Welcome to CRiSM seminar series!

Seminars take place fortnight during term time, 1-2pm on Wednesdays, in room MB0.07 or online on the CRiSM MS Teams channelLink opens in a new window.

We encourage all postgraduate students (MSc and PhD) to attend this series: it is a great opportunity to know more about current research within the department and outside.

CRiSM seminars 2022/23 are organised by Massimiliano TamborrinoLink opens in a new window and Andi WangLink opens in a new window (from Term 2).

Term 3

• Apr 26 Shah RajenLink opens in a new window (Cambridge) Title: Rank-transformed subsampling: Inference for multiple data splitting and exchangeable p-values. AbstractLink opens in a new window. SlidesLink opens in a new window. Recorded TalkLink opens in a new window.
• May 3 Henry ReeveLink opens in a new window (Bristol) Title: Isotonic subgroup selection. AbstractLink opens in a new window. SlidesLink opens in a new window. Recorded TalkLink opens in a new window.
• May 10 Ruth BakerLink opens in a new window (Oxford) [11-12am] Title: Leveraging concepts from stochastic simulation and machine learning for efficient Bayesian inference. AbstractLink opens in a new window: SlidesLink opens in a new window. Recorded TalkLink opens in a new window.
• May 17 Irini MoustakiLink opens in a new window (LSE) Title: Some new developments on pairwise likelihood estimation for latent variable models. AbstractLink opens in a new window. SlidesLink opens in a new window. Recorded TalkLink opens in a new window.
• May 24 Patricia Reynaud-BouretLink opens in a new window (Université Côte d'Azur): Title: Encoding/decoding abilities of the DMS and DLS networks during learning. AbstractLink opens in a new window. Slides.
• Jun 7 Heather BatteyLink opens in a new window (Imperial College London). Title: Inducement of population-level sparsity. Abstract.
• Jun 21 Chang-Han RheeLink opens in a new window (Northwestern University). Title:
  Heavy-Tailed Large Deviations and How to Eliminate Sharp Minima from SGD. AbstractLink opens in a new window. Recroded Talk. https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/directory/profiles/rhee-chang-han.html

Term 2

• Jan 11 Po-Ling LohLink opens in a new window (Cambridge). Title: Robust empirical risk minimization via Newton's method. Abstract: see hereLink opens in a new window. SlidesLink opens in a new window. Recorded TalkLink opens in a new window.
• Jan 25 Heba SailemLink opens in a new window (King's College London). Title: Quantitative approaches for decoding molecular and microenvironmental factors underlying tissue architecture. AbstractLink opens in a new window. SlidesLink opens in a new window. Recorded talkLink opens in a new window.
• Feb 8 Matt MooresLink opens in a new window (Univerisity of Wollongong). Title: Bayesian inference for thermogravimetric analysis of iron oxidation. AbstracLink opens in a new windowtLink opens in a new window. Slides. Recorded talk.
• Feb 22 Henry ReeveLink opens in a new window (Bristol) - POSTPONED to Term 3, May 3.
  
• Mar 8 Haeran ChoLink opens in a new window (Bristol). Title: Factor-adjusted network estimation and forecasting for high-dimensional time series. AbstractLink opens in a new window. Slides. Recorded Talk.