Program

10th BFF Conference · Salzburg · July 10–11, 2026

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!
09:20 – 09:30 Break Break 10 min
09:30 – 10:45 Session Session 1
3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A)
Speaker A · Speaker B · Speaker C
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Coffee Break 15 min
11:00 – 12:15 Session Session 2
3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A)
Speaker D · Speaker E · Speaker F
12:15 – 12:25 Poster Poster Flash Talks Approx. 1 min each
12:25 – 12:30 Transition Transition 5 min
12:30 – 13:20 Lunch Lunch 50 min
13:20 – 14:35 Session Session 3
3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A)
Speaker G · Speaker H · Speaker I
14:35 – 14:50 Coffee Coffee Break 15 min
14:50 – 16:05 Session Session 4
3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A)
Speaker J · Speaker K · Speaker L
16:05 – 16:20 Break Break 15 min
16:20 – 17:35 Session Session 5
3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A)
Speaker M · Speaker N · Speaker O
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 – 09:45 Session Session 6
3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A)
Speaker P · Speaker Q · Speaker R
09:45 – 10:00 Coffee Coffee Break 15 min
10:00 – 11:15 Session Session 7
3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A)
Speaker S · Speaker T · Speaker U
11:15 – 11:30 Break Break 15 min
11:30 – 12:45 Session Session 8
3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A)
Speaker V · Speaker W · Speaker X
12:45 – 13:35 Lunch Lunch 50 min
13:35 – 14:25 Keynote Keynote 2 45 min talk + 5 min Q&A · Richard Samworth: Outrigger local polynomial regression
14:25 – 14:40 Break Break 15 min
14:40 – 15:55 Session Session 9
3 × 25 min (each includes talk & Q&A)
Speaker Y · Speaker Z · Speaker AA
15:55 – 17:00 Closing Closing Panel / Discussion —

Confirmed invited speakers

Genevera Allen

Columbia University

Armin Schwartzman

University of California

Marta Bilkova

Czech Academy of Sciences

Peter Bühlmann

ETH Zürich

Aiyou Chen

California

Thorsten Dickhaus

Bremen

Peter Grünwald

Plenary Speaker

Amsterdam

Markus Hainy

Linz

Christian Hennig

University of Bologn

Peter Hoff

Duke

Galin Jones

Minnesota

Claudia Kirch

Magdeburg

Frank Konietschke

Charité

Nick Koning

Erasmus University

John Kolassa

NSF, Rutgers

Hannes Leeb

University of Vienna

Daniel Krpelik

Ostrava

Mikael Kuusela

Carnegie Mellon

Tianxi Li

Minnesota

Faming Liang

Purdue

Hanti Lin

Davis

Tapabrata Maiti

NSF, Michigan State

Xiao-Li Meng

Harvard

William Peden

Linz

Dan Roy

Toronto

Richard Samworth

Plenary Speaker

Cambridge

Christopher P. Saunders

South Dakota State

Peter Song

University of Michigan

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

Geneve

Georg Zimmermann

Salzburg