Statistics Seminar
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Wednesday 24th April 14:00-15:00
Maths 311B
Statistical, Mathematical and Computational Modelling for Personalised Cardiovascular Healthcare
Harry Saxton and Xu Xu (University of Sheffield)
Friday 19th April 13:00-14:00
Zoom
Bayesian Causal Forests for Multivariate and longitudinal outcomes
Andrew Parnell (Maynooth University)
Friday 12th April 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
Engineering Multifunctional Materials and Composites through Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering
Shanmugam Kumar (University of Glasgow, School of Engineering)
Wednesday 3rd April 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
Statistics and machine learning in cardiac physiology
Dirk Husmeier (University of Glasgow)
Friday 22nd March 13:00-14:00
Zoom
Recent Advances in Electricity Price Forecasting: A 2024 Perspective
Rafal Weron ( Wroclaw University of Science and Technology)
Friday 8th March 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
Spatio-temporal modelling in ecology using INLA and inlabru
Jafet Osuna & Janine Illian (University of Glasgow)
Wednesday 6th March 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
Mixture of Linear Models Co-supervised by Deep Neural Networks
Jia Li (Pennsylvania State University)
Wednesday 21st February 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
GALLANT - Systems, Communities and Data...
Claire Miller & Luigi Cao Pinna (University of Glasgow)
Friday 9th February 13:00-14:00
JOSEPH BLACK Room A504
Towards Black-box Parameter Estimation
Amanda Lenzi (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 2nd February 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
Recent developments in machine learning approaches in chemometrics
Eugenio Alladio (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Wednesday 24th January 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
Built Environments and Ride-Sharing Accessibility
Mingshu Wang (University of Glasgow)
Wednesday 17th January 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
Stats staff seminar
Marian Scott and Xiaofei Zhang (University of Glasgow)
Thursday 11th January 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
Extending multivariate hidden Markov models
Vianey Leos Barajas (University of Toronto)
Wednesday 10th January 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
Git: Making your life less stressful with version control
Robin Long (Lancaster University)
Friday 8th December, 2023 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
Stats staff seminar
Philipp Otto & Isa Marques (University of Glasgow)
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 14:00-15:00
Boyd Orr 409
Bayesian graph-structured variable selection
Mahlet Tadesse (Georgetown University )
Wednesday 8th November, 2023 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
A survival mixture cure model in smartphone-based earthquake early warning
Francesco Finazzi (University of Bergamo)
Monday 23rd October, 2023 09:00-13:00
ARC, Studio 2
Statistical Emulation for Computational Reverse Engineering and Translation
Various speakers
Monday 16th October, 2023 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Inferring the spatial distribution of visceral leishmaniasis burden in India
Emily Nightingale (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Tuesday 3rd October, 2023 16:00-17:00
Joseph Black A504
Cross-validation for dependent data
Harvard Rue (KAUST)
Wednesday 30th August, 2023 11:00-12:00
Maths 311B
Joint frailty modelling of time-to-event data with recurrent and terminal events
Shu-Kay Angus Ng (Griffith University)
Friday 4th August, 2023 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Modelling spatiotemporal point patterns: a new era of point process models
Charlotte Jones-Todd (University of Auckland)
Friday 16th June, 2023 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B/Zoom
Copula-based approaches for analyzing non-Gaussian spatial data
Huixia Judy Wang (George Washington University)
Tuesday 30th May, 2023 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B/Zoom
There is No Free Variable Importance: Statistical Issues in Explainable Machine Learning
Giles Hooker (Cornell University)
Friday 5th May, 2023 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Assessing the empirical relationship between agriculture, manure and ammonia in the Po Valley, Italy
Paolo Maranzano (University of Milano Bicocca)
Tuesday 25th April, 2023 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
BioSS Showcase - Peatland Plants and Crop Variety Trials
Mark Brewer, Claire Harris and Tess Vernon (BioSS)
Friday 21st April, 2023 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Regression markets and energy forecasting applications
Pierre Pinson (Imperial College London)
Friday 24th March, 2023 15:00-16:00
JOSEPH BLACK:C407 AGRICULT
Binscatter and adaptive decision tree
Matias D. Cattaneo (Princeton University, USA)
Monday 20th March, 2023 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
A useful parametric specification to model epidemiological data
Marco Mingione (Roma Tre University)
Friday 10th March, 2023 15:00-16:00
Boyd Orr 709A
Transferable species distribution modelling: Comparative performance evaluation and interpretation of novel Generalized Functional Response models
Shaykhah Aldossari (University of Glasgow)
Friday 17th February, 2023 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Distilling importance sampling for likelihood-free inference
Dennis Prangle (University of Bristol)
Wednesday 1st February, 2023 14:00-15:00
CTT BOYD ORR:709AB
Inference in cardiac mechanics
Dirk Husmeier (University of Glasgow)
Friday 20th January, 2023 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Estimating the limiting shape of bivariate scaled sample clouds for self-consistent inference of extremal dependence properties
Emma Simpson (University College London)
Friday 13th January, 2023 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Prior Dependence in L1-regularized Bayesian Regression
Christopher Hans (Department of Statistics, Ohio State University)
Friday 9th December, 2022 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Generative Quantile Regression with Variability Penalty
Ray Bai (University of South Carolina)
Friday 2nd December, 2022 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
Big weather, small health (data) -- statistical models for understanding climate effects on mortality
Theo Economou (The Cyprus Institute)
Friday 18th November, 2022 15:00-16:00
Maths 116
A first approach to Fuzzy Multi-Objective Shortest Path Problems
Irene Marinas (University of Oviedo, Spain)
Monday 14th November, 2022 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B
Understanding building energy efficiency and tree preservation order by using administrative/emerging urban big data and deep learning
Qunshan Zhao (University of Glasgow)
Friday 14th October, 2022 13:00-14:00
Maths 311B and Zoom
Helping biomedical scientists read the vast research literature using machine learning and natural language processing
Jake Lever (University of Glasgow)
Friday 7th October, 2022 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Advanced Bayesian regression and dynamic network modelling
Abdul Salam (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Friday 30th September, 2022 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Towards intelligent operation and maintenance in large-scale sustainable energy systems
Yingying Zhao (Fudan University )
Friday 16th September, 2022 15:00-16:00
Boyd Orr 420
Structured prior distributions for the covariance matrix in latent factor models
Sarah Heaps (Durham University)
Thursday 7th July, 2022 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Two applications of the variational form of Bayes theorem
Håvard Rue (KAUST)
Friday 1st July, 2022 15:00-16:00
Zoom
COMBSS: Best Subset Selection via Continuous Optimization
Samuel Muller (Macquarie University)
Wednesday 1st June, 2022 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Fixing fixed-effects meta-analysis: some theoretical and practical advances
Kenneth Rice (University of Washington)
Friday 20th May, 2022 11:00-12:00
Zoom
The tale of experimental designs
Emi Tanaka (Monash University )
Friday 6th May, 2022 15:00-16:00
Zoom
The All Possible Comparisons (APC)-criterion for the Analysis of Screening Experiments
Abu Zar Md Shafiullah (University of Dhaka )
Friday 29th April, 2022 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Spatial capture-recapture density estimation with latent, partial, and erroneous individual identity
Ben Augustine (USGS)
Friday 8th April, 2022 15:00-16:00
Zoom
High-performance importance sampling schemes for Bayesian inference
Víctor Elvira (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 25th March, 2022 13:00-14:00
Zoom
Generating Causal Explanations for Graph Neural Networks
Wanyu Lin (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Friday 11th March, 2022 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Going with flow: transport methods and neural networks for sequential Monte Carlo methods
Yunpeng Li (University of Surrey )
Friday 25th February, 2022 15:00-16:00
TBA
Explaining Artificial Intelligence: Contrastive Explanations for AI Black Boxes and What People Think of Them
Mark Keane (University College Dublin )
Friday 11th February, 2022 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Statistical methods for nowcasting daily hospital deaths from COVID-19
Oliver Stoner
Friday 28th January, 2022 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Computational Metabolomics as a game of Battleships
Vinny Davies (University of Glasgow)
Friday 14th January, 2022 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Probabilistic energy forecasting: successes and challenges
Jethro Browell
Friday 10th December, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Identification of Underlying Partial Differential Equations from Noisy Data with Splines
Friday 26th November, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Distributed Learning of Finite Gaussian Mixtures
Jiahua Chen (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Friday 12th November, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
The Concept of Statistical Evidence
Michael Evans (University of Toronto, Canada)
Friday 29th October, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Mathematical modeling to inform policy: COVID-19 in Illinois
Jaline Geraldine (Northwestern University, Illinois, USA)
Friday 15th October, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Collaborative Healthcare Innovation through Mathematics, Engineering and AI
Rebecca Shipley and her group (University College London)
Friday 1st October, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Emulating Stochastic Computer Models (and using Deterministic Models to do so).
Evan Baker (University of Exeter)
Friday 17th September, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Latent multinomial models for capture-recapture data with latent identification
Wei Zhang (University of Glasgow)
Friday 2nd July, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
A Systematic Review of Multiagent Systems and Regulatory Networks
Adriano Werhli (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil)
Friday 25th June, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Diffusion based Gaussian processes on restricted domains
David Dunson (Duke University, North Carolina, USA)
Friday 4th June, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Intrusive Uncertainty Quantification for Hyperbolic Equations
Ryan McClarren (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)
Friday 28th May, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Automating cardiac MRI
Cian Scannel (King's College London)
Friday 21st May, 2021 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Statistical Inference and Uncertainty Quantification in Cardio-physiological Modelling
SoftMech-SET (University of Glasgow)
Friday 14th May, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Optimal experimental design for inverse problems governed by PDEs with reducible model uncertainty
Alen Alexanderian (North Carolina State University)
Friday 7th May, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
On the effects of vascular network size for hemodynamic parameter inference
Mitchel Colebank (North Carolina State University)
Friday 30th April, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Understanding Scientific Processes via Sequential History Matching and Emulation of Computer Models
Samuel Jackson (University of Southampton)
Friday 23rd April, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.icms.org.uk/events/event/?id=1096
Challenges in Markov chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian neural networks
Theodore Papamarkou (University of Manchester)
Friday 26th March, 2021 15:00-16:00
ZOOM: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Robustness and interpretability of Bayesian neural networks
Guido Sanguinetti (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Friday 19th March, 2021 15:00-16:00
ZOOM: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Causal regularization
Ernst Wit (Università della Svizzera italiana)
Friday 12th March, 2021 15:00-16:00
ZOOM: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Multi-task Dynamical Systems
Chris Williams (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 5th March, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Replication or Exploration? Sequential Design for Stochastic Simulation Experiments
Robert Gramacy (Virginia Tech, USA)
Friday 26th February, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
On MCMC for variationally sparse Gaussian processes: A pseudo-marginal approach
Sara Wade (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 19th February, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Intrinsic Gaussian processes on nonlinear manifolds and point clouds
Mu Niu (University of Glasgow)
Friday 12th February, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Improved network reconstruction with shrinkage-based Gaussian graphical models
Bernal Arzola (University of Groningen)
Friday 12th February, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Improved network reconstruction with shrinkage-based Gaussian graphical models
Bernal Arzola (University of Groningen)
Friday 5th February, 2021 15:00-16:00
ZOOM: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Assessing model mismatch and model selection in a Bayesian uncertainty quantification analysis of a fluid-dynamics model of pulmonary blood circulation
Mihaela Paun (University of Glasgow)
Friday 29th January, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Gaussian process enhanced semi-automatic approximate Bayesian computation: parameter inference in a stochastic differential equation system for chemotaxis
Agnieszka Borowska (University of Glasgow)
Friday 22nd January, 2021 15:00-16:00
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNW32H/
Stochastic modelling of COVID-19 spread in Italy
Luca Del Core (University of Groningen)
Thursday 10th December, 2020 18:00-19:00
Maths 311B
Understanding infectious disease transmission and control - a view from the coalface
Christl Donnelly (Imperial College London)
Friday 4th December, 2020 15:00-16:00
Zoom
To integrated models ... and beyond …
Ruth King (University of Edinburgh)
Thursday 3rd December, 2020 12:00-13:30
Zoom
EXTERNAL: Using geometry to form identifiable latent variable models and Isometric Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model
Søren Hauberg & Martin Jørgensen
Friday 27th November, 2020 15:00-16:00
Via Zoom
Drought risk analysis for forested landscapes: Project PRAFOR
Mark Brewer and Marcel van Oijen (BIOSS and CEH)
Friday 20th November, 2020 15:30-16:30
Zoom
Introduction of standardised tobacco packaging and minimum excise tax in the UK: a prospective study
Nicole Augustin and Rosemary Hiscock (University of Edinburgh and University of Bath)
Thursday 19th November, 2020 12:00-13:00
Zoom
EXTERNAL: Bayesian model-based clustering in high dimensions
Paul Kirk (MRC Biostatistics Unit)
Friday 13th November, 2020 15:00-16:00
Via Zoom
CANCELLED
Glenna Nightingale (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 6th November, 2020 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Diagonal distributions
Manuele Leonelli (IE University)
Monday 2nd November, 2020 13:00-14:00
Zoom
External seminar: Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters
David J. Hand (Imperial College London)
Friday 30th October, 2020 15:00-16:00
Zoom
A collaborative project to monitor and improve engagement in talking therapies.
Theresa Smith (University of Bath)
Thursday 22nd October, 2020 16:00-17:00
Zoom
Modelling systematic effects and latent phenomena in point referenced data.
Charlotte Jones-Todd (University of Aukland)
Friday 16th October, 2020 15:00-16:00
Zoom
CLARITY - Comparing heterogeneous data using dissimiLARITY
Daniel Lawson (University of Bristol)
Friday 9th October, 2020 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Bayesian space-time gap filling for inference on extreme hot-spots: an application to Red Sea surface temperatures
Daniella Castro Camilo (University of Glasgow)
Friday 2nd October, 2020 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Environmental DNA as a monitoring tool at a single and multi-species level
Eleni Matechou (University of Kent)
Friday 25th September, 2020 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Predictions of COVID-19 dynamics in the UK: short-term forecasting, analysis of potential exit strategies and impact of contact networks
Ed Hill (University of Warwick)
Thursday 17th September, 2020 10:00-11:00
Zoom
Statistical Machine Learning for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting
Andrew Zammit Mangion (University of Wollongong)
Thursday 6th August, 2020 14:00-15:00
Zoom
Towards More Flexible Models for Count Data
Helen Ogden (University of Southampton)
Thursday 9th July, 2020 15:00-16:00
Zoom
Spatially-coupled hidden Markov models for short-term wind speed forecasting
Vianey Leos-Barajas (University of Troronto)
Thursday 18th June, 2020 14:00-15:00
Zoom
Autonomous Oceanographic Sampling Designs Using Excursion Sets for Multivariate Gaussian random fields
Jo Eidsvik (NTNU)
Thursday 4th June, 2020 14:00-15:00
Zoom
Getting the most out of other people's R sessions
Colin Gillespie (University of Newcastle)
Thursday 28th May, 2020 13:00-14:00
Zoom
CANCELLED: Introduction of standardised tobacco packaging and minimum excise tax in the UK: a prospective study
Nicole Augustin (University of Edinburgh)
Thursday 21st May, 2020 14:00-15:00
Via Zoom
Who Are the "Crowd"? Learning from Large but Patchy Samples
Ana Basiri (UCL)
Friday 15th May, 2020 14:30-15:00
Zoom link in description
Would most Covid-19 victims have died soon, without the virus?
Dirk Husmeier (University of Glasgow)
Thursday 14th May, 2020 14:00-15:00
Via Zoom
Consensus clustering based on pivotal methods
Roberta Pappda (University of Trieste)
Thursday 7th May, 2020 16:00-17:00
Via Zoom
CANCELLED: Applications of the Halton Sequence for Spatially Balanced Sampling of Natural Resources
Paul van Dam-Bates (University of St Andrews)
Thursday 23rd April, 2020 10:00-11:00
Via Zoom
Advancements of non-Gaussian random fields for statistical inversion
Neil Chada (National University of Singapore)
Monday 30th March, 2020 14:00-15:00
Maths 311B
POSTPONED: High-performance importance sampling schemes for Bayesian inference
Victor Elvira (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 20th March, 2020 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
POSTPONED: A Spliced Gamma-Generalized Pareto Model for Short-Term Extreme Wind Speed Probabilistic Forecasting
Daniela Castro Camilo (University of Glasgow)
Thursday 19th March, 2020 17:30-18:30
Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
CANCELLED: RGlasgow meets RSS Environmental Stats Section
Thursday 12th March, 2020 18:00-19:00
Room LT908, University of Strathclyde
RSS Glasgow: Dirk Husmeier, Statistical Inference in Cardiac Mechanics
Friday 28th February, 2020 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Bayesian inference for multi-strain epidemics with application to Escherichia coli O157:H7 in feedlot cattle
Panayiota Touloupou (University of Warwick)
Friday 14th February, 2020 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
YouTube lectures + online exercises = happier students?
Jeremy Singer and Alex Pancheva (School of Computing Science)
Monday 10th February, 2020 14:00-15:00
Maths 311B
Open population spatial capture-recapture
Richard Glennie (University of St Andrews)
Friday 31st January, 2020 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Integrating citizen science data sets to estimate bird population dynamics
Philipp Boersch-Supan (British Trust for Ornithology)
Friday 24th January, 2020 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
LTS seminar
Mitchum, Marnie and Colette (University of Glasgow)
Friday 17th January, 2020 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Computationally Efficient Multivariate Changepoint Detection with Subsets
Rebecca Killick (Lancaster University)
Thursday 9th January, 2020 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Change point localization in dependent dynamic nonparametric random dot product graphs
Yi Yu (University of Warwick)
Friday 13th December, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Blended and online learning in CoSE: a quick tour of engaging students via Blended Learning techniques in Science and Engineering
Ute Barrett (School of Psychology, University of Glasgow)
Tuesday 10th December, 2019 14:00-15:00
Maths 311B
Approximation by finite mixtures of continuous density functions that vanish at infinity
Hien Nguyen (La Trobe University, Melbourne)
Friday 6th December, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Contributions to approximate Bayesian Inference
Alexander Buchholz (MRC Biostatistics Unit)
Wednesday 20th November, 2019 13:00-14:00
Maths 110
SaT (smoothing and thresholding) segmentation methodology
Xiaohao Cai (UCL)
Friday 15th November, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
The Blessing of Dimensionality in Genomics Data
Claus Mayer (BIOSS/University of Glasgow)
Friday 8th November, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Semiparametric Bernstein-von Mises theorem for a nonregular model under a mixture prior
Natalia Bochkina (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 8th November, 2019 14:00-15:00
Seminar Room 4222, Sir Alwyn Williams Building
EXTERNAL: Statistical emulation of cardiac mechanics
Dirk Husmeier (University of Glasgow)
Friday 1st November, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
On a novel statistical method for isoform quantification using RNA-seq data
Indranil Mukhopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute)
Friday 25th October, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Bayesian Modelling Frameworks for Under-Reporting and Delayed Reporting in Count Data
Oliver Stoner (University of Exeter)
Friday 18th October, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Useful Moodle (or non-Moodle) features for statistical teaching
Marnie Low and Gary Napier (University of Glasgow)
Friday 11th October, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Stochastic modelling, simulation and analysis of dynamic biological systems: the NF-κB case study
Giorgos Minas (University of St Andrews)
Friday 4th October, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Efficient Bayesian inference in ecology and systems biology
Ben Swallow (University of Glasgow)
Friday 27th September, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
High-Dimensional Macroeconomic Forecasting Using Message Passing Algorithms
Dimitris Korobilis (Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow)
Thursday 26th September, 2019 17:00-19:00
Livingstone Tower, University of Strathclyde
EXTERNAL: Transforming Health and Social Care Publications in Scotland
Friday 20th September, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Sometimes all we have left are pictures and fear
Dan Simpson (University of Toronto)
Friday 30th August, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Comparing spatial models in the presence of spatial smoothing
Earl Duncan (Queensland University of Technology)
Friday 7th June, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Nonparametric Bayesian Modelling of Event Data
Gordon Ross (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 3rd May, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Bayesian Cluster Analysis: Point Estimation and Credible Balls
Sara Wade (University of Edinburgh)
Monday 29th April, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Variable selection for latent class analysis with application to low back pain diagnosis
Brendan Murphy (University College Dublin)
Friday 29th March, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Multi-armed bandit for species discovery: a Bayesian nonparametric approach
Marco Battiston (University of Lancaster)
Friday 15th March, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Bayesian mixtures of multiple scale distributions
Florence Forbes (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes)
Friday 8th March, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Bayesian imputation of missing variables across heterogeneous datasets, implemented in a user-friendly tool
Cosetta Minnelli (Imperial College)
Friday 22nd February, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Experiences of AIMS
Charalampos Chanialidis (University of Glasgow)
Friday 8th February, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Using Chain Event Graphs to model asymmetric Bayesian Games
Peter Thwaites (University of Leeds)
Friday 25th January, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Phylogenetic Gaussian processes for the Ancestral Reconstruction of Bat Echolocation Calls
Joe Meagher (University of Warwick)
Friday 11th January, 2019 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Individual Patient Data in a Network Meta-Analysis: Is it worth the effort?
Joy Leahy (National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics)
Friday 30th November, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Incorporating individual level covariates in disease mapping
Craig Anderson (University of Glasgow)
Friday 23rd November, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Joining and splitting models with Markov melding
Robert Goudie (MRC Biostatistic Unit)
Friday 9th November, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Bayesian nonparametric inference for the covariate-adjusted ROC curve
Vanda Inacio De Carvalho (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 2nd November, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Fast additive quantile regression for electricity demand forecasting
Matteo Fasiolo (University of Bristol)
Friday 26th October, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Bayesian models of criminal activities
Jim Smith (University of Warwick)
Friday 19th October, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Spatial extremes: a conditional approach
Jenny Wadsworth (University of Lancaster)
Friday 12th October, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
The Role of Model Assumptions in Statistics
Christian Hennig (UCL)
Tuesday 9th October, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 116
Toward Automatic Segmentation, Tracking and Classification by Machine Learning for Medical Images
Henry Horng-Shing Lu (Chiao Tung University of Taiwan)
Friday 5th October, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Modelling 4D climate variables using functional data analysis and the D-STEM software
Francesco Finazzi (University of Bergamo)
Friday 28th September, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Modelling faces
Adrian Bowman (University of Glasgow)
Friday 13th July, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 116
Challenges and opportunities in linking animal movement to ecological processes
Juan Morales (CONICET)
Friday 6th July, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Spatio-temporal Bayesian On-line Changepoint Detection with Model Selection
Jeremias Knoblauch (University of Warwick)
Wednesday 4th July, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 116
New Models for the Analysis of Compositional Data
Connie Stewart (University of New Brunswick)
Friday 29th June, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Imputation of Race and Ethnicity in Health Insurance Claims
Ofer Harel (University of Connecticut)
Friday 22nd June, 2018 12:00-13:00
Maths 311B
From heterogeneous data of biological systems to quantitative predictive models
Nicole Radde (University of Stuttgart)
Friday 15th June, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Learning low-dimensional geometric structure in high-dimensional data
David Dunson (Duke University)
Friday 18th May, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Using forest eco-system monitoring data to model tree survival for investigating climate change effects
Nicole Augustin (University of Bath)
Friday 11th May, 2018 15:00-16:00
Seminar room 311B
Learning Bayesian Networks Using Generalized Permutohedra
Fatemeh Mohammadi (University of Bristol)
Friday 4th May, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Visualising Chance: Learning probability through modelling
Stephanie Budgett (University of Auckland)
Friday 27th April, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Optimal Whitening and Decorrelation and a New Look at Probabilistic Canonical Correlation Analysis
Korbinian Strimmer (University of Manchester)
Friday 6th April, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Fast Parameter Inference in a Computational Model of the Left-Ventricle using Emulation
Vinny Davies (University of Leeds)
Friday 16th March, 2018 14:00-15:00
Maths 116
Modeling non-Gaussian processes on a sphere using multi-resolution analysis
Debashis Paul (University of California)
Friday 9th March, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
"Benefits of spatiotemporal modeling for short-term wind power forecasting at both individual and aggregated levels" and "Effects of uncertainties in hydrological modelling: A case study of a mountainous catchment in Southern Norway"
Ingelin Steinsland (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Friday 23rd February, 2018 15:00-16:00
Seminar room 311B
Bayesian Nonparametrics for Sparse Dynamic Networks
Konstantina Palla (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
Friday 16th February, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Kernel Monte Carlo Estimators for Partial Rankings
Maria Lomeli (University of Cambridge)
Friday 2nd February, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Harnessing Sustainability to Improve Urban Health
Sotiris Vardoulakis (Institute of Occupational Medicine)
Friday 26th January, 2018 15:00-16:00
Seminar room 311B
Model Selection and Local Geometry
Robin Evans (University of Oxford)
Friday 19th January, 2018 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Doubly stochastic variational inference for deep Gaussian processes
Hugh Salimbeni (Imperial College London)
Friday 12th January, 2018 15:00-16:00
Seminar room 311B
Discovering statistical equivalence classes of discrete statistical models using computer algebra
Eva Riccomagno (University of Genova)
Friday 8th December, 2017 15:00-16:00
Maths 311B
Sparse graphical models in genomics: inference and network enrichment
Veronica Vinciotti (Brunel University London)
Friday 24th November, 2017 15:00-16:00
Seminar room 110
Measure-valued Pólya processes
Cécile Mailler (University of Bath)
Thursday 23rd November, 2017 16:00-17:00
Seminar room 116
Approximate likelihood inference for discretely observed rough differential equations
Theodore Papamarkou (University of Glasgow)
Friday 17th November, 2017 15:00-16:00
Seminar room 311B
Exploratory Graphics for Volatility in Financial Time Series
Tony Lawrance (University of Warwick)
Friday 10th November, 2017 15:00-16:00
Seminar room 311B
Near critical preferential attachment networks
Marcel Ortgiese (University of Bath)
Friday 3rd November, 2017 15:00-16:00
Seminar room 311B
Spatio-Temporal model structures with shared components for semi-continuous species distribution modelling
David Conesa (University of Valencia)
Friday 20th October, 2017 13:30-14:30
Maths 311B
A talk by Charles Kennelly, CTO, Esri UK- world's leader of geographic information systems
Charles Kennelly (Esri UK)
Friday 13th October, 2017 15:00-16:00
Seminar room 311B
The Geometry of Sloppiness
Emilie Dufresne (University of Nottingham)
Friday 6th October, 2017 15:00-16:00
Seminar room 311B
Random Walks in Soluble Group Theory
Peter Kropholler (University of Southampton)
Friday 29th September, 2017 15:00-16:00
Seminar room 311B
Measure, Probability and Quantum
John Skilling (Maximum Entropy Data Consultants)
Friday 22nd September, 2017 15:00-16:00
Seminar room 311B
From Hopf Algebras to Machine learning via Rough Paths
Terry Lyons (University of Oxford)
Friday 4th August, 2017 15:00-16:00
Room 311B
Generalised linear cepstral models for the spectrum of a time series
Alessandra Luati (University of Bologna)
Wednesday 12th July, 2017 11:00-12:00
Room 116, Mathematics & Statistics Building
Penalising model component complexity: A principled practical approach to constructing priors
Håvard Rue (KAUST)
Friday 2nd June, 2017 15:00-16:00
To be announced soon
Parameter estimation in expensive computational models
Umberto Noe (University of Glasgow)
Friday 19th May, 2017 15:00-16:00
Room 311B, 3rd floor of maths and stats building
Allowing for uncertainty due to missing and LOCF imputed outcome data in meta-analysis
Dimitris Mavridis (University of Ioannina)
Thursday 18th May, 2017 16:00-17:00
Hunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre (Room 103)
Inference and application of the shared descent of genome in population samples
Elizabeth Thompson (University of Washington)
Friday 12th May, 2017 15:00-16:00
Maths and stats seminar room, level 3
Probabilistic and statistical aspects of geometric group theory
Murray Elder (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Friday 28th April, 2017 15:00-16:00
Sir Alexander Stone, room 204
Affinity-Based Measures of Diagnostic Test Accuracy
Miguel de Carvalho (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 31st March, 2017 15:00-16:00
Boyd Orr, 709AB
Trials and Tests
Deirdre Toher (University of the West of England)
Friday 24th March, 2017 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Modelling uncertainty when planning for energy systems
Amy Wilson (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 17th March, 2017 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Principal component analysis in the space of phylogenetic trees
Tom Nye (Newcastle University)
Friday 10th March, 2017 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Generalising rate heterogeneity across sites in statistical phylogenetics
Sarah Heaps (Newcastle University)
Friday 3rd March, 2017 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Multivariate Factorisable Sparse Asymmetric Least Squares Regression
Chen Huang (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Friday 17th February, 2017 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Informed Subsampling MCMC: Approximate Bayesian Inference for Large Datasets
Florian Maire (University College Dublin)
Friday 10th February, 2017 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Fatigued or Ready to Train? - Modelling Availability to Train at Team GB Hockey via a Binary Time Series Mixed Model
Hannah Frick (UCL)
Friday 3rd February, 2017 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Model based clustering for mixed data: clustMD
Damien McParland (University College Dublin)
Friday 27th January, 2017 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Collapsed finite mixture models for simultaneous model selection and clustering.
Arthur White (Trinity College Dublin)
Friday 20th January, 2017 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Delayed-acceptance MCMC with examples: advantages and pitfalls and how to avoid the latter
Chris Sherlock (University of Lancaster)
Friday 2nd December, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Sparse Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Detecting Relevant Antigenic Sites in Virus Evolution
Vinny Davies (University of Glasgow)
Friday 25th November, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Reduced-bias inference for regression models with tractable and intractable likelihoods
Ioannis Kosmidis (University College London (UCL))
Friday 11th November, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Matching Models across Abstraction Levels with Gaussian Processes
Giulio Caravagna (University of Edinburgh)
Tuesday 8th November, 2016 15:00-16:00
Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Level 5
Bayesian Deconvolution and Quantitation of NMR Metabolic Profiles with BATMAN
Timothy Ebbels (Imperial College London)
Friday 4th November, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Scaling MCMC Algorithms for Big Data
Chris Nemeth (University of Lancaster)
Thursday 3rd November, 2016 14:15-15:00
Maths 204
Generalized Tikhonov regularization in estimation of systems of differential equations with applications
Ernst Wit (University of Groningen)
Thursday 3rd November, 2016 13:30-14:15
Maths 204
Cox-process representation and inference for stochastic reaction-diffusion processes
Guido Sanguinetti (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 28th October, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Efficient Parameter Estimation in a PDEs Model of the Pulmonary Circulation
Umberto Noe (University of Glasgow)
Friday 21st October, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Multilevel Models for Multilevel Networks
Mark Tranmer (University of Glasgow)
Wednesday 12th October, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Nonparametric identification and maximum likelihood estimation for hidden Markov models
Hajo Holzmann (University of Marburg)
Wednesday 28th September, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Flexible link functions in nonparametric binary regression with Gaussian process priors
Dipak K. Dey (University of Connecticut)
Friday 26th August, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Time warping for improved gradient matching
Mu Niu (University of Glasgow)
Friday 1st July, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
The total entropy utility function in Bayesian design
James McGree
Friday 3rd June, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Fast Inference in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems using Gradient Matching
Mu Niu (University of Glasgow)
Tuesday 31st May, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Postgraduate Talks 6
Irene Marinas, Alasdair Macintosh, Craig Alexander
Friday 27th May, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Postgraduate Talks 5
Aisyah N., Ashwini V., Cunyi W.
Wednesday 25th May, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Postgraduate Talks 4
Qingying Shu, Mengzi Gong, Suzy Whoriskey
Tuesday 24th May, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Postgraduate Talks 3
Eilidh J., Francesca P., Tusharkanti G.
Monday 23rd May, 2016 17:30-18:30
Maths 203
Big data, Networks and the Internet of Things: a mathematician's perspective
Prof. Desmond Higham (University of Strathclyde)
Monday 23rd May, 2016 11:00-12:00
Maths 204
Postgraduate Talks 2
Diana Giurghita, George Vazanellis
Friday 20th May, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Postgraduate Talks 1
Craig Wilkie, Umberto Noe, Marnie McLean
Friday 6th May, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 522
Annotating metabolites with topic models
Simon Rogers (University of Glasgow)
Wednesday 27th April, 2016 16:00-17:00
Maths 515
Pipelines for data science
Hadley Wickham (The Mitchell Lecture)
Monday 25th April, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 515
Managing many models
Hadley Wickham (Mitchell Lecturer)
Friday 8th April, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Computational and Mathematical Approach to Tumour Metabolism and Microenvironment
Edoardo Milotti (University of Trieste)
Friday 1st April, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 522
Penalized Composite Link Models for spatial and spatio-temporal aggregated counts
Dae-Jin Lee (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics)
Friday 18th March, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 522
FOURIER ESTIMATION OF SPACE–TIME COVARIANCE
Sourav Das (University of Bristol)
Friday 11th March, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 522
A test for second-order stationarity of time series based on unsystematic subsamples
Haeran Cho (University of Bristol)
Friday 4th March, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 522
Metropolis-Hastings Random Multiplex Generation
Theodore Papamarkou (University of Glasgow)
Friday 26th February, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 522
Pseudo-Marginal Slice Sampling
Iain Murray (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 5th February, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 522
Modelling the temporal progression of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers
Sara Wade (University of Warwick)
Friday 29th January, 2016 15:00-16:00
Maths 522
Determining optimal factors for chemical synthesis of pharmaceutical products using experimental data
Antony Overstall (University of Glasgow)
Friday 11th December, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Postgraduate Talks
Randa Alharbi, Amira Elayouty
Tuesday 8th December, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Postgraduate Talks
S. Alghamdi, B. Alruwaili, A. Lorenzo Arribas
Friday 27th November, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Discarding in the North Sea fishing industry: Which fish get thrown away? Why does it matter?
Michael Heath (University of Strathclyde)
Friday 20th November, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Where does the tail begin? Threshold selection for extremes.
Jenny Wadsworth (Lancaster University)
Friday 13th November, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Reduced variance Monte Carlo for Bayesian models with intractable likelihoods
Nial Friel (University College Dublin)
Friday 30th October, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Designing Optimal Langevin samplers
Greg Pavliotis (Imperial College London)
Wednesday 28th October, 2015 14:00-17:00
Maths 516
Experiment design special event
Several Speakers
Friday 16th October, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling of Soil Carbon Dynamics with LibBi
Dan Pagendam (CSIRO, Australia)
Wednesday 23rd September, 2015 14:00-15:00
Maths 325
Calibration of a Stochastic Model for Corporate Credit Spreads
Dr Douglas McLean (Moody’s Analytics, Edinburgh)
Wednesday 9th September, 2015 14:00-15:00
Maths 203
How statistics can promote scholarship of teaching and learning
Rochelle Tractenberg (Georgetown University Medical Center)
Friday 3rd July, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Using Animal Instincts to Design Efficient Experiments for Biomedical Studies
Weng Kee Wong (UCLA)
Friday 5th June, 2015 14:00-16:00
Maths 204
Postgraduate Talks 3
Postgraduates (University of Glasgow)
Friday 29th May, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Non-PH Parametric Survival Modelling
Gilbert MacKenzie (University of Limerick)
Tuesday 26th May, 2015 15:00-17:00
Maths 203
Postgraduate Talks 2
Postgraduates (University of Glasgow)
Friday 22nd May, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Incorporating a mixture approach to the available case missing variable assumption in pattern mixture models
Abby Flynt (Bucknell University)
Wednesday 20th May, 2015 14:00-16:00
Maths 204
Postgraduate Talks 1
Postgraduates (University of Glasgow)
Thursday 14th May, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Bayesian design of experiments for Gaussian process regression
Dave Woods (University of Southampton)
Friday 1st May, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Spatial Statistics in Social Sciences and the Challenges of Big Data
Jing Yao (University of Glasgow)
Friday 17th April, 2015 15:30-16:30
Maths 516
Random projection ensemble classification
Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge)
Friday 27th March, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Statistical tests for large tree-structured data
Karthik Baharath (University of Nottingham)
Friday 20th March, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 214
Curse of dimensionality in multivariate extremes: a graphical modelling approach
Ioannis Papastathopoulos (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 13th March, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Bayes linear uncertainty analysis for complex physical systems modelled by computer simulators
Michael Goldstein (University of Durham)
Friday 27th February, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Causal Inference through a Witness Protection Program
Ricardo Silva (UCL)
Friday 6th February, 2015 15:00-16:00
Maths 516
Estimating the population effectiveness of the national seasonal influenza vaccination programme in Scotland
Stephen Corson (University of Strathclyde)
Friday 5th December, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Postgraduate Talks
Randa Alharbi & Amira Elayouty
Friday 21st November, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Machine learning for epigenetics: some initial results
Guido Sanguinetti (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 7th November, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
What drives the glacial-interglacial cycle? A Bayesian solution to a long-standing model selection problem.
Richard Wilkinson (University of Nottingham)
Tuesday 28th October, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 515
The Bayes factor in environmental forensic inference - with an application to ashes in dispute.
Anders Nordgaard (Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Science)
Friday 17th October, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Flexible sparse dynamic network models
Prof Ernst Wit (University of Groningen)
Friday 10th October, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
New exact inference methods for small size of lifetime data
Keming Yu (Brunel University London)
Friday 26th September, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Robustness of Design: A Survey
Doug Wiens (University of Alberta)
Friday 27th June, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Extending conditional autoregressive models for space time studies of air pollution and health
Alastair Rushworth (University of Glasgow)
Friday 30th May, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Quantifying Uncertainty in the Solution of Differential Equations: A Probabilistic Framework
Mark Girolami (University of Warwick)
Wednesday 21st May, 2014 11:00-12:00
Maths 326
SMART studies and the personalization of medical care
Erica Moodie (McGill University)
Friday 9th May, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Smarter City Predictive Analytics using Generalized Additive Model
Bei Chen (IBM )
Thursday 8th May, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Multi-resolution spatial methods for large data sets.
Doug Nychka (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Tuesday 6th May, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Uncertain weather, uncertain climate
Doug Nychka (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Friday 25th April, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Modelling of spatiotemporal dynamical systems with kernel learning methods
Hanwen Ning (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law)
Thursday 3rd April, 2014 14:00-15:00
Maths 203
TBA
James Hensman (University of Sheffield)
Friday 28th March, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
TBA
Christopher Yau (Imperial College)
Friday 21st March, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Modeling seed viability over time to decide when to regenerate seed lots in long-term storage
Philip Dixon (Iowa State University )
Friday 14th March, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Building a Prognostic Model for Breast Cancer Survival
John Newell (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Friday 7th March, 2014 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Assessing the impact of selective migration and care homes on geographical inequalities in health - a total population cohort study in Sheffield
Ravi Maheswaran (University of Sheffield)
Friday 13th December, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Understanding seabirds: a statistical perspective
Adam Butler (BioSS)
Friday 6th December, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Optimal Design, Langrangian, Linear Model Theories. A Fusion.
Ben Torsney (University of Glasgow)
Friday 29th November, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Smartphone-based sensor networks and some statistical challenges: the Earthquake Network Android application
Francesco Finazzi (University of Bergamo)
Friday 15th November, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Wild Binary Segmentation for multiple change-point detection
Piotr Fryzlewicz (London School of Econnomics)
Friday 18th October, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Explicit and Implicit Parametric Regression
David Barber (University College London)
Friday 11th October, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Statistical Modelling with Graphical Models
Sofia Massa (University of Oxford)
Friday 27th September, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Modelling Genetic Variations using Fragmentation-Coagulation Processes
Yee Whye Teh (University of Oxford)
Friday 20th September, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Optimal Detection of Changepoints with a Linear Computational Cost
Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster University)
Friday 26th April, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Is the brain Bayesian?
David Leslie (University of Bristol)
Friday 19th April, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Spatial regression models with differential regularization
Laura Sangalli (Politecnico di Milano)
Wednesday 17th April, 2013 16:00-17:00
Maths 203
Bayesian Hidden Markov models with linear time decoding for the analysis of cancer genomes
Chris Holmes (University of Oxford)
Friday 22nd March, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Fisher's Information Matrix: A new way to do dimension reduction in semiparametric multivariate analysis
Bruce Lindsay (Penn State University)
Friday 15th March, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Bernstein-von Mises theorem for nonregular generalised linear inverse problems
Natalia Bochkina (University of Edinburgh)
Friday 8th March, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Optimal Design for two-parameter nonlinear models with applications to survival models
Alan Kimber (University of Southampton)
Friday 22nd February, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Bayesian parameter estimation for latent Markov random fields and social networks
Richard Everitt (University of Reading)
Friday 22nd February, 2013 14:00-15:00
Maths 203
An Evolution Model for Sequence Length Based on Residue Insertion-Deletion Independent of Substitution
Sophie Lebre (Universite de Strasbourg)
Friday 8th February, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Using data to organize large sets of analysis methods
Nick Jones (Imperial College)
Friday 1st February, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Reverse engineering and design of natural and synthetic biological systems
Chris Barnes (UCL)
Friday 25th January, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 204
Gaussian process regression on a phylogeny
John Moriarty (University of Manchester)
Friday 11th January, 2013 15:00-16:00
Maths 325
Space-time modelling for trend estimation of natural resources
Nicole Augustin (University of Bath)
Friday 14th December, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Embedding Astronomical Computer Models into Principled Statistical Analyses
David van Dyk (Imperial College)
Friday 7th December, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Recent advances in dealing with values below detection limit in compositional data sets
Javier Palarea-Albaladejo (BIOSS)
Monday 3rd December, 2012 15:00-16:00
Postgraduate talks
Friday 23rd November, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Some Statistical Issues in Water Quality Assessment
Sylvia Esterby (University of British Columbia)
Monday 19th November, 2012 13:00-14:00
Maths 204
Using spatial survival models with time varying covariates to explain ecological processes; modeling wildfires and first flowering times
Alan Gelfand (Duke University)
Friday 9th November, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Refined adaptive design for D-optimum dose-finding in early phase clinical trials
Dariusz Uciński (University of Zielona Gora)
Friday 2nd November, 2012 15:00-17:30
Kibble Suite, Hilton Grosvenor Hotel
Estimating Spatial Models
Bernard Fingleton (University of Cambridge)
Friday 12th October, 2012 16:15-17:15
Maths 203
A geostatistical model for spatial point aggregated data
Francesco Finazzi (University of Bergamo)
Friday 12th October, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Active particles, Markov chain Monte Carlo and local adaptation
Anthony Lee (University of Warwick)
Friday 29th June, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Election Maths: Proportional Representation and Iterative Proportional Fitting
Friedrich Pukelsheim (Augsburg University)
Friday 25th May, 2012 15:15-15:45
Maths 203
Warped Gaussian Process Modelling of Transcriptional Regulation
Ruirui Ji (University of Glasgow)
Friday 18th May, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Statistical Modelling in Clinical Trials
Vladimir Anisimov (GlaxoSmithKline)
Friday 11th May, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Statistical questions in estimating postmortem interval from insect evidence
Lynn LaMotte (Lousianna State University)
Monday 30th April, 2012 16:00-17:00
Maths 203
Statistical problems with Alpine permafrost
Anthony Davison (EPFL Lausanne)
Friday 20th April, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Approximate Bayesian Computation
Christian Robert (Universite Paris-Dauphine)
Friday 16th March, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Detecting changes in functional time series with applications to fMRI imaging
John Aston (University of Warwick)
Friday 24th February, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Likelihood-free approaches for Bayesian hierarchical models: applications in population genetics
Mark Beaumont (University of Bristol)
Friday 3rd February, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Sentiment Analysis of Online Media
Brendan Murphy (University College Dublin)
Friday 27th January, 2012 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
General Bayesian Updating
Stephen Walker (University of Kent)
Friday 9th December, 2011 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Statistical Software at the Centre for Multilevel Modelling
Bill Browne (University of Bristol)
Friday 2nd December, 2011 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
The Statistical Analysis of Complex Numerical Models
Peter Challenor (National Oceanography Centre)
Friday 18th November, 2011 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Algorithms for constructing D-optimal designs of experiments
Radoslav Harman (Comenius University in Bratislava)
Friday 11th November, 2011 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Bayesian inference for Markov processes with application to biochemical network dynamics
Darren Wilkinson (Newcastle University)
Friday 4th November, 2011 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Automating the analysis of variance for orthogonal designs
Heiko Grossmann (Queen Mary, University of London)
Friday 28th October, 2011 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Mendelian Randomisation as an Instrumental Variable Approach to Causal Inference
Vanessa Didelez (University of Bristol)
Friday 21st October, 2011 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
A-optimal block designs for the comparison of treatments with a control with autocorrelated errors
Joachim Kunert (TU Dortmund)
Friday 14th October, 2011 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Full and Limited information estimation methods for latent variable models with longitudinal categorical data
Irini Moustaki (London School of Economics)
Friday 7th October, 2011 15:00-16:00
Maths 203
Dose-Finding Experiments in Clinical Trials
Nancy Flournoy (Univeristy of Missouri)
Friday 13th May, 2011 15:00-16:00
326
A set of indicators for decomposing the secular increase of life expectancy
Valentin Rousson (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne)
Friday 25th March, 2011 15:00-16:00
326
Game-theoretic probability: a brief introduction to its mathematics and philosophy
Prof Vladimir Vovk (Royal Holloway)
Friday 18th March, 2011 13:00-14:00
326
How much of health inequality in the UK is explained by physical environment?
Richard Mitchell (University of Glasgow)
Friday 4th March, 2011 15:00-16:00
326
Additive Models for Quantile Regression: Model Selection and Confidence Bandaids
Roger Koenker (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Friday 4th February, 2011 15:00-16:00
326
Spatiotemporal smothing of Magnetoencephalography data
Massimo Ventrucci
Friday 10th December, 2010 15:00-16:00
326
High Resolution Bayesian Space-Time Modelling for Ozone Concentration Levels
Sujit Sahu (University of Southampton)
Friday 3rd December, 2010 15:00-16:00
326
To be announced
Nema Dean (University of Glasgow)
Friday 26th November, 2010 15:00-16:00
326
Univariate and multivariate Conditional AutoRegressive models for areal data
Fedele Greco (University of Bologna)
Friday 12th November, 2010 15:00-16:00
325
Information Theoretic Novelty Detection
Maurizio Filippone (University of Glasgow)
Friday 29th October, 2010 15:00-16:00
326
Boring variograms and interesting p-splines
Adrian Bowman (University of Glasgow)
Friday 8th October, 2010 15:00-16:00
326
Bayesian disease mapping
Duncan Lee (University of Glasgow)