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Statistics Seminars

Seminar archive: 2008-09; 2007-08; 2006-07; 2005-06; earlier.

There are regular statistics seminars at Edinburgh University. The programme can be found at:  http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/seminars/list/series/7 . For more information contact Colin Aitken.

Seminars at Heriot-Watt are organised on an occasional basis. Seminars in the current academic year are listed below. For more information contact Alexander McNeil.

Wednesday 23 September 2009
Heriot-Watt University
CM G.01
2.15pm
Dimitris Fouskakis
(National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Bayesian variable selection using cost-adjusted
BIC, with application to cost-effective measurement
of quality of health care
Wednesday 23 September 2009
Heriot-Watt University
CM G.01
3.00pm Ioannis Ntzoufras
(Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Population-Based Reversible-Jump MCMC for Bayesian
Variable  Selection and Evaluation Under Cost-Limit Restrictions

Wednesday 11 November 2009
Heriot-Watt University
CM G.01
4.15pm
Francisco-José Pérez-Reche (University of Cambridge)
Statistical models for complex systems: from avalanches in solids to epidemics in complex networks

Wednesday 10 February 2010
Heriot-Watt University
CM G.01
3.15pm
Darren Wilkinson (Newcastle University)
Stochastic modelling and Bayesian inference for biochemical network dynamics
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Heriot-Watt University
CM G.01
3.15pm Adam Kleczkowski (University of Stirling)
Modelling framework for prediction and control of epidemic outbreaks
Friday 12 March 2010
Heriot-Watt University
CM T.01
2.15pm
Daniel Clark (Heriot-Watt University)
to be confirmed
Wednesday 31 March 2010
Heriot-Watt University
CM G.01
3.15pm
Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham)
Title to be confirmed