2026
Thursday 28th May 2026
Speaker: Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Distribution-Free Nonparametric Inference Based on Optimal Transport and Kernel Methods
2025
Tuesday 16th June
Speaker: Professor Adrian E. Raftery, University of Washington, Seattle
Title: Bayesian Probabilistic Subnational Population Projections
Thursday 13th March
Speaker: Professor Kosuke Imai, Professor of Government and Statistics, Harvard University
Thursday 6th February
Speaker: Professor Xavier Didelot, University of Warwick
Title: Inference of communicable disease transmission using genomic data
2024
Tuesday 7th May
Speaker: Professor Marc Suchard, David Geffen School of Medicine and Department of Biostatistics at UCLA
Title: Approximate gradients for inference of partially-observed stochastic processes
2023
Wednesday 22nd February
Speaker: David Firth, Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick
2022
Thursday 16th June
Speaker: Rina Foygel Barber, University of Chicago
Title: Conformal prediction beyond exchangeability
Thursday 10th February
Speaker: Professor Denise Lievesley, Honorary Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
Title: Ethics from the perspective of an applied statistician
2021
Friday 18th June
Speaker: Susan Murphy, Professor of Statistics at Harvard University
Title: Assessing Personalization in Digital Health
Thursday 29th April
Speaker: Professor Sara Van de Geer, ETH Zürich
Title: On classification with small Bayes error and the max-margin classifier
Thursday 18th February
Speaker: Professor Bin Yu, Chancellor's Professor, Departments of Statistics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Title: Veridical Data Science for Biomedical Research: detecting epistatic interactions via epiTree
2020
Thursday 28th May
Speaker: Nick Jewell, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health
Friday 6th March
Speaker: Max Welling, Professor of Computer Science, Institute of Informatics, University of Amsterdam
Title: Neural Augmentation
Thursday 23rd January
Speaker: Sarah C. Darby, Professor of Medical Statistics, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford
Title: Twenty five year risks of breast cancer mortality in 500,000 women
2019
Friday 29th November
Speakers: Professor Tyler VanderWeele, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and George Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College, University of Oxford
Title: Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Introducing the E-Value
Friday 14th June
Speaker: Professor Mike Steel, Director of the Biomathematics Research Centre at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Title: From evolutionary trees to networks and back again
Speaker: Professor David Aldous, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Scattered thoughts from applied probability: networks, security queues and prediction tournaments
Friday 17th May
Speaker: Professor Donald Rubin, Harvard University
Title: Essential Concepts of Causal Inference: A remarkable history and an intriguing future
2018
Friday 30th November
Speaker: Suchi Saria, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Title: Individualizing Healthcare with Machine Learning
Friday 22nd June
Speaker: Philippe Rigollet, MIT Mathematics, USA
Title: The Sample Complexity of Multi-Reference Alignment
Friday 18th May
Speaker: Mark Newman, University of Michigan, USA
Title: Patterns and surprises in rich but noisy network data
Friday 27th April
Speaker: David Gamarnik, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
Title: Algorithms and Algorithmic Obstacles in High-Dimensional Regression
Friday 20th April
Speaker: Julian Echave, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Title: (Why) do functional sites induce long-range evolutionary constraints in enzymes?
Friday 9th March
Speaker: Patricia Bouret, Centre national de la recherché scientifique (CNRS), France
Title: Family wise separation rates for multiple testing
Tuesday 23rd January
Speaker: Yingying Fan, University of Southern California, USA
Title: RANK: Large-Scale Inference with Graphical Nonlinear Knockoffs
2017
Friday 16th June
Speaker: Professor Peter Hoff, Department of Statistics, Duke University
Title: Adaptive FAB confidence intervals with constant coverage
Friday 9th June
Speaker: David Swafford, Senior Research Scientist, Biological Sciences, Duke University
Title: Generality and Robustness of the SVDQuartets Method for Phylogenetic Species Tree Estimation
Speaker: Wim Hordijk, The KLI Institute, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Title: Autocatalytic Sets and the Origin of Life
Friday 10th March
Speaker: Professor Martin Hairer, University of Warwick
Title: A BPHZ theorem for stochastic PDEs
Friday 27th January
Speaker: Professor Jean-Philippe Vert, Mines ParisTech, France
Title: Machine learning for patient stratification from genomic data
Friday 20th January
Speaker: Professor Wendelin Werner, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Title: Random cracks in space
2016
Thursday 15th December
Speaker: Professor Eric Kolaczyk, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
Title: Network-based Statistical Models and Methods for Identification of Cellular Mechanisms of Action
Friday 2nd December
Speaker: Professor Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge
Title: Inferring population history from whole genome sequences
Friday 14th October
Speaker: Professor Matthew Stephens, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
Title: "Come join the multiple testing party!"
Friday 16th September
Speaker: Professor Susan Holmes, Stanford University
Title: Statistical Challenges posed by the Human Microbiome
Friday 17th June
Speaker: Professor Andrea Montanari, Stanford University
Title: Phase transitions in semi-definite relaxations
Friday 10th June
Speaker: Professor Gabor Lugosi, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
Title: How to estimate the mean of a random variable?
Wednesday 18th May
Speaker: Professor Andrew Gelman, Department of Statistics and Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York
Title: The Statistical Crisis in Science
Friday 29th April
Speaker: Professor Sayan Mukherjee, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University