STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY SEMINARS
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
SPRING TERM 1999
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Unless otherwise stated, seminars are held at the Department of
Mathematics, Room SM3.
Further details can be found at http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/Seminars
All welcome!
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JANUARY 21 (Room SM2; joint with the Applied Mathematics group):
2:15 pm Dr. Alison Etheridge (University of Oxford):
"How does a probabilistic solve a (nonlinear) heat equation?"
JANUARY 22:
2:15 pm Dr. Laura Rebollo (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya):
"A frame theory based approach towards the reconstruction of the joint
time-delay and Doppler-scale reflectivity density which characterizes
dense target environments"
JANUARY 29:
2:15 pm Prof. Byron Morgan (University of Kent at Canterbury):
"New results in parameter redundancy"
3:45 pm Dr. David Draper (University of Bath):
"Fixing the broken bootstrap: Bayesian nonparametric inference with
highly skewed and heavy-tailed data"
FEBRUARY 12:
2:15 pm Dr. Mihail Zervos (University of Newcastle upon Tyne):
"A martingale approach to the pricing of real options"
3:45 pm Dr. Richard Chandler (University College London):
"Climate change detection using Generalised Linear Models"
FEBRUARY 16 (Room SM1; this is an RSS Avon Local Group meeting!):
4:00 pm Mr. Ed Redfern (University of Leeds):
"Weaving the Web into learning and teaching statistics"
MARCH 5:
2:15 pm Prof. Chris Skinner (University of Southampton):
"Statistical disclosure control: an application of models for high
dimensional contingency tables"
3:45 pm Dr. Sue Lewis (University of Southampton):
"Detecting interactions in experiments on large numbers of factors"
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