SUMMER 2004 STATISTICS SEMINAR PROGRAM FOR THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER AND UMIST The full seminar program is given below. For further details please contact either: Peter Neal; [log in to unmask] or Ron Doney; [log in to unmask] April 28, DOUBLE HEADER 2.00 in room 1.11, Maths Tower, VUM Zhiming Ma, Chinese Acacdemy of Science, Beijing; "An extension of the Levy-Khintchine formula in semi-Dirichlet form setting" 3.30 in room 1.11, Maths Tower, VUM Vladimir Lotov, Novosibirsk; "On the number of crossings of a strip by sample paths of a random walk" May 5, 2.15 in room 1.11, Maths Tower, VUM Peter Green, Bristol; "Hidden Markov models for disease mapping" May 12, 2.15 in room O10, MSS, UMIST Vladimir Kaishev, City; TBA May 26, 2.15 in room O10, MSS, UMIST Brendan McCabe, Liverpool; "Testing for correlation on non Gaussian data" June 2, 2.15 in room 1.11, Maths Tower, VUM Qiwei Yao, LSE; TBA June 23, 2.15 in room 1.11, Maths Tower, VUM Kaitai Fang, Hong Kong Baptist University; TBA