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Proposed research areas for entry in October 2012

Supervisor: Dr Peter Clifford


Supervisor: Professor Charlotte Deane
Protein structure evolution, protein folding and structure prediction, the structure and evolution of protein interaction networks

Supervisor: Professor Arnaud Doucet
Bayesian inference, Bayesian computation, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Sequential Monte Carlo, State-space Models.

Supervisor: Professor Alison Etheridge
Stochastic analysis, especially problems related to stochastic modelling in population genetics

Supervisor: Dr Christina Goldschmidt
Probability, in particular the analysis of random discrete structures, coalescence and fragmentation processes

Supervisor: Professor Jotun Hein
Modelling Evolution, Genome Annotation and Comparative Biology

Supervisor: Professor Chris Holmes
Bayesian inference, Bayesian methods for genetic and genomic epidemiology,  Bayesian nonparametric methods, Bayesian analysis of complex data sets

Supervisor: Professor Colin McDiarmid
Discrete mathematics, in particular random combinatorial structures and combinatorial algorithms

Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Marchini
Statistical and population genetics

Supervisor: Dr James Martin
Probability, including models of random growth and percolation, interacting particle systems, and queueing networks

Supervisor: Dr Geoff Nicholls
Bayesian applied statistics. Bayesian methodology, and algorithms for Bayesian statistical inference. Fitting complex stochastic systems Spatial data. Data informing networks. Applied Statistics.

Supervisor: Professor Gesine Reinert
Statistical analysis of networks; Stein’s method for distances in distribution