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Department of Statistics

Programme

Monday, 21st September

  • 10:00 - Warwick Coach Group, convene at the University of Warwick Coach Park (***not the department***) as directed to here

  • (10:00 - 13:00 - Warwick Coach Group, journey from the University of Warwick Coach Park to Gregynog Hall. Convene at the Coach Park at 10:00 for a *sharp* departure at 10:10).

  • 13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch (Dining Room)

  • 13:30 - 14:20 - Room check-in available (After lunch from reception / gift shop)

  • 14:20 - 16:30 - Session 1 (Music Room) - Chair: M Pollock

    • M Pollock - Welcome

    • J Forster - “Bayesian population forecasting”

    • D Selby - “Statistical modelling of citation networks”

    • I Kosmidis - “Better estimation of ordinal-response models”

    • S Brown - “Resampling and genealogies in sequential Monte Carlo”

    • F Romana Crucinio - “Sequential Monte Carlo for Fredholm Integral Equations”

    • R Everitt - “Ensemble MCMC: Accelerating Pseudo-Marginal MCMC for State Space Models using the Ensemble Kalman Filter”

  • 16:30 - 17:30 - Afternoon Tea (Blayney Room)

  • 17:30 - 18:30 - Session 2 (Music Room) - Chair: R Everitt

    • M Pollock - “The Restore Process: Practical CFTP by enriching Markov processes”

    • R Chan - “Monte Carlo Fusion without diffusions”

    • G Roberts - “Bayesian Fusion”

  • 19:00 - 20:00 - Dinner (Dining Room); The Davies Room (Baldwin) Bar open pre-dinner.

  • 20:00 - Finish / Bar (Cellar Bar)

Tuesday, 22nd September

  • 8:00 - 9:00 - Breakfast (Dining Room)

  • 9:00 - 10:30 - Session 3 (Music Room) - Chair: M Plummer

    • S Tavakoli - “High-Dimensional Functional Factor Models”

    • J Smith - “Decision analysis for a complex problem”

    • S French - “Nearly 50 years a Bayesian”

    • T Davis - “Dimensional Analysis in Statistical Engineering”

  • 10:30 - 11:00 - Morning Coffee (Blayney Room)

  • 11:00 - 13:00 - Session 4 (Music Room) - Chair: S Tavakoli

    • A Corbella - “Towards automatic zig-zag sampling”

    • J Koskela - “Zig-zag sampling for phylogenetic MCMC”

    • A Ignatieva - “A characterisation of the genealogy of a birth-death process through time rescaling”

    • W Thomas - “Gene Set Analysis for Longitudinal Gene Expression Data”

    • S Conde Llinares - “Clustering Functional Mixture Gene Expressions”

    • M Steel - “On choosing mixture components via non-local priors”

  • 13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch (Dining Room)

  • 14:00 - 16:30 - Free Time

  • 14:00 - 15:30 - Improvisation Session (Music Room) [optional, run by S Tavakoli]

  • 16:30 - 17:30 - Afternoon Tea (Blayney Room)

  • 16:30 - 18:30 - Poster Session (Weaver Room)

    1. J Carson - "Bayesian Model Selection for Infectious Disease Models"
    2. R Chan - "Hierarchical and Sequential Monte Carlo Fusion"
    3. I Hamilton - "Retrodictive Modelling in Modern Rugby Union"
    4. A Koshy - "Analysing accent variation in the UK"
    5. S Lo - "Forecasting of Precipitation in the British Isles"
    6. H McKimm - "Teleportation MCMC"
    7. F Romana Crucinio - "SMC for Fredholm integral equations"
    8. W Thomas - "Gene Set Analysis for Longitudinal Gene Expression Data"
    9. C van-de-l'Isle - "Graphs of Wrath: Renormalisation for Kinetically Constrained Models on Hierarchical Graphs"

  • 19:00 - 20:30 - Conference Dinner (Music Room); The Davies Room (Baldwin) Bar open pre-dinner.

  • 20:30 - Finish / Bar (Cellar Bar)

Wednesday, 23rd September

  • 8:00 - 9:00 - Breakfast (Dining Room)

  • 9:00 - Key check-out (return keys to reception / gift shop before 9 and move luggage to luggage store)

  • 9:00 - 10:30 - Session 5 (Music Room) - Chair: J Vogrinc

    • S Jacka - “Optimal Stopping and Control”

    • E Hernandez-Hernandez - “Stochastic control for jump processes”

    • R Liu - “A Mathematical Model of Technical Analysis”

    • P Chleboun - “Slow mixing and relaxation of constrained Glauber dynamics”

  • 10:30 - 11:00 - Morning Coffee (Blayney Room)

  • 11:00 - 11:10 - Group Photo

  • 11:10 - 12:30 - Session 6 (Music Room) - Chair: J Forster

    • N Tawn - “Sampling from Multimodal Target Distributions: ALPS”

    • S Spencer - “Bayesian methodology for fitting epidemic models to real data”

    • J Vogrinc - “On the anomalous scaling of Metropolis-Hastings algorithms”

    • M Tamborrino - “Spectral density-based and measure-preserving ABC for partially observed SDEs”

  • 12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch (Dining Room)

  • (13:30 - 16:15 - Warwick Coach Group, journey from Gregynog Hall to University of Warwick Coach Park. Convene outside gift shop at 13:30 for a *sharp* departure at 13:45).