|
Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
|
Friday, 1 March |
3.10pm |
JCMB 5323 |
Javier Palarea-Albaladejo (BioSS) |
Handling values below
detection limit in compositional data sets
(Notice and Abstract) |
|
Friday, 22 March |
3.10pm |
JCMB 5323 |
(University of Bristol) |
Statistical inference with noisy likelihoods (Notice and Abstract) |
|
Friday 29 March |
3.10pm |
JCMB 5323 |
(University of Glasgow) |
Geometrically-inspired
structured priors for Bayesian partition-based models (Notice and Abstract) |
This
seminar is joint with BioSS and is a part of Maxwell Institute Statistics
seminar;
Statistics seminars at Heriot Watt
University: http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/ams/seminars/MIST/mist.html
Local
group meetings of the Royal Statistical Society: http://www.bioss.ac.uk/staff/adam/rsse/
Previous seminars.
Autumn 2012
|
Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
|
Friday, 28 September |
3pm |
JCMB 5326 |
Wenyang
Zhang (University of York) |
A Semiparametric Threshold Model for Censored
Longitudinal Data Analysis |
|
Friday, 26 October |
3pm |
JCMB 5326 |
Guido Sanguinetti (School of Informatics,
University of Edinburgh) |
TBC |
|
Friday 9 November |
4pm |
JCMB 5215 |
Oleg Lepski (Universite de Provence) |
Upper
functions for a collection of random variables and adaptive estimation (joint with Maths
Colloquium) |
|
Friday 23 November |
3pm |
JCMB 5326 |
Silvia
Liverani (Imperial College London) |
A new Bayesian
Dependence Model for Regulatory Networks |
Spring/Summer 2012
|
Friday, 27 April |
3pm |
JCMB 6301 |
Geoffrey
Stewart Morrison (University of New South Wales) |
What did Bain really Say? A
forensic analysis of the disputed utterance based on data, acoustic
analysis, statistical models,
calculation of likelihood ratios, and testing of validity (Abstract) |
|
Friday, 18 May |
2:15pm |
JCMB 6301 |
Robert Cowell (City University) and Idris Eckley (Lancaster University) |
Analysing DNA mixtures using Bayesian networks (Notice
and Abstract) Alias
Detection and Spectral Correction for Locally Stationary Time Series (Notice and Abstract) |
|
Friday 22 June |
11am |
JCMB 5215 |
Samuel
Oman (Hebrew University) |
A Comparison
of Methods for Factor Analysis of Multivariate Geostatistical Data (Notice and Abstract) |
Winter/Spring, 2012
|
Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
|
Friday, 27 January |
3pm |
JCMB 6301 |
Giles Innocent (BioSS) |
Analysis of Susceptible-Infectious-Susceptible (SIS) data using Chapman-Kolmogorov equations and Bayesian MCMC (Notice and abstract) |
|
Friday, 10 February |
3pm |
JCMB 6301 |
David Lagnado (University College London) |
Causal idioms – a framework for evidential reasoning (Notice and abstract) |
|
Friday, 9 March |
3pm |
JCMB 6301 |
Jim Smith (University of Warwick) |
Chain Event Graphs |
|
Friday, 30 March |
3pm |
JCMB 6301 |
Colin
Aitken (University of Edinburgh) |
The evaluation of evidence in forensic science for discrete data (Notice and abstract) |
Autumn 2011
|
Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
|
Friday, 7 October |
3pm |
JCMB 6301 |
Gavin Gibson (Heriot Watt University) |
Generalised data
augmentation: from point estimators to Bayesian inference (Abstract and notice) |
|
Friday, 21 October |
3pm |
JCMB 6301 |
Natalia Bochkina (University
of Edinburgh) |
Simultaneous
local and global optimality in wavelet nonparametric regression |
|
Friday, 28 October |
3pm |
JCMB 6301 |
Joachim Kunert (Dortmund University) |
Optimal block designs
for treatment control comparisons with correlated errors (Abstract and notice) |
|
Friday, 11 November |
3pm |
JCMB 6301 |
Richard Chandler (University College
London) |
Exploiting strength, discounting weakness: combining
information from multiple climate simulators (Abstract and notice) |
|
Friday, 2 December |
3pm |
JCMB 5326 |
Vincent Macaulay (University of Glasgow) |
Upping the tempo: a
statistical model of the molecular clock in the presence of natural
selection, its analysis and an application to human mitochondrial DNA (Abstract and notice) |
Spring 2011
|
Date |
Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
|
Friday, 21 January |
3pm |
JCMB 5327 |
(University of St.Andrews) |
Spatio-temporal point process modelling with
applications in population ecology (Abstract) |
|
Friday, 4 February |
3pm |
JCMB 5327 |
Anjali Mazumder (Forensic Science Service
Ltd) |
TBC |
|
Friday, 18 February |
3pm |
JCMB 5327 |
(University College
London) |
A look at the role of model assumptions in
statistics (Abstract) |
|
Friday, 4 March |
3pm |
JCMB 5327 |
(Lancaster University) |
TBC |
Autumn
2011
Friday, 24 September - Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge) On the uniform consistency of nonparametric Bayes estimates
Friday, 22 October - Jochen Einbeck (University of Durham) Principal curves: A versatile tool for data compression and beyond
Friday, 12 November - Frank Coolen (University of Durham) Nonparametric predictive inference for lifetime data
Friday, 19 November - Vladimir Spokoiny (WIAS, Berlin) Sparse NonGaussian Component Analysis (joint with School of Mathematics Colloquium)
Friday, 3 December - Stanislav Katina (University of Glasgow) Relative Warp Analysis and Generalized Partial Least Squares in Multivariate Geometric Morphometrics: decomposition of shape and form space to affine and non-affine subspaces
Spring
2010
Friday, 28th May 2010, 3pm, JCMB 4312 - Juhyun Park (Lancaster University)
“Local additive
estimation” (Abstract)
Monday, 12 April 2010, 2pm, JCMB 5215 - N. Balakrishnan (McMaster University)
“Over/Under-Dispersed Poisson Distributions and Processes” (Abstract)
Friday 12 March, 3:15pm, JCMB 5327 - David
Signorini (Scottish Government)
"Statistical challenges in Justice: How does evidence influence
policy?"
Friday 26 February, 3:15pm, JCMB 5327 - Karim Lounici (University of Cambridge)
"Sparsity oracle inequalities in high-dimensional statistical
problems"
Friday 12 February, 3:15pm, JCMB 5327 - Glenn
Marion (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland)
"Inference in continuous time discrete-state stochastic models:
applications in
ecology, epidemiology and animal behaviour"
Location:
School of Mathematics,
James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
King’s Buildings,
University of Edinburgh,
Mayfield Road,
Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ.
Map: www.ed.ac.uk/maps/