WORKSHOP ON SEQUENTIAL OPTIMISATION
25-26 June 1999
There will be a Workshop on Sequential Optimisation in the School
of Mathematical Sciences (SMS) at the University of Sussex on
25-26 June 1999. The Workshop coincides with the retirement from
teaching in 1999 of J.A. Bather, Professor of Mathematical
Statistics at Sussex since 1969. It will review the present state
of sequential optimisation and identify pathways for future
development, including collaborative work involving J.A. Bather
and D.P. Atherton in Sussex's School of Engineering on target
tracking and other statistical problems arising in the aerospace
industries. The programme is given below. All talks will take
place in room PEV1A6, with the tea and coffee being served in the
SMS Common Room.
Friday 25 June
1.55-2.00 Welcome by Professor C. M. Goldie (Dean of SMS)
2.00-3.00 Professor P. Whittle (University of Cambridge)
"Gittins, Klimov and restless bandit indices"
3.00-4.00 Professor H. Chernoff (Harvard University)
"Extensions of a variation of the isoperimetric
problem"
4.00-4.30 Tea
4.30-5.30 Professor G. D. Simons (University of North
Carolina)
"Doob, Ignatov and optional stopping"
5.30-6.00 Discussion
6.00-7.00 Wine reception
Saturday 26 June
9.30-10.30 Professor A. J. Petkau (University of British
Columbia)
"A simple model for drug screening programs"
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 Dr. D. J. Salmond (Defence Evaluation and
Research Agency)
"Dynamic estimation and target tracking"
12.00-1.00 Professor J. A. Bather (University of Sussex)
"Some problems in target tracking"
All interested are very welcome to attend. For further
information, please contact Dr. Steve Coad, School of Mathematical
Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, Tel.
(01273) 606755 Ext. 2903, E-mail [log in to unmask]
Abstracts of all the talks are in the web page
http://www.maths.susx.ac.uk/CSSM/programme.pdf (PDF Reader required).
Please check the following site for any updates:
http://www.maths.susx.ac.uk/CSSM/
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