Study week Causal Inference for Industry
The Study week Causal Inference for Industry is an intensive problem-solving workshop that brings together Ph.D. students, young researchers, and industrial partners. In the course of one week, small groups of researchers of different backgrounds will intensively brainstorm and work together to model and solve real-world challenges provided by industrial partners. On Monday, each company representative presents their problem, after which the participants choose a problem to work on for the remainder of the week along with the industrial partner. On Friday morning, each group presents their solution to the chosen problem.
The study week warmly welcomes a broad scientific audience, including applied mathematics, engineering, statistics, and computer science.
Main objectives of the study week
- Showcase the potential of causal inference to solve industrial problems
- Stimulate lasting R&D collaborations between academia and industry
- Enable academic partnerships between researchers of various backgrounds and fields of expertise
- Promote knowledge transfer from academy to industry
Why participate
The study week offers the following benefits:
- You are challenged by problems from the real world and get a flavor of what is important outside academia
- You get in contact with potential employers, both during group work as in several networking opportunities offered during the study week
- You experience working in and as a team, which is very different compared to working on your research topic as an individual
- By working in a team, you further develop interpersonal and communication skills
- By meeting and discussing with fellow researchers, new research ideas and collaborations may arise
Registration
The Study week Causal Inference for Industry will be held at the Institute Pascal, Orsay, France from July 3rd-7th, 2023.
Venue
Institute Pascal is situated on the Orsay campus of the Paris-Saclay University, approximately 25 km south-west of Paris. The campus is accessible from Paris via the RER B and the building can be reached in approximately 50 minutes from the Châtelet-Les Halles station in the center of Paris.
The address is 530 rue Andre Riviere, Orsay (GPS coordinates: 48◦42024.200N2◦10038.100E)
Getting at the Institute Pascal
Social dinner
The social dinner will be at Chez Camille. The address is 3 Rue Verrier, 91400 Orsay.
Schedule
Week overview
- On Monday morning, company representatives present their challenge, after which participants can ask questions in a brief Q&A. During lunch time, each participant chooses a challenge to work on during the remainder of the week, while ensuring that groups remain balanced in size. Group work together with the company representative is planned for the afternoon. To close the first day, everyone is invited to a reception.
- On Tuesday is entirely devoted to work groups. Coffee breaks and lunches are always together.
- Wednesday morning is dedicated to work group. In the afternoon, we invite company representatives to join their group to continue working on the challenge. In the evening, we enjoy a nice study week dinner at restaurant Chez Camille
- Thursday is the last day of the work group, in which each group starts to prepare their presentation of the results.
- On Friday, each group presents the approach and obtained results for their challenge. Company representatives give direct feedback. The study week is closed with a lunch.
Technical report
Apart from the presentation of the groups on the Friday morning session, we also expect each group to produce a technical report that summarizes the work that was carried out. It includes the methods that were tried, the used literature, the experimental results, conclusions, and further works. We do not expect you to work on the report during the study week (focus during the week should be on the problem). We instead like to receive your reports by the end of September 2023.