Dear Allstat member,

The Mary Cartwright Lecture, an annual event run by the
London Mathematical Society, will this year for the first
time be given by a statistician. It will take place in
London on the afternoon of Friday 25th February.  The
Notice is on the web at
<http://www.lms.ac.uk/meetings/MC05.html> and is
reproduced below.

The Mary Cartwright Lecturer, Professor Elizabeth Thompson,
is coming from Seattle specially for the purpose. She plans
to announce and describe significant new work. She will be
supported by a companion lecture by Professor Steffen
Lauritzen. It is clear that this will be a landmark
scientific occasion, not to be missed.

I look forward to seeing you on 25th February.

Charles Goldie.
University of Sussex
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LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

MARY CARTWRIGHT LECTURE

Friday 25 February 2005
University College London
(Chemistry Auditorium, Christopher Ingold Building, 20
Gordon Street, London WC1)

3.30 - 4.30 Professor Steffen Lauritzen
(Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of Oxford)
"A pedigree perspective of local computation"

4.30 - 5.00 Tea

5.00 - 6.00 Mary Cartwright Lecture:
Professor Elizabeth Thompson (Depts of Statistics and
Biostatistics, Univ. of Washington, Seattle)
"Relatedness, genome sharing, and the detection of
genes"

The talks by Elizabeth Thompson and Steffen Lauritzen are
concerned with the genetic analysis of large pedigrees. A
pedigree, defined as a full specification of family
relationships between a group of individuals, is naturally
represented by a directed graph. Almost every problem
associated with pedigree analysis involves a difficult
computation, but algorithms for so-called local computation
on graphs allow feasible calculations to be done, and this
is the topic of the first talk. The second talk focuses on
genome sharing arising from pedigree relationships, and on
using the dependence in sharing at different loci on a
common chromosome to infer linkage of a trait to a set of
marker loci. A new way to assess the evidence for linkage
from unobserved genome sharing will be discussed.

A reception will be held at De Morgan House at 6.15 pm with
a dinner afterwards at Poons Restaurant, 50 Woburn Place,
London WC1 at 7.15 pm. The cost will be 25 pounds per
person, inclusive of wine. Those wishing to attend should
inform The Administrator, Susan M. Oakes, London
Mathematical Society, De Morgan House, 57-58 Russell Square,
London WC1B 4HS, enclosing a cheque payable to the London
Mathematical Society to arrive no later than Monday 21
February.

There are limited funds available to contribute in part to
the expenses of members of the Society or research students
to attend the Society meeting. Requests for support,
including an estimate of expenses, may be addressed to the
Programme Secretary at the Society (<[log in to unmask]>).

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