Past Gregynog Statistical Conferences
The "Gregynog Statistical Conference" is an annual conference which is held around Easter at Gregynog Hall, first established in 1965 by Dennis Lindley during his tenure at Aberystwyth.
Some interesting facts:
- In addition to traditional academic talks, there have been 15 "Gregynog Speakers" (who either talked about Gregynog Hall, or were artists who talked about their work), 2 "Musical Interludes", and 22 short courses comprised of 3 lectures (typically) which gave an introduction to a specialist topic.
- In total there have been 441 talks, the first given by John Aitchison, and the most recent milestone talk (400th) given by Philip Protter (Columbia).
- A small selection of past speakers (to 1990) include: Henry Daniels, David Cox, Peter Bickel, David Kendall, George Barnard, John Nelder, Brad Efron, Adrian Smith, Peter Donnelly, David Spiegelhalter and Julian Besag.
- The speakers who have spoken on most seperate occasions are Russell Cheng (Southampton) and John Copas (Warwick), both of whom have spoken 5 times.
- The speaker who has spoken most frequently is Martin Crowder (Imperial) (6 times, comprising a short course of 3 talks in 1994 (30th) and 3 talks in 2001 (37th)).
- The record for the greatest time elapsed between presentations is 38 years and is held by Alan Hawkes (1975 and 2013).
The following pdf files contain a listing of all past speakers at the Gregynog Statistical Conference:
The following table is a complete list of the programmes of previous Gregynog Statistical Conferences, along with other selected resources (such as pictures):
1965 | 1975 | 1985 | 1995 | 2005 | 2015: webpage, handbook, picture |
1966 | 1976 | 1986 | 1996 | 2006 | 2016: webpage, handbook, picture |
1967 | 1977 | 1987 | 1997 | 2007 | 2017: webpage, handbook, picture |
1968 | 1978 | 1988 | 1998 | 2008 | 2018: webpage, handbook, picture |
1969 | 1979 | 1989 | 1999 | 2009 | 2019: webpage, handbook, picture |
1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | |
1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011: handbook, picture | |
1972 | 1982 | 1992 | 2002 | 2012: handbook, picture | |
1973 | 1983 | 1993 | 2003 | 2013: handbook, picture | |
1974 | 1984 | 1994 | 2004 | 2014: handbook, picture |
If you have any other resources (such as pictures etc.) please forward to one of the current organising committee.