Probability and Statistics Seminars
Slides of talks

We have a separate page for Probability talks starting Autumn 2016.


 
• Bence Mélykúti (10.06.2016): Parameter estimation in a subcritical percolation model with colouring - (PDF)
 
• Degui Li (27.05.2016): Semiparametric Ultra-High Dimensional Model Averaging of Nonlinear Dynamic Time Series - (PDF)
 
• Hermann Thorisson (06.05.2016): Palm Theory and Shift-Coupling - (PDF)
 
• Robin Evans (29.04.2016): Causal and Marginal Models - (PDF)
 
• Laurent Tournier (22.04.2016): Biased activated random walks - (PDF)
 
• Colin Aitken (22.04.2016): Lies, damned lies, expert witnesses and drugs on banknotes - (PDF)
 
• Elisabetta Candellero (15.04.2016): Percolation and isoperimetric inequalities - (PDF)
 
• Daniel Simpson (18.03.2016): Placating pugilistic pachyderms: Proper priors prevent poor performance - (PDF)
 
• Jan Swart (26.02.2016): Cooperative branching and pathwise duality for monotone systems - (PDF)
 
• Peter Jan van Leeuwen (26.02.2016): Non-degenerate Particle Filters in high-dimensional systems - (PDF)
 
• Sayan Banerjee (12.02.2016): Coupling and geometry - (PDF)
 
• Jennifer Wadsworth (12.02.2016): Where does the tail begin? Threshold selection for extremes - (PDF)
 
• Ruth Keogh (05.02.2016): Multiple imputation in Cox regression when there are time-varying effects of exposures - (PDF)
 
• Erwin Bolthausen (29.01.2016): Ongoing simplifications for the lace expansion - (PDF)
 
• Christophe Andrieu (22.01.2016): Some properties of exact approximations of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm - (PDF)
 
• Christian Robert (22.01.2016): The vexing dilemma of Bayes tests of hypotheses and the predicted demise of the Bayes factor - (PDF)
 
• Raphaël Rossignol (15.01.2016): Scaling limit of dynamical percolation on critical Erdős-Rényi random graphs - (PDF)
 
• Alexandru Hening (20.11.2015): The free path in a high velocity random flight process associated to a Lorentz gas in an external field - (PDF)
 
• Lorenzo Zambotti (13.11.2015): A random string near a wall - (PDF)
 
• Tobias Kley (13.11.2015): Quantile Cross-Spectral Measures of Dependence - (PDF)
 
• Sean Ledger (06.11.2015): Some McKean-Vlasov problems on the half-line - (PDF)
 
• Jason Miller (30.10.2015): Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map - (PDF). Videos: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 
 
• Jonathan Scarlett (09.10.2015): Information-Theoretic Limits of Group Testing: Phase Transitions, Noisy Tests, and Partial Recovery - (PDF)
 
• Janine Illian (09.10.2015): Spatial point processes in the modern world - an interdisciplinary dialogue - (PDF)
 
• Stuart Whittington (02.10.2015): Probability of knotting for curves and surfaces in lattices - (PDF)
 
• Angus Davidson (25.09.2015): Steiner trees in the stochastic mean-field model of distance - (PDF)
 
• Matthias C. M. Troffaes (25.09.2015): A robust Bayesian approach to land use modelling - (PDF)
 
• Takashi Kumagai (05.06.2015): Heat kernel estimates and local CLT for random walk among random conductances with a power-law tail near zero - (PDF)
 
• Kate Tilling (05.06.2015): Examining associations between gestational weight gain, birthweight and gestational age - (PPTX)
 
• Margaret Meyer (22.05.2015): Dependence Orderings for Multivariate Distributions: The Supermodular Ordering and Related Orderings - (PDF)
 
• Krzysztof Burdzy (15.05.2015): Reflected brownian motion - definition and approximation - (PDF)
 
• Nuala Sheehan (15.05.2015): Reconstructing Pedigrees with Maximal Likelihood from Genetic Marker Data - (PDF)
 
• Ioan Manolescu (08.05.2015): Planar lattices do not recover from forest fires - (PDF)
 
• Firas Rassoul-Agha (01.05.2015): The Growth Model: Busemann Functions, Shape, Geodesics, and Other Stories - (PDF)
 
• Miklós Z. Rácz (27.03.2015): From trees to seeds: on the inference of the seed from large random trees - (PDF)
 
• George Deligiannidis (20.03.2015): Variance of additive functionals of stationary processes and stationary Markov Chains - (PDF)
 
• Alfred Müller (13.03.2015): Probabilistic Forecasting of Medium-Term Electricity Demand: A Comparison of Time Series Models - (PDF)
 
• Jason Schweinsberg (06.03.2015): Rigorous results for a population model with selection - (PDF)
 
• Marcelo Richard Hilário (27.02.2015): Some percolation processes with infinite range dependencies - (PDF)
 
• Claudia Kirch (20.02.2015): Change-Points in High-Dimensional Settings - (PDF)
 
• Frank Windmeijer (13.02.2015): Selecting (in)valid instruments - (PDF)
 
• Nina Gantert (06.02.2015): Einstein relation and monotonicity of the speed for random walk among random conductances - (PDF)
 
• Remco van der Hofstad (23.01.2015): The survival probability in high dimensions - (PDF)
 
• Ricardo Silva (23.01.2015): Causal inference through a witness protection program - (PDF)
 
• Leonardo Baldassini (19.12.2014): Like a Needle in a Haystack: Rates and Algorithms for Group Testing - (PDF)
 
• Nayia Constantinou (19.12.2014): Causal Inference in the Decision-Theoretic Framework of Statistical Causality - (PDF)
 
• Vivek Borkar (12.12.2014): Gossip algorithms and their variants - (PDF)
 
• Richard Samworth (12.12.2014): Statistical and computational trade-offs in estimation of sparse principal components - (PDF)
 
• Vsevolod Shneer (28.11.2014): Stability of multi-dimensional Markov chains, with applications - (PDF)
 
• Pierre Jacob (28.11.2014): Estimation of the score vector and observed information matrix in intractable models - (PDF)
 
• Marc Lelarge (21.11.2014): Community detection with spectral methods - (PDF)
 
• István Berkes (14.11.2014): Long range dependence in analysis and number theory - (PDF)
 
• Anthony Bellotti (14.11.2014): Discrete Survival Models for Retail Credit Scoring - (PDF)
 
• Yvik Swan (07.11.2014): A canonical Stein operator - (PDF)
 
• Fredrik Lindsten (07.11.2014): Sequential Monte Carlo for graphical models: Graph decompositions and Divide-and-Conquer SMC - (PDF)
 
• Frank Redig (31.10.2014): Duality theory, via examples - (PDF)
 
• Amanda Turner (24.10.2014): Small-particle limits in a regularized Laplacian random growth model - (PDF)
 
• Paul Garthwaite (24.10.2014): Analysis for Single Patient Studies - (PPT)
 
• Paul Jenkins (26.09.2014): Exact simulation of diffusions with a finite boundary - (PDF)
 
• Mikael Kuusela (13.06.2014): Empirical Bayes Unfolding of Elementary Particle Spectra at the Large Hadron Collider - (PDF)
 
• Ramji Venkataramanan (09.05.2014): Compression via Sparse Linear Regression - (PDF)
 
• James Martin (02.05.2014): Random graphs, forest fires and self-organised criticality - (PDF)
 
• Oliver Johnson (28.03.2014): Discrete transport problems and the concavity of entropy - (PDF)
 
• Wilfrid S. Kendall (14.03.2014): Shy Couplings, CAT(0) Spaces, and the Lion and Man - (PDF)
 
• Vasileios Maroulas (14.03.2014): Filtering, drift homotopy and target tracking - (PDF)
 
• Stefan Grosskinsky (07.03.2014): Condensation in stochastic particle systems - recent results on statics and dynamics - (PDF)
 
• Sándor Kolumbán (07.03.2014): Perturbed Datasets Methods for Hypothesis Testing - Distribution assumption free hypothesis testing - (PDF)
 
• Peter Green (28.02.2014): Bayesian inference about decomposable graphs (PDF)
 
• Catriona Queen (21.02.2014): Dynamic chain graphs for high-dimensional time series: an application to real-time traffic flow forecasting (PDF)
 
• Philip Jonathan (14.02.2014): Locating and quantifying gas emission sources using remotely obtained concentration data (PDF)
 
• Mark Kelbert (07.02.2014): Mermin-Wagner theorem and DLR equations in quantum statistics and quantum gravity (PDF)
 
• Lasse Leskelä (31.01.2014): Stochastic orders in stochastic networks (PDF)
 
• Isabella Gollini (24.01.2014): Latent Variable Models for the Analysis, Visualization and Prediction of Network and Nodal Attribute Data (PDF)
 
• Rajen Shah (13.12.2013): Min-wise hashing for large-scale regression (PDF)
 
• Laure Dumaz (06.12.2013): Tracy-Widom-beta distributions from the Stochastic Airy Operator point of view (PDF) (animations work in Acrobat Reader full screen)

 

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