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Beverley Lane
Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Events this person is hosting:
Thursday 28 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
16:00
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Cluster-Randomised Test Negative Designs: Inference and Application to Vector Trials to Eliminate Dengue
Professor Nick Jewell
(University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health)
Events this person is organising:
Friday 20 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)
15:30
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(Why) do functional sites induce long-range evolutionary constraints in enzymes?
Julian Echave
(Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Friday 27 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
15:30
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Algorithms and Algorithmic Obstacles in High-Dimensional Regression
David Gamarnik
(MIT Sloan School of Management, USA)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Friday 18 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
15:30
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Patterns and surprises in rich but noisy network data
Mark Newman
(University of Michigan, USA)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Friday 22 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)
15:30
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The Sample Complexity of Multi-Reference Alignment
Philippe Rigollet,
(MIT Mathematics, USA)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
15:30
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Individualizing Healthcare with Machine Learning
Professor Suchi Saria
(Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Friday 14 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
14:00
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From evolutionary trees to networks and back again
Mike Steel
(University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
15:30
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Scattered thoughts from applied probability: networks, security queues and prediction tournaments
Prof David Aldous
(University of California, Berkeley)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
15:30
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Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Introducing the E-Value
Professor Tyler Vanderweele
(Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
15:30
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Twenty five year risks of breast cancer mortality in 500,000 women
Prof Sarah C. Darby
(University of Oxford)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
13:00
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Maths and Stats in Action – Real-time Analysis to Understand the Novel Coronavirus
Professor Christl Donnelly
(University of Oxford)
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Dr Robin Thompson
(Mathematic Institute)
Wednesday 18 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)
14:30
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Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society
Prof Deborah Ashby
(Imperial College London)
Florence Nightingale Annual Lecture
Tuesday 24 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)
09:00
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GDB and the Chemical Space
Prof Jean-Louis Reymond
(Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Berne)
Small Organic Molecules: Chemical Space, Reactions, Catalysis and Autocatalysis Workshop
Thursday 28 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
16:00
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Cluster-Randomised Test Negative Designs: Inference and Application to Vector Trials to Eliminate Dengue
Professor Nick Jewell
(University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health)
Tuesday 6 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)
15:30
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(POSTPONED) Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
This talk is part of Black History Month and will be hosted on Zoom.
Jason Forrest
(McKinsey & Co, New York)
Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
15:30
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Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
This is a special virtual Lecture organised as part of Black History Month. It will be hosted on Zoom.
Jason Forrest
(McKinsey & Co, New York)
Tuesday 1 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
15:00
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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)
Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
10:00
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(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)
Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
15:30
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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
Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
15:30
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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)
Thursday 29 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
15:30
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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
Friday 18 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
15:30
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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
Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
15:30
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Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
Please note this is an online event only via Zoom.
Dr John Jumper
(DeepMind)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Thursday 10 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
15:30
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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
Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
15:30
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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)
Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
15:00
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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
Thursday 23 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)
14:00
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Alan Turing at 110: current questions and issues
Please note, this is a special Lecture for Pride Month and registration is required for both in person and online attendance.
Professor Andrew Hodges
(University of Oxford)
Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
15:30
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A path to personalised disease prevention: using genomics to predict risk for common diseases
A drinks reception will be held after the lecture.
Peter Donnelly
(CEO of Genomics PLC and Professor of Statistical Science at University of Oxford)
Annual: The David Blackwell Lectures
Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
15:30
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From population to person: Counterfactual risk prediction
The Lecture will be held at the Department of Statistics and on Zoom.
Professor Ruth Keogh
(London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Annual: Corcoran Memorial Lecture
Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
15:30
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Causal learning from observational data
This talk will be held both in person and online.
Professor Marloes Maathuis
(ETH, Zurich)
Florence Nightingale Annual Lecture
Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
15:30
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Compositional data analysis: A fresh approach
This talk will be held both in person and online.
Professor David Firth
(University of Warwick)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
15:30
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Understanding neural networks and quantification of their uncertainty via exactly solvable models
This talk is the annual Oxford Maths & Stats Colloquium. There will be a Drinks Reception after the talk in the ground floor social area.
Professor Lenka Lenka Zdeborová
(École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
15:30
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Introducing the Forster-Warmuth Nonparametric Counterfactual Regression
Please register your place to attend this event. A drinks reception will follow the Lecture in the ground floor social area.
Professor Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen
(University of Pennsylvania)
Annual: The David Blackwell Lectures
Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
15:30
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Statistics, nursing, and social reform: Following in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale
Professor Barbara Engelhardt
(Senior Investigator at Gladstone Institutes and Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Biomedical Data Science)
Florence Nightingale Annual Lecture
Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
15:30
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Tackling the hidden costs of computational science: GREENER principles for environmentally sustainable research
There will be a Drinks Reception after the Lecture in the ground floor social area.
Dr Loïc Lannelongue
(Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge and the Cambridge-Baker Systems Genomics Initiative)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
15:30
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Approximate gradients for inference of partially-observed stochastic processes
There will be a drinks reception after the seminar in the ground floor social area.
Professor Marc Suchard
(David Geffen School of Medicine and Department of Biostatistics at UCLA)
Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
15:30
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The trajectories of complex disease
Professor Gil McVean
(The Ellison Institute of Technology, Oxford)
Annual: The David Blackwell Lectures
