• Type: Seminar Series
• Organising department: Department of Statistics

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

• 14:15 - Regret bounds for Narendra-Shapiro bandit algorithms
  Sebastian Gadat (Toulouse School of Economics)

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

• 14:15 - Confidence intervals for high-dimensional Cox model
  Yi Yu (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

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.)

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)

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

• 14:15 - Bayesian network model selection using integer programming
  Dr James Cussens (University of York)

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)

Thursday 15 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - New graphical Frameworks for Causal Discovery and Control
  Professor Jim Smith (University of Warwick)

Thursday 22 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Distributed Inference (joint work with K. Bleakley and B. Cadre)
  Prof Gerard Biau (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

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

• 14:15 - Variance components and residual likelihood
  Prof Peter McCullagh (Department of Statistics, University of Chicago)

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)

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)

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)
• 15:45 - t.b.c.
  Prof Martin Wainwright (University of California at Berkeley)