Program | 10th BFF Conference

Overview

The scientific program of the 10th BFF Conference will include keynote lectures by Richard Samworth and Peter Grünwald, as well as several invited talks on Bayesian, Fiducial, and Frequentist approaches. All in one room - no parallel sessions.

Tentative Conference Schedule

Subject to change

July 10, 2026 08:00 – 18:00

Time	Type	Session	Details
08:00 – 10:00	Registration	Registration	Rolling
08:20 – 08:30	Opening	Opening Remarks	10 min
08:30 – 09:20	Keynote	Opening Keynote	45 min talk + 5 min Q&A · Peter Grünwald: E-Values and BFF: they should be BFF! Chair: Xiao-Li Meng
09:20 – 09:30	Break	Break	10 min
09:30 – 10:45	Session	Session 1	3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A) Tianxi Li · Radu Craiu · Peter Bühlmann Chair: Roubin Gong
10:45 – 11:00	Coffee	Coffee Break	15 min
11:00 – 12:15	Session	Session 2	3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A) Nick Koning · Thorsten Dickhaus · John Kolassa Chair: Georg Zimmermann
12:15 – 12:25	Poster	Poster Flash Talks	Approx. 1 min each
12:25 – 12:30	Transition	Transition	5 min
12:30 – 13:15	Lunch	Lunch	45 min
13:15 – 14:30	Session	Session 3	3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A) Hannes Leeb · Maria-Pia Victoria Feser · Mikael Kuusela Chair: Radu Craiu
14:30 – 14:45	Coffee	Coffee Break	15 min
14:45 – 16:00	Session	Session 4	3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A) Georg Zimmermann · Marta Bílková · Daniel Krpelik Chair: Solomon Harrar
16:00 – 16:15	Break	Break	15 min
16:15 – 17:35	Session	Session 5	Special Invited Session · 80 min Xiao-Li Meng — Celebrating the 10th BFF Conference Co-Chairs: Jan Hannig · Minge Xie
17:35 – 18:00	Networking	Buffer / Informal Networking	—
18:30 –	Dinner	Conference Dinner at Sternbräu	Featuring a Banquet Speech by Peter Bühlmann

July 11, 2026 08:30 – 17:00

Time	Type	Session	Details
08:30 – 09:30	Registration	Registration	—
08:30 – 10:10	Session	Session 6	4 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A) Markus Hainy · Galin Jones · Peter Song · Faming Liang Chair: Thorsten Dickhaus
10:10 – 10:25	Coffee	Coffee Break	15 min
10:25 – 11:40	Session	Session 7	3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A) Peter Hoff · Claudia Kirch · William Peden Chair: Frank Konietschke
11:40 – 11:55	Break	Break	15 min
11:55 – 13:10	Session	Session 8	3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A) Hanti Lin · Armin Schwartzman · Christian Hennig Chair: Christopher Saunders
13:10 – 13:55	Lunch	Lunch	45 min
13:55 – 14:45	Keynote	Keynote 2	45 min talk + 5 min Q&A · Richard Samworth: Outrigger local polynomial regression Chair: Arne Bathke
14:45 – 15:00	Break	Break	15 min
15:00 – 16:15	Session	Session 9	3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A) Aiyou Chen · Frank Konietschke · Christopher Saunders & Peter Vergeer Chair: Kai Schärer
16:15 – 17:00	Closing	Closing Panel / Discussion	—

Confirmed invited speakers

Armin Schwartzman

University of California

Marta Bilkova

Czech Academy of Sciences

Peter Bühlmann

ETH Zürich

Aiyou Chen

Waymo LLC

Radu Craiu

University of Toronto

Thorsten Dickhaus

University of Bremen

Peter Grünwald

Plenary Speaker

CWI and Leiden University

Markus Hainy

Johannes Kepler University Linz

Christian Hennig

University of Bologna

Peter Hoff

Duke University

Galin Jones

University of Minnesota

Claudia Kirch

Heinrich-Heine-University

Nick Koning

Erasmus University Rotterdam

John Kolassa

National Science Foundation

Hannes Leeb

University of Vienna

Daniel Krpelik

VSB-Technical University of Ostrava

Mikael Kuusela

Carnegie Mellon University

Tianxi Li

University of Minnesota

Faming Liang

Purdue University

Hanti Lin

University of California

Xiao-Li Meng

Harvard

William Peden

Johannes Kepler University Linz

Richard Samworth

Plenary Speaker

University of Cambridge

Christopher P. Saunders

South Dakota State University

Peter Song

University of Michigan

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

University of Bologna

Georg Zimmermann

University of Salzburg

Overview

Tentative Conference Schedule

Book of Abstracts

Confirmed invited speakers