19th March
11.00am
Prof Michael Goldstein
Bayesian
uncertainty analysis for complex physical models
26th February
11.00am
Prof Davy Paindaveine (Département de Mathématique, Université Libre de
Bruxelles, Belgium)
Multivariate
quantiles and multiple-output regression quantiles: from L_1 optimization to
halfspace depth (joint work with Marc Hallin and Miroslav Siman)
2nd February
11.00am Arthur Pewsey (Mathematics Department, University of
Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain)
On a family of
circular distributions due to Batschelet
11th December
11.00am Dr Ivonne Solis-Trapala (School of Health & Medicine,
Lancaster University)
Modelling cognitive
performance in the young and the older
27th November
11.00am
Dr Yanan Fan (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South
Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Likelihood-free
inference with Sequential Monte Carlo sampler
2nd
October
11.00am
Professor Stephen Walker (Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial
Science, University of Warwick)
A decision
theoretic approach to Bayesian learning
11th September
11.00am
Natesh Pillai (Department of Statistics, University of Warwick)
Behaviour of MCMC
algorithms in High dimensions
5th
June
11.00am
Dr Mike Powell (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of
Cambridge)
The BOBYQA
algorithm for bound constrained minimization without derivatives
24th April
11.00am
Dr Jochen Einbeck (University of Durham)
Smoothing, Sampling, and Basu's elephants
27th February
11.00am
Professor David Firth (Department of Statistics, University of Warwick)
Working with over-parameterized models
23rd January
11.00am
Professor Patrick Groenen (Department of Econometrics, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Support Vector
Machines in the Primal using Majorization and Kernels
5th December
11.00am
Professor Nicky Best
(Division of
Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, University College London)
Enhancing inference
from observational studies by combining multiple data sources: a Bayesian
graphical modelling
approach
14th November
11.00am Dr Richard Samworth
(Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge)
Maximum likelihood estimation of a multidimensional log-concave density
12th September
11.00am
Dr Abdel Hannachi (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading)
Optimal
Interpolation Patterns: A New Tool in Climate Data Analysis
20th June
11.00am Dr Inge Koch (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales)
Dimension Selection with Independent Component Analysis and its Application to Prediction
11.00am Professor David Banks (Duke University, USA)
Statistical Issues in Metabolomics
11.00am Professor Marc Hallin (Université Libre de Brusselles)
From Distribution-Freeness to Semiparametric Efficiency: Sixty Years of Rank-Based Inference
11.00am Dr Christian F. Beckmann (FMRIB, JR Hospital, Oxford)
Exploratory FMRI group analysis using tensorial extensions to Independent Component Analysis
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