in honour of F.Thomas BRUSS
Co-organiser (with Christophe Ley and the Center for Statistics of UGent) of a “Bayesian afternoon in Ghent”, Octobre 2015.
Main organiser of the BL-PRO15 workshop, January 29 and 30, Liège (with UR Maths of University of Luxembourg).
Member of organising committee of “International Year of Statistics in Luxembourg” (with CRP-SANTE, CEPS/INSTEAD, University of Luxembourg, STATEC, ARTEMIS and SOGETI)
Member of the organising committee of the 18th “annual meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society” in Spa, Belgium.
Research stays of minimum one week
Karlsruhe, Germany, November 2022, Invited research stay, host: Bruno Ebner
Manchester, UK, October 2022, Invited research stay, host: Robert Gaunt
Rennes, France, September 2022: Invited research stay, host: Guillaume Poly
Karlsruhe, Germany, November 2020, Invited research stay, host: Bruno Ebner (cancelled)
Manchester, UK, October 2019, Invited research stay, host: Robert Gaunt
Rennes, France, September 2018: Invited research stay, host: Guillaume Poly
Cambridge, UK, April 2018, Invited research stay, host: Richard Samworth
Paris, France, June 2017, Invited research stay, host: Benjamin Arras
Oxford, UK, June 2016, Invited research stay, host: Gesine Reinert
Luxembourg, November 2015: Invited research stay, 1 week, host: Giovanni Peccati
Rennes, France, May 2015: Invited research stay, host: Guillaume Poly
Princeton, NJ, USA, November 2014: Invited research stay, host: Marc Hallin
Bristol, UK, November 2014, Invited research stay, host: Olly Johnson
Oxford, UK, November 2014, Invited research stay, host: Gesine Reinert
Oxford, UK, April 2014, Invited research stay, host: Gesine Reinert
Luminy, France, July 2014, Workshop on Limit Theorems in Dynamics and Applications
Bochum, Germany, June 2013, Invited research stay, host: Christoph Thaele
Princeton, NJ, USA, November 2012, Invited research stay, host: Marc Hallin
Oxford, UK, September 2012, Invited research stay, host: Gesine Reinert
Princeton, NJ, USA, May 2011, Invited research stay, host: Marc Hallin
Zürich, CH, November 2010, Invited research stay, host: Andrew D. Barbour