SCB Seminar List
for period 23 October to 15 December 2006
| Monday 30 October | ||
| 10:05-11:00 | Tavar\'e, S (Cambridge) | |
| Now you know your ABCs: examples and problems | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Pettitt, T (Queensland) | |
| From doubly intractable distributions via auxiliary variables to likelihood free inference | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:15 | Balding, D (Imperial) | |
| Some developments of ABC | Sem 1 | |
| 15:45-17:00 | Frigessi, A (Norwegian Computing Center) | |
| Estimating functions in indirect inference | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 31 October | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Holmes, C (Oxford) | |
| Population-based MC for sampling trans-dimensional Bayesian regression models | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Doucet, A (British Columbia) | |
| Sequentially interacting Markov Chain Monte Carlo | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Cappe, O (ENST-TSI) | |
| Adaptive population Monte Carlo | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:15 | Ghahramani, Z (Cambridge) | |
| Deterministic alternatives to MCMC | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 01 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Iba, Y (ISM, Tokyo) | |
| Applications of extended ensemble Monte Carlo | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Leslie, D (Bristol) | |
| Sequential Monte Carlo for Generalized Linear Mixed Models | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Johnson, T (Edinburgh) | |
| A sequential importance sampler for reconstructing genetic pedigrees | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:15 | Roberts, G (Lancaster) | |
| Retrospective sampling | Sem 1 | |
| 15:45-17:00 | Andrieu, C (Bristol) | |
| The expected auxiliary variable method for Monte Carlo simulation | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 02 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Chopin, N (Bristol) | |
| Extensions of the CE method for statistical analysis | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Mackay, D (Cambridge) | |
| Nested sampling | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Crisan, D (Imperial) | |
| Sequential Monte Carlo methods: can we replace the resampling step? | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:15 | Papaspiliopoulos, O (Lancaster) | |
| Importance sampling for diffusion processes | Sem 1 | |
| 15:45-17:00 | Wilkinson, D (Newcastle) | |
| Bayesian inference for nonlinear multivariate diffusion processes | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 03 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Frenkel, D (FOM-Institute) | |
| Configurationally-Biased MC and Virtual-move parallel tempering | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Green, P (Bristol) | |
| Branching process Monte Carlo | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:15 | Wales, D (Cambridge) | |
| Sampling the energy landscape: thermodynamics and rates | Sem 1 | |
| 15:45-17:00 | L'Ecuyer, P (Montreal) | |
| Randomized quasi-Monte Carlo for Markov Chains | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 20 November | ||
| 10:05-11:00 | Frigessi, A (Norwegian Computing Center) | |
| Investigating the spread of infectious salmon anemia in Atlantic salmon farming: a stochastic space-time model | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | O'Hara, RB (Helsinki) | |
| Estimation of births deaths and immigration from mark-recapture data | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:15 | King, R (St Andrews) | |
| Recent advances in statistical ecology using computationally intensive methods | Sem 1 | |
| 15:45-17:00 | Buckland, ST (CREEM) | |
| Embedding population dynamics models in inference | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 21 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Thomas, L (St Andrews) | |
| Use of Monte Carlo particle filters to fit and compare models for the dynamics of wild animal populations | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Edwards, A (British Antarctic Survey) | |
| Do wandering albatrosses really perform Levy flights when foraging? | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Arjas, E (Helsinki) | |
| Covariate information in complex event history data - some thoughts arising from a case study | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:15 | Renshaw, E (Strathclyde) | |
| A general space-time growth-interaction process for inferring and developing structure from partial observations | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 22 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Gilligan, C (Cambridge) | |
| Parameter estimation for spatio-temporal models of botanical epidemics | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Kypraios, T (Nottingham) | |
| Roubst MCMC algorithms for Bayesian inference in stochastic eipdemic models | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Conlan, A (Cambridge) | |
| The persistence of measles: from the schoolyard to sub-saharan Africa | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:15 | Gibson, G (Heriot-Watt) | |
| Bayesian experimental design with Stochastic epidemic models | Sem 1 | |
| 15:45-17:00 | Mollison, D (Heriot-Watt) | |
| Small worlds and giant epidemics | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 23 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Mutshinda Mwanza, C (Helsinki) | |
| A probabilistic test of the neutral model | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Frost, S (UCSD) | |
| Estimating mixing between subpopulations using respondent driven sampling | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Hughes, G (Southampton) | |
| Modeling tuberculosis in areas of high HIV prevalence | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:15 | Ganesh, A (Cambridge) | |
| Epidemics on graphs: thresholds and curing strategies | Sem 1 | |
| 15:45-17:00 | Welch, D (Imperial) | |
| Building and fitting models of host-virus interaction | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 24 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Wood, J (Cambridge) | |
| Uses and abuses of stochastic models in veterinary epidemiology | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | O'Neill, PD (Nottingham) | |
| Bayesian inference for structured population models given final outcome data | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Snall, T (Swedish University) | |
| Climate-driven spatial dynamics of plague among prairie dog colonies | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:15 | Ball, FG (Nottingham) | |
| Statistical inference for epidemics among a population of households | Sem 1 | |
| 15:45-17:00 | Clancy, D (Liverpool) | |
| Exact Bayesian inference and model selection for some infection models | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 11 December | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Clarke, A (Cornell) | |
| Overview of statistical issues in genome-wide association testing | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Berzuini, C (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge) | |
| Causal effects in functional genomics | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Green, PJ (Bristol) | |
| Colouring and breaking sticks, pairwise coincidence losses, and clustering expression profiles | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Brown, P (Kent) | |
| Aspects of feature selection in Mass Spec proteomic functional data | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| Tuesday 12 December | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Thornton, JM (European Bioinformatics Institute) | |
| From protein structure to biological function:progress and limitations | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 10:00-10:45 | Walter, K (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge) | |
| Modelling the boundaries of highly conserved non-coding DNA sequences in vertebrates | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Richardson, S (Imperial College London) | |
| Bayesian analysis of gene expression data | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Dermitzakis, M (Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute) | |
| Inference of cis and trans regulatory variation in the human genome | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Myers, S (Broad Institute) | |
| A Bayesian approach to association mapping in admixed populations | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 16:15-17:00 | Barnes, C (Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute) | |
| Techniques for the detection of copy number variation using SNP genotyping arrays | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| Wednesday 13 December | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Hein, J (Oxford) | |
| Minimal ancestral recombination graphs | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 10:00-10:45 | Worth, C (Cambridge) | |
| Estimating the effects of SNPs on protein structure | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Wernisch, L (London) | |
| Probabilistic modelling of metabolic regulation in prokaryotes | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| Thursday 14 December | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Arjas, E (Helsinki) | |
| Estimating genealogies from marker data: a Bayesian approach | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 10:00-10:45 | Kosiol, C (Cornell) | |
| Detecting natural selection with empirical codon models: a synthesis of population genetics and molecular phylogenetics | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Nielsen, R (Copenhagen) | |
| Detecting selection from population genetic data | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Patterson, N (Broad Institute, MIT) | |
| Population structure and eigenanalysis | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Bird, C (Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute) | |
| Exploring the role of noncoding DNA in the function of the human genome through variation | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 16:15-17:00 | Hoggart, C (Imperial College London) | |
| A hybrid Bayesian method for detecting multiple causal variants from Genome-Wide association studies | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| Friday 15 December | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Thomas, A (Utah) | |
| Towards linkage analysis with markers in linkage disequilibrium by graphical modelling | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 10:00-10:45 | Lopes, J (Reading) | |
| Approximate Bayesian computation vs Markov chain Monte Carlo | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Yang, Z (University College London) | |
| Lindley's paradox, star-tree paradox, and Bayesian phylogenetics | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Easton, D (Strangeways Research Lab, Cambridge) | |
| A genome-wide association study in breast cancer | Meeting Room 2, CMS | |
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