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DPhil Discussion Group

Oxford Statistics Discussion Group

The student-run discussion group is aimed at DPhil students and postdocs in the Department of Statistics to foster communication and exchange of ideas on their research interests. During 2008/2009 the Discussion Group met for an hour during termtime on a biweekly basis.  A presentation by a DPhil student or postdoc was followed by informal discussion over coffee and biscuits.

The meetings for 2008/2009 were as follows:

  • 24 October 2008, Ioana Cosma

    Title: Efficient l_{alpha} Distance Approximation for High Dimensional Data Using alpha-Stable Projection

  • 7 November, Dr George Nicholson

    Title: Extraction and deployment of meaningful signal from NMR and mass spectrometry data

  • 21 November, Chris Hallsworth

    Title: Approximate Genealogical Inference in the presence of recombination

  • 5 December, Dr Amber Thomas

    Title: Extending Multiple Classifier Systems to Dynamic Scenarios

  • 13 February 2009,Oemetse Mogapi

    Title: A Latent Partial Order Model for Social Network

  • 27 February,  Habib Saadi

    Title: Continuous space genetics: a neutral model

  • 8 May, Dr Bhalchandra Thatte

    Title: Some combinatorial reconstruction questions on graphs

  • 22 May, Kayvan Sadeghi

    Title: Independence preserving graphs and their relationships

  • 5 June, Helene Neufeld

    Title: Graphical Gaussian Models with (Permutation) Symmetries