Events

As part of the graduation celebrations taking place on Wednesday 23^rd July 2025, graduating PhD students will be providing short talks on their theses. The talks will take place at 2.15pm in MB0.07 following the departmental celebrations, running until approx. 4.00pm.

Speakers:

• 2.15pm: Dr Xin Zhi – ‘Optimal Stopping in the context of fast changing sequential data’, supervised by Dr Sigurd Assing

• 2.35pm: Dr Kristian Romano – ‘Bayesian Hidden Markov Modelling for Real-Time Monitoring of Cancer Patients via an Actimetry Sensor’, supervised by Prof Bärbel Finkenstädt Rand

• 2.55pm: Short break

• 3.00pm: Dr Aria Ahari – ‘Boundary crossing problems for one-dimensional Markov processes to moving boundaries’, supervised by Dr Larbi Alili and Dr Massimiliano Tamborrino

• 3.20pm: Dr Conor Hughes – ‘Practical Considerations for Staged Trees and the Poisson Chain Event Graph’, supervised by Prof Jane Hutton

• 3.40pm: Dr Hyun Seung Lee – ‘Scaling for MCMC on Heterogeneous Targets and Nonstationary Phases’, supervised by Prof Gareth Roberts