Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

Tatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

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

Sam Livingstone (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

On optimal treatment regimes assisted by algorithms

Mats Stensrud (EPFL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

Stefan Wager (Stanford University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Nonparametric classification with missing data

Tim Cannings, University of Edinburgh.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

Purnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Learning with latent symmetries

Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

On Independent Samples along the Langevin Dynamics and Algorithm

Andre Wibisono, Yale University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

Alexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

Sara van de Geer, ETH Zürich.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Spatial causal inference in the presence of unmeasured confounding and interference

Georgia Padadogeorgou, University of Florida.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Quantitative Uniform Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure

George Degliannidis, University of Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Concentration and Free Probability

Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

Anna Calissano (Imperial College).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

Giovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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

Hélène Halconruy (Télécom SudParis).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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

Marco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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

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

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

Perrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms

Kengo Kato (Cornell University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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

Stefano Favaro (University of Turin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Adaptive two-sample testing

Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Residual Permutation Test for High-Dimensional Regression Coefficient Testing

Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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

Canceled

Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

John Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Simultaneous Directional Inference

Room changed

Ruth Heller (Tel-Aviv University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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

Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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

Laura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

A powerful empirical Bayes approach for high dimensional replicability analysis

Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

Hongyu Zhao (Yale University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

Ricardo Silva (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

Robin Evans (University of Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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

Joint Statistics and CCIMI Seminar (note unusual time)

Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

Joshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

Ieva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

Alastair Young (Imperial College, London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

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

John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Local Independence Graphs

Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

Liza Levina (Michigan).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks

Min Xu (Rutgers University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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

Sam Power (University of Bristol).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning

Statistics and CCIMI seminar, followed by a drinks reception

Victor Chernozhukov (MIT).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

(CANCELLED) Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

Ricardo Silva (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

A machine learning approach for causal structure estimation in high dimensions

Sach Mukherjee (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

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

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

Optimal prediction of Markov chains without mixing conditions

Yihong Wu (Yale University).

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

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

Minimum L1-norm interpolators: Precise asymptotics and multiple descent

Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Demystifying Deep Learning

Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Random Planted Forest: a directly interpretable tree ensemble

Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University).

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

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

Interpretable Model-Independent Detection of New Physics Signals

Purvasha Chakravarti (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Robust inference for intractable likelihood models using kernel divergences

Francois-Xavier Briol (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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

Tengyao Wang (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

CANCELLED: Systematic inducement of sparsity

Heather Battey (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

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

Richard Guo (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Random Graph Asymptotics for Treatment Effect Estimation under Network Interference

Shuangning Li (Stanford University).

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

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

New Approaches for Inference on Optimal Treatment Regimes

Lan Wang (University of Miami).

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

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

MARS via LASSO

Aditya Guntuboyina (UC Berkeley).

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

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

Kernel Thinning and Stein Thinning

Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

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

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

Global testing for dependent Bernoullis

Sumit Mukherjee (Columbia University).

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

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

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

Rina Foygel Barber, University of Chicago.

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

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

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

Bhaswar Bhattacharya, University of Pennsylvania.

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

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

Correlated randomly growing graphs

Miklos Racz, Princeton University.

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

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

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

Yuansi Chen, Duke University.

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

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

Functional Models for Time Varying Random Objects

Paromita Dubey, Stanford University.

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

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

Seminar Cancelled

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

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

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

Optimal rates for independence testing via U-statistic permutation tests

Tom Berrett, University of Warwick.

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

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

Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets

Stephen Bates, University of California Berkeley.

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

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

A precise high-dimensional asymptotic theory for Adaboost

Pragya Sur (Harvard University).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

Venue to be confirmed.

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

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

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

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

Neyman-Pearson Classification

Xin Tong, University of Southern California.

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

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

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

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

Network change point detection

Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

MR12.

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

Selection bias, missing data and causal inference

Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

MR12.

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

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

Posterior contraction rates for potentially nonlinear inverse problems

Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

MR12.

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

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

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

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

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

Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions

Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MR12.

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

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

Optimal Transport for Machine Learning

Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

MR12.

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

Multiscale Analysis of Bayesian CART

Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

MR12.

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

Identifying Cointegration by Eigenanalysis

Qiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

MR12.

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

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

On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models

Song Liu — University of Bristol.

MR12.

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

Asymptotic normality of certain transformation averages

Peter Orbanz — University College London.

MR12.

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

Distributed Statistics à la Economics

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

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

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

On the robustness of gradient-based MCMC algorithms

Sam Livingstone — University College London.

MR12.

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

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

Geometrizing rates of convergence under local differential privacy

Lukas Steinberger, University of Freiburg.

MR12.

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

Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models

Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

MR12.

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

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

Communication in the presence of sparsity

Yiannis Kontoyiannis (Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

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

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

Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

MR12.

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

On distributed Bayesian computation

Harry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

MR12.

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

On the Consistency of Supervised Learning with Missing Values

Julie Josse, École Polytechnique.

MR12.

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

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable methods for machine learning optimisation

Milan Vojnovic (LSE).

MR12.

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

[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

Nuisance parameters

Heather Battey, Imperial College London.

MR12.

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

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

Analysis of Networks via the Sparse β-Model

Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

MR12.

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

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

On the fundamental understanding of distributed computation

Botond Szabó, University of Leiden.

MR12.

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

Post-selection confidence intervals and confidence curves

Gerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

MR12.

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

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

Sylvain Sardy, Université de Genève.

MR12.

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

Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems

Alexandros Beskos, University College London .

MR12.

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

On the hypocoercivity of some PDMP-Monte Carlo algorithms

Christophe Andrieu, University of Bristol.

MR12.

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

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

Concentration of tempered posteriors and of their variational approximations

Pierre Alquier, ENSAE.

MR12.

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

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

Laurent Massoulié, INRIA.

MR12.

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

Towards a better understanding of early stopping for boosting algorithms

Yuting Wei, Stanford University.

MR12.

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

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

Nonparametric Bayes for support boundary recovery

Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

MR12.

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

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

Heteroskedastic PCA: Algorithm, Optimality, and Applications

Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania.

MR13.

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

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

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

Joel Tropp (Caltech).

MR12.

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

What is the dimension of a stochastic process?

Victor Panaretos (EPFL).

MR11.

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

Title to be confirmed

Sabyasachi Chatterjee (UIUC).

MR12.

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

On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization

Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India).

MR14.

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

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

Multiple change point estimation based on moving sum statistics

Claudia Kirch (Magdeburg).

MR12.

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

Orbit recovery from invariants

Jonathan Weed (MIT).

MR12.

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

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

Approximations of the Restless Bandit Problem

Azadeh Khaleghi (Lancaster).

MR12.

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

Bayesian nonparametric estimation of the intensities in multivariate Hawkes processes

Judith Rousseau (Oxford).

MR12.

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

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

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

Learning from MOM's principles

Guillaume Lecué (ENSAE).

MR12.

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

Accelerated Consensus via Min-Sum Splitting

Patrick Rebeschini (Oxford).

MR12.

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

Online nonparametric regression with adversarial data

Pierre Gaillard (INRIA Paris).

MR12.

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

Analysis of regularized inversion of data corrupted by white Gaussian noise

Hanne Kekonnen.

MR12.

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

CCIMI Seminar: Kernel-based Methods for Bandit Convex Optimization

Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond).

MR12.

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

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

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

Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Testing

Guang Cheng (Purdue).

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

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

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

Mihai Cucuringu (Oxford).

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

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

Constrained low-rank matrix estimation

Lenka Zdeborova (IPhT).

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

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

Statistical challenges posed by the analyses of the human microbiome

Susan Holmes (Stanford).

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

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

The Bouncy Particle Sampler

Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (UBC).

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

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

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

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

High frequency statistics of semimartingales

Mark Podolskij (Aarhus).

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

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

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

Haeran Cho (Bristol).

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

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

Sleeping Beauty’s Credences

Mark Schervisch (CMU).

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

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

High-Dimensional Bayesian Geostatistics

Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA).

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

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

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

Measuring sample quality with diffusions

Sebastian Vollmer (Oxford).

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

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

Principal Nested Shape Space Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Data

Ian Dryden (Nottingham).

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

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

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

Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech..

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

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

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

Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chaining and convexity

Ramon van Handel (Princeton).

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

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

A Bayesian nonparametric approach to testing for dependence between random variables

Sarah Filippi (Oxford).

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

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

Distance Shrinkage and Euclidean Embedding via Regularized Kernel Estimation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robust Matrix Completion

Olga Klopp, Université Paris Ouest.

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

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

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

Marianne Clausel, University of Grenoble.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Average derivative projection pursuit regression

Frédéric Ferraty, Toulouse.

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

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

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

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

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

Flexible multiple testing using closed testing and Simes

Jelle Goeman, Radboud University Medical Center.

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

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

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

Richard Huggins, University of Melbourne.

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

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

Selection and estimation in sparse, high-dimensional models

Maarten Jansen, Université libre de Bruxelles.

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

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Peter Whittle Colloquium

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

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Adaptive Piecewise Polynomial Estimation via Trend Filtering

Ryan J. Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University.

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

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

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

Cécile Durot, Université Paris-Sud.

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

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

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

Sofia Olhede, University College London.

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

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

Information Geometry: From Divergence Functions to Geometric Structures

Jun Zhang, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

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

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

It is hard to be strongly faithful

Caroline Uhler, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

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

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

Limit theorems for nearly unstable Hawkes processes

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

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

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

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

Yee Whye Teh, University of Oxford.

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

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

Statistical modelling of networks in disease biology

Sach Mukherjee, MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge.

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

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

Invariant Coordinate Selection revisited: Fisher Symmetry and Symmetric Component Analysis

Frank Critchley, Open University.

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

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

High-Dimensional Covariance Structure Estimation

Zhao Ren, Yale University.

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

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

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

Marc Hallin, Université libre de Bruxelles.

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

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

Asymptotics for In-Sample Density Forecasting

Enno Mammen, University of Mannheim.

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

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

Stein's method, information theory and Bayesian statistics

Christophe Ley, Université libre de Bruxelles.

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

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

Detection of Changepoints in Multiple Channels

David Siegmund, Stanford University.

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

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

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

Anthony Lee, University of Warwick.

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

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

Sharp bounds for compressive learning

Ata Kaban, University of Birmingham.

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

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

High Dimensional Influence Measure

Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

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

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

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

Robin Henderson, Newcastle University.

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

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

High-dimensional causal inference

Marloes Maathuis, ETH Zürich.

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

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

The use of survey weights in regression modelling

Chris Skinner, London School of Economics.

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

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

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

Andrew Barron, Yale University.

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

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

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

Estate Khmaladze, Victoria University of Wellington.

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

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

Nonparametric estimation under shape constraints

Piet Groeneboom, Delft University.

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

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

Matching Quantiles Estimation

Qiwei Yao, London School of Economics.

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

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

Implementing (Multiple) Monte Carlo Tests

Axel Gandy, Imperial College London.

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

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

The Geometry of Needlets Excursion Sets

Domenico Marinucci, University of Roma Tor Vergata.

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

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

Discrete Fourier transform methods in the analysis of nonstationary time series

Suhasini Subba Rao, Texas A&M University.

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

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

What is the chance that the match is coincidence?

Richard Gill, Leiden University.

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

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

Classification Using Censored Functional Data

Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne.

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

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

On the Computational and Statistical Interface and "Big Data"

Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley.

Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute.

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

From depth to local depth : a focus on centrality

Davy Paindaveine, Université libre de Bruxelles.

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

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

Approximating Data

Laurie Davies, Univeristy of Duisburg-Essen.

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

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

The Bayesian Approach To Inverse Problems

Andrew Stuart, University of Warwick.

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

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

Frequentist coverage and adaptation of nonparametric Bayesian credible sets

Harry van Zanten, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

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

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

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

Martin Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley.

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

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

Strong Oracle Optimality of Folded Concave Penalized Estimation

Jianqing Fan, Princeton University.

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

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

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

Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Bayesians Can't Handle the Truth

Cosma Shalizi, Carnegie Mellon University.

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

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

Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication

Rosemary Bailey, Queen Mary University of London.

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

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

Minimax Lower Bounds

Adityanand Guntuboyina, UC Berkeley.

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

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

Stability

Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley.

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

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

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

Geurt Jongbloed, TU Delft, EURANDOM.

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

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

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

Chris Jennison, University of Bath.

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

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

A semiparametric model for heterogeneous panel data with fixed effects

Oliver Linton, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Suprema of Chaos Processes and the Restricted Isometry Property

Felix Krahmer (Goettingen).

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

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

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

Peter Craigmile, University of Glasgow.

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

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

Nonparametric regression for locally stationary time series

Michael Vogt, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Model and estimator selection for density estimation with L2-loss

Lucien Birgé, Paris VI.

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

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

Continuous-time Importance Sampling for Multivariate Diffusions

Paul Fearnhead, Lancaster University.

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

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

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

Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

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

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

Modelling Network Data

Patrick Wolfe, University College London.

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

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

Statistical inference for compound regression

Alexandre Tsybakov, Université Paris VI.

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

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

From statistical estimation to well localized frames, via heat kernel

Gerard Kerkyacharian, Université Paris VI.

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

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

Grouping strategies for denoising

Dominique Picard.

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

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

Large-scale convex optimization for machine learning

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

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

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

Log-concave distributions: definitions, properties, and consequences

Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington.

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

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

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

Fadoua Balabdaoui, Université Paris Dauphine.

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

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

Hilbert Space Embedding of Probability Measures: Theory and Applications

Bharath Sriperumbudur.

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

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

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

Victor Panaretos, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.

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

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

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

Vincent Rivoirard, Université Paris-Dauphine.

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

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

Goodness-of-fit tests for noisy directional data

Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc, Université Paris Sud, Orsay.

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

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

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

Peter Grünwald, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam.

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

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

Marginal Models for Dependent, Clustered, and Longitudinal Categorical Data

Wicher Bergsma, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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

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

Approximate Bayesian Computation for model selection

Christian Robert, Universite Paris-Dauphine and IUF.

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

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

Random forests

Gérard Biau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

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

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

Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models

Samuel Kou, Harvard University.

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

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

Alias Detection and Spectral Correction for Locally Stationary Time Series

Idris Eckley, Lancaster University.

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

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

The aggregation problems in learning theory

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

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

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

Modelling electricity day-ahead prices by multivariate Levy semistationary processes

Almut Veraart, Imperial College London.

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

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

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

Sylvain Arlot, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

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

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

On adaptation of false discovery rate

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

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

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

Statistical Multiscale Analysis: From Signal Detection to Nanoscale Photonic Imaging

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

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

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

Focussed Information Criteria for Model Selection and Model Averaging

Nils Hjort, University of Oslo.

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

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

Bayesian inference for Markov processes with application to biochemical network dynamics

Darren Wilkinson, University of Newcastle.

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

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

Boundary estimation in the presence of measurement error with unknown variance

Ingrid van Keilegom, Université catholique de Louvain.

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

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

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

Tim Heaton (Sheffield).

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

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

Additive Models for Quantile Regression: Model Selection and Confidence Bandaids

Roger Koenker (Univ. Illinois).

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

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

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

Tatyana Krivobokova (Goettingen).

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

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

Hawkes process as models for some genomic data

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

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

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

Bernstein - von Mises Theorems for general functionals

Judith Rousseau (Paris Dauphine).

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

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

Bayesian non-parametric analysis of diffusions

Gareth Roberts (Warwick).

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

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

Likelihood Inference and Bayesian MCMC

Don Pierce (Oregon State University).

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

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of Mathematics and Biology

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

Wolfson Room (MR2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

M-estimation strategies for the ranking problem

Nicolas Vayatis, ENS Cachan.

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

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

Detecting Change Points in Multidimensional Functional Data

John Aston, Warwick.

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

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

Markov chain Monte Carlo on Riemann manifolds

Mark Girolami (UCL).

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

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

Approximate Inference for the Loss-Calibrated Bayesian

Simon Lacoste-Julien (Cambridge).

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

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

Bayesian semiparametrics with Gaussian process priors

Ismael Castillo (CNRS and Paris 6).

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

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

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

Natalia Bochkina (Edinburgh).

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

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

Concentration inequalities by the entropy method, variations

Stephane Boucheron (Universite Paris 7).

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

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

On adaptive nonparametric inference

Richard Nickl (Cambridge).

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

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

New Thinking about Statistical Inference and its Application to Climate Prediction

Arthur Dempster (Harvard).

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

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

Regret Bounds for Gaussian Process Bandit Problems

Steffen Grunewalder (University College London).

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

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

Applications of Bernstein polynomials in Statistics

Sonia Petrone (University Bocconi Milan).

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

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

Sparsity pattern aggregation for convex stochastic optimization.

Phillipe Rigollet (Princeton University).

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

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

Control variates for reversible MCMC samplers

Petros Dellaportas (Athens University).

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

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

Introduction to adaptive estimation

Oleg Lepski (Universite de Provence).

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

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

Sparse Recovery in Linear Spans and Convex Hulls of Infinite Dictionaries

Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech).

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

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

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

Karim Lounici (Cambridge).

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

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

A Look at Partial Projections for Regression onto Text

Matt Taddy (University of Chicago).

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

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

Approximation by Log-Concave Distributions

Lutz Dumbgen (University of Bern).

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

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

Postulating monotonicity in nonparametric Bayesian regression

Elja Arjas (University of Helsinki).

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

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

Sparse NonGaussian Component Analysis

Vladimir Spokoiny (Weierstrass Institute).

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

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

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

Rob Nowak (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

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

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

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

Enrique ter Horst (Euromed School of Management).

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

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

Asymptotic equivalence and sufficiency for volatility estimation under microstructure noise

Markus Reiss (Humboldt University Berlin).

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

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

Smoothed absolute loadings principal components analysis

Bernie Silverman (Oxford).

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

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

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

Dominik Janzing (Max Planck Institute Tuebingen).

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

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

A Backward Particle Interpretation of Feynman-Kac Formulae

Pierre Del Moral (INRIA Bordeaux).

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

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

On combinatorial testing problems

Gabor Lugosi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona).

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

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

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

David Steinberg (Tel Aviv University).

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

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

Compressed sensing in infinite dimensions

Anders Hansen (Cambridge).

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

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

Thick-pen transformation for time series

Piotr Fryzlewicz (London School of Economics).

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

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

On the Distribution of the Adaptive LASSO Estimator

Ulrike Schneider (University of Goettingen).

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

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

Conditional Predictive Inference Post-Model Selection

Hannes Leeb (Univ. Vienna).

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

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

Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics: Gaussian process priors

Joint with Probability Series

Aad van der Vaart (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam).

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

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

A Bayesian nonrandom walk through the world of the queues

Carmen Armero, University of Valencia.

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

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

Empirical support for DNA match probabilities

James Curran (Auckland).

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

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

Statistical estimation of a multifractal function

Marc Hoffmann (Paris).

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

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

Soap film smoothing

Simon Wood (Bath).

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

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

Risk Hull Methods for Inverse Problems

Laurent Cavalier (Marseille).

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

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

Bayesian Methods in Cosmology

Mike Hobson (Cambridge).

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

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

Probabilistic Expert Systems for Handling Artifacts in Complex DNA Mixtures

Julia Mortera (University of Roma Tre).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Choosing a good histogram

Yannick Baraud (Univ. Nice).

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

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

Total variation and curves

Arne Kovac (Univ. Bristol).

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

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

Working with over-parameterized models

David Firth, University of Warwick.

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

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

Bayesian Inference of Transmission Fidelity Rates of DNA Methylation Patterns

Audrey Fu (University of Cambridge Systems Biology Center).

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

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

Graphical Gaussian Models with Edge and Vertex Symmetries

Steffen Lauritzen University of Oxford.

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

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

Second Generation Wavelets and Astrophysics

Gerard Kerkyacharian Paris 10 and LPMA.

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

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

Particle Learning

Nicholas Polson University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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

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

Likelihood p-values ancillaries and the vector quantile function

Don Fraser, University of Toronto.

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

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

Default priors and model parametrization

Nancy Reid, University of Toronto.

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

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

Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe

Carlos Carvalho, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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

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

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

James Scott, Duke University.

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

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

Do New Roads Generate Traffic?

Charlene Rohr, RAND Europe.

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

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

Discrete Statistical Modeling using Chain Event Graphs

Jim Smith, Warwick.

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

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

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

Robin Hankin.

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

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

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

Natesh Pillai, Warwick.

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

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

Nonparametric inference for networks of queues

Cornelia Wichelhaus, Universität Heidelberg.

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

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

Stepwise Searching for Feature Variables in High-Dimensional Linear Regression

Qiwei Yao, LSE.

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

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

Stochastic Financial Models - Optional Economics Brief

Elie Bassouls.

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

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

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

Geoff Nicholls, Oxford.

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

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

Simple Methods to Improve MCMC Efficiency in Random Effect Models

Bill Brown (University of Bristol).

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

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

Projective Limits of Bayes Equations

Peter Orbanz (Dept. Engineering, Cambridge).

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

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

Evaluating survey designs for inference of Plasmodium falciparum malaria prevalence

Anand Patil (University of Oxford).

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

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

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

Karim Lounici, Université Paris 7.

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

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

Sampling bias in logistic models

Peter McCullagh (University of Chicago).

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

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

Bayesian Model Determination for Multivariate Ordinal and Binary Data

Jon Forster (University of Southampton).

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

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

Theoretical properties of Cook's Principal Fitted Components algorithm

Oliver Johnson (University of Bristol).

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

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

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

Wenyang Zhang (University of Bath).

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

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

Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators

joint Statistics/Probability Seminar

Evarist Gine (University of Conneticut).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Estimation of the relative risk and risk difference

Thomas Richardson (University of Washington).

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

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

Testing lack-of-fit in inverse regression models

Gerda Claeskens (K.U.Leuven).

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

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

MCMC for doubly-intractable distributions

Iain Murray (University of Toronto).

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

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

Chance is a Fine Thing

Inaugural Lecture as Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk

David Spiegelhalter (Cambridge).

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

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

Flexible Covariance estimation in Gaussian Graphical models

Bala Rajaratnam (Stanford University).

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

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

Latent class models for the causal effect of a treatment

Antonio Forcina (University of Perugia).

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

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

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

Ambedkar Dukkipatti (EURANDOM).

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

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

Efficient sparse recovery with no assumption on the dictionary

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

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

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

Local and discrete scoring rules

Matt Parry (Cambridge).

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

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

Parameter and Functional Estimation in Semiparametric Models

Yanyuan Ma (Universite de Neuchatel).

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

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

Predictive Modeling Approaches to Gene Regulation

Jun Liu (Harvard University).

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

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

Advances in Bayesian Latent Factor Modelling: The Incredible Shrinking Model

Daniel Merl (Duke University).

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

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

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

Ana-Maria Staicu (Bristol).

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

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

Combining police perceptions with police records of serious crime areas

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

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

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

Alternative Splicing in Tumors: Detection and Interpretation

Terry Speed (Berkeley).

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

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Adversarial Risk Analysis: A Smallpox Example

David Banks (Duke University).

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

Friday 08 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistical deconvolution problems with Fourier-oscillating error densities

Alexander Meister (Universitat Ulm).

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

Friday 01 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Identifying Direct and Indirect effects

Sara Geneletti (Imperial).

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

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

A theoretical and methodological discussion of nested sampling

Nicolas Chopin (Bristol).

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

Friday 18 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

Assessing the finite-dimensionality of functional data

Celine Vial (Rennes).

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

Friday 30 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

A Life-Time of Stochastic Self-Organisation - 1977 - 2007

David Probert (VAZA International).

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

Friday 23 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Direct and indirect causal effects: a helpful distinction?

Donald B. Rubin (Harvard).

MR14, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Neither finance nor pharma -- life as an industrial statistician. To be followed by an introduction to the Royal Statistical Society

Philip Jonathan and Yanyun Wu (Shell).

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

Friday 16 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Prequential Statistics

Phil Dawid (Cambridge).

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

Friday 09 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Quantum randomness and Kolmogorov probability

Patricia Grambsch, University of Minnesota, visiting Cambridge.

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

Friday 02 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Jump Telegraph Processes and a Volatility Smile

Nikita Ratanov (University of Rosario, Bogota).

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

Friday 12 October 2007, 15:30-16:30