UNIVERSITY OF EXETER SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES Statistics and OR Seminar programme (Autumn 1999) (Includes meetings of the Exeter Local Group of the RSS) October 14th: Martin Ridout (Horticulture Research International, East Malling) ``Bees and Queues'' (RSS local group meeting) October 28th: Anatoly Zhigljavsky (University of Cardiff) ``Principal Component Expansions of Time Series: Singular Spectrum Analysis and Related Techniques'' November 18th: Jamie Robinson (Glaxo Wellcome) ``An Infectious Disease Epidemiologist's Agenda in the Pharmaceutical Industry'' (RSS local group meeting) December 2nd: Clive Payne (Nuffield College, Oxford) ``Election-night forecasting in the UK 1970--97'' (RSS local group meeting) December 9th: Brian Haley (University of Birmingham) ``The Current and Future Practice of Operational Research'' All the above meetings will be held at 2pm in room LT3, Laver Building, University of Exeter. Tea will be served after each meeting. Up-to-date information will soon be available at: http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/Research/Seminars.html#Statistics For further details, please contact Dr Mark Brewer (Tel: (01392) 264479, E-mail: [log in to unmask]). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Brewer Email: [log in to unmask] School of Mathematical Sciences Tel: +44 1392 264479 University of Exeter, UK Fax: +44 1392 264460 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%