Talks by Wilfrid Kendall
You will not be able to view the simulations and animations linked to some of these talks as they cannot be conveniently added to the web version.
(Reverse chronological order!)
- Poisson processes and Spatial Transportation Networks (Network geodesics and Rayleigh random flights)
Research Students Conference, Nottingham, 21 July 2020, 2.1Mb.
- Poisson Line Processes and Spatial Transportation Networks. Five-lecture course given in Edinburgh, 21-22 June 2018, 8.1Mb.
- Lectures on Probabilistic Coupling. Ten-lecture course given at EPFL, 6-10 February 2017, 4.8Mb.
- A Dirichlet Form approach to MCMC Optimal Scaling. Seminar at Kings College London, 7 October 2016, 1Mb. You can also see me present this very talk at the above occasion. Here is the short (< 5 minutes) Elsevier AudioSlides presentation from the associated Zanella-Bedard-Kendall paper in Stochastic Processes and their Applications:
- Scale-invariant random spatial networks (SIRSN) from line patterns. Colloquium-style talk at University of Auckland, 9 August 2016, 1.6Mb.
- Probability and Geometry. Sixth-form talk: Mathematics in Action (I), London, 3 December 2015, 8.3Mb.
- Probability coupled with Geometry. Young Researchers in Mathematics, Oxford, 17 August 2016, 363.9kb.
- Google maps and improper line processes. Simons Conference on Networks and Stochastic Geometry, University of Texas at Austin, 18 May 2015, 643kb. You can also see me present this very talk at the above occasion.
- A Perfect Queue. Swiss Statistics Seminar, 24 April 2015, 655.8kb .
- Coupling and Control, MIR@W Worskhop on Inference and Control for Complex Dynamical Systems, Warwick, 26 November 2012, 148kB.
- Coupling, local times, immersions, EPSRC Workshop on Developments in Coupling, York, 17-21 September 2012, 800 kB.
- Quad-trees, efficient networks, inferred fibres, W-CAS afternoon, 30 November 2011, 800 kB.
- A Gradient Field Approach to Modelling Fibre-Generated Spatial Point Processes, Dublin ISI, 23 August 2011, 951.1 kB.
- Riemannian centres of mass, Invited talk, LASR, Leeds, 5-7 July 2011, 432 kB. You can also see me present a rather longer version of this talk at Seminaire Brillouin in Paris, 9 June 2011, and a slightly less long version at Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Columbus Ohio, 25 May 2012.
- Shy and unusual Brownian couplings, Invited talk, European Meeting of Statisticians, 22 August 2010, 231.2kB.
- Stochastic geometry and the art of getting from A to B, Invited talk, Probability Approximations and beyond (conference in honour of Louis Chen on his 70th birthday), 25 June 2010, 1.1MB.
- Open day talk: Strands of MORSE and MathStats, 8 May 2010, 1.7MB.
- Interfaces between Probability and Geometry, Prospects in Mathematics conference Durham, 14-15 December 2007, 938KB.
- Short length routes in low-cost networks, Mathematics Colloquium talk, University of York, October 2009. 2.0MB. The sequel is ...
- The Poissonian City, University of Warwick, November 2009. 1.8MB.
- Seminar on Exotic couplings of Brownian motion, various locations in 2006 - 2007. 1.40MB. Includes movies.
- Five-minute talk on Brownian confidence bands, Statistical MTV session at Warwick, 3 November 2005.
- GTP lectures on Coupling and associated Coupling Exercises, Warwick, 11 - 16 September 2005.
- MCMC programme lectures on Perfect Simulation, Singapore, March 2004.
- Two-part survey on coupling in probability theory, EPSRC/LMS Durham Symposium on Markov chains, 26 July - 3 August 2004: Lecture 1 [608 KB]; Lecture 2 [447 KB].
- Models and simulation techniques from stochastic geometry, Five lectures for Madison Probability Intern Program 23 - 27 June 2003: [2.2 MB].
- Ising models and multi-resolution quadtrees: ssa.pdf. Related preprints include :391, 392, 402.
- Geometry, Statistics, and Shape: shape.ps.gz. Related preprints include: 161, 247, 296.
- Perfect Simulation for Spatial Point Processes: perfect.ps.gz. Related preprints include: 292, 293, 295.
- Can we bias towards holiness? A topic in stochastic geometry: holy.ps.gz. Related preprints include: 293, 295.
- Coupling constructions for diffusions: couple.ps.gz. Pointer to related preprints: [Coupling abstracts].
- Probability Theory and the Dirichlet problem for harmonic maps: bmhar.ps.gz. Pointer to related preprints: [SDG abstracts].
- The radial part of Brownian motion II:its life and times on the cut locus: rbm.ps.gz. Pointer to related preprints: [SDG abstracts].
- Computer Algebra and Stochastic Calculus: FORC.ps.gz (a talk to Warwick Financial Options Research Centre). Pointer to related preprints: [CA abstracts].
- On the empty cells of Poisson histograms: empty.ps.gz. Pointer to related preprint: [239].