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Professor Ba-Ngu Vo (Curtin University)

3.30pm-4.15pm

Department of Statistics, LG.03

Abstract: In a finite-set-valued Hidden Markov Model (HMM), the hidden state is a finite set. Such an HMM describes a multi-object system, a system in which the number of objects and their states are unknown and vary randomly with time. Multi-object systems arise in many research disciplines including surveillance, computer vision, robotics, biomedical research and machine learning…

Prof. Martin Adams (University of Chile)

4.15-5.00pm

Department of Statistics, LG.03

Abstract: The application of random sets in multi-target tracking has led to the development of Finite Set Statistics (FISST) which provides the basis for filters such as the Probability Hypothesis Density (PHD) filter and more recently the Generalized Labelled Multi-Bernoulli (GLMB) filter, which recently attracted considerable research interest as well as deployment in commercial…

Speaker:    Philippe Rigollet, MIT Mathematics, USA

Date:           Friday 22nd June 2018, 3.30 pm, Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles’, Oxford

Title:          The Sample Comp

The annual Careers Workshop is run for postdocs and graduate students at the Department of Statistics to help inform them with making career choices.  The event is held at the Department of Statistics.

Date:     Thursday 14th June 2018, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Details of previous Graduate Lectures can be found here.

Speaker:    Stefano Favaro, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

Date:          Thursday 31st May, 3.30 pm, Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles’, Oxford

Title:          “Sufficientness” postulates for Gibbs-type priors

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Speaker:    Paul Chleboun, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

Date:          Thursday 24th May, 3.30 pm, Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles’, Oxford

Title:           The dynamics of spin plaquette models

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Speaker:   Mark Newman, University of Michigan, USA

Date:          Friday 18th May 2018, 3.30 pm, Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles’, Oxford

Title:          Patterns and surprises in rich but noisy network data

Speaker:    Jotun Hein, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

Date:          Thursday 17th May, 3.30 pm, Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles’, Oxford

Title:           Combinatorics in ChemoInformatics

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Speaker:    Daniel Paulin, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

Date:          Thursday 10th May, 3.30 pm, Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles’, Oxford

Title:           Interplay between sampling and optimization

Abstract:  Suppose that U is a real valued convex function in a d dimensional Euclidean space. The problems of

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