During this academic year, both me and another lecturer (in statistics) Eduard Campillo-Funollet are organising seminar series for the statistics group at the University of Kent. The normal time slots for the statistics group seminar is Thursdays 14:00-15:00. If you would like to suggest a speaker, please send either me (p.liu@kent.ac.uk) or Eduard (e.campillo-funollet@kent.ac.uk) an email.
Following is the schedule of the seminar series:
Date Speaker Title
30/09/2021 Vacant Vacant
07/10/2021 Dr Eduard Campillo-Funollet Modelling and forecasting COVID-19 in Sussex
University of Kent, United Kingdom
13/10/2021 Dr Amy Willis Measurement error in compositional data and the replicability of microbiome studies
University of Washington, United States
14/10/2021 Dr Bruno Santos Multiple-output response variables and Bayesian quantile regression models
University of Kent, United Kingdom
21/10/2021 Dr Onur Teymur A Bayesian nonparametric test for conditional independence
University of Kent, United Kingdom
28/10/2021 Dr Stefano Canessa What to know and what to do: gaps between learning and acting in conservation planning and practice
Universität Bern, Switzerland
04/11/2021 Dr Luke Joseph Kelly Coupling Markov chains for phylogenetic inference
Université Paris Dauphine, France
10/11/2021 Dr Linglong Kong Estimation for bivariate quantile varying coefficient model
University of Alberta, Canada
18/11/2021 Vacant Vacant
25/11/2021 Dr Wei Zhang Laplace approximation in the R package NIMBLE
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
02/12/2021 Dr Gelly Mitrodima A Bayesian quantile time series model for asset returns
London School of Economics & Political Science, United Kingdom
09/12/2021 Dr Caroline Brophy Modelling the biodiversity and ecosystem function relationship: going beyond species richness
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
03/02/2022 Dr Renata Retkute Parameter estimation using adaptive multiple importance sampling (AMIS)
University of Cambridge, UK
17/02/2022 Dr James Van Yperen Living in the moment: using ordinary differential equations for uncertainty quantification
University of Sussex, UK
24/02/2022 Dr Yining Chen From Shape-Constrained Regression to Feature Detection
London School of Economics & Political Science, United Kingdom
09/03/2022 Dr Hongsheng Dai Recent advances in Bayesian Computation – Bayesian Fusion
University of Essex, UK
10/03/2022 Dr Frederic Barraquand Fitting dynamic models for interacting species using both population count and interaction rate data
Institute of Mathematics of Bordeaux, France
17/03/2022 Prof Thomas Kneib Bayesian spatio-temporal distributional regression models
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
07/04/2022 Dr Isa Marques Dealing with Spatial Confounding by Explicitly Correlating Gaussian Random Fields
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany