Name: Professor Simon Myers
University of Oxford
http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/home

Events this person is speaking at:

Friday 1 November 2019

Population History Genetics Disease Day *CANCELLED*
Date: 1 November 2019, 9:45 - 12:30
Speaker s: Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford), Dr Anjali Hinch (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Rooms A&B
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 May 2022

Weldon Memorial Prize Lecture - Cracking the code of sexual reproduction and speciation
Date: 23 May 2022, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Oxford Martin School Lecture Theatre, 34 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BD
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 9 November 2022

WHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Lygate and Myers Groups
Date: 9 November 2022, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr Sevasti Zervou (University of Oxford), Dr Tanveer Tabish (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford), Hrushikesh Loya (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: In person: Rooms A&B / Remotely: via Teams. To log in via Teams please put yourself on mute and use the following link: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_M2Q3YzRiNjgtMzhkZS00YWIxLWI0ODgtNzNmMzUzMDcwZTg1%40thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%2522cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522faee8eaf-f9bf-478e-9151-5bbfc3b39a0f%2522%257d%26anon%3Dtrue&type=meetup-join&deeplinkId=b3a4a919-01db-4fdd-8df4-b4fdd1088b85&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&suppressPrompt=true
Organiser: Isabel Schmidt (University of Oxford, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Hosts: Professor Craig Lygate, Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Events this person is hosting:

Friday 15 January 2016

Genes, Cells, and Schizophrenia
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 January 2016, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Steven McCarroll (Harvard Medical School )
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser: Rosie Butler (University of Oxford, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics)
Host: Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Friday 4 March 2022

Statistics and the fight against modern slavery
Date: 4 March 2022, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Sir Bernard Silverman (University of Nottingham and University of Oxford)
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 October 2022

A path to personalised disease prevention: using genomics to predict risk for common diseases
Date: 21 October 2022, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Peter Donnelly (CEO of Genomics PLC and Professor of Statistical Science at University of Oxford)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 November 2022

WHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Lygate and Myers Groups
Date: 9 November 2022, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr Sevasti Zervou (University of Oxford), Dr Tanveer Tabish (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford), Hrushikesh Loya (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: In person: Rooms A&B / Remotely: via Teams. To log in via Teams please put yourself on mute and use the following link: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_M2Q3YzRiNjgtMzhkZS00YWIxLWI0ODgtNzNmMzUzMDcwZTg1%40thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%2522cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522faee8eaf-f9bf-478e-9151-5bbfc3b39a0f%2522%257d%26anon%3Dtrue&type=meetup-join&deeplinkId=b3a4a919-01db-4fdd-8df4-b4fdd1088b85&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&suppressPrompt=true
Organiser: Isabel Schmidt (University of Oxford, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Hosts: Professor Craig Lygate, Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 December 2022

From population to person: Counterfactual risk prediction
Date: 1 December 2022, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Ruth Keogh (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Friday 3 February 2023

Causal learning from observational data
Date: 3 February 2023, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Marloes Maathuis (ETH, Zurich)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 February 2023

Compositional data analysis: A fresh approach
Date: 22 February 2023, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor David Firth (University of Warwick)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Friday 5 May 2023

Understanding neural networks and quantification of their uncertainty via exactly solvable models
Date: 5 May 2023, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Lenka Lenka Zdeborová (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 October 2023

Introducing the Forster-Warmuth Nonparametric Counterfactual Regression
Date: 26 October 2023, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Friday 23 February 2024

Statistics, nursing, and social reform: Following in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale
Date: 23 February 2024, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Barbara Engelhardt (Senior Investigator at Gladstone Institutes and Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Biomedical Data Science)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Friday 26 April 2024

Tackling the hidden costs of computational science: GREENER principles for environmentally sustainable research
Date: 26 April 2024, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Loïc Lannelongue (Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge and the Cambridge-Baker Systems Genomics Initiative)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 May 2024

Approximate gradients for inference of partially-observed stochastic processes
Date: 7 May 2024, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Marc Suchard (David Geffen School of Medicine and Department of Biostatistics at UCLA)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 October 2024

The trajectories of complex disease
Date: 24 October 2024, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Gil McVean (The Ellison Institute of Technology, Oxford)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 February 2025

The trajectories of complex disease
Date: 6 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Xavier Didelot (University of Warwick)
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Department of Earth Sciences
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 March 2025

Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies.
Date: 13 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Department of Earth Sciences
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 10 February 2022

Ethics from the perspective of an applied statistician
Date: 10 February 2022, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Denise Lievesley (Honorary Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 October 2022

A path to personalised disease prevention: using genomics to predict risk for common diseases
Date: 21 October 2022, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Peter Donnelly (CEO of Genomics PLC and Professor of Statistical Science at University of Oxford)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Friday 3 February 2023

Causal learning from observational data
Date: 3 February 2023, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Marloes Maathuis (ETH, Zurich)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 February 2023

Compositional data analysis: A fresh approach
Date: 22 February 2023, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor David Firth (University of Warwick)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Friday 5 May 2023

Understanding neural networks and quantification of their uncertainty via exactly solvable models
Date: 5 May 2023, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Lenka Lenka Zdeborová (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 October 2023

Introducing the Forster-Warmuth Nonparametric Counterfactual Regression
Date: 26 October 2023, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Friday 26 April 2024

Tackling the hidden costs of computational science: GREENER principles for environmentally sustainable research
Date: 26 April 2024, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Loïc Lannelongue (Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge and the Cambridge-Baker Systems Genomics Initiative)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 May 2024

Approximate gradients for inference of partially-observed stochastic processes
Date: 7 May 2024, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Marc Suchard (David Geffen School of Medicine and Department of Biostatistics at UCLA)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 October 2024

The trajectories of complex disease
Date: 24 October 2024, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Gil McVean (The Ellison Institute of Technology, Oxford)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 February 2025

The trajectories of complex disease
Date: 6 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Xavier Didelot (University of Warwick)
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Department of Earth Sciences
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2025

E-Values, Anytime-Validity and Bayes
Date: 20 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Grunwald (Leiden University)
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Department of Earth Sciences
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Yee Whye Teh (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 March 2025

Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies.
Date: 13 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Department of Earth Sciences
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)