University of St Andrews

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STATISTICS SEMINARS,
ACADEMIC YEAR 2011 - 2012

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Unless otherwise indicated, seminars are held in the Mathematical Institute. Tea and biscuits will usually be available in the Staff Room 15 minutes before the seminars.

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AUTUMN 2011

October 24th Maths Lecture Theatre D.

4.00 p.m. Andrew Cameron (Department of Physics)

Sizing Up Extra-solar Planets

December 19th Maths Lecture Theatre D

4.00 p.m. Michael Papathomas (Department of Mathematics and Statistics)

How to make different statistical models talk to each other: obtaining proposal distributions for model comparison with the reversible jump MCMC algorithm

WINTER/SPRING 2012

To be announced

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The seminar organiser is Charles Paxton

CREEM (The Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling) runs a separate series of seminars and talks. The programme is available here.
NCSE (The National Centre for Statistical Ecology) also runs a series of seminars and workshops. The programme is available here.

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Previous seminars

2003/2004

2004/2005

2005/2006

2006/2007

2007/2008

2008/2009

2009/2010

2010/2011

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• School of Mathematics and Statistics
• RUWPA (Research Unit for Wildlife Population Assessment)
• CREEM (Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling)
• NCSE (National Centre for Statistical Ecology)