Beverley Lane

15:00 - Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society
This lecture is part of the Florence Nightingale Bicentenary celebrations and will be followed by a special panel session with Professor Deborah Ashby, Professor David Spiegelhalter and Professor David Cox about the role of statistics in society. Both events will run as a Zoom Webinar.
Professor Deborah Ashby (Royal Statistical Society)

10:00 - (Not) Aggregating Data
This Lecture will hosted on Zoom. Please complete the short registration form on our website to receive the joining instructions.
Professor Kerrie Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology in the Science and Engineering Faculty)

15:30 - Veridical Data Science for biomedical discovery: detecting epistatic interactions with epiTree
Please note this event will be hosted on Zoom.
Professor Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar

15:30 - Finding Today’s Slaves: Lessons Learned From Over A Decade of Measurement in Modern Slavery
Please note, this event will be hosted on Zoom.
Professor Davina Durgana (American University, Washington, DC)

15:30 - On classification with small Bayes error and the max-margin classifier
PLEASE NOTE: This event will be hosted on Zoom. In order to receive the joining instructions, registration is required for this event.
Professor Sara Van de Geer (ETH Zurich)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar

15:30 - Assessing Personalization in Digital Health
Please note, this Seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the joining instructions.
Professor Susan Murphy (Harvard University)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar

15:30 - Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
Please note this is an online event only via Zoom.
Dr John Jumper (DeepMind)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar

15:30 - Ethics from the perspective of an applied statistician
This event will be held in-person at the Department of Statistics and online. In-person places are restricted to 23 people.
Professor Denise Lievesley (Honorary Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar

15:30 - Modelling infectious diseases: what can branching processes tell us?
This is a collaborative talk organised by the Department of Statistics, the Department of Computer Science and the BDI. The talk will be held on Zoom.
Samir Bhatt, Professor of Machine Learning and Public Health (University of Copenhagen and Professor of Statistics and Public Health, Imperial College London)

15:00 - Statistics and the fight against modern slavery
Please note this event is kindly being hosted by the ICMS (International Centre for Mathematical Sciences) on Zoom. The Florence Nightingale Lecture Series is generously sponsored by XTX Markets. The Lecture will be followed by a Panel Session with Dame Sara Thornton DBE QPM, Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Professor Todd Landman FRSA, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Nottingham and Dr Davina Durgana, Walk Free.
Professor Sir Bernard Silverman (University of Nottingham and University of Oxford)
Florence Nightingale Annual Lecture