Dr. Uwe Ligges - Conferences, Courses, Talks

Conference / Workshop Organization

• internal organization of the GfKl 2004 conference, Dortmund, Germany.
• conference chair of useR! 2008, Dortmund, Germany.
• co-organization of `Workshop on Music Signal Analysis', Witten, Germany.
• workshop on Statistical Consulting, September 18, 2009, Dortmund, Germany

Courses

• Hothorn, T., Ligges, U., Zeileis, A. (2003): Einführung in die Datenanalyse mit R, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hanover, Germany.
• Mächler, M., Ligges, U. (2005): Programmierung und Grafik mit R, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hanover, Germany.
• Ligges, U. (2005): Einführung in die Programmierung und Grafik mit R, Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Hanover, Germany.
• Ligges, U. (2006): Programmieren mit R, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany.
• Ligges, U., Hothorn, T., Zeileis, A. (2006): Einführung in R, Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
• Hothorn, T., Ligges, U., Zeileis, A. (2006): R training, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
• Ligges, U. and Scharl, T. (2007): Introduction to R and BioConductor, Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany.
• Ligges, U. and Grün, B. (2007): Datenanalyse und Programmierung mit R, Teil 1, HITT - health information technologies GmbH, Hall in Tirol, Austria.
• Ligges, U. and Scharl, T. (2007): Datenanalyse und Programmierung mit R, Teil 2, HITT - health information technologies GmbH, Hall in Tirol, Austria.
• Ligges, U. (2007): Machine Learning and Extended R Programming, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
• Ligges, U. (2007): Programmieren mit R, ThyssenKrupp VDM, Werdohl, Germany.
• Ligges, U. (2008): Introduction to R Programming, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
• Ligges, U. (2008): Tutorial Angewandte Regression und Klassifikation mit R, Statistische Woche 2008, Köln, Germany.
• Schiffner, J., Szepannek, G. and Ligges, U. (2009): Local Classification Analysis in R, IFCS 2009, Dresden, Germany.
• Ligges, U. and Luebke, K. (2009): Tutorial Modernes Datamining: vom Problem zur konkreten Lösung, Dortmund, Germany.
• Ligges, U. (2009): Advances R Programming, CRP Henri Tudor, Esch-zur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
• Ligges, U. (2009): Tutorial An Introduction to R Programming, IFS, TU Dortmund, Germany.
• Ligges, U. (2009): Tutorial Einführung in die Programmierung mit R, ISQ - Institut für Schulqualität der Länder Berlin und Brandenburg e.V., Berlin, Germany.
• Ligges, U. (2010): Tutorial My first R package, DagStat 2010, TU Dortmund, Germany.
• Ligges, U. (2010): Tutorial My first R package, useR! 2010, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
• Ligges, U. (2010): Tutorial My first R package, 2010 Cooperative research meeting, Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), Tokyo, Japan.
• Ligges, U. (2011): Tutorial My first R package, 3rd International Biometric Society Channel Network Conference, Bordeaux, France.
• Ligges, U. (2011): Tutorial Effiziente und parallele Programme in R, 56. GMDS & 6. DGEpi Jahrestagung 2011, Mainz, Germany.
• Ligges, U. (2011): R Programming, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
• Ligges, U. (2011): Fortgeschrittenes Programmieren in R, Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• Ligges, U. und Rahnenführer, J. (2012): Clinical Outcome Research: Von der Datenbank zur Publikation, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie, Dortmund, Germany.
• Ligges, U. (2012): Tutorial Writing efficient and parallel code in R, useR! 2012, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.
• Ligges, U. (2012): Tutorial Mein erstes R Paket, Dortmund, Germany.
• Ligges, U. (2013): Tutorial Statistical Learning: Classification and Clustering, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
• Ligges, U. und Rahnenführer, J. (2013): Clinical Outcome Research: Von der Datenbank zur Publikation, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie, Dortmund, Germany.
• Ligges, U. und Rahnenführer, J. (2014): Clinical Outcome Research: Von der Datenbank zur Publikation, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie, Dortmund, Germany.

in addition I have been regularly teaching courses at Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, from 2008 to 2021:

• Ligges, U. (20xx): Tutorial Advanced R Programming, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
• Ligges, U. (20xx): Tutorial on An Introduction to R Programming, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Talks

• Weihs, C., Ligges, U., Berghoff, S. and Hasse-Becker, P.: Automatic Classification of Vocal Performance. Second International Seminar on Mathematical Music Theory, Sauen, Germany, July 22-29, 2001.
• Ligges, U., Weihs, C. and Hasse-Becker, P.: Tone segmentation in vocal sound signals - comparison of algorithms. Investigating Music Performance, Royal College of Music, London, UK, April 12-13, 2002.
• Weihs, C., Ligges, U., Güttner, J., Hasse-Becker, P. and Berghoff, S.: Classification and Clustering of Vocal Performances. 26th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl 2002), Mannheim, Germany, July 22-24, 2002.
• Ligges, U. and Mächler, M.: Scatterplot3d - a Package for R for Visualizing Multivariate Data. Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), New York City, USA, August 11-15, 2002.
• Ligges, U., Weihs, C. and Hasse-Becker, P.: Detection of locally stationary segments in time series. Compstat 2002 - 15th Conference on Computational Statistics, Berlin, Germany, August 24-28, 2002.
• Ligges, U., Weihs, C. and Hasse-Becker, P.: Tone segmentation in vocal sound signals - comparison of algorithms. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM), Magdeburg, Germany, September 27-29, 2002.
• Weihs, C., Ligges, U., Güttner, J., Hasse-Becker, P. and Berghoff, S.: Automatic Classification of Vocal Performance. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM), Magdeburg, Germany, September 27-29, 2002.
• Weihs, C., Ligges, U. and Garczarek, U.: Prediction of Notes from Vocal Time Series: An Overview. 27th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl 2003), Cottbus, Germany, March 12-14, 2003.
• Ligges, U.: R-WinEdt. Distributed Statistical Computing (DSC 2003), Vienna, Austria, March 20-22, 2003.
• Weihs, C. and Ligges, U.: Automatic Transcription of Singing Performances. 54th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Berlin, Germany, August 13-20, 2003.
• Weihs, C. and Ligges, U.: Voice Prints as a Tool for Automatic Classification of Vocal Performance. 5th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM5), Hanover, Germany, September 8-13, 2003.
• Ligges, U.: R: Eine flexible, erweiterbare und freie Programmiersprache und -ungebung für Datenanalyse und Grafik. Sitzung des Fachausschusses Innovative Methoden in der Datenanalyse des VDI, Frankfurt, Germany, September 25, 2003.
• Weihs, C. and Ligges, U.: Statistical Analysis of musical time series: Automatic Transcription and Voice Prints. Institut de statistique, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, September 26, 2003.
• Ligges, U.: Automatische Notenerkennung und Qualitätsbeurteilung von Gesang. Institut für Medizininformatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, January 26, 2004.
• Ligges, U.: An R Package for the Analysis of Musical Time Series. 28th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl 2004), Dortmund, Germany, March 09-11, 2004.
• Weihs, C., Reuter, C. and Ligges, U.: Register Classification by Timbre. 28th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl 2004), Dortmund, Germany, March 09-11, 2004.
• Weihs, C. and Ligges, U.: From local to global analysis of musical series. Detecting Local Patterns, Dagstuhl, Germany, April 12-16, 2004.
• Ligges, U.: tuneR - Analysis of Music. Invited Keynote Lecture at useR!2004 - The R User Conference, Vienna, Austria, May 20-22, 2004.
• Röver, C., Raabe, N., Luebke, K. and Ligges, U.: klaR: A Package Including Various Classification Tools. useR!2004 - The R User Conference, Vienna, Austria, May 20-22, 2004.
• Ligges, U., Röver, C., Raabe, N. and Luebke, K.: klaR - a Collection of Classification Tools for R. Statistical Computing 2004, Schloß Reisensburg (Günzburg), Germany, July 04-07, 2004.
• Weihs, C. and Ligges, U.: Local and global analysis of musical time series. Statistical Computing 2004, Schloß Reisensburg (Günzburg), Germany, July 04-07, 2004.
• Weihs, C., Reuter, C. and Ligges, U.: Register Classification by Timbre. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM), Universität Paderborn, Germany, September 03-05, 2004.
• Ligges, U., Luebke, K., Raabe, N., Kopiez, R., and Weihs, C.: klaR -- Classification Tools for R: Case Study in a Music Sight Reading Task. 29th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl 2005), Magdeburg, Germany, March 09-11, 2005.
• Weihs, C. and Ligges, U.: Parameter Optimization in Automatic Transcription of Music. 29th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl 2005), Magdeburg, Germany, March 09-11, 2005.
• Weihs, C., Ligges, U., and Sommer, K.: Using MCMC for Optimization. Statistical Computing 2005, Schloß Reisensburg (Günzburg), Germany, July 03-06, 2005.
• Ligges, U., Thomas, A., Sturtz, S., and O'Hara, B.: BRugs: conveniently integrating OpenBUGS into R. Statistical Computing 2005, Schloß Reisensburg (Günzburg), Germany, July 03-06, 2005.
• Ligges, U.: Tutorium `R-Pakete laden, verwalten und entwickeln'. Pfingsttagung 2006, Hamburg, Germany, June 07, 2006.
• Iacus, S., Ligges, U., and Urbanek, S.: R on Different Platforms: The useRs' Point of View. useR!2006 - The R User Conference, Vienna, Austria, June 15-17, 2006.
• Weihs, C., Ligges, U., and Szepannek, G.: Local models for Classification and their globalization. 2nd Conference of the European Association of Methodology (EAM), Budapest, Hungary, July 2-5, 2006.
• Weihs, C., Szepannek, G., Ligges, U., Luebke, K., and Raabe, N.: Local Models in Register Classification by Timbre. IFCS 2006 - Data Science and Classification, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 25-29, 2006.
• Weihs, C., Ligges, U., and Sommer, K.: Analysis of Music Time Series. Compstat 2006, Rome, Italy, August 28-September 1, 2006.
• Sturtz, S. and Ligges, U.: Linking R and WinBUGS: A software demonstration of R2WinBUGS and BRugs. Markov Chain Monte Carlo – Methoden und Anwendungen. Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe 'Bayes-Methodik' der Deutschen Region der Internationalen Biometrischen Gesellschaft, Mainz, Germany, December 01, 2006.
• Ligges, U.: Managing Huge R Package Repositories - Problems and Required Changes. Directions in Statistical Computing, Auckland, New Zealand, February 15-16, 2007.
• Ligges, U., Szepannek, G., and Weihs, C.: Analyses of Huge Music, Speech, and Vibration Data in Frequency Domain with tuneR. Statistik 2007, Bielefeld, Germany, March 27-30, 2007.
• Ligges, U.: Ad(d)s on R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, November 20, 2007.
• Ligges, U.: Music time series analysis with tuneR. Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, November 20, 2007.
• Ligges, U.: WinBUGS - R2WinBUGS - R, OpenBUGS - BRugs - R. Many letters, but how to combine them? Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria, February 29, 2008.
• Ligges, U.: SBAZ, Statistical Consulting at the TU Dortmund. Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria, February 29, 2008.
• Ligges, U.: WinBUGS - R2WinBUGS - R, OpenBUGS - BRugs - R. Many letters, but how to combine them? Workshop of Dortmund's research training group `Statistical Modelling' and the `Tampere Graduate School in Information Science and Engineering' (TISE), Westfalenhallen Dortmund, Germany, May 13-15, 2008.
• Ligges, U.: The Good and the Bad Statistical Practice in a University's Statistical Consulting Centre. Statistical Computing 2008, Schloß Reisensburg (Günzburg), Germany, June 1-4, 2008.
• Mersmann, O., Trautmann, H., Steuer, D., Weihs, C., and Ligges, U.: Desirabilitiy functions in multicriteria optimization - Observations made while implementing desiRe. useR! 2008, Dortmund, Germany, August 12-14, 2008.
• Szepannek, G., Weihs, C., and Ligges, U.: Some Aspects on Classification, Variable Selection and Categorical Clustering. useR! 2008, Dortmund, Germany, August 12-14, 2008.
• Ligges, U.: Music Signal Analysis and Classification. The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, February 2009.
• Krey, S. and Ligges, U.: SVM based instrument and timbre classification. ifcs 2009, Dresden, Germany, March 13-18, 2009.
• Mersmann, O., Trautmann, H., Steuer, D., Weihs, C., and Ligges, U.: Desirabilitiy Functions in Multicriteria Optimization. ifcs 2009, Dresden, Germany, March 13-18, 2009.
• Ligges, U. and Krey, S.: Statistical Musicology with an application in SVM based instrument classification. WU Wien, Vienna, Austria, June 5, 2009.
• Ligges, U. and Krey, S.: SVM based Classification of Instruments - Timbre Analysis. Statistical Computing 2009, Reisensburg, Germany, June 28 - July 1, 2009.
• Ligges, U.: Computational Aspects and Windows Related Community Services on CRAN. useR! 2009, Rennes, France, July 8-10, 2009.
• Ligges, U.: Inverse Recursive and Parallel Package Checks on CRAN. DSC 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 13-14, 2009.
• Mersmann, O., Trautmann, H., Steuer, D., Weihs, C., and Ligges, U.: Multicriteria Optimization Using R and the Desirability Package 'desire'. ENBIS 9, Göteborg, Sweden, September 20-24, 2009.
• Ligges, U. and Krey, S.: tuneR - vibration and sound analyses in R. 2nd Intl. Workshop of the ERCIM WG on Computing & Statistics, Limassol, Cyprus, October 29-31, 2009.
• Krey, S. and Ligges, U.: Sound feature clustering for automatic instrument separation. DagStat 2010, Dortmund, Germany, March 23-26, 2010.
• Ligges, U.: SBAZ - Statistical Consulting in Dortmund. DagStat 2010, Dortmund, Germany, March 23-26, 2010.
• Krey, S. and Ligges, U.: Automatic sound recording segmentation for sound source and sound phase. Statistical Computing 2010, Reisensburg, Germany, June 20-23, 2010.
• Ligges, U., Hornik, K., Murdoch, D., Ripley, B., and Theussl, S.: Prospects and Challenges for CRAN - with a glance on 64-bit Windows binaries. Invited Keynote Lecture at useR!2010 - The R User Conference, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, July 21-23, 2010.
• Ligges, U., Hornik, K., Murdoch, D., Ripley, B., and Theussl, S.: Prospects and Challenges for CRAN - with a glance on 64-bit Windows binaries. Invited Lecture at 2010 Cooperative research meeting, Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), Tokyo, Japan, November 25-26, 2010.
• Ligges, U. and Krey, S.: Clustering Multivariate Time Series for Robust Change Point Detection. 3rd Intl. Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computing & Statistics, London, UK, December 10-12, 2010.
• Krey, S., Ligges, U., and Leisch, F.: Order constrained clustering for music structure analysis. Statistical Computing 2011, Reisensburg, Germany, May 22-25, 2011.
• Ligges, U., Hornik, K., Murdoch, D., Ripley, B., and Theussl, S.: R and CRAN: history, prospects and challenges, Invited Keynote at To R, or not to R, that is the question (meeting organized by the Statistical Computing Section of the Royal Statistical Society), London, UK, June 29, 2012.
• Krey, S., Surmann, D., Ligges, U., and Weihs, C.: Visualization and Clustering of Electricity Networks. Statistical Computing 2012, Reisensburg, Germany, June 24-27, 2012.
• Krey, S. and Ligges, U.: Music and Timbre Segmentation by efficient Order Constrained K-Means Clustering. 36th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl 2012), Hildesheim, Germany, August 1-3, 2012.
• Ligges, U., Krey, S., Surmann, D., and Weihs, C.: Structuring transcontinental power systems for minimal latency online-monitoring. Statistische Woche, Wien, Austria, September 18-21, 2012.
• Krey, S., Brato, S., Ligges, U., Weihs, C., and Götze, J.: Clustering of Electricity Networks based on Network Topology and Electrical Stability. DagStat 2013, Freiburg, Germany, March 18-23, 2013.
• Surmann, D., Krey, S., Ligges, U., and Weihs, C.: Low Frequency Oscillations in Electrical Transmission Systems. DagStat 2013, Freiburg, Germany, March 18-23, 2013.
• Krey, S., Surmann, D., Ligges, U., and Weihs, C.: Power network clustering in modern protection systems. Statistical Computing 2013, Reisensburg, Germany, June 23-25, 2013.
• Ligges, U., Hornik, K., and Theussl, S.: R-3.0.x and beyond, Invited talk at Statistical Computing 2013, Reisensburg, Germany, June 23-25, 2013.
• Ligges, U., Brato, S., Götze, J., Sebastian Krey, S., Surmann, D., Weihs, C.: Neuartige Applikationen für Überwachung, Schutz und Regelung als Ergebnis interdisziplinärer Forschung (Teil I) - Structuring transcontinental power systems. 2. NRW-Kongress Infrastruktur & Netze, TU Dortmund, Germany, October 1, 2013.
• Ligges, U., Hornik, K., and Theussl, S.: Beyond R-3.0.x and the challenges for collaborative programming, Invited talk at Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Münster, Germany, October 29, 2013.
• Schilde, T., Gökel, G., Deiters, F., Ligges, U., Kohlhaas, M.: Vergleichsstudie zwischen beschleunigter und konventioneller Vernetzungsbehandlung der Hornhaut bei Keratokonus. Dortmunder 2-Jahres Ergebnisse (K). 27. Internationaler Kongress der Deutschen Ophthalmochirurgen, Nürnberg, Germany, May 15-17, 2014.