University of Newcastle upon Tyne

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Statistics Seminars 2005-2006

Unless otherwise stated, external seminars are at 2:15pm in L401 (Buttery) and internal seminars are in M502 at 2pm but note:

internal seminar on 7 October is in L401 at 2pm: internal seminar on 14 October is in L401 at 2:15pm

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
7 October	Internal	John Matthews	Bayesian designs for Michaelis-Menten kinetics
		Rob Henderson	Estimation of optimal dynamic anticoagulation regimes from observational data: a regret-based approach
14 October	Internal	John Lewis	Will my new tablets be as good as the old ones, doctor?
21 October	Internal	David Walshaw	Declustering procedures for extremes: a misleading waste of effort
		Jordan Stoyanov	Plackett’s extremal probabilistic/statistical problem
4 November	External	Dr Ruth King University of St.Andrews	Analysing ecological data: a Bayesian perspective
11 November	External	Dr Christophe Andrieu University of Bristol	On-line Simulation Based Methods for Parameter Estimation in Non-Linear Non-Gaussian State-Space Models
25 November	External	Dr Jim Griffin University of Warwick	Bayesian nonparametric inference in Time Series
2 December	External	Professor Jonathan Tawn Lancaster University	Practical issues in applications of multivariate extreme values
9 December	Internal	Ian Wilson	Approximate Likelihood Methods for modelling human genomic variation
		Joanne Chapman	Rare Species Surveys
		Christmas vacation
3 February	External	Professor Eric Renshaw University of Strathclyde	The generation of space-time growth-interaction processes: inferring structure from partial observations
17 February	External	Professor Young Jo Lee Seoul National University	Double hierarchical generalized linear models
24 February	External	Dr Glenn Marion BioSS, Edinburgh	Statistical methods for process-based models
3 March	Internal	Eryk Wolski	TBA
		Daniel Henderson	TBA
10 March	External	Dr Caitlin Buck University of Sheffield	Bayesian construction of radiocarbon calibration curves
17 March		Research Students (years 2 & 3)	TBA
24 March	Internal	Phil Ansell	TBA
		Jian Shi/Bo Wang	TBA
		Easter vacation
28 April	External	Professor Paula Williamson University of Liverpool	TBA
5 May	External	Professor Paddy Farrington Open University	TBA
12 May	External	Professor Andrew Wood University of Nottingham	Applications of saddlepoint approximations
19 May	Internal	Research students (year 1)	TBA
26 May	External	University of Edinburgh	Tentative date for S&N meeting

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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