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Name: Beverley Lane
Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

Events this person is hosting:

Thursday 28 May 2020

Cluster-Randomised Test Negative Designs: Inference and Application to Vector Trials to Eliminate Dengue
Date: 28 May 2020, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Nick Jewell (University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health)
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Events this person is organising:

Friday 20 April 2018

(Why) do functional sites induce long-range evolutionary constraints in enzymes?
Date: 20 April 2018, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Julian Echave (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Arnaud Doucet (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Jotun Hein (University of Oxford)

Friday 27 April 2018

Algorithms and Algorithmic Obstacles in High-Dimensional Regression
Date: 27 April 2018, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : David Gamarnik (MIT Sloan School of Management, USA)
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Arnaud Doucet (University of Oxford)
Host: James Martin (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Friday 18 May 2018

Patterns and surprises in rich but noisy network data
Date: 18 May 2018, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Mark Newman (University of Michigan, USA)
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Arnaud Doucet (University of Oxford)
Host: Gesine Reinert (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Friday 22 June 2018

The Sample Complexity of Multi-Reference Alignment
Date: 22 June 2018, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Philippe Rigollet, (MIT Mathematics, USA)
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Arnaud Doucet (University of Oxford)
Host: Patrick Rebeschini (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Friday 30 November 2018

Individualizing Healthcare with Machine Learning
Date: 30 November 2018, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Suchi Saria (Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Department of Statistics, Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Yee Whye Teh (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Yee Whye Teh (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Friday 14 June 2019

From evolutionary trees to networks and back again
Date: 14 June 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre (LG.01)
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Jotun Hein (University of Oxford)

Scattered thoughts from applied probability: networks, security queues and prediction tournaments
Date: 14 June 2019, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Prof David Aldous (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre (LG.01)
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: James Martin (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Friday 29 November 2019

Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Introducing the E-Value
Date: 29 November 2019, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Tyler Vanderweele (Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre (LG.01)
Organisers: Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 January 2020

Twenty five year risks of breast cancer mortality in 500,000 women
Date: 23 January 2020, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Prof Sarah C. Darby (University of Oxford)
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)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

Friday 31 January 2020

Maths and Stats in Action – Real-time Analysis to Understand the Novel Coronavirus
Date: 31 January 2020, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Dr Robin Thompson (Mathematic Institute)
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)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 March 2020

Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society
Date: 18 March 2020, 14:30 - 15:45
Speaker : Prof Deborah Ashby (Imperial College London)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L1, Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Alison Etheridge (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 March 2020

GDB and the Chemical Space
Date: 24 March 2020, 9:00 - 10:00
Speaker : Prof Jean-Louis Reymond (Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Berne)
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), Prof Jotun Hein (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Jotun Hein (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 May 2020

Cluster-Randomised Test Negative Designs: Inference and Application to Vector Trials to Eliminate Dengue
Date: 28 May 2020, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Nick Jewell (University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health)
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 October 2020

(POSTPONED) Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
Date: 6 October 2020, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Jason Forrest (McKinsey & Co, New York)
Organiser: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

Friday 23 October 2020

Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
Date: 23 October 2020, 15:30 - 16:45
Speaker : Jason Forrest (McKinsey & Co, New York)
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 December 2020

Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society
Date: 1 December 2020, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Deborah Ashby (Royal Statistical Society)
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 January 2021

(Not) Aggregating Data
Date: 21 January 2021, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Professor Kerrie Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology in the Science and Engineering Faculty)
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

Thursday 18 February 2021

Veridical Data Science for biomedical discovery: detecting epistatic interactions with epiTree
Date: 18 February 2021, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Yee Whye Teh (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 February 2021

Finding Today’s Slaves: Lessons Learned From Over A Decade of Measurement in Modern Slavery
Date: 25 February 2021, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Davina Durgana (American University, Washington, DC)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 April 2021

On classification with small Bayes error and the max-margin classifier
Date: 29 April 2021, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Sara Van de Geer (ETH Zurich)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Friday 18 June 2021

Assessing Personalization in Digital Health
Date: 18 June 2021, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Susan Murphy (Harvard University)
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Robin Evans (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 October 2021

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
Date: 28 October 2021, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr John Jumper (DeepMind)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Organisers: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof. Charlotte Deane (University of Oxford), Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)

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)

Thursday 24 February 2022

Modelling infectious diseases: what can branching processes tell us?
Date: 24 February 2022, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Samir Bhatt, Professor of Machine Learning and Public Health (University of Copenhagen and Professor of Statistics and Public Health, Imperial College London)
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Seth Flaxman (Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford), Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Christophe Fraser (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)

Thursday 23 June 2022

Alan Turing at 110: current questions and issues
Date: 23 June 2022, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew Hodges (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: 24-29 St Giles, Oxford
Organisers: Professor Garrett Morris (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Garrett Morris (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)

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 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)

Thursday 29 May 2025

Differentially private M-estimation via noisy optimization
Date: 29 May 2025, 15:15 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Po-Ling Loh (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L3, Andrew Wiles Building
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 6 June 2025

Gradient-free stochastic optimization
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Alexandre Tsybakov (CREST-ENSAE Paris)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L1, Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building
Organisers: Patrick Rebeschini (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Patrick Rebeschini (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 June 2025

Bayesian Probabilistic Subnational Population Projections
Date: 16 June 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Adrian Raftery (University of Washington, Seattle)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
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)

Wednesday 29 October 2025

Environmental consequences of an ascendant aerospace sector
Date: 29 October 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Sebastian Eastham (Imperial College London)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics
Organisers: Simon Myers (University of Oxford), Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Frank Windmeijer (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Thursday 29 January 2025

A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI
Date: 29 January 2026, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Michael I. Jordan (Inria Paris and University of California, Berkeley)
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 Frank Windmeijer (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)