Name: Beverley Lane
Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

Events this person is hosting:

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

Cluster-Randomised Test Negative Designs: Inference and Application to Vector Trials to Eliminate Dengue
Date: 28 May 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Professor Nick Jewell (University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health)
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Events this person is organising:

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

(Why) do functional sites induce long-range evolutionary constraints in enzymes?
Date: 20 April 2018, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 0th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Julian Echave (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Arnaud Doucet (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Jotun Hein (University of Oxford)

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

Algorithms and Algorithmic Obstacles in High-Dimensional Regression
Date: 27 April 2018, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : David Gamarnik (MIT Sloan School of Management, USA)
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Arnaud Doucet (University of Oxford)
Host: James Martin (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

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

Patterns and surprises in rich but noisy network data
Date: 18 May 2018, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Mark Newman (University of Michigan, USA)
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Arnaud Doucet (University of Oxford)
Host: Gesine Reinert (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

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

The Sample Complexity of Multi-Reference Alignment
Date: 22 June 2018, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 9th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Philippe Rigollet, (MIT Mathematics, USA)
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Arnaud Doucet (University of Oxford)
Host: Patrick Rebeschini (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

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

Individualizing Healthcare with Machine Learning
Date: 30 November 2018, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Professor Suchi Saria (Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Department of Statistics, Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Yee Whye Teh (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Yee Whye Teh (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

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

From evolutionary trees to networks and back again
Date: 14 June 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre (LG.01)
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Jotun Hein (University of Oxford)

Scattered thoughts from applied probability: networks, security queues and prediction tournaments
Date: 14 June 2019, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Prof David Aldous (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre (LG.01)
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: James Martin (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

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

Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Introducing the E-Value
Date: 29 November 2019, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Professor Tyler Vanderweele (Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre (LG.01)
Organisers: Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

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

Twenty five year risks of breast cancer mortality in 500,000 women
Date: 23 January 2020, 15:30 - 16:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Prof Sarah C. Darby (University of Oxford)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

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

Maths and Stats in Action – Real-time Analysis to Understand the Novel Coronavirus
Date: 31 January 2020, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker s: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Dr Robin Thompson (Mathematic Institute)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

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

Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society
Date: 18 March 2020, 14:30 - 15:45 (Wednesday, 9th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Prof Deborah Ashby (Imperial College London)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L1, Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Alison Etheridge (University of Oxford)

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

GDB and the Chemical Space
Date: 24 March 2020, 9:00 - 10:00 (Tuesday, 10th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Prof Jean-Louis Reymond (Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Berne)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Prof Jotun Hein (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Jotun Hein (University of Oxford)

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

Cluster-Randomised Test Negative Designs: Inference and Application to Vector Trials to Eliminate Dengue
Date: 28 May 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Professor Nick Jewell (University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health)
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

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

(POSTPONED) Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
Date: 6 October 2020, 15:30 - 17:00 (Tuesday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Jason Forrest (McKinsey & Co, New York)
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

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

Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
Date: 23 October 2020, 15:30 - 16:45 (Friday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Jason Forrest (McKinsey & Co, New York)
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

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

Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society
Date: 1 December 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Professor Deborah Ashby (Royal Statistical Society)
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

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

(Not) Aggregating Data
Date: 21 January 2021, 10:00 - 11:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Professor Kerrie Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology in the Science and Engineering Faculty)
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

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

Veridical Data Science for biomedical discovery: detecting epistatic interactions with epiTree
Date: 18 February 2021, 15:30 - 16:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Professor Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Yee Whye Teh (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

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

Finding Today’s Slaves: Lessons Learned From Over A Decade of Measurement in Modern Slavery
Date: 25 February 2021, 15:30 - 16:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Professor Davina Durgana (American University, Washington, DC)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

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

On classification with small Bayes error and the max-margin classifier
Date: 29 April 2021, 15:30 - 16:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Professor Sara Van de Geer (ETH Zurich)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

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

Assessing Personalization in Digital Health
Date: 18 June 2021, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Professor Susan Murphy (Harvard University)
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

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

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
Date: 28 October 2021, 15:30 - 16:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr John Jumper (DeepMind)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof. Charlotte Deane (University of Oxford), Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

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

Ethics from the perspective of an applied statistician
Date: 10 February 2022, 15:30 - 16:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Professor Denise Lievesley (Honorary Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

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

Modelling infectious diseases: what can branching processes tell us?
Date: 24 February 2022, 15:30 - 16:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Samir Bhatt, Professor of Machine Learning and Public Health (University of Copenhagen and Professor of Statistics and Public Health, Imperial College London)
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Seth Flaxman (Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford), Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Christophe Fraser (University of Oxford)

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

Statistics and the fight against modern slavery
Date: 4 March 2022, 15:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 7th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Professor Sir Bernard Silverman (University of Nottingham and University of Oxford)
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

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

Alan Turing at 110: current questions and issues
Date: 23 June 2022, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Professor Andrew Hodges (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: 24-29 St Giles, Oxford
Organisers: Professor Garrett Morris (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Garrett Morris (University of Oxford)

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

A path to personalised disease prevention: using genomics to predict risk for common diseases
Date: 21 October 2022, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Peter Donnelly (CEO of Genomics PLC and Professor of Statistical Science at University of Oxford)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

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

From population to person: Counterfactual risk prediction
Date: 1 December 2022, 15:30 - 16:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Professor Ruth Keogh (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

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

Causal learning from observational data
Date: 3 February 2023, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Professor Marloes Maathuis (ETH, Zurich)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

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

Compositional data analysis: A fresh approach
Date: 22 February 2023, 15:30 - 16:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Professor David Firth (University of Warwick)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

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

Understanding neural networks and quantification of their uncertainty via exactly solvable models
Date: 5 May 2023, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 2nd week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Professor Lenka Lenka Zdeborová (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

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

Introducing the Forster-Warmuth Nonparametric Counterfactual Regression
Date: 26 October 2023, 15:30 - 16:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Professor Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

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

Statistics, nursing, and social reform: Following in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale
Date: 23 February 2024, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Professor Barbara Engelhardt (Senior Investigator at Gladstone Institutes and Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Biomedical Data Science)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

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

Tackling the hidden costs of computational science: GREENER principles for environmentally sustainable research
Date: 26 April 2024, 15:30 - 16:30 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Loïc Lannelongue (Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge and the Cambridge-Baker Systems Genomics Initiative)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

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

Approximate gradients for inference of partially-observed stochastic processes
Date: 7 May 2024, 15:30 - 16:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Marc Suchard (David Geffen School of Medicine and Department of Biostatistics at UCLA)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

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

The trajectories of complex disease
Date: 24 October 2024, 15:30 - 16:30 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Gil McVean (The Ellison Institute of Technology, Oxford)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)