Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Liverpool
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Statistics, Probability, and Operations Research Seminars,
(Wednesdays) Autumn 2000.
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11 Oct., 2 pm, room 211, M & O Building.
Speaker: Dr. Damian Clancy (Univ. of Liverppool)
Title: "A stochastic model for Neospora infection in cattle"
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Abstract:
Neospora caninum is a major cause of abortion in dairy cattle worldwide. In modelling
transmission of the infection within a herd, since total herd size is likely to be of the
order of 100 animals, stochastic effects are important. I will describe a stochastic model
of the transmission mechanism of the infection, and consider the long-term (equilibrium)
behaviour of the model, both exactly and using diffusion approximations.
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25 Oct., 2 pm, room 514, M & O Building.
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Turner (Cambridge)
Title: "Two Resource Pooling Models"
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Abstract:
Many queueing networks exhibit a phenomenon known as
resource pooling, which means roughly that the whole
network behaves as well as if all its parts had acted in a
co-ordinated way to share out the work and avoid any
bottlenecks. In this talk I shall examine this phenomenon
in a simple `join the shorter queue' network, in two limit
regimes: a heavy traffic limit, and a large deviations
limit.
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01 Nov., 2 pm, M & O Building.
Dr. Susan Starkings
Title: "Research on Teaching of Statistics at School and
Univ. level"
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08 Nov., 2 pm, M & O Building.
Prof. Vladimir B. Kolmanovskii (Moscow Inst. of Electronics
and Mathematics)
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(control theory, hereditary systems)
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15 Nov., 2 pm, M & O Building.
Dr. Theofanis Sapatinas (University of Kent at Canterbury)
Title: "A tutorial introduction to wavelet-based
non-parametric regression"
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20 Dec., 2 pm, M & O Building.
Prof. Mihail Zervos
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(stochastic control and optimisation)
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Further details, can be found at
http://www.liv.ac.uk/maths/SOR/MIN_SET/seminars.html
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Dr. A.B.Piunovskiy, Division of Stat.& Oper.Res.
Dept. of Mathem.Sci., M & O Building, Peach Street,
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZL, UK.
Tel.:+44-151-7944737
Fax :+44-151-7944754
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.liv.ac.uk/maths/SOR/HOME/AB_Piunovskiy.html
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