Department of Mathematics University of Bristol

Statistics and Probability Post-Graduate Seminars (2008)

These seminars are given by postgrads for postgrads. They are meant to be an opportunity for graduate students to train their ability in giving a talk about their research, in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Also they will be good practice for students presenting at the RSC conference.

How long? Where? When?
Only 15 minutes SM4 Monday afternoons, 2pm, according to the schedule below

Timetable

Date (2008) Speaker Title
11th February Giusi Moffa
Jean Sanderson
Adaptive SMC samplers for computing multivariate normal probabilities
Locally stationary wavelet coherence
25th February Doris Flores Rodriguez
Yiorgos Karagiannis
Henry Arnold
Game Theory in Multi-Agent Systems
Improving RJMCMC algorithms
The effect of randomly punched holes in a tense membrane
3rd March Haeran Cho
Matthew Aldridge
Detecting breakpoints in piecewise-stationary AR models
Wireless Networks
10th March Yaan Wei
David Merritt
Andrew Smith
Multiresolution approximation in Nonparametric Regression
Modeling Non-Stationary Financial Time Series
Image Analysis and Total Variation Denoising
21st April Matthew Paulson
Michalis Smyrnakis
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28th April Achilleas Achilleos
Skevi Michael
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