Thursday 30 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Regret bounds for Narendra-Shapiro bandit algorithms
  Sebastian Gadat (Toulouse School of Economics)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Thursday 7 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Confidence intervals for high-dimensional Cox model
  Yi Yu (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Thursday 14 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Unbiased computations for MCMC-based inference of Gaussian process covariance parameters
  Maurizio Filippone (School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Thursday 28 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Feature Augmentation via Nonparametrics and Selection (FANS) in High Dimensional Classification
  Yang Feng (Department of Statistics, Columbia University)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Thursday 4 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Bayesian network model selection using integer programming
  Dr James Cussens (University of York)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Thursday 11 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Scaling Changepoint Detection to Big Data
  Paul Fearnhead (Department of Maths and Statistics, Lancaster University)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Variance components and residual likelihood
  Prof Peter McCullagh (Department of Statistics, University of Chicago)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Thursday 5 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Detecting (multiple) change-points in panel data
  Dr Haeron Cho (School of Mathematics, University of Bristol)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Wednesday 11 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Exploiting Symmetries to Construct Efficient MCMC Algorithms With an Application to SLAM
  Prof Csaba Szepesvari (Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Bayesian nonparametric ordination for the analysis of microbial communities
  Dr Sergio Bacallado (Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge University)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars
• 15:45 - t.b.c.
  Prof Martin Wainwright (University of California at Berkeley)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - The Statistical Crisis in Science
  Professor Andrew Gelman (Department of Statistics and Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 10 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - How to estimate the mean of a random variable?
  Professor Gabor Lugosi (Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - "Come join the multiple testing party!"
  Professor Matthew Stephens (University of Chicago)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Thursday 15 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Network-based Statistical Models and Methods for Identification of Cellular Mechanisms of Action
  Professor Eric Kolaczyk (Boston University)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 20 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Random cracks in space.
  Professor Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 27 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Machine learning for patient stratification from genomic data
  Professor Jean-Philippe Vert (Mines ParisTech)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 10 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - A BPHZ theorem for stochastic PDEs
  Professor Martin Hairer (University of Warwick)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 16 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Adaptive FAB confidence intervals with constant coverage
  TBA
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 20 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - (Why) do functional sites induce long-range evolutionary constraints in enzymes?
  Julian Echave (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - On the number of arithmetic progressions in sparse random sets
  Christoph Koch (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Friday 27 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Algorithms and Algorithmic Obstacles in High-Dimensional Regression
  David Gamarnik (MIT Sloan School of Management, USA)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Max-Average Games with Random Payoffs
  Rahul Santhanam (Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Four-dimensional loop-erased random walk and uniform spanning tree
  Wei Wu (Department of Statistics, University of Warwick)
  Probability seminar

Friday 18 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Patterns and surprises in rich but noisy network data
  Mark Newman (University of Michigan, USA)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Limiting directions for random walks in affine Weyl groups
  Arvind Ayyer (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
  Probability seminar

Friday 1 June 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - High-density hard-core configurations on a triangular lattice
  Yuri Suhov (Penn State and Cambridge)
  Probability seminar

Monday 4 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mermin-Wagner Theorem for vertex-reinforced jump process
  Roland Bauerschmidt (Statslab, University of Cambridge)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Continuous-state branching process with dependent immigration
  Zenghu Li (Beijing Normal University)
  Probability seminar

Friday 22 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - The Sample Complexity of Multi-Reference Alignment
  Philippe Rigollet, (MIT Mathematics, USA)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 30 July 2018 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - 44th Annual Young Statisticians' Meeting (YSM) 2018
  Prof David Cox (University of Oxford), Professor Denise Lievesley (Professor of Social Statistics & Principal Green Templeton College, University of Oxford)

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Limits of (randomly) growing Schröder trees and exchangeability
  Julian Gerstenberg (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
  Probability seminar

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Dynamics of limit order books: queueing models, diffusion limits and stochastic PDEs
  Rama Cont (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Where do second class particles walk?
  Márton Balázs (University of Bristol)
  Probability seminar

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Finding cliques using few probes
  Miklós Rácz (Princeton University)
  Probability seminar

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Branching Brownian motion with decay of mass and the non-local Fisher-KPP equation
  Julien Berestycki (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Algorithmic Pirogov-Sinai Theory
  Tyler Helmuth (University of Bristol)
  Probability seminar

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Polynomial mixing time for edge flips on quadrangulations
  Alessandra Caraceni (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Metastable behaviour of the dilute Curie-Weiss model
  Martin Slowik (TU Berlin)
  Probability seminar

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Individualizing Healthcare with Machine Learning
  Professor Suchi Saria (Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Particle systems and systemic risk
  Ben Hambly (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Orderings of Gibbs random samples
  Yuri Yakubovich (St Petersburg State University)
  Probability seminar

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Infinitely ramified point measure and branching Lévy process
  Bastien Mallein (Paris 13)
  Probability seminar

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - U-statistics: some old and new results with applications to patterns in random strings and permutations
  Svante Janson (Uppsala University)
  Probability seminar

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Branching Brownian motion with selection and a free boundary problem
  Sarah Penington (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Wong-Zakai theorem for stochastic heat equation
  Yu Gu (Carnegie Mellon University)
  Probability seminar

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - A (2+1)-dimensional Anisotropic KPZ growth model with a smooth phase
  Sunil Chhita (Durham University)
  Probability seminar

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Universal vanishing corrections on the position of fronts in the Fisher-KPP class
  Éric Brunet (Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, ENS Paris)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Anchored expansion in supercritical percolation on nonamenable graphs
  Jonathan Hermon (University of Cambridge)
  Probability seminar

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The critical window for random transposition random walk
  Dominic Yeo (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Multiple merger coalescents: truncated offspring distributions, large sample sizes, and bottlenecks
  Jonathan Chetwynd-Diggle (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Tales of Random Projections
  Kavita Ramanan (Brown University)
  Probability seminar

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Large deviations of subgraph counts for sparse random graphs
  Amir Dembo (Stanford University)
  Probability seminar

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Simultaneous migration in the seed bank coalescent
  Maite Wilke Berenguer (TU Berlin)
  Probability seminar

Friday 14 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - From evolutionary trees to networks and back again
  Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar
• 15:30 - Scattered thoughts from applied probability: networks, security queues and prediction tournaments
  Prof David Aldous (University of California, Berkeley)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Interacting reflected diffusions and their hydrodynamic limits
  Clayton Barnes (Université de Neuchâtel)
  Probability seminar

Monday 24 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Near-critical percolation with heavy-tailed impurities
  Pierre Nolin (City University of Hong Kong)
  Probability seminar
• 14:00 - Generalized disconnection exponents for Brownian loop-soups
  Wei Qian (University of Cambridge)
  Probability seminar

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Hit and miss with the density of the (α,β)-superprocess
  Thomas Hughes (UBC)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Simplicity and Complexity of Belief-Propagation
  Professor Elchanan Mossel (MIT Statistics + Data Center)
  Annual Joint Maths/Stats Colloquium

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Keep the particles -- CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Tom Kurtz (Madison-Wisconsin)
  Probability seminar

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Exceptional times of transience for a dynamical random walk
  Matthew Roberts (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Asymptotics of discrete β-corners processes via discrete loop equations
  Alisa Knizel (Columbia University, New York)
  Probability seminar

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures: Models, properties and applications
  François Caron (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Order of the variance in the discrete Hammersley process
  Nicos Georgiou (University of Sussex)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - The depth first search exploration of a supercritical configuration model
  Laurent Ménard (Université Paris Nanterre)
  Probability seminar

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Critical scaling limit of the random intersection graph -- POSTPONED TO NEXT TERM
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Lorenzo Federico (University of Warwick)
  Probability seminar
• 12:00 - Where are the faraway particles of the branching Brownian motion in dimension d?
  Roman Stasiński (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Introducing the E-Value
  Professor Tyler Vanderweele (Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Twenty five year risks of breast cancer mortality in 500,000 women
  Prof Sarah C. Darby (University of Oxford)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Maths and Stats in Action – Real-time Analysis to Understand the Novel Coronavirus
  Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Dr Robin Thompson (Mathematic Institute)

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Critical scaling limit of the random intersection graph
  Lorenzo Federico (University of Warwick)
  Probability seminar

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limits of finitely specified permutation classes
  Mickaël Maazoun (ENS Lyon)
  Probability seminar

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Household epidemic models and McKean-Vlasov Poisson driven SDEs
  Raphaël Forien (INRA, Avignon)
  Probability seminar

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Random linear extensions of posets
  Igor Pak (UCLA)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 18 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society
  Prof Deborah Ashby (Imperial College London)
  Florence Nightingale Annual Lecture

Tuesday 24 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - GDB and the Chemical Space
  Prof Jean-Louis Reymond (Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Berne)
  Small Organic Molecules: Chemical Space, Reactions, Catalysis and Autocatalysis Workshop

Thursday 28 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Cluster-Randomised Test Negative Designs: Inference and Application to Vector Trials to Eliminate Dengue
  Professor Nick Jewell (University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health)

Tuesday 6 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - (POSTPONED) Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
  This talk is part of Black History Month and will be hosted on Zoom.
  Jason Forrest (McKinsey & Co, New York)

Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
  This is a special virtual Lecture organised as part of Black History Month. It will be hosted on Zoom.
  Jason Forrest (McKinsey & Co, New York)

Tuesday 1 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society
  This lecture is part of the Florence Nightingale Bicentenary celebrations and will be followed by a special panel session with Professor Deborah Ashby, Professor David Spiegelhalter and Professor David Cox about the role of statistics in society. Both events will run as a Zoom Webinar.
  Professor Deborah Ashby (Royal Statistical Society)

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - (Not) Aggregating Data
  This Lecture will hosted on Zoom. Please complete the short registration form on our website to receive the joining instructions.
  Professor Kerrie Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology in the Science and Engineering Faculty)

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Veridical Data Science for biomedical discovery: detecting epistatic interactions with epiTree
  Please note this event will be hosted on Zoom.
  Professor Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Finding Today’s Slaves: Lessons Learned From Over A Decade of Measurement in Modern Slavery
  Please note, this event will be hosted on Zoom.
  Professor Davina Durgana (American University, Washington, DC)
  Royal Statistical Society - Oxford local group
• 15:30 - Finding Today’s Slaves: Lessons Learned From Over A Decade of Measurement in Modern Slavery
  Please note, this event will be hosted on Zoom.
  Professor Davina Durgana (American University, Washington, DC)

Thursday 29 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - On classification with small Bayes error and the max-margin classifier
  PLEASE NOTE: This event will be hosted on Zoom. In order to receive the joining instructions, registration is required for this event.
  Professor Sara Van de Geer (ETH Zurich)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 18 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Assessing Personalization in Digital Health
  Please note, this Seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the joining instructions.
  Professor Susan Murphy (Harvard University)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
  Please note this is an online event only via Zoom.
  Dr John Jumper (DeepMind)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Large degrees yield short trees
  Serte Donderwinkel (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Hybrid zones and the effect of barriers
  Ian Letter (Department of Statistics)
  Probability seminar

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Statistics in the Humanitarian Sector: Disasters
  Justin Ginnetti (International Federation of the Red Cross), Luke Caley (International Federation of the Red Cross), Leonardo Milano (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)), Simon Levine (Overseas Development Institute), Rebecca Firth (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)), Andrew Schroeder (Crisis Ready), Nicki McGoh (Caribou Digital), Chiara Proietti (Global Disaster Alert & Coordination System (GDACS)), Clionadh Raleigh (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)), Eugenia Giraudy (Facebook Data for Good), Andy Tatem (WorldPop, Flowminder), Daniela Paolotti (ISI Foundation), Alvina Elisabeth Erman (World Bank), Roberto Rudari (CIMA Foundation), Khaled Gaafar (Copernicos Groep), Dr. Hamish Patten (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Random walk on the simple symmetric exclusion process
  Daniel Kious (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Exchangeability, mixtures and continuum random trees
  Minmin Wang (University of Sussex)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 10 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Ethics from the perspective of an applied statistician
  This event will be held in-person at the Department of Statistics and online. In-person places are restricted to 23 people.
  Professor Denise Lievesley (Honorary Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limits of multi-type Markov Branching Trees
  Robin Stephenson (University of Sheffield)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Local and global behavior of the subcritical contact process
  Dr Leonardo Rolla (University of Warwick)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Modelling infectious diseases: what can branching processes tell us?
  This is a collaborative talk organised by the Department of Statistics, the Department of Computer Science and the BDI. The talk will be held on Zoom.
  Samir Bhatt, Professor of Machine Learning and Public Health (University of Copenhagen and Professor of Statistics and Public Health, Imperial College London)

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Mixing times for the TASEP on the circle
  Note unusual time!
  Dominik Schmid (Bonn / Princeton)
  Probability seminar

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Limit distributions of branching Markov chains
  Vadim Kaimanovich (Ottawa)
  Probability seminar
• 15:00 - Statistics and the fight against modern slavery
  Please note this event is kindly being hosted by the ICMS (International Centre for Mathematical Sciences) on Zoom. The Florence Nightingale Lecture Series is generously sponsored by XTX Markets. The Lecture will be followed by a Panel Session with Dame Sara Thornton DBE QPM, Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Professor Todd Landman FRSA, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Nottingham and Dr Davina Durgana, Walk Free.
  Professor Sir Bernard Silverman (University of Nottingham and University of Oxford)
  Florence Nightingale Annual Lecture

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Metastability for loss networks
  Sam Olesker-Taylor (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Monday 16 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - On the contact process in an evolving random environment
  Anja Sturm (University of Göttingen)
  Probability seminar

Monday 23 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Characterising the Gaussian free field
  Ellen Powell (Durham University)
  Probability seminar

Monday 30 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - A guide to growing random geometries: making trees blossom and triangulations flip
  Alessandra Caraceni (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
  Probability seminar

Monday 6 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limit of a branching process in a varying environment
  Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Monday 13 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Universality in random growth processes
  Sourav Sarkar (University of Cambridge)
  Probability seminar

Monday 20 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Dynamically resampling random trees
  Edward Crane (University of Bristol)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 23 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Alan Turing at 110: current questions and issues
  Please note, this is a special Lecture for Pride Month and registration is required for both in person and online attendance.
  Professor Andrew Hodges (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 July 2022 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Coexistence in the chase-escape process: first passage percolation with two competing types
  Chris Dean (Oxford / Bath)
  Junior Probability Seminar

Monday 10 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Transitive closure in a polluted environment
  Brett Kolesnik (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Weaves, webs and flows
  Nic Freeman (University of Sheffield)
  Probability seminar

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - A path to personalised disease prevention: using genomics to predict risk for common diseases
  A drinks reception will be held after the lecture.
  Peter Donnelly (CEO of Genomics PLC and Professor of Statistical Science at University of Oxford)
  Annual: The David Blackwell Lectures

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Convergence of genealogies through spinal decomposition
  Félix Foutel-Rodier (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 7 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limit of high-dimensional uniform spanning trees
  Eleanor Archer (Paris Nanterre)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - The Centre for Statistical Methodology Symposium, A celebration of 50 Years of the Cox model in memory of Sir David Cox
  This event is co-hosted by the Royal Statistical Society, The Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, and the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College. The symposium will take place at LSHTM, in the building where David Cox read his paper to the Royal Statistical Society in 1972. Refreshments and lunch will be served, and the day will be followed by an evening reception. The event is free and open to all, and registration is required.
  Professor Nancy Reid (University of Toronto), Professor Per kragh Anderson (University of Copenhagen), Dr Heather Battey (Imperial College London), Professor Rhian Daniel (University of Cardiff), Professor Bhramar Mukherjee (University of Michigan)

Monday 14 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Heat kernel fluctuations for the three-dimensional uniform spanning tree
  Satomi Watanabe (Kyoto)
  Probability seminar

Monday 21 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Branching annihilating random walks with local self-regulations
  Alice Callegaro (Mainz)
  Probability seminar

Monday 28 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limit of an adaptive contact process
  Daniel Valesin (University of Warwick)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - From population to person: Counterfactual risk prediction
  The Lecture will be held at the Department of Statistics and on Zoom.
  Professor Ruth Keogh (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
  Annual: Corcoran Memorial Lecture

Monday 16 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Best response dynamics in random graphs
  Nikolaos Fountoulakis (University of Birmingham)
  Probability seminar

Monday 23 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Pattern Occurrence Counts in Random Planar Maps
  Michael Drmota (TU Wien)
  Probability seminar

Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Sub-diffusive scaling regimes for one-dimensional Mott variable-range hopping
  David Croydon (RIMS, Kyoto University)
  Probability seminar

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Causal learning from observational data
  This talk will be held both in person and online.
  Professor Marloes Maathuis (ETH, Zurich)
  Florence Nightingale Annual Lecture

Monday 6 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The expected degree distribution in transient duplication divergence models
  Tiffany Lo (Uppsala University)
  Probability seminar

Monday 13 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - A SYSTEM OF INTERACTING BOUCHAUD TRAP MODELS
  Simone Floreani (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Disorder relevance and the continuum random field Ising model
  Adam Bowditch (University College Dublin)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Compositional data analysis: A fresh approach
  This talk will be held both in person and online.
  Professor David Firth (University of Warwick)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Non-commutative probability and fermionic stochastic quantisation
  Ajay Chandra (Imperial)
  Probability seminar

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Stochastic quantisation of the fractional \Phi^4_3 model in the full subcritical regime.
  Massimiliano Gubinelli (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - From the Pain in the Torus to a Repulsion-Diffusion Equation
  Peter Koepernik (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Understanding neural networks and quantification of their uncertainty via exactly solvable models
  This talk is the annual Oxford Maths & Stats Colloquium. There will be a Drinks Reception after the talk in the ground floor social area.
  Professor Lenka Lenka Zdeborová (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Wednesday 10 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Counting graphic sequences
  Serte Donderwinkel (McGill University)
  Probability seminar

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Branching random walk with non-local competition
  Sarah Penington (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Metastability of the Potts ferromagnet on the random regular graph
  Andreas Galanis (University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 31 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Directed Spatial Permutations on Asymmetric Tori
  Tyler Helmuth (Durham University)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - A new front in branching Brownian motion
  Yujin Kim (Courant Institute, NYU)
  Probability seminar

Monday 12 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The critical 2d stochastic heat flow
  Francesco Caravenna (Milano-Bicocca)
  Probability seminar

Monday 9 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Scaling limit of the minimal spanning trees on the PWIT.
  Omer Angel (UBC)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Launch of WISOx - Women in Stats Oxford
  WISOx is an inclusive community designed to connect self-identifying women passionate about Statistics across departments and divisions. Whether you're a postgraduate student, a dedicated postdoc, or a research professional, WISOx offers you opportunities for personal and professional development. Mark your calendar and please, RSVP - we can't wait to welcome you on board! Got questions or want to know more? Reach out to us via email. Our contact details are conveniently located in the People section of the Department of Statistics website.
  TBA

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Weyl law in Liouville quantum gravity
  Nathanaël Berestycki (University of Vienna)
  Probability seminar

Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Generalised convexity with respect to families of affine maps
  Oleksandr Marynych (National University of Kyiv)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Introducing the Forster-Warmuth Nonparametric Counterfactual Regression
  Please register your place to attend this event. A drinks reception will follow the Lecture in the ground floor social area.
  Professor Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania)
  Annual: The David Blackwell Lectures

Monday 30 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Modelling populations expanding in a spatial continuum
  Apolline Louvet (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - A BRANCHING PARTICLE SYSTEM AS A MODEL OF PUSHED FRONTS
  Julie Tourniaire (IST Austria)
  Probability seminar

Monday 20 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Competing growth with reinforcement
  Daniel Ahlberg (Stockholm University)
  Probability seminar

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Selection principles for the N-BBM and the Fleming-Viot particle system
  Oliver Tough (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Monday 15 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Phase transition for the late points of random walk
  Perla Sousi (University of Cambridge)
  Probability seminar

Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Top eigenvalues of random trees
  Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill)
  Probability seminar

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Coupling from the past for the null recurrent Markov Chain
  Sayeh Khaniha (INRIA, Paris)
  Probability seminar

Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Recurrent extensions and Stochastic Differential equations
  Victor Rivero (CIMAT, Guanajuato)
  Probability seminar

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Interface evolution in bistable spatial population models: a global approach
  Thomas Hughes (Bath)
  Probability seminar

Monday 19 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Branching systems with noisy selection
  Emmanuel Schertzer (Vienna)
  Probability seminar

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Statistics, nursing, and social reform: Following in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale
  Professor Barbara Engelhardt (Senior Investigator at Gladstone Institutes and Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Biomedical Data Science)
  Florence Nightingale Annual Lecture

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - An Additive-Noise Approximation to Keller–Segel–Dean–Kawasaki Dynamics
  Adrian Martini (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Size-biased diffusion limits and the inclusion process
  Stefan Grosskinsky (Augsburg)
  Probability seminar

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Tackling the hidden costs of computational science: GREENER principles for environmentally sustainable research
  There will be a Drinks Reception after the Lecture in the ground floor social area.
  Dr Loïc Lannelongue (Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge and the Cambridge-Baker Systems Genomics Initiative)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - CLTs for Poisson Functionals via the Malliavin-Stein Method
  Tara Trauthwein (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Approximate gradients for inference of partially-observed stochastic processes
  There will be a drinks reception after the seminar in the ground floor social area.
  Professor Marc Suchard (David Geffen School of Medicine and Department of Biostatistics at UCLA)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Matthew Buckland (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Sharpness for the speed of the random walk on the simple exclusion process
  Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan (King College London)
  Probability seminar

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Jointly invariant measures for the KPZ equation with periodic noise
  Evan Sorensen
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - On the behavior of posterior probabilities with additional data: monotonicity and nonmonotonicity, asymptotic rates, log-concavity, and Turán’s inequality
  Yosi Rinott (The Hebrew University of jerusalem)
  Probability seminar

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Sinai excursions
  Brett Kolesnik (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 4 September 2024 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Title TBC
  Altuna Alkalin (Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center in Berlin)
  European Bioconductor Conference 2024
• 11:00 - European Bioconductor conference 2024
  Various Speakers
  European Bioconductor Conference 2024
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Laura Symul (Institute for Statistics, Biostatistics, and Actuarial Sciences at UCLouvain)
  European Bioconductor Conference 2024
• 15:00 - TBA
  Florian Markowetz (University Of Cambridge)
  European Bioconductor Conference 2024

Thursday 5 September 2024 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Agne Antanaviciute (Simmons Group, Koohy Group, University of Oxford)
  European Bioconductor Conference 2024
• 13:00 - TBA
  Virginie Uhlmann (EMBL-EBI)
  European Bioconductor Conference 2024

Monday 14 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Viet Chi Tran (Université Gustave Eiffel)
  Probability seminar

Monday 21 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Discrete Snakes with Globally Centered Displacements
  Rivka Mitchell (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - The trajectories of complex disease
  Professor Gil McVean (The Ellison Institute of Technology, Oxford)
  Annual: The David Blackwell Lectures

Monday 28 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Some results on local limits for Galton-Watson trees
  Jean-François Delmas (École des Ponts ParisTech)
  Probability seminar

Monday 4 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Large deviations for the giant in spatial random graphs
  Joost Jorritsma (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 11 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Space-inhomogeneous branching Brownian motion
  David Geldbach (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Pushing and blocking interactions in a random growth process
  Will Fitzgerald (University of Manchester)
  Probability seminar
• 16:30 - Alan Tayler Lecture 2024: The Forwards and Backwards of Population Models
  Professor Alison Etheridge (University of Oxford)

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Cécile Mailler (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Raphaël Forien (INRAE, Avignon)
  Probability seminar