Conferences

 


IOPS Summer Conference 2025 – Leiden

Date: Thursday 12 June – Friday 13 June 2025
Venue: Leiden University – Gorlaeus Building – Einsteinweg 55 – Leiden
          

We look back on an inspiring and enjoyable Summer Conference 2025 at Leiden University with interesting presentations, fruitful discussions and relaxed meetings. 
We would like to thank the organising committee of Leiden University and Anne-Marie van der Heijden (IOPS) for all their efforts to make this IOPS conference a success!

The winners of the Best Poster presentation is Aditi Bhangale on ‘Relaxed SEM-based out-of-sample prediction ’. The winner of the Best Oral presentation is Kevin Kloos, presenting ‘Comparing Correction Methods to Reduce Misclassification Bias’.
Andrés Felipe Peréz Alonso is the winner of the Best Paper Award 2024 on his paper ‘Mixture Multigroup Structural Equation Modeling: A Novel Method for Comparing Structural Relations Across Many Groups.

We congratulate Aditi, Kevin and Andrés for winning their well deserved awards.

See some impressions below (click on the pictures to open a large format).

 

See also the programme below.
For a complete overview – including abstracts and discussants – see the full programme.

Thursday, June 12 (BM1.33)

Prior to the conference: 
10:00 – 11:00 IOPS board meeting (private)

IOPS Conference
10:30 – 11:00   Receipt coffee and tea (Atrium 1e)
11:00 – 11:15   Official opening by Joris Mulder and welcome by Tom Wilderjans
11:15 – 12:00   Network event
12:00 – 13:00   Lunch (Atrium 1e)
13:00 – 13:30   Presentation Björn Alfons Edmar (Utrecht University)
                           Heterogeneity and Bayesian evidence synthesis: A simulation study
13:30 – 14:00   Presentation Martijn Schoenmakers (Tilburg University
                          Posterior Predictive Checks for the Detection of Extreme Response Style
14:00 – 14:30   Presentation Dorinde Korteling (University of Amsterdam)
                           How to measure Mobility, Upper Extremity and Pain Interference efficiently: Pediatric
                           and proxy PROMIS® in pediatric physical therapy

14:30 – 15:00   Break (Atrium 1E)
15:00 – 16:15   Panel discussion
16:15 – 17:30   Poster presentation & drinks (Atrium 1e)

      • Aditi Bhangale (Leiden University)      
        Relaxed SEM-based out-of-sample prediction
      • Vira Dvoriak (Utrecht University)
        Networks of Cooccurring Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety and Major Depressive Disorder in Adolescents: sex differences, and effects of age and pubertal status
      • Santiago Gómez-Echeverry (VU Amsterdam)
        A Two Step Approach for Modeling Total Error with Multi-source Data
      • Nanda Jafarian (University of Amsterdam)
        Social learning of interdependent traits
      • Pritam Laskar (University of Amsterdam)
        Dynamical Models of  Free Learning – The Feedback between Practice and Success
      • Giuliana Orizzonte (Utrecht University)
        Evaluating treatment for traumatized refugees using single-case data and informative hypotheses
      • Giorgio Spadaccini (Leiden University)
        Posterior inference for Shapley values through Bayesian horseshoe estimation of tree based prediction rule ensembles

18:30 – 22:00   Conference dinner (BBQ) including “Best Paper Award 2024” (Sports center)

Friday, June 13 (CM1.26)

10:00 – 10:30   Receipt coffee and tea (Atrium 1e)
10:30 – 11:00   Presentation Kevin Kloos (Leiden University)
                           Comparing Correction Methods to Reduce Misclassification Bias
11:00 – 11:30   Presentation Lisette Sibbald (Tilburg University)
                           Identifying Predictive Prenatal Risk Factors of Postpartum Depression: A Machine
                           Learning Approach

11:30 – 12:00   Presentation Zino Brystowski (Leiden University)
                           Stacked Domain Learning (SDL): A structured modeling approach for
                           multidisciplinary data

12:00 – 13:15   Lunch (Atrium 1e)
12:45 – 13:30   PhD Meeting
13:30 – 14:00   Closing and Best Poster/Presentation Awards 2025


The event promises to be filled with engaging presentations from our PhD students, a panel discussion, the PhD meeting, a delightful cuisine, and enjoyable social gatherings. During the conference, we’ll reveal the winner of the Best Paper Award 2024 and, of course, recognize outstanding presentations with well-deserved awards. 

We are looking forward to meeting you in Leiden!

The IOPS Summer Conference 2025 Committee.