SCH
7 January 2008 to 27 June 2008
Most of twentieth-century statistical theory was restricted to problems in which the number p of 'unknowns', such as parameters, is much less than n, the number of experimental units. However, the practical environment has changed dramatically over the last twenty years or so, with the spectacular evolution of computing facilities and the emergence of applications in which the number of experimental units is comparatively small but the underlying dimension is massive, leading to the desire to fit complex models for which the effective p is very large. Areas of application include image analysis, microarray analysis, finance, document classification, astronomy and atmospheric science. Some methodological advances have been made, but there is a need to provide firm consolidation in the form of a systematic and critical assessment of the new approaches as well as appropriate theoretical underpinning in this 'large p, small n' context. The existence of key applications strongly motivates the programme, but the fundamental aim is to promote core theoretical and methodological research. Both frequentist and Bayesian paradigms will be featured. The programme is directed at a broad research community, including both mainstream statisticians and the growing population of researchers in machine learning. The methodological issues likely to be covered fall roughly into four overlapping categories:
In addition, discussion of particular applications will permeate the programme.
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Title | Year | Programme | Publication Date |
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Mixtures of factor analyzers with common factor loadings for the clustering and visualisation of high-dimensional dataAuthors: J Baek, Geoffrey McLachlan |
2007 | SCH | 21 October 2016 |
Harold Jeffreys' Theory of Probability revisitedAuthors: N Chopin, J Rousseau, Christian Robert |
2007 | SCH | 21 October 2016 |
Adaptivity for ABC algorithms: the ABC-PMC schemeAuthors: MA Beaumont, J-M Marin, J-M Cornuet, Christian Robert |
2007 | SCH | 21 October 2016 |
Comment on "On discriminative vs. generative classifiers: a comparison of logistic regression and naive Bayes"Authors: Mike Titterington, J-H Xue |
2007 | SCH | 21 October 2016 |
BART: Bayesian Additive Regression TreesAuthors: Edward George, RE Mcculloch, HA Chipman |
2007 | SCH | 21 October 2016 |
Covariance reducing models: an alternative to spectral modeling of covariance matricesAuthors: Liliana Forzani, Dianne Hellen Cook |
2007 | SCH | 21 October 2016 |
Nemirovski's inequalities revisitedAuthors: Sara Anna van de Geer, Jon August Wellner, L Dumbgen |
2007 | SCH | 21 October 2016 |
Determining the number of components in a factor model from limited noisy dataAuthors: Boaz Nadler, S Kritchman |
2007 | SCH | 21 October 2016 |
Honest variable selction in linear and logistic regression models via $l$$_1$ and $l$$_1$ + $l$$_2$ penalisationAuthors: F Bunea |
2007 | SCH | 21 October 2016 |
Spades and mixture modelsAuthors: AB Tsybakov, Marten Wegkamp, F Bunea |
2007 | SCH | 21 October 2016 |
7 January 2008 to 11 January 2008
31 January 2008 to 31 January 2008
31 March 2008 to 4 April 2008
19 May 2008 to 19 May 2008
18 June 2008 to 20 June 2008
23 June 2008 to 27 June 2008
Monday 14th January 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Jiashun Jin Carnegie Mellon University |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 16th January 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Bin Nan University of Michigan |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 17:00 |
Cristina Butucea Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris |
Discussion Room |
Friday 18th January 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Massimiliano Pontil University College London |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 22nd January 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
David Banks Duke University |
Room 2 |
Thursday 24th January 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Cristina Butucea Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 17:00 |
Ralph Dennis Cook University of Minnesota |
Room 2 |
Friday 25th January 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Bertrand Salem Clarke University of British Columbia |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 29th January 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:30 |
Harrison Zhou Stanford University |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 5th February 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Mohamed-Ali Belabbas Harvard University |
Room 2 |
Thursday 7th February 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Neil Lawrence University of Manchester |
Room 2 |
Friday 8th February 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Andrea Caponnetto City University of Hong Kong |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 12th February 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
John Kent University of Leeds |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 13th February 2008 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Yasmin Said George Mason University |
Room 2 |
Friday 15th February 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Mike Titterington University of Glasgow |
Room 2 |
Monday 18th February 2008 | |||
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15:00 to 15:30 | Room 1 | ||
15:30 to 16:00 |
Zoubin Ghahramani University of Cambridge |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:30 | Room 1 | ||
16:30 to 17:00 |
Gaussian process methods for large and high-dimensional data sets |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 19th February 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Matthias Seeger Max-Planck-Institut für Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen |
Room 2 |
Thursday 21st February 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Nello Cristianini University of Bristol |
Room 2 |
Friday 22nd February 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
John Lafferty Carnegie Mellon University |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 26th February 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Amos James Storkey University of Edinburgh |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 27th February 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 13:00 |
Mike Titterington University of Glasgow |
Discussion Room |
Thursday 28th February 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Edward Ian George University of Pennsylvania |
Room 1 |
Friday 29th February 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Christian Hennig University College London |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 4th March 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Jian Qing Shi Newcastle University |
Room 2 |
Thursday 6th March 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Sofia Olhede University College London |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 11th March 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Arne Kovac University of Bristol |
Room 2 | |
14:00 to 15:00 | Room 2 |
Wednesday 12th March 2008 | |||
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16:15 to 17:00 |
Mike Titterington University of Glasgow |
Room 1 |
Thursday 13th March 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Ian Dryden University of Nottingham |
Room 2 |
Monday 17th March 2008 | |||
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17:00 to 18:00 |
Miriam Donoho San José State University. |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 18th March 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Edwin Hancock University of York |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 19th March 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Joe Whittaker Lancaster University |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 26th March 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Yee Whye Teh University College London |
Room 2 |
Thursday 27th March 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Bastiaan Kleijn University of Helsinki |
Room 2 |
Friday 4th April 2008 | |||
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13:00 to 14:00 |
Ralph Dennis Cook University of Minnesota |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 8th April 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Daniel Rubin University of California, Berkeley |
Room 2 |
Thursday 10th April 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Charles Taylor University of Leeds |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 15th April 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Catherine Hurley NUI Maynooth |
Room 2 |
Thursday 17th April 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Boaz Nadler University of California, Irvine and Weizmann Institute of Science |
Room 2 |
Monday 21st April 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
John Shawe-Taylor University College London |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 22nd April 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Nils Hjort Universitetet i Oslo |
Room 2 |
Thursday 24th April 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Christian Robert CNRS & Université Paris-Dauphine |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 29th April 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Sam Roweis University of Toronto |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 30th April 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Jon August Wellner University of Washington |
Room 2 | |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Ralph Dennis Cook University of Minnesota |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 6th May 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Non-asymptotic variable identification via the Lasso and the elastic net |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 7th May 2008 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Ralph Dennis Cook University of Minnesota |
Room 1 |
Thursday 8th May 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Marten Herman Wegkamp Florida State University |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 13th May 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Alfred Hero University of Michigan |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 14th May 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
James Marron University of North Carolina |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Ralph Dennis Cook University of Minnesota |
Room 1 |
Thursday 15th May 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Iain Andrew Murray University of Toronto |
Room 1 |
Monday 19th May 2008 | |||
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16:40 to 17:10 | Room 1 | ||
17:10 to 17:40 |
Christopher Bishop |
Room 1 | |
17:40 to 18:30 | Room 1 |
Wednesday 21st May 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Andreas Maurer Aalborg Universitet |
Room 1 |
Thursday 22nd May 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Magnus Rattray University of Manchester |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 27th May 2008 | |||
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15:00 to 15:30 |
On estimating covariances between many assets with histories of highly variable length |
Room 1 | |
15:30 to 16:00 |
Madeleine Cule University of Cambridge |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:30 |
Factorial mixture of Gaussians and the marginal independence model |
Room 1 | |
16:30 to 17:00 | Room 1 |
Thursday 29th May 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Nello Cristianini University of Bristol |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 3rd June 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
On the approximation of quadratic forms and sparse matrix products |
Room 1 |
Thursday 5th June 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Approximation of functional spatial regression models using bivariate splines |
Room 1 |
Friday 6th June 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Douglas Nychka National Center for Atmospheric Research |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 10th June 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Vladimir Koltchinskii Georgia Institute of Technology |
Room 1 |
Thursday 12th June 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Angelika Rohde Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 17th June 2008 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 |
Hans van Houwelingen Universiteit Leiden |
Room 1 |
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