Statistics Seminars

Seminars will be on Friday afternoons. There will usually be four or five per term. At each session there will be a single talk, although sometimes we may have a double talk if the topics are related. Occasionally, we may have an extra seminar given by a visitor to the department.

Seminars from previous years can be found here.

Other local seminar series that may be of interest include

• RSS local group
• PSC seminars
• LEC seminar series

Forthcoming Talks

	02:00 pm Fri 25 May	Darren Wilkinson Newcastle University	Bayesian inference for Markov processes with application to biochemical network dynamics Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 8 Jun	Phillip O'Neil Nottingham University	TBA Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre

Past Talks

	02:00 pm Fri 11 May	Murray Pollock Warwick University	Exact simulation of dffiusions Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 9 Mar	Li Chen Bristol University	Spatial prediction, data assimilation and ensemble adjustment Kalman filter Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 24 Feb	Surmeetpal Singh Cambridge University	Parameter estimation for hidden Markov models with intractable likelihoods Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 27 Jan	Serge Guillas UCL	Bayesian calibration and emulation of geophysical computer models Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	03:30 pm Fri 20 Jan	Mark Girolami UCL	On the Optimal Path of Distributions in SMC Sampling Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 20 Jan	Chris Skinner London School of Economics	Reducing Bias from Unit Nonresponse in Surveys Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 9 Dec	POSTPONED - George Streftaris Heriot Watt University	Bayesian modelling for the consistency of hypoglycaemic symptoms Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	05:00 pm Thu 8 Dec	Sergey Kitaev University of Strathclyde	(2 + 2)-Free posets and related objects Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 25 Nov	Mike Davis Edinburgh University	Compressible distributions Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 11 Nov	James Roger GSK (emeritus)	Missing data due to withdrawal in confirmatory clinical trials - What questions do the Regulators want answered? Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 28 Oct	Danny Wilson Oxford University	Evolutionary dynamics of Staphylococcus aureus during progression from carriage to disease Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	03:00 pm Mon 18 Jul	Hernando Ombao Brown University & University of California at Irvine	Modeling dependence in a network of brain signals Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 24 Jun	Parkash Patil University of Birmingham	Smoothing based lack-of-fit (or goodness-of-fit) tests Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 10 Jun	Neil Houlsby Cambridge University	Bayesian Active Learning Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 27 May	Simon Rogers Glasgow	Bayesian Metabolite Identification Venue: A54 - PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 13 May	Tereza Neocleous Glasgow	Postponed Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 11 Mar	Jooyoung Jeon Smith School - Oxford	Wind power density forecasting Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 25 Feb	Andrew Golightly Newcastle	Speeding up particle MCMC through emulation of the marginal likelihood Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 11 Feb	George Streftaris Heriot-Watt - Edinburgh	POSTPONED - Bayesian inference and model criticism in stochastic epidemics with non-exponential tolerance to infection Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	01:00 pm Fri 28 Jan	Alexander McNeil Heriot-Watt - Edinburgh	Copula Models and Applications in Finance & Insurance Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 21 Jan	Jack Bowden MRC - Cambridge	Correcting for selection bias using Rao-Blackwellisation: An old fashioned solution to a very modern problem Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 10 Dec	Nick Whiteley Bristol	Monte Carlo methods for inference in switching state-space models Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 26 Nov	Peter Robinson LSE	Nonparametric and semiparametric estimation with spatial (economic) data Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 12 Nov	Fabio Rigat Warwick	Utility-based dynamic model choice: methodology and examples Venue: A17 Fylde Lecture Theatre 3
	01:00 pm Fri 29 Oct	Sarah Brown CTRU - Leeds	Guidelines for selecting a phase II trial design Venue: A54 PSC Lecture Theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 18 Jun	John Hodgson Lancaster University (visitor)	The Floating Absolute Risk controversy, and its quasi-variance resolution. Why has a good idea not caught on? Venue: PSC Lab 2
	02:00 pm Fri 4 Jun	Nicolai Meinshausen Dept of Statistics, University of Oxford	Visualization and sparsification of tree ensembles Venue: PSC Lab 2
	03:15 pm Fri 21 May	David McCaffrey & Tom Liptrot Head of Pricing Science & Research Analyst at KSS Ltd. (resp.)	Optimisation of retail fuel pricing & Modelling retail fuel branding strategies within a Bayesian hierachy (Intro to KSS + two 30-min talks) Venue: PSC Lab 2
	02:00 pm Fri 21 May	Adrian Mander & James Wason MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge	Optimal multi-stage trial design when the true effect moves away from the null hypothesis Venue: PSC Lab 2
	02:00 pm Fri 30 Apr	Robert Gramacy Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge	Particle Learning for Sequential Design and Optimization Venue: PSC Lab 2
	02:00 pm Fri 19 Mar	Mark Hann and David Reeves School of Medicine, University of Manchester	A balanced factorial experiment of clinicians' performance in treating victims of a chemical weapons attack whilst wearing level C personal protective equipment Venue: PSC Lab 2
	03:30 pm Fri 5 Mar	Richard Chandler University College London	Addressing climate model uncertainty in stochastic downscaling applications Venue: PSC Lab 2
	02:00 pm Fri 5 Mar	Karim Abadir Business School, Imperial College London	Model-free estimation of large variance matrices Venue: PSC Lab 2
	02:00 pm Fri 12 Feb	Rob Henderson Newcastle University	Regret-Regression for Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes, with Application to Warfarin Anticoagulation Venue: PSC Lab 2
	03:30 pm Fri 22 Jan	Harry Southworth AstraZeneca	Some Statistical Approaches to Clinical Trial Safety Data Venue: PSC Lab 2
	02:00 pm Fri 22 Jan	Christophe Andrieu University of Bristol	Particle MCMC Venue: PSC Lab 2
	03:30 pm Fri 4 Dec	Ruth King University of St Andrews	A Bayesian Study of Ornithological Surveys (and My "Mistakes" Along the Way) Venue: PSC lecture theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 4 Dec	John Whittaker GlaxoSmithKline	Statistical issues in genetic epidemiology and pharmacogenetics Venue: PSC lecture theatre
	03:30 pm Fri 20 Nov	James Curran University of Auckland	Some issues in modern forensic DNA evidence interpretation Venue: PSC lecture theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 20 Nov	Roberto Puch-Solis FSS	Assigning evidential weight to forensic DNA profiles using a model that takes into account peak heights Venue: PSC lecture theatre
	02:00 pm Wed 4 Nov	Simon Godsill University of Cambridge	Particles, points, groups and clusters - Bayesian tracking of coordinated and group objects Venue: PSC lecture theatre
	03:30 pm Fri 9 Oct	Mark Girolami University of Glasgow	Riemannian Manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Venue: PSC lecture theatre
	02:00 pm Fri 9 Oct	Mario Cortina Borja Institute of Child Health, University College London	Latent class finite mixture regression models with asymmetric and leptokurtotic components Venue: PSC lecture theatre