University of Newcastle upon Tyne

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Statistics Seminars 2004-2005

Unless otherwise stated, external seminars are at 2:15pm in L401 and internal seminars are in M502 at 2pm

Seminars on 29 June start at 2pm

If an Abstract is available, it can be seen by clicking on the title of the talk.

A * next to the name of the speaker indicates they will also give a talk to the Local Group of the RSS, whereas a * next to the title of a talk/meeting indicates that the meeting is held jointly with the RSS Local Group: click here for details.

Date

Series

Speaker(s)

Title

1 October

Internal

John Matthews

Clots in lines - designing a crossover trial

Peter Avery

Analysis of a large family study ascertained through hypertensive probands

15 October

External

Professor Steven Gilmour, QMUL

Future Directions for Designed Experiments

22 October

External

Dr Malcolm Farrow, Sunderland

Protein Identification using Mass Spectrometry Data and the Case of the Glass Slipper

29 October

Internal

Kostas Triantafyllopoulos

Process Improvement in the Microelectronic Industry by State Space Modelling

Phil Ansell

On the optimal allocation of service to impatient tasks

5 November

External

Dr Michalis Zervos, KCL

No-Arbitrage Pricing of Weather Derivatives in the Presence of a Liquid Swap Market

19 November

Internal

Dave Walshaw

Random effects models for extreme winds

Jordan Stoyanov

Method for teaching stochastic processes and their applications

26 November

External

Dr Vanessa Didelez, UCL

Collapsibility in graphical models - recent advances

10 December

External

*Professor Chris Glasbey, BioSS

How to segment 3-D images and analyse 1-D electrophoresis gels

 

 

Christmas vacation

 

21 January

 

Darren Wilkinson

Stochastic modelling and inference for complex biological processes

Denise Howel

Analysis of compositional data on environmental pollutants

28 January

External

Professor John Biggins University of Sheffield

The growth of iterates of multivariate generating functions

11 February

 

Postponed until 22 April

 

 

18 February

Internal

Richard Boys

A Bayesian approach to DNA sequence segmentation

Jian Shi

Meta-analysis and selection bias

25 February

External

Professor Charles Hodgman, University of Nottingham (at 2:30pm)

Dr Dirk Husmeier, BioSS (at 4pm)
 

*Joint BioNEt, RSS Bioinformatics Seminar

(Room 2.29, Research Beehive)

Towards Predictive Biology - a computational biologists perspective

Detecting mosaic structures in DNA sequence alignments with factorial hidden Markov models

11 March

 

 

 

18 March

Internal

Jutaporn Jindasawat

Testing the order of a Markov chain model

Carlos Pacheco

Stochastic dynamic models with applications

Jonathan Atyeo

Bayesian modelling of multivariate extremes using a multivariate Gaussian tail model

Andrew Golightly

Bayesian sequential inference for nonlinear multivariate diffusions

 

 

Easter vacation

 

22 April

External

Dr Merrilee Hurn, University of Bath

Loss functions for some awkward estimation problems

29 April

External

Professor Ørnulf Borgan, University of Oslo

Using dynamic path analysis to estimate direct and indirect effects of treatment and other fixed covariates in the presence of internal time-dependent covariates

6 May

External

Noel Carter, University of Sunderland

Keith Lindsey, University of Durham

John Lough, University of Sunderland

Bioinformatics Interdisciplinary Meeting

Sponsored by BioNEt (The North East Post-Genomics Network)

13 May

External

Professor Mike Kenward, LSHTM

Multiple imputation for hierarchical and longitudinal data

20 May

External

Professor David Balding
(IC)

Professor Geert Verbeke (Leuven)

Professor Robin Henderson (Newcastle)

Scottish and Northumbrian Statisticians Meeting in Newcastle (Room 2.21 Research Beehive)

 

Internal

Lauren Rodgers

Crossover Designs

27 May

(but in M401)

Hathaikan Chootrakool

Meta-analysis and publication bias

 

 

Bander Al Zahrani

Reliability Analysis: Characterizations of Lifetime Distributions

 

 

Adrian Houghton

Variational Inference

29 June

External

Aris Perperoglou

TBA

Ståle Nygård University of Oslo

TBA

1 July

External

Professor Murray Aitkin, University of Melbourne

How many normal components are there in the galaxy data?

If an Abstract is available it can be seen by clicking on the title of the talk.

A * next to the name of the speaker indicates they will also give a talk to the Local Group of the RSS: click here for details.

 

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