University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Machine Learning

Log in

Cambridge users (raven) details

details

Other users details

details

No account? details

details

Information on

Subscribing to talks details

details

Finding a talk details

details

Adding a talk details

details

Disseminating talks details

details

Help and Documentation details

details

Machine Learning

Add to your list(s) Send you e-mail reminders Further detail
Subscribe using ical/vcal (Help)

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Christian Steinruecken. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

3 upcoming talks and 416 talks in the archive.

Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

User Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 15 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

User Tatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 08 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Skew-symmetric schemes for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift: an unadjusted Barker algorithm

User Sam Livingstone (UCL).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 01 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

User Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 25 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

On optimal treatment regimes assisted by algorithms

User Mats Stensrud (EPFL).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 18 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

User Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

User Stefan Wager (Stanford University).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Monday 23 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

Nonparametric classification with missing data

User Tim Cannings, University of Edinburgh.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

User Purnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Learning with latent symmetries

User Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 31 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

On Independent Samples along the Langevin Dynamics and Algorithm

User Andre Wibisono, Yale University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

User Alexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

User Sara van de Geer, ETH Zürich.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Spatial causal inference in the presence of unmeasured confounding and interference

User Georgia Padadogeorgou, University of Florida.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Uniform Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure

User George Degliannidis, University of Oxford.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Concentration and Free Probability

User Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

User Anna Calissano (Imperial College).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

User Giovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Robust density estimation and model selection for the L1 loss : Applications to shape-constrained density estimation.

User Hélène Halconruy (Télécom SudParis).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

M-estimation, noisy optimization and user-level local privacy

User Marco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

User Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

User Perrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

User Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms

User Kengo Kato (Cornell University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

User Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Frequency and cardinality recovery from sketched data: a novel approach bridging Bayesian and frequentist views

User Stefano Favaro (University of Turin).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Adaptive two-sample testing

User Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

User Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

User Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

User Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

User Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Residual Permutation Test for High-Dimensional Regression Coefficient Testing

User Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 08 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

Canceled

User Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

House Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 16 June 2023, 00:00-00:00

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

User John Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

House MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Simultaneous Directional Inference

Room changed

User Ruth Heller (Tel-Aviv University).

House MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Randomized and exchangeable improvements of Markov's, Chebyshev's and Chernoff's inequalities

User Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Physics informed spatial and functional data analysis over non-Euclidean domains

User Laura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

A powerful empirical Bayes approach for high dimensional replicability analysis

User Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 12 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

User Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 05 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Fundamental limits of generative AI

User Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 28 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

User Hongyu Zhao (Yale University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

User Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

User Ricardo Silva (UCL).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

User Robin Evans (University of Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

The Kalman-Bucy filter revisited: Mean-field equations & duality

Joint Statistics and CCIMI Seminar (note unusual time)

User Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

User Joshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

User Ieva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

User Alastair Young (Imperial College, London).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

Unusual starting time to accommodate a special tea event after the seminar

User John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

User Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

User Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 11 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Local Independence Graphs

User Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 04 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

User Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

User Liza Levina (Michigan).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:00

Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks

User Min Xu (Rutgers University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Comparison of Markov chains via weak Poincaré inequalities, with application to pseudo-marginal MCMC

User Sam Power (University of Bristol).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning

Statistics and CCIMI seminar, followed by a drinks reception

User Victor Chernozhukov (MIT).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

(CANCELLED) Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

User Ricardo Silva (UCL).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

A machine learning approach for causal structure estimation in high dimensions

User Sach Mukherjee (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 03 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Optimal prediction of Markov chains without mixing conditions

User Yihong Wu (Yale University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Minimum L1-norm interpolators: Precise asymptotics and multiple descent

User Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Demystifying Deep Learning

User Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Random Planted Forest: a directly interpretable tree ensemble

User Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Interpretable Model-Independent Detection of New Physics Signals

User Purvasha Chakravarti (Imperial College London).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 25 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Robust inference for intractable likelihood models using kernel divergences

User Francois-Xavier Briol (UCL).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 11 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Two-sample testing of high-dimensional linear regression coefficients via complementary sketching

User Tengyao Wang (LSE).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 January 2022, 13:30-14:30

CANCELLED: Systematic inducement of sparsity

User Heather Battey (Imperial College London).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Variable elimination and graph reduction: towards an efficient g-formula for causal DAGs

User Richard Guo (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Random Graph Asymptotics for Treatment Effect Estimation under Network Interference

User Shuangning Li (Stanford University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

New Approaches for Inference on Optimal Treatment Regimes

User Lan Wang (University of Miami).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

MARS via LASSO

User Aditya Guntuboyina (UC Berkeley).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

TBC

User Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Kernel Thinning and Stein Thinning

User Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Global testing for dependent Bernoullis

User Sumit Mukherjee (Columbia University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 08 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Distribution-free inference for regression: discrete, continuous, and in between

User Rina Foygel Barber, University of Chicago.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Distribution-Free Nonparametric Inference Based on Optimal Transport: Efficiency Lower Bounds and Rank-Kernel Tests

User Bhaswar Bhattacharya, University of Pennsylvania.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 21 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Correlated randomly growing graphs

User Miklos Racz, Princeton University.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Recent progress on the KLS conjecture and Eldan’s stochastic localization scheme

User Yuansi Chen, Duke University.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Functional Models for Time Varying Random Objects

User Paromita Dubey, Stanford University.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 05 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Seminar Cancelled

User Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Optimal rates for independence testing via U-statistic permutation tests

User Tom Berrett, University of Warwick.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 19 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets

User Stephen Bates, University of California Berkeley.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 05 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

A precise high-dimensional asymptotic theory for Adaboost

User Pragya Sur (Harvard University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 22 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Generalized Kernel Two-Sample Tests

User Hao Chen (University of California, Davis).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 27 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Provable representation learning in deep learning

User Jason Lee (Princeton University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 13 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Minimax estimation of smooth densities in Wasserstein distance

User Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 06 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Model selection for estimation of causal parameters

User Dominik Rothenhaeusler (Stanford University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 30 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

House Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Implicit Regularization for Optimal Sparse Recovery

User Varun Kanade, University of Oxford.

House https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 29 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Improved Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation using Transfer Learning

User Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California.

House https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 22 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Network Representation Using Graph Root Distributions

User Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University.

House https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 15 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Neyman-Pearson Classification

User Xin Tong, University of Southern California.

House https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 08 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Spillover Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials with Noncompliance

User Hyunseung Kang, University of Wisconsin.

House Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/98898559684?pwd=MTZ2Q1dvUUZucDdwUXZVVUp1VjhsQT09 Meeting ID: 988 9855 9684 Password: likelihood.

Friday 01 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Langevin Monte Carlo for Degenerately Convex Potentials

User Murat Erdogdu, University of Toronto.

House Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/96976140978 Meeting ID: 969 7614 0978 Password: likelihood.

Friday 24 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Network change point detection

User Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

Friday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Selection bias, missing data and causal inference

User Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

Friday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

The concept of separable effects for causal mediation and competing risks analyses

User Vanessa Didelez, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany.

Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Posterior contraction rates for potentially nonlinear inverse problems

User Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

User Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

Friday 07 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Convergence of Gaussian process emulators with estimated hyper-parameters and applications in Bayesian inverse problems

User Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

User Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions

User Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Friday 17 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

On the convergence of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm and other irreversible MCMC methods

User Alain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Optimal Transport for Machine Learning

User Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

Friday 22 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Multiscale Analysis of Bayesian CART

User Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

Friday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Identifying Cointegration by Eigenanalysis

User Qiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

Friday 08 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces

User Henry Reeve — University of Birmingham.

Friday 01 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models

User Song Liu — University of Bristol.

Friday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Asymptotic normality of certain transformation averages

User Peter Orbanz — University College London.

Friday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Distributed Statistics à la Economics

User Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Simplicity and Complexity of Belief-Propagation

User Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Monday 14 October 2019, 16:30-17:30

On the robustness of gradient-based MCMC algorithms

User Sam Livingstone — University College London.

Friday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Regularized linear autoencoders, the Morse theory of loss, and backprop in the brain

User Jon Bloom (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard).

Monday 24 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Geometrizing rates of convergence under local differential privacy

User Lukas Steinberger, University of Freiburg.

Friday 07 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models

User Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

Friday 07 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients

User Roger Koenker, University College London.

Friday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Communication in the presence of sparsity

User Yiannis Kontoyiannis (Cambridge).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

MAP estimators and posterior consistency for Bayesian inverse problems with exponential priors

User Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

On distributed Bayesian computation

User Harry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

Friday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

On the Consistency of Supervised Learning with Missing Values

User Julie Josse, École Polytechnique.

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable methods for machine learning optimisation

User Milan Vojnovic (LSE).

Friday 10 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable stochastic optimization and large-scale data

User Michael W. Mahoney (ICSI and Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley).

House MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Nuisance parameters

User Heather Battey, Imperial College London.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Explicit stabilised Runge-Kutta methods and their application to Bayesian inverse problems

User Kostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Analysis of Networks via the Sparse β-Model

User Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

High-dimensional sign tests for the direction of a skewed single-spiked distribution

User Davy Paindaveine, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

On the fundamental understanding of distributed computation

User Botond Szabó, University of Leiden.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Post-selection confidence intervals and confidence curves

User Gerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Model selection with Lasso-Zero and a robust extension with an application to the problem of missing covariates

User Sylvain Sardy, Université de Genève.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems

User Alexandros Beskos, University College London .

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

On the hypocoercivity of some PDMP-Monte Carlo algorithms

User Christophe Andrieu, University of Bristol.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Posterior concentration for Bayesian regression trees and their ensembles

User Stephanie van der Pas, University of Leiden.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Concentration of tempered posteriors and of their variational approximations

User Pierre Alquier, ENSAE.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Phase transitions on community detectability for various types of stochastic block models

User Laurent Massoulié, INRIA.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Towards a better understanding of early stopping for boosting algorithms

User Yuting Wei, Stanford University.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Bayesian regression models for complex spatially or serially correlated functional data

User Jeffrey Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Nonparametric Bayes for support boundary recovery

User Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

Friday 19 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Uniform rates of Glivenko-Cantelli convergence and their use in Bayesian inference

User Emanuele Dolera, Università degli Studi di Pavia.

Friday 12 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Heteroskedastic PCA: Algorithm, Optimality, and Applications

User Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

When Statistics Meets Computing

User Professor Tony Cai (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Sketchy decisions: Low-rank convex matrix optimization with optimal storage

User Joel Tropp (Caltech).

Monday 18 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

What is the dimension of a stochastic process?

User Victor Panaretos (EPFL).

Thursday 07 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Sabyasachi Chatterjee (UIUC).

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization

User Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India).

Monday 21 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Bayesian estimation of the mean response in a missing data model

User Kolyan Ray (King's College London).

Friday 18 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Multiple change point estimation based on moving sum statistics

User Claudia Kirch (Magdeburg).

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Orbit recovery from invariants

User Jonathan Weed (MIT).

Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

On the gap between local recovery guarantees in structured compressed sensing and oracle estimates

User Claire Boyer (UPMC).

Friday 02 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

Approximations of the Restless Bandit Problem

User Azadeh Khaleghi (Lancaster).

Friday 23 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Bayesian nonparametric estimation of the intensities in multivariate Hawkes processes

User Judith Rousseau (Oxford).

Friday 26 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

From linear programming to statistics: Fast algorithms for sampling based on interior point methods

User Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley).

Friday 24 November 2017, 15:30-16:30

Optimal Sup-norm Rates and Uniform Inference on Nonlinear Functionals of Nonparametric IV Regression

User Xiaohong Chen (Yale).

Friday 24 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Learning from MOM's principles

User Guillaume Lecué (ENSAE).

Friday 17 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Accelerated Consensus via Min-Sum Splitting

User Patrick Rebeschini (Oxford).

Friday 10 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Online nonparametric regression with adversarial data

User Pierre Gaillard (INRIA Paris).

Friday 27 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Analysis of regularized inversion of data corrupted by white Gaussian noise

User Hanne Kekonnen.

Friday 20 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminar: Kernel-based Methods for Bandit Convex Optimization

User Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond).

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Decoding from Pooled Data: Information-Theoretic bounds and a Message-Passing Algorithm

User Ahmed El Alaoui (UC Berkeley).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 16 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Variable clustering: optimal bounds and a convex approach

User Nicolas Verzelen (INRA).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 09 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Testing

User Guang Cheng (Purdue).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Robust ranking, constrained ranking and rank aggregation via eigenvector and semidefinite programming synchronization

User Mihai Cucuringu (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 19 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Constrained low-rank matrix estimation

User Lenka Zdeborova (IPhT).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 12 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Statistical challenges posed by the analyses of the human microbiome

User Susan Holmes (Stanford).

House MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

The Bouncy Particle Sampler

User Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (UBC).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Geometric aspects of Statistical Learning Theory

User Shahar Mendelson (ANU).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Discrete structures and prediction in Bayesian Nonparametrics

User Igor Pruenster (Universita' Bocconi).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 10 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

High frequency statistics of semimartingales

User Mark Podolskij (Aarhus).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 17 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Simultaneous multiple change-point and factor analysis for high-dimensional time series

User Haeran Cho (Bristol).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 10 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Sleeping Beauty’s Credences

User Mark Schervisch (CMU).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 03 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

High-Dimensional Bayesian Geostatistics

User Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Monday 23 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Gaussian vectors, half-spaces, and convexity

User Joe Neeman (UT Austin & Bonn).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 02 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

Measuring sample quality with diffusions

User Sebastian Vollmer (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 25 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Principal Nested Shape Space Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Data

User Ian Dryden (Nottingham).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 18 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Short Course: Lecture 2 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration

User Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech..

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 11 November 2016, 14:00-16:00

Short Course: Lecture 1 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration

User Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech..

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 14:00-16:00

Constrained and Localized Nonparametric Estimation and Optimization

User John Lafferty (U of Chicago).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 04 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Normal Approximation and Concentration for Functions of Sample Covariance Operators

User Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 28 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Minimax adaptive estimation in nonparametric Hidden Markov Models

User Yohann de Castro (Paris Sud - Orsay).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 21 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Community Detection on the Weighted Stochastic Block Model

User Min Xu (U Penn).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 14 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Convergence Rates for Least-Squares Regression

User Francis Bach (INRIA).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 07 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

A modular architecture for Unicode text compression

User Adam Gleave (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Tuesday 14 June 2016, 15:00-15:15

Chaining and convexity

User Ramon van Handel (Princeton).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 10 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

A Bayesian nonparametric approach to testing for dependence between random variables

User Sarah Filippi (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 03 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Distance Shrinkage and Euclidean Embedding via Regularized Kernel Estimation

User Ming Yuan (U. of Wisconsin).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Dimers Day in Cambridge

User Boutiller, Chhita, Dubedat, Laslier, Toninelli.

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 23 May 2016, 10:45-17:45

Tail index estimation, concentration, adaptation...

User Stéphane Boucheron (Paris Diderot).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Random warping functions for function/curve registration

User Karthik Bharath (Nottingham).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 13 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational Challenges in Sleeping Combinatorial Experts

User Varun Kanade (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 06 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

The information complexity of sequential resource allocation

User Emilie Kaufmann (INRIA LIlle).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 22 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Signal Recovery from Scattering Convolutional Neural Networks

User Joan Bruna (Berkeley).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Thursday 24 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

Information bounds for inverse problems with application to deconvolution and Lévy models

User Mathias Trabs (CEREMADE, Paris Dauphine).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 04 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Statistically optimal robust estimation of the precision matrix by convex programming

User Arnak Dalayan (ENSAE).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Distribution-Free Detection of Structured Anomalies: Permutation and Rank-Based Scans

User Rui Castro (Eindhoven).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 12 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Statistical algorithms and planted satisfiability problems

User Will Perkins (Birmingham).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 05 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

The data-driven (s,S) policy: why you can have confidence in censored demand data

User Gah-Yi Vahn (London School of Business).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 29 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Nonlinear shrinkage of Eigenvalues in Integrated Covolatility Matrix for Portfolio Allocation in High Frequency Data

User Clifford Lam (LSE).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 22 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Boosting in the presence of outliers: adaptive classification with non-convex loss functions

User Jelena Bradic (UC San Diego).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 11 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Graph-Guided Banding for Covariance Estimation

User Jacob Bien (Cornell University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 11 December 2015, 14:30-15:30

Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures

User François Caron (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 04 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Exact simulation of the Wright-Fisher diffusion

User Paul Jenkins (Warwick).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 27 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Fast low-rank estimation by projected gradient descent: Statistical and algorithmic guarantees

User Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 20 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Shape modelling using contours and fields, with applications to image segmentation

User Ian Jermyn (Durham).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 06 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Efficient and Parsimonious Agnostic Active Learning

User Alekh Agarwal (Microsoft Research NY) .

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 06 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

Highly-Smooth Zero-th Order Online Optimization

User Vianney Perchet (INRIA & Paris Diderot).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Nonparametric estimation of s-concave and log-concave densities: an alternative to maximum likelihood

User Jon Wellner (University of Washington).

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

Nonstandard complete class theorems

User Daniel Roy (University of Toronto).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 16 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

A Conditional Dependence Measure with Applications to Undirected Graphical Models

User Yang Feng, Columbia University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 29 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Third and Fourth Cumulants in Independent Component Analysis

User Hannu Oja, University of Turku.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Analysis of complex phenotypes in genomics

User Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Text Mining in Dynamic Networks of Documents

User David Banks, Duke University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

General Bayesian updating and model misspecification

User Chris Holmes, University of Oxford.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 08 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Robust Matrix Completion

User Olga Klopp, Université Paris Ouest.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Stein estimation of the intensity of a spatial homogeneous Poisson point process

User Marianne Clausel, University of Grenoble.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

A Framework for Elastic Shape Analysis of Objects

User Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Stable Weights that Balance Covariates for Causal Inference and Estimation with Incomplete Outcome Data

Note the different room

User José Zubizarreta, Columbia University.

House MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Resource Allocation for Statistical Estimation

User Quentin Berthet, California Institute of Technology.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 09 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Sparse CCA: Statistical and Computational Limits

User Chao Gao, Yale University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Learning Markov Networks for Mixed Big Data: Applications to Cancer Genomics

User Genevera Allen, Rice University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Complexity analysis of the Lasso regularization path and an application of sparsity to isoform detection in RNA-seq data

User Julien Mairal, INRIA, Grenoble.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Spectral thresholding in quantum state estimation for low rank states

User Madalin Guta, University of Nottingham.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Some ideas in nonparametric estimation

User Piotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Algorithmic Approaches to Statistical Estimation under Structural Constraints

User Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Edinburgh.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Bayesian nonparametrics with heterogeneous data

User Antonio Lijoi, University of Pavia.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 30 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

A novel (pre-)metric for causal graphs

User Jonas Peters, ETH Zürich.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 30 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of talks exploring the links between classical information theory, probability, statistics and their quantum counterparts.

User Reinhard Werner (Hannover), Fernando Brandao (Microsoft Research), Robert Koenig (TU Munich), Renato Renner (ETH Zurich).

House MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-18:10

On the use of non-local priors for joint high-dimensional estimation and selection

User David Rossel, University of Warwick.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 16 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Dynamic functional principal components

User Siegfried Hörmann, Université libre de Bruxelles.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Analysis and Forecasting of Locally Stationary Time Series

User Guy Nason, University of Bristol.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Average derivative projection pursuit regression

User Frédéric Ferraty, Toulouse.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Ranking from pairwise comparisons using Seriation

User Alexandre d'Aspremont, CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Low rank as a model for quantum and classical estimation problems

User David Gross, University of Freiburg.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 31 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Adaptive posterior contraction

User Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Flexible multiple testing using closed testing and Simes

User Jelle Goeman, Radboud University Medical Center.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Semivarying Coefficient Models for Capture--recapture Data: Colony Size Estimation for the Little Penguin

User Richard Huggins, University of Melbourne.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Selection and estimation in sparse, high-dimensional models

User Maarten Jansen, Université libre de Bruxelles.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Peter Whittle Colloquium

User Yuval Peres (MSR Redmond) , Bálint Tóth (TU Budapest/U Bristol) , Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich) .

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 October 2014, 16:00-19:00

Adaptive Piecewise Polynomial Estimation via Trend Filtering

User Ryan J. Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

The discrete convex least-squares estimator of a probability mass function

User Cécile Durot, Université Paris-Sud.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 23 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Histograms, Graph Limits, and the Asymptotic Behavior of Large Networks

User Sofia Olhede, University College London.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Information Geometry: From Divergence Functions to Geometric Structures

User Jun Zhang, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

It is hard to be strongly faithful

User Caroline Uhler, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Limit theorems for nearly unstable Hawkes processes

User Mathieu Rosenbaum, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 25 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Alpha-Stable Poisson-Kingman Processes: Some Applications and Methodologies

User Yee Whye Teh, University of Oxford.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Statistical modelling of networks in disease biology

User Sach Mukherjee, MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 March 2014, 14:30-15:30

Invariant Coordinate Selection revisited: Fisher Symmetry and Symmetric Component Analysis

User Frank Critchley, Open University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

High-Dimensional Covariance Structure Estimation

User Zhao Ren, Yale University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

The Double Sin of the Skew-Normal: Skew-Symmetric Families of Distributions and Fisher Information

User Marc Hallin, Université libre de Bruxelles.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Asymptotics for In-Sample Density Forecasting

User Enno Mammen, University of Mannheim.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Stein's method, information theory and Bayesian statistics

User Christophe Ley, Université libre de Bruxelles.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Detection of Changepoints in Multiple Channels

User David Siegmund, Stanford University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 31 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Uniform Ergodicity of the Iterated Conditional SMC and Geometric Ergodicity of Particle Gibbs samplers

User Anthony Lee, University of Warwick.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sharp bounds for compressive learning

User Ata Kaban, University of Birmingham.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

High Dimensional Influence Measure

User Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Regret-regression for optimal dynamic treatment allocation, without and with missing data

User Robin Henderson, Newcastle University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 29 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

High-dimensional causal inference

User Marloes Maathuis, ETH Zürich.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

The use of survey weights in regression modelling

User Chris Skinner, London School of Economics.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Risk Characterization of Penalized Likelihood Procedures: An Information-Theoretic Determination

User Andrew Barron, Yale University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Unitary operators, empirical processes and goodness of fit problem in R^d

User Estate Khmaladze, Victoria University of Wellington.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 08 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Nonparametric estimation under shape constraints

User Piet Groeneboom, Delft University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Matching Quantiles Estimation

User Qiwei Yao, London School of Economics.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 25 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Implementing (Multiple) Monte Carlo Tests

User Axel Gandy, Imperial College London.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 18 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

The Geometry of Needlets Excursion Sets

User Domenico Marinucci, University of Roma Tor Vergata.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 11 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Fourier transform methods in the analysis of nonstationary time series

User Suhasini Subba Rao, Texas A&M University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 31 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

What is the chance that the match is coincidence?

User Richard Gill, Leiden University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Classification Using Censored Functional Data

User Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 17 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

On the Computational and Statistical Interface and "Big Data"

User Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley.

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute.

Friday 10 May 2013, 15:45-16:45

From depth to local depth : a focus on centrality

User Davy Paindaveine, Université libre de Bruxelles.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 03 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Approximating Data

User Laurie Davies, Univeristy of Duisburg-Essen.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 26 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

The Bayesian Approach To Inverse Problems

User Andrew Stuart, University of Warwick.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Frequentist coverage and adaptation of nonparametric Bayesian credible sets

User Harry van Zanten, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 01 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Optimization meets Statistics: Fast global convergence for high-dimensional statistical recovery

User Martin Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 22 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Strong Oracle Optimality of Folded Concave Penalized Estimation

User Jianqing Fan, Princeton University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 15 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Efficient implementation of Markov chain Monte Carlo when using an unbiased likelihood estimator

User Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 15 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Local Bilinear Multiple-Output Quantile Regression: from $L_1$ Optimization to Regression Depth

User Marc Hallin, ECARES, Universite libre de Bruxelles and ORFE, Princeton University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

When Bayesians Can't Handle the Truth

User Cosma Shalizi, Carnegie Mellon University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 01 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication

User Rosemary Bailey, Queen Mary University of London.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Minimax Lower Bounds

User Adityanand Guntuboyina, UC Berkeley.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Stability

User Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 26 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Random Fraction of a Biased Sample: old models and a new one

User Geurt Jongbloed, TU Delft, EURANDOM.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 23 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Interim Monitoring of Clinical Trials: Decision Theory, Dynamic Programming and Optimal Stopping

User Chris Jennison, University of Bath.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

A semiparametric model for heterogeneous panel data with fixed effects

User Oliver Linton, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Suprema of Chaos Processes and the Restricted Isometry Property

User Felix Krahmer (Goettingen).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 26 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Wavelet-based estimation of the long memory parameter in Gaussian non-gappy and gappy time series

User Peter Craigmile, University of Glasgow.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 19 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Nonparametric regression for locally stationary time series

User Michael Vogt, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 05 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Model and estimator selection for density estimation with L2-loss

User Lucien Birgé, Paris VI.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Continuous-time Importance Sampling for Multivariate Diffusions

User Paul Fearnhead, Lancaster University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Likelihood based inference for current status data on a grid: a boundary phenomenon and an adaptive inference procedure

User Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 01 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Modelling Network Data

User Patrick Wolfe, University College London.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical inference for compound regression

User Alexandre Tsybakov, Université Paris VI.

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 18 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

From statistical estimation to well localized frames, via heat kernel

User Gerard Kerkyacharian, Université Paris VI.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 11 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Grouping strategies for denoising

User Dominique Picard.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Large-scale convex optimization for machine learning

User Francis Bach, INRIA, Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Log-concave distributions: definitions, properties, and consequences

User Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington.

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

The distribution of the maximal difference between a Brownian bridge and its concave majorant

User Fadoua Balabdaoui, Université Paris Dauphine.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Hilbert Space Embedding of Probability Measures: Theory and Applications

User Bharath Sriperumbudur.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Second-Order Comparison of Functional Data with Applications to DNA Geom

User Victor Panaretos, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Nonparametric estimation of the division rate of a size-structured population

User Vincent Rivoirard, Université Paris-Dauphine.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 17 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Goodness-of-fit tests for noisy directional data

User Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc, Université Paris Sud, Orsay.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 17 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Safe Learning: How to Modify Bayesian Inference when All Models are Wrong

User Peter Grünwald, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 10 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Marginal Models for Dependent, Clustered, and Longitudinal Categorical Data

User Wicher Bergsma, London School of Economics and Political Science.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 03 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Approximate Bayesian Computation for model selection

User Christian Robert, Universite Paris-Dauphine and IUF.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Random forests

User Gérard Biau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 20 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models

User Samuel Kou, Harvard University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Alias Detection and Spectral Correction for Locally Stationary Time Series

User Idris Eckley, Lancaster University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

The aggregation problems in learning theory

User Guillaume Lecue, CNRS, Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-vallee.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 18 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Modelling electricity day-ahead prices by multivariate Levy semistationary processes

User Almut Veraart, Imperial College London.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 11 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Data-driven calibration of linear estimators with minimal penalties, with an application to multi-task regression

User Sylvain Arlot, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

On adaptation of false discovery rate

User Etienne Roquain, Université Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 28 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Multiscale Analysis: From Signal Detection to Nanoscale Photonic Imaging

User Axel Munk, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Georg August University Goettingen and Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Focussed Information Criteria for Model Selection and Model Averaging

User Nils Hjort, University of Oslo.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 21 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Bayesian inference for Markov processes with application to biochemical network dynamics

User Darren Wilkinson, University of Newcastle.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 14 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Boundary estimation in the presence of measurement error with unknown variance

User Ingrid van Keilegom, Université catholique de Louvain.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 07 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Non-parametric regression with observations at imprecise times: Bayesian radiocarbon calibration

User Tim Heaton (Sheffield).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 03 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Additive Models for Quantile Regression: Model Selection and Confidence Bandaids

User Roger Koenker (Univ. Illinois).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Simultaneous confidences bands with the volume-of-tube formula and spline estimators

User Tatyana Krivobokova (Goettingen).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Hawkes process as models for some genomic data

User Patricia Reynaud-Bouret (CNRS and Univ. Nice).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 20 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Bernstein - von Mises Theorems for general functionals

User Judith Rousseau (Paris Dauphine).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 13 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Bayesian non-parametric analysis of diffusions

User Gareth Roberts (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 13 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Likelihood Inference and Bayesian MCMC

User Don Pierce (Oregon State University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 06 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of Mathematics and Biology

User Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute), Glenn Vinnicombe (Engineering Department), Ottoline Leyser (Sainsbury Laboratory).

House Wolfson Room (MR2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 26 April 2011, 14:00-19:00

M-estimation strategies for the ranking problem

User Nicolas Vayatis, ENS Cachan.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Detecting Change Points in Multidimensional Functional Data

User John Aston, Warwick.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Markov chain Monte Carlo on Riemann manifolds

User Mark Girolami (UCL).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Approximate Inference for the Loss-Calibrated Bayesian

User Simon Lacoste-Julien (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 18 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Bayesian semiparametrics with Gaussian process priors

User Ismael Castillo (CNRS and Paris 6).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Simultaneous local and global adaptivity of Bayesian wavelet estimators in nonparametric regression

User Natalia Bochkina (Edinburgh).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 28 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Concentration inequalities by the entropy method, variations

User Stephane Boucheron (Universite Paris 7).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 26 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

On adaptive nonparametric inference

User Richard Nickl (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 19 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

New Thinking about Statistical Inference and its Application to Climate Prediction

User Arthur Dempster (Harvard).

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Regret Bounds for Gaussian Process Bandit Problems

User Steffen Grunewalder (University College London).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Applications of Bernstein polynomials in Statistics

User Sonia Petrone (University Bocconi Milan).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 05 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Sparsity pattern aggregation for convex stochastic optimization.

User Phillipe Rigollet (Princeton University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 29 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Control variates for reversible MCMC samplers

User Petros Dellaportas (Athens University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 22 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Introduction to adaptive estimation

User Oleg Lepski (Universite de Provence).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Sparse Recovery in Linear Spans and Convex Hulls of Infinite Dictionaries

User Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 17:00-18:00

An Introduction to High-Dimensional Problems, Sparsity and Oracle Inequalities

User Karim Lounici (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 16:00-16:30

A Look at Partial Projections for Regression onto Text

User Matt Taddy (University of Chicago).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 28 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Approximation by Log-Concave Distributions

User Lutz Dumbgen (University of Bern).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Postulating monotonicity in nonparametric Bayesian regression

User Elja Arjas (University of Helsinki).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 14 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Sparse NonGaussian Component Analysis

User Vladimir Spokoiny (Weierstrass Institute).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 07 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Distilled Sensing: Adaptive Sequential Experimental Designs for Large-Scale Multiple Hypothesis Testing

User Rob Nowak (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Stochastic Volatility Models Including Open, Close, High and Low Prices - NOW CANCELLED

User Enrique ter Horst (Euromed School of Management).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 23 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Asymptotic equivalence and sufficiency for volatility estimation under microstructure noise

User Markus Reiss (Humboldt University Berlin).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 March 2010, 15:30-16:30

Smoothed absolute loadings principal components analysis

User Bernie Silverman (Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 05 March 2010, 15:30-16:30

What's the right complexity measure for inferring causal relations?

User Dominik Janzing (Max Planck Institute Tuebingen).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 26 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

A Backward Particle Interpretation of Feynman-Kac Formulae

User Pierre Del Moral (INRIA Bordeaux).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 19 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

On combinatorial testing problems

User Gabor Lugosi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 19 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

Case-Control Studies when Cases are Extreme Values of a Continuous Variable

User David Steinberg (Tel Aviv University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Compressed sensing in infinite dimensions

User Anders Hansen (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 05 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Thick-pen transformation for time series

User Piotr Fryzlewicz (London School of Economics).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 29 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

On the Distribution of the Adaptive LASSO Estimator

User Ulrike Schneider (University of Goettingen).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 22 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

Conditional Predictive Inference Post-Model Selection

User Hannes Leeb (Univ. Vienna).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics: Gaussian process priors

Joint with Probability Series

User Aad van der Vaart (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam).

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

A Bayesian nonrandom walk through the world of the queues

User Carmen Armero, University of Valencia.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 23 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Empirical support for DNA match probabilities

User James Curran (Auckland).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistical estimation of a multifractal function

User Marc Hoffmann (Paris).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 13 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Soap film smoothing

User Simon Wood (Bath).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 06 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Risk Hull Methods for Inverse Problems

User Laurent Cavalier (Marseille).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Bayesian Methods in Cosmology

User Mike Hobson (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 23 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Probabilistic Expert Systems for Handling Artifacts in Complex DNA Mixtures

User Julia Mortera (University of Roma Tre).

House MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Forward Smoothing using Sequential Monte Carlo with Application to Recursive Parameter Estimation

User Arnaud Doucet (Univ. of British Columbia and ISM Tokyo).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 15:00-16:00

Choosing a good histogram

User Yannick Baraud (Univ. Nice).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Total variation and curves

User Arne Kovac (Univ. Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 09 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Working with over-parameterized models

User David Firth, University of Warwick.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Bayesian Inference of Transmission Fidelity Rates of DNA Methylation Patterns

User Audrey Fu (University of Cambridge Systems Biology Center).

House MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Graphical Gaussian Models with Edge and Vertex Symmetries

User Steffen Lauritzen University of Oxford.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 29 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Second Generation Wavelets and Astrophysics

User Gerard Kerkyacharian Paris 10 and LPMA.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 22 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Particle Learning

User Nicholas Polson University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 15 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Likelihood p-values ancillaries and the vector quantile function

User Don Fraser, University of Toronto.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Default priors and model parametrization

User Nancy Reid, University of Toronto.

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe

User Carlos Carvalho, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 24 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Bayes and empirical-Bayes multiplicity adjustment in the variable-selection problem

User James Scott, Duke University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 13 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Do New Roads Generate Traffic?

User Charlene Rohr, RAND Europe.

House MR13, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Statistical Modeling using Chain Event Graphs

User Jim Smith, Warwick.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

A generalization of Fisher's exact test: rock-paper-scissors and friendly ghosts

User Robin Hankin.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 20 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Diffusions limits of the Random Walk Metropolis Algorithm in High Dimensions:

User Natesh Pillai, Warwick.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 13 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Nonparametric inference for networks of queues

User Cornelia Wichelhaus, Universität Heidelberg.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 06 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Stepwise Searching for Feature Variables in High-Dimensional Linear Regression

User Qiwei Yao, LSE.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Stochastic Financial Models - Optional Economics Brief

User Elie Bassouls.

House MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Building and fitting a stochastic phylogentic model for Dollo traits, and its application to reconstructing the diversification of the Indo-European languages

User Geoff Nicholls, Oxford.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Simple Methods to Improve MCMC Efficiency in Random Effect Models

User Bill Brown (University of Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 05 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

Projective Limits of Bayes Equations

User Peter Orbanz (Dept. Engineering, Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 28 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Evaluating survey designs for inference of Plasmodium falciparum malaria prevalence

User Anand Patil (University of Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 21 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Estimation and variable selection with Lasso and Dantzig Selector in the high-dimensional regression model

User Karim Lounici, Université Paris 7.

House MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Sampling bias in logistic models

User Peter McCullagh (University of Chicago).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 14 November 2008, 16:00-17:30

Bayesian Model Determination for Multivariate Ordinal and Binary Data

User Jon Forster (University of Southampton).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 07 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical properties of Cook's Principal Fitted Components algorithm

User Oliver Johnson (University of Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 31 October 2008, 16:00-17:30

Simultaneous Confidence Band and Hypothesis Test in Generalised Varying-Coefficient Models

User Wenyang Zhang (University of Bath).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 24 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators

joint Statistics/Probability Seminar

User Evarist Gine (University of Conneticut).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 20 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

The Gaussian Semiparametric Partial Linear Model Asymptotic Theory and a Useful Difference-Based Estimator and Tests

User Professor Larry Brown (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylavnia).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Estimation of the relative risk and risk difference

User Thomas Richardson (University of Washington).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 06 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Testing lack-of-fit in inverse regression models

User Gerda Claeskens (K.U.Leuven).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

MCMC for doubly-intractable distributions

User Iain Murray (University of Toronto).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 23 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Chance is a Fine Thing

Inaugural Lecture as Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk

User David Spiegelhalter (Cambridge).

House MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 19 May 2008, 17:30-18:30

Flexible Covariance estimation in Gaussian Graphical models

User Bala Rajaratnam (Stanford University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Latent class models for the causal effect of a treatment

User Antonio Forcina (University of Perugia).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 09 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

On Grobner bases of Elimination and Toric Ideals describing Maximum Entropy models

User Ambedkar Dukkipatti (EURANDOM).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Efficient sparse recovery with no assumption on the dictionary

User Alexander (Sasha) Tsybakov (CREST et Université Paris).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Local and discrete scoring rules

User Matt Parry (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 14 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Parameter and Functional Estimation in Semiparametric Models

User Yanyuan Ma (Universite de Neuchatel).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 07 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Predictive Modeling Approaches to Gene Regulation

User Jun Liu (Harvard University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Advances in Bayesian Latent Factor Modelling: The Incredible Shrinking Model

User Daniel Merl (Duke University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 29 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Equivalence of prospective and retrospective likelihood methods in case-control studies

User Ana-Maria Staicu (Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 22 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Combining police perceptions with police records of serious crime areas

User Robert Haining (Dept. Geography, University of Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 15 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Alternative Splicing in Tumors: Detection and Interpretation

User Terry Speed (Berkeley).

House MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Adversarial Risk Analysis: A Smallpox Example

User David Banks (Duke University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistical deconvolution problems with Fourier-oscillating error densities

User Alexander Meister (Universitat Ulm).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 01 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Identifying Direct and Indirect effects

User Sara Geneletti (Imperial).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

A theoretical and methodological discussion of nested sampling

User Nicolas Chopin (Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 18 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

Assessing the finite-dimensionality of functional data

User Celine Vial (Rennes).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

A Life-Time of Stochastic Self-Organisation - 1977 - 2007

User David Probert (VAZA International).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 23 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Direct and indirect causal effects: a helpful distinction?

User Donald B. Rubin (Harvard).

House MR14, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Neither finance nor pharma -- life as an industrial statistician. To be followed by an introduction to the Royal Statistical Society

User Philip Jonathan and Yanyun Wu (Shell).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Prequential Statistics

User Phil Dawid (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 09 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Quantum randomness and Kolmogorov probability

User Patricia Grambsch, University of Minnesota, visiting Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Jump Telegraph Processes and a Volatility Smile

User Nikita Ratanov (University of Rosario, Bogota).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 October 2007, 15:30-16:30

Please see above for contact details for this list.

© 2006-2024 Talks.cam, University of Cambridge. Contact Us | Help and Documentation | Privacy and Publicity