Statistics

Generalized Kernel Two-Sample Tests

Hao Chen (University of California, Davis).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session III

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Provable representation learning in deep learning

Jason Lee (Princeton University).

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

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

Probability

How far do activated random walkers spread from a single source?

Vittoria Silvestri (La Sapienza, Rome).

Zoom.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Minimax estimation of smooth densities in Wasserstein distance

Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session II

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Monotonicity and phase transition for the edge-reinforced random walk

Remy Poudevigne.

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Model selection for estimation of causal parameters

Dominik Rothenhaeusler (Stanford University).

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

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

Probability

Dimensions of the two-valued sets of the 2D GFF

Lukas Schoug (Cambridge).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/5903322638?pwd=dzJRRS9BKzhEaGVCNncxaWcvL0IxQT09.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Negative Correlation Strategy for Bracketing in Difference-in-Differences

Ting Ye (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session I

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Percolation for the Gaussian free field on the cable system

Alexis Prévost.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92621143616?pwd=YWZsclZMb2Mwa2hOZ09IajNOUTNEdz09.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

This talk has been postponed new date tbc

Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:00-18:00

Probability

A Markov Process associated to the noncutoff Boltzmann Equation

Daniel Heydecker (Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

Rod Jones, Department of Chemistry.

MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session III

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 23 September 2020, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Synthetic Difference in Differences

Yuhao Wang.

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 13 August 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session II

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 12 August 2020, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Minimax Crossover Designs

Yao Zhang (University of Cambridge).

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 30 July 2020, 13:30-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Formal Causal Interpretation of the Case-Crossover Design

yao zhang (University of Cambridge).

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 02 July 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session I

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 01 July 2020, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Bias and high-dimensional adjustment in observational studies of peer effects

Florian Pein.

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session III

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Partial identification in instrumental variables

Yuhao Wang.

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session II

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Implicit Regularization for Optimal Sparse Recovery

Varun Kanade, University of Oxford.

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

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

Statistics

Improved Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation using Transfer Learning

Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California.

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

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

Causal Inference Reading Group

Identification In Missing Data Models Represented By Directed Acyclic Graphs

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session I

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Network Representation Using Graph Root Distributions

Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University.

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

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

Statistics

Neyman-Pearson Classification

Xin Tong, University of Southern California.

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

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

Statistics

Spillover Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials with Noncompliance

Hyunseung Kang, University of Wisconsin.

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

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

Probability

Random measures on the Brownian path with prescribed expectation

Abel Farkas (Rényi Institute, Budapest).

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

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Langevin Monte Carlo for Degenerately Convex Potentials

Murat Erdogdu, University of Toronto.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic - Skype session

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - Easter Vacation: CANCELLED

CANCELLED.

CANCELLED.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Random walk on the simple symmetric exclusion process

Daniel Kious (Bath).

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

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Causal Inference in Genetic Trio Studies

yao zhang (University of Cambridge).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Network change point detection

Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

MR12.

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

Probability

On the statistical behavior of the Riemann zeta function

Christian Webb (Aalto, Finland).

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

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Dynamic Treatment Regimes III

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Selection bias, missing data and causal inference

Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions

Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics.

The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Empirical Measure and Small Noise Asymptotics under Large Deviation Scaling for Interacting Diffusions

Amarjit Budhiraja (UNC Chapel Hill).

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

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

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

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

MR12.

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

Probability

The optimal matching problem

Martin Huesmann.

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Stable prediction

Harvey Klyne.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Posterior contraction rates for potentially nonlinear inverse problems

Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Local geometry of the rough-smooth interface in the two-periodic Aztec diamond.

Sunil Chhita (Durham).

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

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Dynamic treatment regimes II

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

MR12.

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

Causal Inference Reading Group

Graphical models for extremes

Harvey Klyne.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Mixing and cut-off for random walks on finite fields and random polynomials

Emmanuel Breuillard (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The impact of uncertainty on trade agreements between the UK and EU

Oliver Exton, Department of Economics.

Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB..

Monday 03 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

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

Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Patterns and Szemerédi phenomena in random fractals

Pablo Shmerkin (Buenos Aires).

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

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Dynamic treatment regimes I

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

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

Probability

Fluctuations in the number of level set components of planar Gaussian fields

Stephen Muirhead (Queen Mary).

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

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Negative controls in causal inference

Yuhao Wang.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions

Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - Christmas Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor).

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Kinetic theory for the low-density Lorentz gas

Jens Marklof (Bristol).

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

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Regression discontinuity design

Florian Pein.

MR10, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

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

Alain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

How feasible is DNA as a long-term digital storage system?

Nick Goldman, European Bioinformatics Institute.

The Statistical Laboratory,Centre for Mathematical Sciences,Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 19:15-21:30

Causal Inference Reading Group

Anchor regression

Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport for Machine Learning

Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Higher-order influence function

Dr Yuhao Wang.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Multiscale Analysis of Bayesian CART

Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions

Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics.

The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 19:15-21:30

Probability

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREMS AND THE GEOMETRY OF POLYNOMIALS

Julian Sahasrabudhe (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 15:15-16:15

Probability

Variational principle for lattice models with long-range interactions

Piet Lammers (Statslab).

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

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Tackling invalid instrumental variables

Sven Wang (University of Cambridge).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Identifying Cointegration by Eigenanalysis

Qiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Understanding Liouville quantum gravity through two square subdivision models

Josh Pfeffer (MIT).

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

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

The Blessing of Multiple Causes

Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

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

Henry Reeve — University of Birmingham.

MR12.

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

Probability

Cutoff for the mean-field zero-range process

Justin Salez (Paris-Dauphine).

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

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 15:15-16:15

Probability

Forest fire processes and near-critical percolation with heavy-tailed impurities

Pierre Nolin (City University of Hong Kong).

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

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

High dimensional data and latent confounding II

Rajen Shah (University of Cambridge).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models

Song Liu — University of Bristol.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Cutoff for Random Walk on Random Cayley Graphs

Sam Thomas (Statslab).

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

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

High dimensional data and latent confounding I

Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR6, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Asymptotic normality of certain transformation averages

Peter Orbanz — University College London.

MR12.

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

Statistics

Distributed Statistics à la Economics

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

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

Probability

Fortuin-Kastelyn type representations for Threshold Gaussian and Stable Vectors: aka Divide and Color processes (joint work with Malin Palö Forsström)

Jeff Steif (Chalmers).

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

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Simplicity and Complexity of Belief-Propagation

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Statistics

On the robustness of gradient-based MCMC algorithms

Sam Livingstone — University College London.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Clueless Voting

Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor).

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 11 September 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 07 August 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 July 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

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

Jon Bloom (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard).

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Hard-core configurations on Z^2 and other lattices

Izabella Stuhl (Penn State).

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

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Geometrizing rates of convergence under local differential privacy

Lukas Steinberger, University of Freiburg.

MR12.

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

Statistics

Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models

Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor).

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Large deviations of subgraph counts for sparse random graphs

Amir Dembo (Stanford).

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

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients

Roger Koenker, University College London.

MR12.

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

Statistics

Communication in the presence of sparsity

Yiannis Kontoyiannis (Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

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

Probability

Isomorphism theorems and the sign cluster geometry of the Gaussian free field

Pierre-Francois Rodriguez (IHES, Paris).

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

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

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

Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Existence and uniqueness of the Liouville quantum gravity metric for γ ∈ (0, 2)

Ewain Gwynne (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On distributed Bayesian computation

Harry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

MR12.

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

Probability

Stochastic homogenization in amorphous media and applications to exclusion processes

Alessandra Faggionato (La Sapienza, Rome).

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

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On the Consistency of Supervised Learning with Missing Values

Julie Josse, École Polytechnique.

MR12.

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

Statistics

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable methods for machine learning optimisation

Milan Vojnovic (LSE).

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

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

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

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

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

Probability

Flux Large Deviations

Robert Patterson (Weierstrass Institute, Berlin).

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

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The Algorithm is Going to Get You: Should We Fear the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice?

Matthew Bland, Institute of Criminology.

Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WG.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Covariance formulas for fluctuations of linear spectral statistics for Wigner matrices with few moments

Anna Maltsev (Queen Mary University of London).

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

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nuisance parameters

Heather Battey, Imperial College London.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - Easter Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

A Bayesian model‐free approach to combination therapy phase I trials using censored time‐to‐toxicity data

Graham Wheeler, Cancer Research UK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre @ University College London.

Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Large Seminar Room (First Floor), Forvie Site, Robinson Way. CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Large deviations for the maximum of a branching random walk

Nina Gantert (Technical University of Munich).

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

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

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

Kostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

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

Probability

Entropy decay and concentration for Strong Rayleigh measures via couplings

Jonathan Hermon (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Analysis of Networks via the Sparse β-Model

Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Subsequential limits for Liouville graph distance

Alex Dunlap (Stanford).

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

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Solving the Reproducibility Crisis

Nicole Janz, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham.

The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Monday 25 February 2019, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

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

Davy Paindaveine, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

MR12.

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

Probability

Mixing times of exclusion processes on regular graphs

Richard Pymar (Birkbeck).

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

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On the fundamental understanding of distributed computation

Botond Szabó, University of Leiden.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Scaling limit of the condensate dynamics in a reversible zero range process

Michail Loulakis (Athens).

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

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Post-selection confidence intervals and confidence curves

Gerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

MR12.

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

Probability

Bootstrap percolation and kinetically constrained spin models: critical time scales

Cristina Toninelli (Dauphine).

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

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

From Fingertips to RAP: getting statistics into public health policy and practice

Sian Evans and Stephen Yeung (Public Health England).

Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB..

Monday 04 February 2019, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

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

Sylvain Sardy, Université de Genève.

MR12.

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

Psychology talks and events

How People Really Make Medical Decisions: The Problem of the Patient

Prof Talya Miron-Shatz - Ono Academic College, Israel.

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Sumset bounds for the entropy on abelian groups

Ioannis Kontoyiannis (Engineering, Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems

Alexandros Beskos, University College London .

MR12.

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

Probability

Scaling limits for planar aggregation with subcritical fluctuations

Amanda Turner (Lancaster).

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

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Mapping Health: Why, How, Considering what ...

Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit @ University of Cambridge.

MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

On the hypocoercivity of some PDMP-Monte Carlo algorithms

Christophe Andrieu, University of Bristol.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - Christmas Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 16:30-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Radial excitations of superconducting (Witten) vortices

Note: MONDAY lunchtime

Patrick Peter (DAMTP, and Inst. Astrophys. Paris).

Potter Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Kazhdan groups have cost 1

Tom Hutchcroft (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Posterior concentration for Bayesian regression trees and their ensembles

Stephanie van der Pas, University of Leiden.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Bayesian and structural integration of background evidence in the design, analysis and interpretation of clinical trial data

Fabio Rigat (GSK) & Nicky Best (Imperial College).

Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 19:15-21:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Topological Terms in Sigma Models on Homogeneous Spaces

Joe Davighi (DAMTP).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

On gradient estimates for random walks in time-dependent random environments

Martin Slowik (Berlin).

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

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Concentration of tempered posteriors and of their variational approximations

Pierre Alquier, ENSAE.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)5.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The smoothed KPZ equation in dimension three and higher: Edwards-Wilkinson regime of its fluctuations and its localization properties

Chiranjib Mukherjee (Munster).

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

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

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

Laurent Massoulié, INRIA.

MR12.

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Loop Correlations in Random Wire Models

Costanza Benassi (Northumbria).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

The TAP-Plefka variational principle for mean field spin glasses

David Belius (Basel).

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

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Towards a better understanding of early stopping for boosting algorithms

Yuting Wei, Stanford University.

MR12.

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

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

Volatility and arbitrage: short- and long-term relative arbitrage in stochastic portfolio theory

Johannes Ruf, LSE.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)5.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Newton-Cartan Gravity with Unconstrained Torsion: a Galilean General Theory of Gravity

Marco Cariglia (U. Fed. Ouro Preto, Brazil).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Nonpositive curvature is not coarsely universal

Alexandros Eskenazis (Princeton).

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

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Bayesian regression models for complex spatially or serially correlated functional data

Jeffrey Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

MR12.

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Making Sense of the Standard Model: an Exceptional Quantum Algebra

Note -- on THURSDAY

Ivan Todorov (Sofia, Bulgaria).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Mixing time for the non-babktracking random walk on random graphs with communities

Anna Ben-Hamou (Paris).

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

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nonparametric Bayes for support boundary recovery

Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Kinks with Long-range Tails

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Last-Passage Percolation with constraints, and applications to polymers in random environment

Quentin Berger (Paris).

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

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

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

Emanuele Dolera, Università degli Studi di Pavia.

MR12.

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

Statistics

Heteroskedastic PCA: Algorithm, Optimality, and Applications

Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania.

MR13.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Why is cancer survival lower in England than in other high income countries?

Sarah Walters & Sara Benitez Majano, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 19:15-21:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

When Statistics Meets Computing

Professor Tony Cai (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Skyrmion Vibrations

Chris Halcrow (Leeds).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Invariance principle for the random Lorentz gas beyond the [Boltzmann-Grad / Gallavotti-Spohn] limit

Balint Toth (Bristol).

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

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 19 September 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The Dirichlet problem for circle packings

Asaf Nachmias (Tel Aviv).

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

Tuesday 18 September 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 15 August 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Delocalization of uniform graph homomorphisms from Z^2 to Z

Martin Tassy (Dartmouth).

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

Tuesday 07 August 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 18 July 2018, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

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

Joel Tropp (Caltech).

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Polluted Bootstrap Percolation

Alexander E Holroyd.

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

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

What is the dimension of a stochastic process?

Victor Panaretos (EPFL).

MR11.

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

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sabyasachi Chatterjee (UIUC).

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 21 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

High-density hard-core configurations on a triangular lattice

Yuri Suhov (Penn State and Statslab).

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

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A particle model for Wasserstein type diffusion

Vitalii Konarovskyi.

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

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization

Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India).

MR14.

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

Statistics

Bayesian estimation of the mean response in a missing data model

Kolyan Ray (King's College London).

MR12.

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

Probability

The criticality of a randomly-driven front

Amir Dembo (Stanford).

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

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Multiple change point estimation based on moving sum statistics

Claudia Kirch (Magdeburg).

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

First passage percolation in hostile environment (on hyperbolic graphs)

Elisabetta Candellero (Warwick).

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

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Asymptotics for 2D critical and near-critical first-passage percolation

Changlong Yao (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

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

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Orbit recovery from invariants

Jonathan Weed (MIT).

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Statistical Methods in Pre- and Clinical Drug Development: Tumour Growth-Inhibition Model Example

Robert Kozarski, AstraZeneca.

Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park, CB4 0WG.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (back building, ground floor).

Wednesday 28 March 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Extremal and local statistics for gradient field models

Wei Wu (Warwick).

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

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 16:15-17:15

Probability

Parking

Matthew Junge.

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

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Recurrence of the vertex-reinforced jump process in two dimensions

Tyler Helmuth (Bristol).

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

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

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

Claire Boyer (UPMC).

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Solving the Reproducibility Crisis

Nicole Janz, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

The Music Room, Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1DQ.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Criticality in random transposition random walk

Dominic Yeo (Technion, Haifa).

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

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Approximations of the Restless Bandit Problem

Azadeh Khaleghi (Lancaster).

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

Ben Wallace (IST, Austria).

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

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 16:15-17:15

Probability

The Fyodorov-Bouchaud conjecture and Liouville conformal field theory

Guillaume Remy (ENS Paris).

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

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Determinantal structures in (2+1)-dimensional growth and decay models

Theodoros Assiotis (Warwick).

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

Tuesday 30 January 2018, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Bayesian nonparametric estimation of the intensities in multivariate Hawkes processes

Judith Rousseau (Oxford).

MR12.

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

Probability

Variation of the Nazarov-Sodin constant for random plane waves and arithmetic random waves

Igor Wigman (King's College, London).

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

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Christmas Vacation 2017

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 06 December 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Improved bounds for sampling colorings of sparse random graphs

Charis Efthymiou (Frankfurt).

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

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

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

Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley).

MR12.

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

Statistics

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

Xiaohong Chen (Yale).

MR12.

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

Probability

Statistical mechanics on nonamenable graphs

Tom Hutchcroft (Cambridge) .

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

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Learning from MOM's principles

Guillaume Lecué (ENSAE).

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The frequency of ‘America’ in America

Adam Kashlak, Statistical Laboratory.

Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Macroscopic loops in the loop O(n) model

Yinon Spinka (Tel Aviv).

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

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Accelerated Consensus via Min-Sum Splitting

Patrick Rebeschini (Oxford).

MR12.

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

Probability

Limit theory for statistics of random geometric structures

Joe Yukich (Lehigh University).

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

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Matrix Dyson equation and random matrices with correlations

Laszlo Erdös (IST Austria).

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

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Online nonparametric regression with adversarial data

Pierre Gaillard (INRIA Paris).

MR12.

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

Probability

Random cluster dynamics for the Ising model is rapidly mixing

Mark Jerrum (Queen Mary, London).

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

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Analysis of regularized inversion of data corrupted by white Gaussian noise

Hanne Kekonnen.

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Approximating conditional distributions

Alessandra Cipriani (Bath).

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

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Probabilistic machine learning: foundations and frontiers

Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering.

Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Haldane relation for interacting dimers

Alessandro Giuliani (Rome 3).

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

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

CCIMI Seminar: Kernel-based Methods for Bandit Convex Optimization

Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond).

MR12.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 20 September 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 23 August 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 12 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 July 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The Laplacian on some finitely ramified self-conformal circle packing fractals and Weyl's asymptotics for its eigenvalues

Naotaka Kajino (Kobe University, Japan).

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

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

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

Ahmed El Alaoui (UC Berkeley).

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

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

Statistics

Variable clustering: optimal bounds and a convex approach

Nicolas Verzelen (INRA).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 14 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The Structure of Extreme Level Sets in Branching Brownian Motion

Lisa Hartung (NYU).

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

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Testing

Guang Cheng (Purdue).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

How to replace random walk representations in models that don't have one?

Erwin Bolthausen (Zurich).

MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

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

Mihai Cucuringu (Oxford).

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

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

Statistics

Constrained low-rank matrix estimation

Lenka Zdeborova (IPhT).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Probabilizing Parking Functions

Persi Diaconis (Stanford).

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

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

CMS Colloquia

Bose in Boxes

Persi Diaconis (Stanford).

CMS, MR2.

Monday 08 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Statistical challenges posed by the analyses of the human microbiome

Susan Holmes (Stanford).

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

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

Statistics

The Bouncy Particle Sampler

Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (UBC).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Innovative statistical approaches for studies in anti-infective drug combination development

Alun Bedding (Roche Products).

Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Sharpness of the phase transition for random-cluster and Potts model via decision trees

Aran Raoufi (Geneva).

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

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

Probability

Variational principles for discrete maps

Martin Tassy (UCLA).

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

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Geometric aspects of Statistical Learning Theory

Shahar Mendelson (ANU).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Vacation 2017

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 12 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Mapping regulatory variation in human cells

Daniel Gaffney, Sanger Institute.

Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 03 April 2017, 19:15-21:30

Probability

The distribution of ζ'/ζ about a random point on the critical line

Sasha Sodin (Queen Mary, London).

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

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Discrete structures and prediction in Bayesian Nonparametrics

Igor Pruenster (Universita' Bocconi).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

A lab of one’s own: science & suffrage in the First World War

Patricia Fara, Clare College.

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 19:15-21:30

Probability

The front location in branching Brownian motion with decay of mass

Sarah Pennington (Oxford).

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

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Spectral radii of sparse random matrices

Antti Knowles (Geneva).

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

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 15:15-16:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Quantum ergodicity and Benjamini-Schramm convergence of hyperbolic surfaces

Etienne Le Masson (Bristol).

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

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

NATO: Hobbes to Trump - Motion and Emotion - Can Mathematicians help?

James Bergeron, NATO.

CMS, MR2.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Probability

Invariance principle for random walk in time-dependent balanced random environment

Jean-Dominique Deuschel (Berlin).

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

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

High frequency statistics of semimartingales

Mark Podolskij (Aarhus).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Hook-up probabilities for conformal loop ensembles

Wendelin Werner (ETH).

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

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

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

Haeran Cho (Bristol).

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

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

Probability

Eigenvectors and spectral measure of random regular graphs of fixed degree

Roland Bauerschmidt (Cambridge) .

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

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Sleeping Beauty’s Credences

Mark Schervisch (CMU).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

What can gambling machine data tell us about betting behaviour?

David Excell, Featurespace.

Coslett Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 18:45-21:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Percolation games

James Martin (Oxford).

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

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Delocalising the parabolic Anderson model

Nadia Sidorova (UCL).

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

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

High-Dimensional Bayesian Geostatistics

Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic, Christmas Vacation 2016

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 14 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Gaussian vectors, half-spaces, and convexity

Joe Neeman (UT Austin & Bonn).

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

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

Statistics

Measuring sample quality with diffusions

Sebastian Vollmer (Oxford).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Diffusion processes on branching Brownian motion

Sebastian Andres (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Use of historical information to supplement a future study: opportunity and difficulty

Nick Galwey, GlaxoSmithKline.

Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Monday 21 November 2016, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Principal Nested Shape Space Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Data

Ian Dryden (Nottingham).

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

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

Probability

Critical branching diffusions in bounded domains.

Ellen Powell (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

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

Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech..

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (First floor, Pavillion B).

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

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

Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech..

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

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

Probability

Quasilinear SPDEs via rough paths

Hendrik Weber (Warwick).

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

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Constrained and Localized Nonparametric Estimation and Optimization

John Lafferty (U of Chicago).

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

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

Probability

Exceptional times of the critical Erdős-Rényi graph

Matt Roberts (Bath).

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

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Normal Approximation and Concentration for Functions of Sample Covariance Operators

Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Discontinuity of the phase transition for the planar random-cluster and Potts models with q > 4

Matan Harel (IHES Paris).

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

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Double random currents, dimers and trees

Marcin Lis (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 15:15-16:15

Statistics

Minimax adaptive estimation in nonparametric Hidden Markov Models

Yohann de Castro (Paris Sud - Orsay).

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

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

Probability

Small-time fluctuations for sub-Riemannian diffusion loops

Karen Habermann (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Community Detection on the Weighted Stochastic Block Model

Min Xu (U Penn).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Driving the Robustness of Preclinical Research within the Pharmaceutical Industry

Katrina Gore, formerly of Pfizer Neusentis.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Local time at zero metric associated to a GFF on a cable graph.

Titus Lupu (ETH Zurich).

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

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

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

Francis Bach (INRIA).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation 2016 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 07 September 2016, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation 2016 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 10 August 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Weighted information and weighted entropy

I Stuhl (Denver/Debrecen) and Y Suhov (Penn State/Cambridge).

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

Monday 01 August 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation 2016 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 July 2016, 16:30-18:00

CMS Colloquia

Topology of the set of singularities of viscosity solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation

Albert Fathi (ENS Lyon).

CMS, MR12.

Monday 27 June 2016, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Chaining and convexity

Ramon van Handel (Princeton).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - IV (Note Early Start Time)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (First floor, Pavillion B).

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 15:00-16:30

Statistics

A Bayesian nonparametric approach to testing for dependence between random variables

Sarah Filippi (Oxford).

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

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

Probability

Biased Random Walks among random conductances

Nina Gantert (TU Munich).

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

Tuesday 31 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (First floor, Pavillion B).

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Perturbative regimes for deterministic dynamics of a diluted gas of hard spheres

Thierry Bodineau (École Polytechnique).

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

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Conformal restriction: the trichordal case

Wei Qian (ETH).

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

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 15:15-16:15

Statistics

Distance Shrinkage and Euclidean Embedding via Regularized Kernel Estimation

Ming Yuan (U. of Wisconsin).

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

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Dimers Day in Cambridge

Boutiller, Chhita, Dubedat, Laslier, Toninelli.

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Statistics

Tail index estimation, concentration, adaptation...

Stéphane Boucheron (Paris Diderot).

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

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

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat.

CMS MR5.

Friday 20 May 2016, 11:00-12:30

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat.

CMS MR5.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 10:30-12:30

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat.

CMS MR5.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat.

CMS MR5.

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat .

CMS MR5.

Monday 16 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Statistics

Random warping functions for function/curve registration

Karthik Bharath (Nottingham).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - II (Note Room Change)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Growth exponent for loop-erased random walk in 3 dimensions

Daisuke Shiraishi (Kyoto and ETH).

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

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Computational Challenges in Sleeping Combinatorial Experts

Varun Kanade (Oxford).

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

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

Probability

A new proof of Friedman’s second eigenvalue Theorem and its extensions

Charles Bordenave (Toulouse).

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

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Risk prediction for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases

Lisa Pennells, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

From disorder relevance to the 2d Stochastic Heat Equation.

Nikolaos Zygouras (Warwick).

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

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

The information complexity of sequential resource allocation

Emilie Kaufmann (INRIA LIlle).

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

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

CMS Colloquia

Publicising Surgeons' Performance: the Maths of Naming and Shaming

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, DPMMS.

CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 14:50-15:15

CMS Colloquia

Computational Biology

Dr Stephen Eglen, DAMTP.

CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 14:25-14:50

CMS Colloquia

Seeing More in Images - a Mathematical Perspective

Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Director, Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information and Head of Cambridge Image Analysis, DAMTP.

CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 14:00-14:25

CMS Colloquia

Calculating Implied Volatility

Dr Mike Tehranchi, Statistical Laboratory, DPMMS.

CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 12:35-13:00

CMS Colloquia

Quantum Computing

Professor Richard Jozsa, Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics, DAMTP.

CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 12:10-12:35

CMS Colloquia

Extreme Universe Computing

Professor Paul Shellard, Director, Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.

CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 11:45-12:10

CMS Colloquia

Analysis of Motion Data for Healthcare and Rehabilitation

Dr Joan Lasenby, Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory, Department of Engineering.

CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 11:00-11:25

CMS Colloquia

The Particulars of Particulates

Dr Nathalie Vriend, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, DAMTP.

CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 10:35-11:00

CMS Colloquia

New Materials by Design

Professor Mike Cates, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP.

CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 10:10-10:35

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Vacation 2016

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 April 2016, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Genome-wide association studies: in search of common and low frequency variants in complex traits

Ioanna Tachmazidou, Sanger Institute.

Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 07 April 2016, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Signal Recovery from Scattering Convolutional Neural Networks

Joan Bruna (Berkeley).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Measuring Ethnicity in the NHS

Katie Saunders, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research.

Lloyd Room, Christ's College, Saint Andrews Street, Cambridge CB2 3BU.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Steiner trees in the stochastic mean-field model of distance

Ayalvadi Ganesh (Bristol).

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

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Update Tolerance in Uniform Spanning Forests

Tom Hutchcroft (UBC).

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

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

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

Mathias Trabs (CEREMADE, Paris Dauphine).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Random geodesics for the corner growth model

Nicos Georgiou (Sussex).

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

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

*CYCLING PATHWAYS TO OCCUPY MARS*

This talk will be streamed to MR3 and MR15

Dr Buzz Aldrin.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Statistically optimal robust estimation of the precision matrix by convex programming

Arnak Dalayan (ENSAE).

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

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

Probability

Scaling limits of random walks and their time changes on trees and other graphs

David Croydon (Warwick).

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

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Ordering random variables and racing prime numbers

Adam Harper (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Probability

A rough describtion of local sets of bounded type for the Gaussian free field

Juhan Aru (ETH).

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

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

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

Rui Castro (Eindhoven).

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

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

Probability

Cutoff for the random walk on random directed graphs

Justin Salez.

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

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

My Fisher: Memories of R.A. Fisher by his last student

Anthony Edwards, Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge.

Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Monday 08 February 2016, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Statistical algorithms and planted satisfiability problems

Will Perkins (Birmingham).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

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

Gah-Yi Vahn (London School of Business).

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

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

Probability

Non-extensive condensation in reinforced branching processes

Cécile Mailler .

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

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

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

Clifford Lam (LSE).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Condensation of a self-attracting random walk

Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 15:00-16:00

CMS Colloquia

The black hole information paradox re-visited

Andrew Strominger, Gwill E. York Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 18 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

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

Jelena Bradic (UC San Diego).

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

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

Statistics

Graph-Guided Banding for Covariance Estimation

Jacob Bien (Cornell University).

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

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

Statistics

Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures

François Caron (Oxford).

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

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

Probability

Monodromies of ramified random coverings and geometry on partitions

Franck Gabriel (Warwick).

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

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Exact simulation of the Wright-Fisher diffusion

Paul Jenkins (Warwick).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The phase transition in bounded-size Achlioptas processes

Lutz Warnke (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

Langlands and arithmetic

Jack Thorne (Cambridge).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 23 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

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

Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley).

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

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

Probability

Weakly asymmetric bridges and the KPZ equation

Cyril Labbé (Paris-Dauphine).

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

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

How to initialise a second class particle?

Marton Balazs (Bristol).

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

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Variation in measures and markers of timeliness of diagnosis in cancer

Yoryos Lyratzopoulos, Cancer Epidemiology & Cancer Research-UK.

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambidge.

Monday 16 November 2015, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Fixed-energy harmonic functions

Richard Kenyon (Brown).

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

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

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

Ian Jermyn (Durham).

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

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

Statistics

Efficient and Parsimonious Agnostic Active Learning

Alekh Agarwal (Microsoft Research NY) .

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

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

Probability

Every planar graph with the Liouville property is amenable

Johannes Carmesin (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Highly-Smooth Zero-th Order Online Optimization

Vianney Perchet (INRIA & Paris Diderot).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Dimers on Rail Yard Graphs

Sanjay Ramassamy (Brown).

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

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

On the support of extremal martingale measures with given marginals: the countable case

Luciano Campi.

CMS, MR15.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

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

Jon Wellner (University of Washington).

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

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

Probability

Random walks on groups and the Kaimanovich-Vershik conjecture

Russell Lyons (Indiana University).

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

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Hyperplane arrangements and Stopping times

Evita Nestoridi (Stanford).

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

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

CMS Colloquia

Computation, Dynamics, Evidence, and Experience: Quantum Computing Colloquium

Charlie Bennett (Variously Principal Scientist, Fellow, IBM Research Headquarters, NY).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 19 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Nonstandard complete class theorems

Daniel Roy (University of Toronto).

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - I (please note early start time)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Fundamental Fallacies of Finance

Chris Rogers, Statistical Laboratory.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Lévy master fields on the plane

Antoine Dahlqvist (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2015 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 16 September 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2015 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 August 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2015 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 15 July 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The master field on the plane

Thierry Levy (UPMC).

Seminar Room 2 Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge.

Tuesday 23 June 2015, 15:00-16:00

Rollo Davidson Lectures

Random walk on the random graph

Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research, Redmond).

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

Friday 12 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Easter - IV (earlier start time, 1530-1700)

Important: time change due to the statslab summer party on 10 Jun. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 15:30-17:00

Probability

Diffusivity of random walks in random environments

Balint Toth (Bristol and Budapest).

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

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Markov model of a limit order book: thresholds, recurrence, and trading strategies

Frank Kelly (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Incentive Mechanisms for User-Provided Networks

note unusual time and place

Jianwei Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 08 June 2015, 15:15-16:15

Probability

The full extremal process of the discrete Gaussian free field in 2D

Oren Louidor (Technion).

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

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

A KPZ formula for SLE and Brownian motion

Nina Holden (MIT).

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

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

A Conditional Dependence Measure with Applications to Undirected Graphical Models

Yang Feng, Columbia University.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2015 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Fluctuation results for Hastings-Levitov planar growth

Vittoria Silvestri (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Amenability of automata groups

Omer Angel (UBC).

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

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Random Walk in a Queueing-Network Environment and Related Problems

Yuri Suhov (Pennsylvania State University and Statslab).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Third and Fourth Cumulants in Independent Component Analysis

Hannu Oja, University of Turku.

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

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

Statistics

Analysis of complex phenotypes in genomics

Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

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

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

Probability

Frozen percolation

Rob van den Berg (CWI Amsterdam).

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

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Recent applications of a rigorous renormalisation group method to critical phenomena

Gordon Slade (University of British Columbia).

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

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Text Mining in Dynamic Networks of Documents

David Banks, Duke University.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2015 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Random cascade measures and self-similar structures

Kenneth Falconer (St. Andrews).

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

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Group Walk Random Graphs

A. Georgakopoulos (Warwick).

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

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

General Bayesian updating and model misspecification

Chris Holmes, University of Oxford.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The cost of saving nature: how much and is it a price worth paying

Donal McCarthy, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Amgen Limited, Cambridge Science Park.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 19:15-21:30

Probability

On Talagrand's convolution conjecture in Gaussian space

Ronen Eldan (Berkeley).

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

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Locality of critical points: the connective constant

Geoffrey Grimmett (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Robust Matrix Completion

Olga Klopp, Université Paris Ouest.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2015 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

On a simple model of deposition

Amine Asselah (Paris 12).

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

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Stochastic dynamics of discrete interfaces and dimer models

Benoit Laslier (Statslab).

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

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

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

Marianne Clausel, University of Grenoble.

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

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

Statistics

A Framework for Elastic Shape Analysis of Objects

Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Break II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 15 April 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Conformally invariant loop measures

Stéphane Benoist (Columbia).

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

Tuesday 14 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Planar maps, circle patterns, conformal point processes and 2D gravity

François David (CEA).

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

Tuesday 14 April 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

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

Note the different room

José Zubizarreta, Columbia University.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Blyth abandoned: sound science or flawed policy?

Richard Steward, Blyth Estuary Group.

Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 26 March 2015, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Break I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 25 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Invariants of Random Knots

Chaim Even Zohar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

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

Tuesday 24 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Random loop models and quantum spin systems

Daniel Ueltschi (Warwick).

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

Tuesday 24 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

Probability

On the Gibbs states of the Ising and Potts models

Loren Coquille, Bonn University.

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

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

The maximal particle of branching random walk in random environment

Alexander Drewitz (Columbia).

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

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Resource Allocation for Statistical Estimation

Quentin Berthet, California Institute of Technology.

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

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

Statistics

Sparse CCA: Statistical and Computational Limits

Chao Gao, Yale University.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Statistics and Examinations

Tom Bramley, Cambridge Assessment.

Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

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

Genevera Allen, Rice University.

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

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

Probability

Metropolis dynamics of mean-field spin glasses

Jiri Cerny, Vienna.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Cluster growth in a forest fire model

Nic Freeman, Bristol.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

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

Julien Mairal, INRIA, Grenoble.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Continuity and stability of the cut locus of the Brownian map

Brett Kolesnik (UBC).

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

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

CMS Colloquia

Purely Kinetic Lagrangians.

Professor Nick Manton, DAMTP..

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 23 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Spectral thresholding in quantum state estimation for low rank states

Madalin Guta, University of Nottingham.

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

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

probability

Liouville Brownian motion and thick points of the Gaussian free field

This talk has been canceled/deleted

Henry Jackson, Cambridge.

MR12, CMS.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Liouville Brownian motion and thick points of the Gaussian free field

Henry Jackson, Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Some ideas in nonparametric estimation

Piotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Analysis of a stochastic branching recursion related to the Anderson transition

Dr. Christian Webb.

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

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 15:45-16:45

Statistics

Algorithmic Approaches to Statistical Estimation under Structural Constraints

Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Approximation in Stochastic Scheduling

Nicole Megow (TU Berlin).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

On reading Bernoulli’s Ars conjectandi 1713

Anthony Edwards, Gonville and Caius.

Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Monday 02 February 2015, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Bayesian nonparametrics with heterogeneous data

Antonio Lijoi, University of Pavia.

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

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

Statistics

A novel (pre-)metric for causal graphs

Jonas Peters, ETH Zürich.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:30-18:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

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

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

MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Skill based parallel servers under FCFS-ALIS and infinite bipartite matching

note unusual time and place

Gideon Weiss (University of Haifa).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

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

David Rossel, University of Warwick.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Random Dirichlet series arising from records

Dr Ryokichi Tanaka, Tohoku University .

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

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 15:30-16:30

Statistics

Dynamic functional principal components

Siegfried Hörmann, Université libre de Bruxelles.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic IV - Michaelmas 2014

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

On the peeling process of random planar maps

Professor Nicolas Curien, Universite Paris-Sud Orsay .

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

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Efficient Advert Assignment

Peter Key (MSR Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Analysis and Forecasting of Locally Stationary Time Series

Guy Nason, University of Bristol.

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

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

Probability

Bernoulli convolutions for algebraic parameters

Dr Peter Varju, University of Cambridge .

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

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Algorithms as Mechanisms: The Price of Anarchy of Relax and Round

Paul Dütting (LSE).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Reflections on a career as a professional statistician and the increasing value of the role of professional bodies

Trevor Lewis, PhD, CStat, CSci, PStat, Director, TLwise Consulting Limited and RSS Theme Director for Professional Affairs.

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambidge.

Monday 17 November 2014, 19:15-21:30

CMS Colloquia

Wild and tame behaviour in group theory

Henry Wilton (DPMMS, Cambridge).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 17 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Average derivative projection pursuit regression

Frédéric Ferraty, Toulouse.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic III - Michaelmas 2014

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Maximal couplings and geometry

Dr Sayan Banerjee, University of Warwick.

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

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Elicitation for Aggregation

Ian Kash (MSR Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Ranking from pairwise comparisons using Seriation

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

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

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

Probability

The characteristic polynomial of a random unitary matrix and Gaussian multiplicative chaos.

Dr Christian Webb, Aalto University, Finland .

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

Tuesday 04 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Low rank as a model for quantum and classical estimation problems

David Gross, University of Freiburg.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic II - Michaelmas 2014

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Scaling limit of the largest clusters in critical percolation and FK-Ising models in two dimensions

Dr Demeter Kiss, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Framework for Decentralised Combinatorial Auctions with Applications to Subadditive Bidders

Richard Steinberg (LSE).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Adaptive posterior contraction

Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

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

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