AMSTAT Seminars 2009-10
Term 3 – 2010
All seminars on Fridays at 12:00 in Lecture Room B3.02 - Mathematics Institute - Zeeman Building
Organisers: Gareth Roberts and Andrew Stuart
- Friday 30 April 2010
David White (Warwick)
Bayesian Density Estimation - Friday 7 May 2010
Informal Group Meeting - Friday 14 May 2010
Informal Group Meeting
- Friday 21 May 2010
Omiros Paspiliopoulos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Sequential Detection of Changes - Friday 28 May 2010
Mahadevan Ganesh (Colorado School of Mines)
A Spectrally Accurate Algorithm for Navier-stokes Equations on Rotating Spheres - Friday 4 June2010
Informal Group Meeting
- Friday 11 June 2010
John Aston (Warwick)
Estimating Change Points in Multidimensional Dependent Functional Data - Friday 18 June 2010
Informal Group Meeting
- Friday 25 June 2010
Jim Nolen (Duke)
Fine Scale Uncertainty in Parameter Estimation for Elliptic PDE
Term 2 – 2010
All seminars on Fridays at 12:00 in Lecture Room B3.02 - Mathematics Institute - Zeeman Building
Organisers: Gareth Roberts and Andrew Stuart
- Friday 15 January 2010
Fabio Rigat (Warwick)
Parallel hierarchical (adaptive) sampling: a general-purpose multiple-chains MCMC algorithm - Friday 22 January 2010
Harry Zanten (Eindhoven)
Consistent nonparametric Bayesian inference for discretely observed diffusions - Friday 29 January 2010
Yile Wu (Warwick)
Uncerainty in porftolio credit risk modelling: a Bayesian approach - Friday 5 February 2010
Christoph Schwab (ETH Zurich)
Convergence rates of sparse tensor gpc approximations of PDEs - Friday 12 February 2010
Informal Group Meeting - Friday 19 February 2010
Rudolf Roemer (Warwick)
The random phase property and the Lyapunov spectrum for multi-channel disordered systems - Friday 26 February 2010
Bernard Silverman (Oxford)
Smoothed absolute loadings principal components analysis - Friday 5 March 2010
Andrew Golightly (Newcastle)
Recent advances in inference for parameters governing Systems Biology models - Friday 12 March 2010
Marc Bocquet (ENPC)
Bayesian design of parameter space for geophysical data assimilation - Friday 19 March 2010
HongKai Zhao (UC Irvine)
Recent development in multi-level optical imaging algorithm based on radiative transport equation
Term 1 – 2009/10
All seminars on Fridays at 12:00 in Lecture Room B3.02 - Mathematics Institute - Zeeman Building
Organisers: Andrew Stuart and Gareth Roberts
- Friday 9 October 2009
Tony Lelievre (ENPC)
Adaptive importance sampling, and application to Bayesian statistics
- Friday 16 October 2009
Mark Girolami (Glasgow)
Riemannian Manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo - Friday 23 October 2009
Geoff Nichols (Oxford)
Doing Bayesian MCMC based inference slowly: applications and algorithms - Friday 30 October 2009
Tony O'Hagan (Sheffield)
Uncertainty in predictions from process models - Friday 6 November 2009
Mike Giles (Oxford)
Multilevel Monte Carlo for discontinuous payoffs - Friday 13 November 2009
Andreas Eberle (Bonn)
Quantitative approximations of evolving probability measures and sequential Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods - Friday 20 November 2009
Dan Cornford (Aston)
Scaling to larger systems and parameter inference - Friday 27 November 2009
Chus Sanz-Serna (Valladolid)
Carrying an inverted pendulum on a bumpy road - Friday 4 December 2009
Peter Jan van Leeuwen (Reading)
Data assimilation in highly nonlinear large dimensional systems: how to beat the curse of dimensionality in particle filterning - Friday 11 December 2009
Ke Chen (Liverpool)
Variational imaging models and algorithms