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Seminars given by members of the Statistical Laboratory

If you have a question about this list, please contact: HoD Secretary, DPMMS; D. Finucane; 43203; Dr Marek Szuba. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

3 upcoming talks and 1788 talks in the archive.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 V

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Massive holomorphicity in near-critical dimers and the Sine Gordon model

User Nathanael Berestycki (University of Vienna).

House MR12.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Scalable causal discovery for statistically efficient causal inference

User Sara Magliacane (University of Amsterdam).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Wandering exponent and free energy for the Mézard-Parisi elastic polymer

User Gérard Ben Arous (Courant).

House MR9.

Friday 13 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

The role of Random Matrix Theory for the optimization algorithms of Machine Learning

User Gérard Ben Arous (Courant).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

How can the pedagogy of statistics inform the teaching of machine learning?

User Paul Fannon, Department of Genetics: Bioinformatics Training Facility.

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 19:15-21:00

Information Theory Seminar

Optimal Estimation in Orthogonally Invariant Generalized Linear Models

User Dr Yihan Zhang, University of Bristol .

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Meta Flow Maps enable scalable reward alignment

User Yee Whye Teh (Oxford/Deepmind).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Graph Joinings, Graph Isomorphism, and Reversible Markov Chains

User Prof Andrew Nobel, UNC Chapel Hill.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Quantitative Brownian Regularity of the KPZ fixed point

User Pantelis Tassopoulos (Cambridge).

House MR12.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Rainfall, volatility and roughness: an intriguing story across scales

User Marc Hoffmann (Université Paris-Dauphine).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The random walk on the exclusion process: a Law of Large numbers in dimensions $\geq 5$

User Guillaume Conchon--Kerjan (King's College London).

House MR12.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Minimax rate for multivariate data under componentwise local differential privacy constraints

User Chiara Amorino (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Applications of Algorithmic Information Theory

User Prof Marcus Hutter, Google DeepMind, London.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The polaron problem and Kac type interactions

User Erwin Bolthausen (Zurich).

House MR12.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Towards multi-purpose locally differentially-private synthetic data release via plug-in estimation

User Botond Szabo (Bocconi University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Group Entropies: functionals on probability spaces, state space growth rates, energy, and connections to thermodynamics

User Prof. Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Imperial College London.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Large deviations in sparse random graphs

User Anirban Basak (ICTS, Tata Institute).

House MR12.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nonparametric Bayesian intensity estimation for covariate-driven point processes

User Matteo Giordano (Università degli Studi di Torino).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Deep Learning via the Minimum Description Length Principle

User Dr Yoshinari Takeishi, Kyushu University.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Connecting the False Discovery Rate to shrunk estimates

User Nick W Galwey (Former Statistics Leader, Research Statistics, at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development (Retired)).

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 19:15-21:00

Probability

Chemical distance in high-dimensional percolation

User Jack Hanson (Universität Hamburg).

House MR12.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The Geometry of Random Neural Networks

User Domenico Marinucci (Università di Roma Tor Vergata).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 30 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

The Minimum Description Length Principle and Machine Learning

User Dr Yoshinari Takeishi, Kyushu University.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 V

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Information Constraints in Human Decision-Making: From Theory to Computation

User Dr Stefan Bucher, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Stochastic heat equation and directed polymers in dimension d=2

User Quentin Berger (Paris 13).

House MR12.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Valid F-screening in linear regression

User Daniela Witten (University of Washington).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

100 years of educational trials – no significant difference?

User Riikka Hofmann, Faculty of Education.

House City House, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1RY.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 19:15-21:00

Information Theory Seminar

Optimal Quantization for Matrix Multiplication

User Or Ordentlich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Spectral laws of sparse iid matrices

User Julian Sahasrabudhe (University of Cambridge).

House MR12.

Tuesday 25 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On the sample complexity of multi-objective learning

User Fanny Yang (ETH Zurich).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 19 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The Markov property for \varphi^4_3 on cylinders

User Trishen Gunaratnam (TIFR Mumbai and ICTS Bangalore).

House MR12.

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Statistical guarantees for neural operator surrogates

User Sven Wang (EPFL).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Breaking the Sample Size Barrier in Reinforcement Learning

User Yuxin Chen, University of Pennsylvania.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Spectral gaps of random hyperbolic surfaces

User Will Hide (Oxford).

House MR12.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Statistical Investigations into the Unseen: Missing Mass for Markov Samples and Natural Distribution Estimation

User Prof. Andrew Thangaraj, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar Room.

Monday 10 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The manifold hypothesis in science & AI

User Patrick Rubin-Delanchy (Edinburgh).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Zero-Error Communications over Modulo-Additive Noise Channels with Assistance

User Prof. Amos Lapidoth, ETH Zurich.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Games on trees

User Omer Angel (UBC).

House MR12.

Tuesday 04 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Benefits of data openness in a digital world

User Sam Gilbert, Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

House The Statistical Laboratory,Centre for Mathematical Sciences,Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 03 November 2025, 19:00-21:00

Statistics

Adaptation through prior tails and deep neural networks

User Ismael Castillo (Sorbonne Université).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 31 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Mixing time of random walk on the small-world network

User Andjela Sarkovic (Cambridge).

House MR12.

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Universal Copulas

User Gery Geenens (University of New South Wales).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

De Bruijn's identity and stability in the Entropy Power Inequality without finite variance

User Dr Lampros Gavalakis, DPMMS, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Capacity for branching random walks and percolation

User Perla Sousi (Cambridge).

House MR12.

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On uncertainty quantification for nonparametric multivariate Hawkes processes

User Judith Rousseau (Université Paris Dauphine).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Statistical Signal Processing for Quantum Error Mitigation

User Prof. Dror Baron, North Carolina State University.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

On large clusters for the Gaussian free field

User Pierre-François Rodriguez (Statslab).

House MR12.

Tuesday 14 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Geometric extremal graphical models

User Jennifer Wadsworth (Lancaster).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 08 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

All models are wrong and yours are useless: making clinical prediction models impactful for patients

User Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 07 October 2025, 19:15-21:30

Information Theory Seminar

Efficient gradient coding for mitigating stragglers within distributed machine learning

User Prof. Aditya Ramamoorthy, Iowa State University.

House MR9, CMS Pavilion B.

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Inequalities Revisited

User Prof. Raymond W. Yeung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

House James Dyson Building Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 19 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR14.

Wednesday 17 September 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR14.

Wednesday 27 August 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR14.

Wednesday 06 August 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR14.

Wednesday 16 July 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 V

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR14.

Wednesday 25 June 2025, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Detecting Changes in Production Frontier and Beyond

User Yining Chen (LSE).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR2.

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Complexity of sampling truncated log-concave measures, and the role of stochastic localization

User Yuansi Chen (ETH Zurich).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

In-sample calibration yields conformal calibration guarantees

User Johanna Ziegel (ETH Zurich).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR14.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Learning Privately in High Dimensions

User Prof. Marco Mondelli, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Mixing of a random walk on a randomly twisted hypercube

User Zsuzsa Baran (Cambridge).

House MR12.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies.

User Kosuke Imai (Harvard University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 16 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House CMS, Room MR2.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 09:00-13:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 II

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Metrics and random walks on 2D critical percolation and CLE

User Yizheng Yuan.

House MR12.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Extrapolation-aware statistical machine learning

User Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Graph Data Compression: Practical Methods and Information-Theoretic Limits

User Prof. Justin Coon, University of Oxford.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The Porous Medium Equation: Multiscale Analysis of a Zero-Range Process, Integrability Estimate and Large Deviations

User Daniel Heydecker (Imperial College).

House MR12.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Improved performance guarantees for Tukey’s median

User Stanislav Minsker (University of Southern California).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory

User Tim Austin (Warwick).

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 I

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Predicting recurrence of prostate cancer: a Bayesian approach

User Roger Sewell.

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Thursday 10 April 2025, 19:15-21:30

Information Theory Seminar

Group Testing: Something old, something new, something borrowed

User Dr Nikhil Karamchandani, IIT Bombay.

House MR13, CMS Pavilion E.

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Graphical Approach to State Variable Selection in Off-policy Learning

User Joakim Blach Andersen (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 V

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Entropy comparison inequalities with applications to additive noise channels

User Dr Lampros Gavalakis, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Large Values of the Riemann Zeta Function in Short Intervals

User Louis-Pierre Arguin (Oxford).

House MR12.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Evaluating a black-box algorithm: stability, risk, and model comparisons

User Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

User Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Causal Inference Reading Group

Estimating the Global Average Treatment Effect under Structured Interference

User Shuangning Li (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business).

House MR19, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:30-16:00

Probability

Sharp threshold for the ballisticity of the random walk on the exclusion process

User Daniel Kious (Bath).

House MR12.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Discussion on Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Texts as Treatments

User Martina Scauda (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 IV

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Data Compression with Relative Entropy Coding

User Gergely Flamich, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The scaling limit of random planar maps with large faces.

User Armand Riera (Paris).

House MR12.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

User James Grime, Institute of Continuing Education.

House Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

Monday 03 March 2025, 19:15-21:00

Information Theory Seminar

Variations of the Expectation due to Changes in the Measure: Applications to Generalization and Game Theory

User Dr Samir Perlaza, INRIA.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Branching random walk with non-local competition

User Sarah Penington (Bath).

House MR12.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

User Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 III

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Height gap of the planar Brownian motion

User Titus Lupu (Paris).

House MR12.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Discussion on Confidence Intervals for Policy Evaluation in Adaptive Experiments

User Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Gaussian and non-Gaussian universality, with applications to data augmentation

Note unusual location

User Peter Orbanz (UCL).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Sampling using Diffusion Processes

User Dr Nicolas Macris, EPFL.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A switching property for percolation of Brownian loops

User Wendelin Werner (Cambridge).

House MR12.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

User Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 07 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 II

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Generalization and Informativeness of Conformal Prediction

User Dr Fredrik Hellstrom, UCL.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Road layout in the KPZ class

User Marton Balazs (Bristol).

House MR12.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Building global resilience to high-impact volcanic eruptions

User Lara Mani, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

House Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 February 2025, 19:00-21:00

Statistics

Metric and variable selection for functional nonparametric regression models

User Torben Sell (University of Edinburgh).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Debiased regression adjustment in completely randomized experiments with moderately high-dimensional covariates

User Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua University).

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 I

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

An Anatomy of Event Studies: Hypothetical Experiments, Exact Decomposition, and Weighting Diagnostics

User José R. Zubizarreta, Harvard University .

House MR20, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 13 December 2024, 17:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Exploiting Statistical Hardness for Increased Privacy in Wireless Systems

Note unusual time and room

User Prof. Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California.

House MR13, CMS Pavilion E.

Monday 09 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 V

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The Brownian loop measure on Riemann surfaces and applications to length spectra

User Yilin Wang (IHES).

House MR12.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation

User Kelly Zhang (Imperial College London).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 29 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Cancer: misfortune or carelessness?

User Peter Treasure, Peter Treasure Statistical Services Ltd.

House AstraZeneca, Academy House, Hills Road Cambridge CB2 8PA.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 19:15-21:30

Information Theory Seminar

From Classical to Quantum: Uniform Continuity Bounds on Entropies in Infinite Dimensions

User Prof. Nilanjana Datta, DAMTP.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The *-Edge Reinforced random walk, bayesian statistics and statistical physics

User Pierre Tarres (Paris and Shanghai).

House MR12.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Mixing times for the open ASEP

User Dominik Schmid (Columbia).

House MR12.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Change point estimation for a stochastic heat equation

User Lukas Trottner (University of Birmingham).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 22 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 IV

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The point of view of the particle for 2D random walks in Dirichlet environment

User Christophe Sabot (Lyon).

House MR12.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

User Pietro Lesci, University of Cambridge .

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 November 2024, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

User Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 15 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Diffusion-based Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation: Overdamped, Accelerated, and Proximal

User Dr Deniz Akyildiz, Imperial College London.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A reduction of the theta(pc) problem to a correlation inequality.

User Gady Kozma (Weizmann Institute).

House MR12.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Random growth models with half space geometry

User Jimmy He (Ohio State University).

House MR12.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Developing Causal Network Models to Untangle the Mechanisms Behind Past Large-Scale Climate Reorganizations

User Peisong Zheng (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 08 November 2024, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

User Tatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 08 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 III

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Symmetrized KL information: Channel Capacity and Learning Theory

User Dr Gholamali Aminian, Alan Turing Institute.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Rotationally Invariant First passage percolation - Scaling and Chaos

User Allan Sly (Princeton).

House MR12.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Time: The next frontier in causal machine learning

User Mihaela van der Schaar, Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine.

House Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Monday 04 November 2024, 19:00-21:00

Rollo Davidson Lectures

Spatial shuffling: the interchange process in dimension 5

User Allan Sly (Princeton).

House MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 04 November 2024, 17:00-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

On statistical models associated with acyclic directed mixed graphs

User Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2024, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Skew-symmetric schemes for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift: an unadjusted Barker algorithm

User Sam Livingstone (UCL).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 01 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Rethinking Weak Instruments with a focus on the Multiple Risk Factors Setting

User James Lane (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 25 October 2024, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

User Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 25 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 II

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Fragmentations with erasure

User Serge Cohen, Toulouse.

House MR12.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A matrix algebra for graphical statistical models

User Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 18 October 2024, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

On optimal treatment regimes assisted by algorithms

User Mats Stensrud (EPFL).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 18 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Structural, Temporal and Semantic Information

User Prof. Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue University.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Universality of directed polymers in the intermediate disorder regime

User Julian Ransford (Cambridge).

House MR12.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

User Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 I

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Some contributions of information theory to pure mathematics

User Dr Thomas Karam, University of Oxford.

House MR11 (B1.39), CMS Pavilion B.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

A conservative approach to leveraging external evidence for effective clinical trial design

User Fabio Rigat, AstraZeneca Ltd).

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 08 October 2024, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

User Stefan Wager (Stanford University).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Monday 23 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Kernel Ridge Regression Inference with Applications to Preference Data

User Rahul Singh (Harvard University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 20 September 2024, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 IV

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 11 September 2024, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 III

User MR15 at the CMS.

House MR15.

Wednesday 21 August 2024, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 II

User MR14 at the CMS.

House MR14.

Wednesday 31 July 2024, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 I

User MR15 at the CMS.

House MR15.

Wednesday 10 July 2024, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Local causal discovery for downstream effect estimation

User Jacqueline Maasch (Cornell Tech).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 June 2024, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 V

User MR4 at the CMS.

House MR4.

Wednesday 19 June 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Nonparametric classification with missing data

User Tim Cannings, University of Edinburgh.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

User Purnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 IV

User MR12 at the CMS.

House MR12.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Loop-erased random walk in three dimensions

User Daisuke Shiraishi (Kyoto).

House MR12.

Tuesday 04 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Learning with latent symmetries

User Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 31 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Reinforced Random Walk and a Supersymmetric Spin System on the Tree

User Peter Wildemann (Cambridge).

House MR12.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Scaling limit of high-dimensional random spanning trees

User Eleanor Archer (Paris).

House MR12.

Tuesday 28 May 2024, 14:14-15:15

Statistics

On Independent Samples along the Langevin Dynamics and Algorithm

User Andre Wibisono, Yale University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 III

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Communication over many-user channels via Approximate Message Passing

User Xiaoqi (Shirley) Liu, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

User Alexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Quickest Change Detection Using Mismatched CUSUM

Note unusual day of the week and location

User Prof Sean Meyn, University of Florida.

House LT6, First floor Baker building, Dept. of Engineering, Trumpington Street, CB2 1PZ.

Monday 13 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Information Theory Colloquium

User Prof. Oliver Johnson, Prof. Thomas Courtade, Prof. Yossef Steinberg.

House Dept. of Engineering, Trumpington Street, CB2 1PZ.

Friday 10 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 II

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Stability of the Poincaré-Korn inequality

User Prof Thomas Courtade, UC Berkeley.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Two new results on random matrices

User Yi Han (Statslab).

House MR12.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

User Sara van de Geer, ETH Zürich.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Monitoring Vaccine Effectiveness: can we trust results from parties with a vested interest?

User Roger Sewell.

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 19:15-21:30

Mordell Lectures

Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos

User Rob Morris (IMPA Rio).

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

Information Measures in Selected Learning Problems

Note unusual day of the week and location

User Prof Chao Tian, Texas A&M University.

House MR3, CMS Pavilion A.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Packing Spheres Randomly

User Marcelo Campos (DPMMS).

House MR12.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Leveraging multi-study, multi-outcome data to improve external validity and efficiency of clinical trials for managing schizophrenia

User Caleb Miles (Columbia University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 26 April 2024, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Spatial causal inference in the presence of unmeasured confounding and interference

User Georgia Padadogeorgou, University of Florida.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 I

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Some combinatorial problems in information theory

User Prof. Marco Dalai, University of Brescia.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Quantitative Uniform Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure

User George Degliannidis, University of Oxford.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

What has genomics ever done for us? A 20-year history of the human genome

User Klaudia Walter, Sanger Institute.

House Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

Thursday 21 March 2024, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 V

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Feature learning and normalization layers

User Dr Matus Telgarsky, NYU.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Concentration and Free Probability

User Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Matrix Concentration and Free Probability

User Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

House MR12.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Quantitative sub-ballisticity of self-avoiding walk on the hexagonal lattice

User Christoforos Panagiotis (University of Bath).

House MR12.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

User Anna Calissano (Imperial College).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 IV

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Quantum Machine Learning: An Information-Theoretic Perspective

User Prof. Osvaldo Simeone, King's College London.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:15

Probability

Two-periodic weighted dominos and the sine-Gordon field at the free fermion point

User Scott Mason (Cambridge).

House MR12.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Genetics-based drug discovery: Some stories from the frontline

User Matt Tudball (5 Prime Sciences).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Information Theory Seminar

Information-theoretic techniques and context-tree methods for time series

User Ioannis Papageorgiou, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The Critical 2d Stochastic Heat Flow and other critical SPDEs

User Nikos Zygouras (Warwick).

House MR12.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

User Giovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 III

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

A theory of social balance

User Dr George Cantwell, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Excess Folding for Transient Random Walks, Simple or Branching

User Amine Asselah (Paris) and Bruno Schapira (Marseille).

House MR12.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 14:00-16:15

Statistics

Robust density estimation and model selection for the L1 loss : Applications to shape-constrained density estimation.

User Hélène Halconruy (Télécom SudParis).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Homotopy methods for convex optimization

User Andreas Klingler (Innsbruck).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Information Theory Seminar

Enabling Fast, Robust, and Personalized Federated Learning

User Prof Ramtin Pedarsani, UC Santa Barbara .

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Distances on the CLE(4), critical Liouville quantum gravity and 3/2-stable maps

User Emmanuel Kammerer (Ecole Polytechnique).

House MR12.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Wildlife from space: detecting, monitoring and studying wildlife using satellite imagery

User Peter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey.

House Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Monday 05 February 2024, 19:00-21:00

Statistics

M-estimation, noisy optimization and user-level local privacy

User Marco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 II

User MR5 at CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The invariant measure of the 2D Yang-Mills Langevin dynamic

User Ilya Chevyrev (Edinburgh).

House MR12.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Optimization-based Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding using Partial Correlations

User Tobias Freidling (Statistical Laboratory).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12.

Friday 26 January 2024, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

User Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Some aspects of the Anderson Hamiltonian in 1D

User Laure Dumaz (CNRS, ENS Paris).

House MR12.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

User Perrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 I

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Convexity properties of information functionals for Gaussian mixtures

User Dr Lampros Gavalakis, Gustave Eiffel University.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 V

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

The Role of Information Measures on the Regularization of Empirical Risk Minimization

User Dr Iñaki Esnaola, University of Sheffield.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Weak coupling scaling of critical SPDEs

User Guiseppe Cannizzaro, University of Warwick.

House MR12.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

User Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Quantifying personal exposure to air pollution with sensor technologies and digital science

User Lia Chatzidiakou/Rod Jones.

House Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 19:00-21:00

Information Theory Seminar

Provably Safe Certification for Machine Learning Models under Adversarial Attacks

User Prof. Miguel Rodrigues, UCL.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Critical core percolation on random graphs

User Alice Contat (University of Paris-Saclay).

House MR12.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Comparative Frameworks for Relative Multivariate Analysis

User Ganesh Karapakula (Economics Faculty - University of Cambridge).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12.

Friday 17 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms

User Kengo Kato (Cornell University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 IV

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Statistical-Computational Tradeoffs in Mixed Sparse Linear Regression

User Gabriel Arpino, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A topological transition in the XY model

User Diederik van Engelenburg (Lyon).

House MR12.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

User Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

A functional perspective on Information Measures

User Dr Amedeo Esposito, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Phase transitions of the graphical representations of the Ising model

User Frederik Ravn Klausen (University of Copenhagen) .

House MR12.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Frequency and cardinality recovery from sketched data: a novel approach bridging Bayesian and frequentist views

User Stefano Favaro (University of Turin).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 III

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Classical and quantum zero error communication

User Satvik Singh, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

How long are the arms in Dielectric-Breakdown Model?

User Ilya Losev (Cambridge).

House MR12.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Confounder selection via iterative graph expansion

User Richard Guo (University of Cambridge).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12.

Friday 27 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Adaptive two-sample testing

User Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Thompson Sampling for Stochastic Bandits with Noisy Contexts: An Information-Theoretic Analysis

User Dr Sharu Jose, University of Birmingham.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Determinants of Laplacians of converging surfaces

User Renan Gross (Tel Aviv).

House MR12.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

User Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

User Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 II

User MR4 at the CMS.

House MR4.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 15:00-16:30

Probability

Spin glass phase in the Edwards-Anderson model at zero temperature

User Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Assumption-lean Inference for Generalised Linear Model Parameters

User Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12.

Friday 13 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

User Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Sharp convergence guarantees for iterative (non)-convex empirical risk minimization with random data

User Dr. Kabir Verchand, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Statistics and Data Analytics in the Film Industry

User Allègre L. Hadida, Cambridge Judge Business School & Magdalene College.

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Sampling from the random cluster model on the random regular graph at all temperatures

User Andreas Galanis (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

User Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 I

User MR5 at the CMS.

House MR5.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Right-Most Position of a Last Progeny Modified Branching Random Walk

User Antar Bandyopadhyay, ISI Delhi.

House MR11.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

Load Balancing under Data Locality: Extending Mean-Field Framework to Constrained Large-Scale Systems

User Dr Debankur Mukherjee, Georgia Tech.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 IV

The clinic takes place in MR12 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR12.

Wednesday 13 September 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Residual Permutation Test for High-Dimensional Regression Coefficient Testing

User Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 08 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 23 August 2023, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 02 August 2023, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

[Journal Club] Granger Causality: A Review and Recent Advances

User Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Friday 21 July 2023, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 I

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 19 July 2023, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 V

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Journal Club - Interventional Causal Representation Learning

User Max Zhu (Statistical Laboratory, Department of Computer Science).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 16 June 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

Canceled

User Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

House Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 16 June 2023, 00:00-00:00

Probability

Scaling limits and decay of correlations for non-convex interaction

User Stefan Adams (Warwick).

House MR14.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Scaling limits and decay of correlations for non-convex interaction

User Stefan Adams (Warwick).

House MR14.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A powerful methodology for analyzing correlated high dimensional data with factor models

Room changed

User Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University).

House MR1, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 09 June 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

User John Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

House MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 IV

The clinic takes place in MR14 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR14.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Journal Club - Bridging Matching, Regression, and Weighting as Math Programs for Causal Inference

Room changed

User Tobias Freidling (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR1, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 June 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Simultaneous Directional Inference

Room changed

User Ruth Heller (Tel-Aviv University).

House MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

On Lévy-driven Loewner Evolutions

Room changed

User Anne Schreuder (Statslab).

House MR14.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A High-dimensional Convergence Theorem for U-statistics with Applications to Kernel-based Testing

User Kevin Han Huang (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 26 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Randomized and exchangeable improvements of Markov's, Chebyshev's and Chernoff's inequalities

User Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Sphere-packings on lattices in mathematical physics

User Izabella Stuhl (Penn State).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Scaling limit of multi-type stationary measures in the KPZ class

User Ofer Busani (Bonn).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

The multicast transmission approach to converse theorems

Note unusual day of the week

User Dr Anelia Somekh-Baruch, Bar-Ilan University.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Monday 22 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Selective randomization inference for enrichment trials

User Zijun Gao, Tobias Freidling (University of Cambridge - Statistical Laboratory).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 19 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Physics informed spatial and functional data analysis over non-Euclidean domains

User Laura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Causal Identification: Are We There Yet?

User Prof. Negar Kiyavash, EPFL.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Mixing time of random walk on dynamical random cluster

User Alexandre Stauffer (Bath).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Journal Club: Separable Effects for Competing Events

User Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 12 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

A powerful empirical Bayes approach for high dimensional replicability analysis

User Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 12 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Stable Weighting and Estimation of conditional treatment effects

User Ganesh Karapakula (University of Cambridge - Economics).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 05 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

User Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 05 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions

User Aad van der Vaart (Delft).

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Error exponents for source coding under logarithmic loss

User Dr Hamdi Joudeh.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The bead process on the torus

User Samuel Johnston (King's College London).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Model-X and doubly robust conditional independence testing

User Eugene Katsevich (University of Pennsylvania).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 28 April 2023, 15:30-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

User Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 28 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 I

The clinic takes place in MR11 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR11.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Approximate fixed points of classical and quantum channels and robustness theory of quantum Markov chains

Room changed

User Robert Salzmann, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

House MR11 (B1.39), CMS Pavilion B.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium

User Multiple speakers (Deepmind, ETH Zurich, University of Surrey, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

House James Dyson Building Seminar Room - Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 April 2023, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 V

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Fundamental limits in structured PCA, and how to reach them

Note: different room from the usual

User Dr Jean Barbier, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).

House B1.19 (MR19), CMS Pavilion B .

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Capacity of the range of random walk

User Izumi Okada (Tokyo).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Transition of the simple random walk on the graph of the ice-model

User Serge Cohen (Toulouse).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

User Hongyu Zhao (Yale University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

Generalization Bounds via Online Learning

User Dr Gergely Neu, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Properties of the gradient squared of the Gaussian free field

User Alessandra Cipriani (UCL).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

User Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 IV

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Discriminating Classical and Quantum Channels

User Bjarne Bergh, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

On the Replica Symmetric Regime of the SK Model

User Christian Brennecke (Bonn).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

User Ricardo Silva (UCL).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Semantic and Pragmatic Communications

User Prof. Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Random trees conditioned on the number of vertices and leaves

User Slava Kargin (Binghampton).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Large deviations for out of equilibrium correlations in the symmetric simple exclusion process

User Benoit Dagallier (Statslab).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

User Robin Evans (University of Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Bayes-optimal estimation in generalized linear models

User Ramji Venkataramanan, Department of Engineering, Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The Kalman-Bucy filter revisited: Mean-field equations & duality

Joint Statistics and CCIMI Seminar (note unusual time)

User Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

An Entropy-Based Model for Hierarchical Learning

User Dr Amir Asadi, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Random tournaments

User Brett Kolesnik (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

User Joshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

User Ieva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

User Alastair Young (Imperial College, London).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 I

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 V

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Uniform entropic continuity bounds via majorization flow

User Prof. Nilanjana Datta, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Deep reinforced active learning

User Emma Slade - GSK.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR4.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

On the number of level sets of smooth Gaussian fields

User Dmitry Belyaev (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

Unusual starting time to accommodate a special tea event after the seminar

User John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Information Theory Seminar

How the strength of the inductive bias affects the generalization performance of interpolators

User Dr Fanny Yang, ETH Zurich.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The contact process over a dynamical d-regular graph

User Daniel Valesin (Warwick).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Expander graphs are globally synchronising

User Victor Souza, Cambridge.

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 21 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

User Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 IV

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Typical error exponents

User Dr Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Gaussian multiplicative chaos measures, Painlevé equations, and conformal blocks

User Harini Desiraju (Newton Institute).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

User Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 11 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Communication in the presence of adversarial jamming: The curious case of the erasure channel

User Dr Sidharth Jaggi, University of Bristol.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The scaling limit theory of critical planar fuzzy Potts models

User Matthis Lehmkuehler (ETH Zurich).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Local Independence Graphs

User Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 04 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Energy-Optimal Signaling using the Example of Optical Communication

User Dr Stefan Moser, ETH Zurich.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Regularity of SLE: Precise variation and modulus of continuity

User Yizheng Yuan (Statslab).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

User Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

User Liza Levina (Michigan).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

On the monotonicity of entropy in the discrete entropic central limit theorem

User Mr Lampros Gavalakis, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

State spaces and stochastic dynamics for Yang Mills in 2D and 3D

User Ajay Chandra (Imperial).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks

User Min Xu (Rutgers University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Communication-constrained hypothesis testing: Optimality, robustness, and reverse data processing inequalities

User Dr Varun Jog, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Scaling limit of a branching process in a varying environment

User Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan (Bath).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Comparison of Markov chains via weak Poincaré inequalities, with application to pseudo-marginal MCMC

User Sam Power (University of Bristol).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Strong and epsilon-dependent converses for source or channel coding and for hypothesis testing

User Prof. Michele Wigger, Telecom Paris.

House MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The scaling limit of the 2D discrete Gaussian model at high temperature

User Jiwoon Park (Statslab).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning

Statistics and CCIMI seminar, followed by a drinks reception

User Victor Chernozhukov (MIT).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 I

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR5.

Wednesday 05 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 IV

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 21 September 2022, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Schur-Weyl duality and large $N$ limit in 2d Yang-Mills theory

User Thierry Lévy (Sorbonne Université).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Well-posedness and large-particle limit for a model in collective dynamics

User Sara Merino-Aceituno (Universität Wien).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Planar aggregation with subcritical fluctuations and the Hastings-Levitov models

User Vittoria Silvestri (Università di Roma La Sapienza).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Probability

The Anderson operator

User Ismael Bailleul (Université de Rennes).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 10:00-11:00

Probability

Limits of Polya urns with innovations

User Jean Bertoin (Zurich).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 09:00-10:00

Probability

Depth-First Search in a Random Digraph

User Svante Janson (Uppsala Universitet).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Hidden Ancestor Graphs with Assortative Vertex Attributes

User Richard Darling (NSA).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Kac's process and the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation

User Daniel Heydecker (MPI).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Height function delocalisation on cubic planar graphs

User Piet Lammers (IHES).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Probability

On the enumeration of random maps with three tight boundaries and its probabilistic consequences

User Gregory Miermont (Lyon).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 10:00-11:00

Probability

The motion of hybrid zones (and how to stop them)

User Alison Etheridge (Oxford).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 09:00-10:00

Probability

Stability of the elliptic Harnack Inequality

User Martin Barlow (UBC).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 16:30-17:30

Probability

A polynomial expansion for Brownian motion and the associated fluctuation process

User Karen Habermann (Warwick).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Signatures and functions on unparameterised path space

User Thomas Cass (Imperial College London).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Rough Paths and more scalable data science

User Terry Lyons (Oxford).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Probability

Stochastic quantisation of Yang-Mills

User Martin Hairer (Imperial College London).

House MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 31 August 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 03 August 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 I

The clinic takes place in MR2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 13 July 2022, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Causal de Finetti: On the Identification of Invariant Causal Structure in Exchangeable Data

User Siyuan Guo (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 04 July 2022, 13:30-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Counterfactual inference in sequential experimental design

User Raaz Dwivedi (Harvard and MIT).

House MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 June 2022, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

(CANCELLED) Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

User Ricardo Silva (UCL).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

The implicit boundary integral method

User Richard Tsai (UT Austin).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR5.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Exit sets for vector valued GFF and interplay with planar O(N) models

User Christophe Garban (Lyon).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 IV

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 16:30-18:00

Probability

A dynamical approach to lattice Yang-Mills

User Hao Shen (Wisconsin, Madison).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Unbiased Set-Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects

User Ganesh Karapakula (University of Cambridge).

House MR11 (B1.39), CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 06 June 2022, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

A machine learning approach for causal structure estimation in high dimensions

User Sach Mukherjee (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 03 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Inverse consistency and global convergence of ResNets

User Francois-Xavier Vialard (Université Gustave Eiffel).

House Virtual.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Scaling limit of the heavy-tailed ballistic deposition model with p-sticking

User Santiago Saglietti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

House Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Percolation, long-range correlations and critical exponents on transient graphs

User Alexander Drewitz (Universität zu Köln).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Scaling limits and macroscopic behavior for stochastic models of active matter

User Clément Erignoux, INRIA Lille Nord.

House MR2.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Statistics

Optimal prediction of Markov chains without mixing conditions

User Yihong Wu (Yale University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Trajectories: a robust alternative to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

User Lionel Riou-Durand (University of Warwick).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The chemical distance in random interlacements in the low-intensity regime

User Saraí Hernández-Torres (Technion).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Minimum L1-norm interpolators: Precise asymptotics and multiple descent

User Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 I

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution

User Stefano Ermon (Stanford University).

House Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 V

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Demystifying Deep Learning

User Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Probability

Integrable fluctuations in random growth

User Jeremy Quastel (Toronto).

House Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach

User Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 IV

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Model free Deep Hedging

User Josef Teichmann (ETH Zurich).

House Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Mixing times for the TASEP on the circle

User Dominik Schmid (Princeton and Bonn).

House MR12.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Random Planted Forest: a directly interpretable tree ensemble

User Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Absolutely Continuous Self Similar Measures

User Sam Kittle (Cambridge) .

House MR12.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Interpretable Model-Independent Detection of New Physics Signals

User Purvasha Chakravarti (Imperial College London).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 25 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Variational Bayes for high-dimensional linear regression with sparse priors

User Kolyan Ray (Imperial College London).

House MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Sharpness of the phase transition for level set percolation of long-range correlated Gaussian fields

User Stephen Muirhead (Melbourne).

House MR12.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The interchange model and related spin systems on two-block graphs

User Jakob Bjornberg (Chalmers).

House MR12.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Robust inference for intractable likelihood models using kernel divergences

User Francois-Xavier Briol (UCL).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 11 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

On the Sample Complexity of Learning with Geometric Stability

User Alberto Bietti (NYU).

House Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Entropic Independence and Optimal Sampling from Combinatorial Distributions

User Nima Anari (Stanford).

House Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Characteristic of a second class particle.

User Mustazee Rahman, Durham University.

House Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Deep and reliable – Uncertainty quantification using Empirical Bayesian deep neural networks.

User Stefan Franssen (TU Delft).

House Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Two-sample testing of high-dimensional linear regression coefficients via complementary sketching

User Tengyao Wang (LSE).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 January 2022, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 V

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Deep Denoising for Scientific Discovery

User Carlos Fernandez-Granda (NYU).

House Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Brownian excursions, conformal loop ensembles and critical Liouville quantum gravity

User Ellen Powell (Durham).

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

CANCELLED: Systematic inducement of sparsity

User Heather Battey (Imperial College London).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Geodesic stars in Brownian geometry

User Jean-Francois Le Gall (Universite Paris-Saclay).

House Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Variable elimination and graph reduction: towards an efficient g-formula for causal DAGs

User Richard Guo (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

On a probabilistic approach to the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system

User Milica Tomasevic (École Polytechnique).

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Regularity of the SLE(4) uniformizing map and the SLE(8) trace

User Konstantinos Kavvadias (Cambridge).

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Random Graph Asymptotics for Treatment Effect Estimation under Network Interference

User Shuangning Li (Stanford University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

A medley of geometry, optimal transport, and machine learning

User Varun Jog (Cambridge).

House Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Large degrees yield short trees

User Serte Donderwinkel (Oxford).

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

New Approaches for Inference on Optimal Treatment Regimes

User Lan Wang (University of Miami).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Coordinate Descent on the Orthogonal Group for Recurrent Neural Network Training

User Estelle Massart (Oxford).

House Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Learning low-degree functions from few random queries

User Alexandros Eskenazis (Cambridge).

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Empirical measures, geodesic lengths, and a variational formula in first-passage percolation

User Erik Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison .

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

MARS via LASSO

User Aditya Guntuboyina (UC Berkeley).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Distribution dependent SDEs driven by additive continuous and fractional Brownian noise

User Avi Mayorcas (Cambridge) .

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)..

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Three-point bounds for sphere packing

User David de Laat (Delft).

House Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Quenched and annealed heat kernels on the uniform spanning tree

User Martin Barlow (UBC).

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Kernel Thinning and Stein Thinning

User Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

The Slow Bond Problem

User Sourav Sarkar (Cambridge).

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Global testing for dependent Bernoullis

User Sumit Mukherjee (Columbia University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 08 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session IV

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 22 September 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session III

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 01 September 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session II

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 04 August 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session I

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 14 July 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Wilson loop expectations as sums over surfaces in 2D

User Minjae Park (MIT).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Wilson loop expectations as sums over surfaces in 2D

User Minjae Park (MIT).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session IV

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The directed landscape

User Duncan Dauvergne (Princeton).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Hastings-Levitov planar aggregation

User James Norris (Statslab).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Distribution-free inference for regression: discrete, continuous, and in between

User Rina Foygel Barber, University of Chicago.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session III

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Integrability of the conformal loop ensemble

User Morris Ang (MIT).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Distribution-Free Nonparametric Inference Based on Optimal Transport: Efficiency Lower Bounds and Rank-Kernel Tests

User Bhaswar Bhattacharya, University of Pennsylvania.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 21 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Intersection of the traces of two independent walks in high dimensions

User Amine Asselah (Paris-Est Creteil).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Correlated randomly growing graphs

User Miklos Racz, Princeton University.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session II

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Revisiting optimal scaling of Metropolis-Hastings methods

User Jure Vogrinc.

House Zoom.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Finding stationary points on the bounded-rank variety: a geometric hurdle and a smooth workaround

User Nicolas Boumal (EPFL).

House Online (Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81608191565?pwd=RDR2Uk1pU1Y3bHdZV3Q0SFlWdVYzdz09).

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

On the radius of Gaussian free field excursion clusters

User Franco Severo (Geneva and IHES).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Recent progress on the KLS conjecture and Eldan’s stochastic localization scheme

User Yuansi Chen, Duke University.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session I

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic 2021 Easter Vacation - Skype session

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Causal Inference for Nonlinear Outcome Models with Possibly Invalid Instrumental Variables

User Sai Li (University of Pennsylvania).

House https://zoom.us/j/97791179955?pwd=eFMrTFNSRmhnTzBHdDBLZlgrTFRQdz09.

Thursday 25 March 2021, 13:30-15:00

Probability

Supercritical Percolation on Finite Transitive Graphs

User Philip Easo (Cambridge).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Sharp Sensitivity Analysis for Inverse Propensity Weighting via Quantile Balancing

User Kevin Guo, Stanford University.

House https://zoom.us/j/97791179955?pwd=eFMrTFNSRmhnTzBHdDBLZlgrTFRQdz09.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session IV

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Fluctuation bounds for O'Connell-Yor type systems

User Philippe Sosoe (Cornell).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Functional Models for Time Varying Random Objects

User Paromita Dubey, Stanford University.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 05 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Soliton decomposition of the Box-Ball System

User Leo Rolla (Warwick).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Seminar Cancelled

User Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session III

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Variational methods for a singular SPDE yielding the universality of the magnetisation ripple

User Pavlos Tsatsoulis (Max-Planck-Institut, Leipzig).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Optimal rates for independence testing via U-statistic permutation tests

User Tom Berrett, University of Warwick.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 19 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Limiting Behaviour for Heat Kernels of Random Processes in Random Environments

User Peter Taylor (Statslab).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Fair Data Adaptation with Quantile Preservation

User Harvey Klyne (Stats Lab).

House Zoom.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session II

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Geodesics in the Brownian map: Strong confluence and geometric structure

User Wei Qian (Orsay).

House Zoom.

Monday 08 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets

User Stephen Bates, University of California Berkeley.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 05 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Random walks on decorated Galton-Watson trees

User Ellie Archer (Tel Aviv).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 02 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session I

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Factors in probability and ergodic theory

User Terry Soo (UCL).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

A precise high-dimensional asymptotic theory for Adaboost

User Pragya Sur (Harvard University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 22 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session (Christmas vacation)

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Structural Nested Models and G-estimation: The Partially Realized Promise

User Katarzyna Reluga (University of Cambridge).

House Zoom.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session IV

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Maximum and coupling of the sine-Gordon field

User Michael Hofstetter (Cambridge).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Generalized Kernel Two-Sample Tests

User Hao Chen (University of California, Davis).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 27 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session III

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Provable representation learning in deep learning

User Jason Lee (Princeton University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 13 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Probability

How far do activated random walkers spread from a single source?

User Vittoria Silvestri (La Sapienza, Rome).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Minimax estimation of smooth densities in Wasserstein distance

User Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 06 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session II

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Monotonicity and phase transition for the edge-reinforced random walk

User Remy Poudevigne.

House Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Model selection for estimation of causal parameters

User Dominik Rothenhaeusler (Stanford University).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 30 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Practical Challenges in Portfolio Construction

User James Ng (GAM Systematic).

House Online (email ccimi@maths.cam.ac.uk for the link).

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Dimensions of the two-valued sets of the 2D GFF

User Lukas Schoug (Cambridge).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/5903322638?pwd=dzJRRS9BKzhEaGVCNncxaWcvL0IxQT09.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Negative Correlation Strategy for Bracketing in Difference-in-Differences

User Ting Ye (University of Pennsylvania).

House Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session I

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Percolation for the Gaussian free field on the cable system

User Alexis Prévost.

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92621143616?pwd=YWZsclZMb2Mwa2hOZ09IajNOUTNEdz09.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A Markov Process associated to the noncutoff Boltzmann Equation

User Daniel Heydecker (Cambridge).

House Zoom.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

User Rod Jones, Department of Chemistry.

House MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

User Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

House Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session III

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 23 September 2020, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Synthetic Difference in Differences

User Yuhao Wang.

House https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 13 August 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session II

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 12 August 2020, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Minimax Crossover Designs

User Yao Zhang (University of Cambridge).

House https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 30 July 2020, 13:30-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Iteratively Reweighted FGMRES and FLSQR for sparse reconstruction

User Silvia Gazzola.

House Virtual Zoom meeting.

Wednesday 15 July 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Formal Causal Interpretation of the Case-Crossover Design

User yao zhang (University of Cambridge).

House https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 02 July 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session I

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 01 July 2020, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Bias and high-dimensional adjustment in observational studies of peer effects

User Florian Pein.

House https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session III

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

A nonparametric problem for stochastic PDEs

User Randolf Altmeyer.

House Virtual Zoom meeting.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Partial identification in instrumental variables

User Yuhao Wang.

House https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session II

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Implicit Regularization for Optimal Sparse Recovery

User Varun Kanade, University of Oxford.

House https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 29 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Improved Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation using Transfer Learning

User Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California.

House https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 22 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Identification In Missing Data Models Represented By Directed Acyclic Graphs

User Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session I

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Network Representation Using Graph Root Distributions

User Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University.

House https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 15 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Neyman-Pearson Classification

User Xin Tong, University of Southern California.

House https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 08 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Spillover Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials with Noncompliance

User Hyunseung Kang, University of Wisconsin.

House Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/98898559684?pwd=MTZ2Q1dvUUZucDdwUXZVVUp1VjhsQT09 Meeting ID: 988 9855 9684 Password: likelihood.

Friday 01 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Random measures on the Brownian path with prescribed expectation

User Abel Farkas (Rényi Institute, Budapest).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Langevin Monte Carlo for Degenerately Convex Potentials

User Murat Erdogdu, University of Toronto.

House Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/96976140978 Meeting ID: 969 7614 0978 Password: likelihood.

Friday 24 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic - Skype session

User Statistics Clinic team.

House Skype.

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - Easter Vacation: CANCELLED

User CANCELLED.

House CANCELLED.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Random walk on the simple symmetric exclusion process

User Daniel Kious (Bath).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Causal Inference in Genetic Trio Studies

User yao zhang (University of Cambridge).

House MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Network change point detection

User Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

House MR12.

Friday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Probability

On the statistical behavior of the Riemann zeta function

User Christian Webb (Aalto, Finland).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Dynamic Treatment Regimes III

User Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Selection bias, missing data and causal inference

User Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

House MR12.

Friday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions

User Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics.

House The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Empirical Measure and Small Noise Asymptotics under Large Deviation Scaling for Interacting Diffusions

User Amarjit Budhiraja (UNC Chapel Hill).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The concept of separable effects for causal mediation and competing risks analyses

User Vanessa Didelez, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany.

House MR12.

Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

The Cycle of Statistical Research

User Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Probability

The optimal matching problem

User Martin Huesmann.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Stable prediction

User Harvey Klyne.

House MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Posterior contraction rates for potentially nonlinear inverse problems

User Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

House MR12.

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Computer-aided worst-case analyses and design of first-order methods for convex optimization

User Adrien Taylor (INRIA Paris).

House MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Local geometry of the rough-smooth interface in the two-periodic Aztec diamond.

User Sunil Chhita (Durham).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Dynamic treatment regimes II

User Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

User Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

House MR12.

Friday 07 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Graphical models for extremes

User Harvey Klyne.

House MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Mixing and cut-off for random walks on finite fields and random polynomials

User Emmanuel Breuillard (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The impact of uncertainty on trade agreements between the UK and EU

User Oliver Exton, Department of Economics.

House Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB..

Monday 03 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Convergence of Gaussian process emulators with estimated hyper-parameters and applications in Bayesian inverse problems

User Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

House MR12.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Patterns and Szemerédi phenomena in random fractals

User Pablo Shmerkin (Buenos Aires).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Dynamic treatment regimes I

User Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

User Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

House MR12.

Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Fluctuations in the number of level set components of planar Gaussian fields

User Stephen Muirhead (Queen Mary).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Negative controls in causal inference

User Yuhao Wang.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions

User Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

House MR12.

Friday 17 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - Christmas Vacation

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor).

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Collaborative Analytics and Education in Data Science

User Martin Spott (HTW Berlin).

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Kinetic theory for the low-density Lorentz gas

User Jens Marklof (Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Regression discontinuity design

User Florian Pein.

House MR10, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

On the convergence of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm and other irreversible MCMC methods

User Alain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

House MR12.

Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

How feasible is DNA as a long-term digital storage system?

User Nick Goldman, European Bioinformatics Institute.

House The Statistical Laboratory,Centre for Mathematical Sciences,Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 19:15-21:30

Causal Inference Reading Group

Anchor regression

User Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport for Machine Learning

User Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

House MR12.

Friday 22 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Machine learning and theorem proving

User Henryk Michalewski.

House CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Higher-order influence function

User Dr Yuhao Wang.

House MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Multiscale Analysis of Bayesian CART

User Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

House MR12.

Friday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Colloquium - The Statistical Finite Element Method

User Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge.

House MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions

User Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics.

House The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 19:15-21:30

Probability

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREMS AND THE GEOMETRY OF POLYNOMIALS

User Julian Sahasrabudhe (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 15:15-16:15

Probability

Variational principle for lattice models with long-range interactions

User Piet Lammers (Statslab).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Tackling invalid instrumental variables

User Sven Wang (University of Cambridge).

House MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Identifying Cointegration by Eigenanalysis

User Qiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

House MR12.

Friday 08 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Understanding Liouville quantum gravity through two square subdivision models

User Josh Pfeffer (MIT).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

The Blessing of Multiple Causes

User Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces

User Henry Reeve — University of Birmingham.

House MR12.

Friday 01 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Cutoff for the mean-field zero-range process

User Justin Salez (Paris-Dauphine).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 15:15-16:15

Probability

Forest fire processes and near-critical percolation with heavy-tailed impurities

User Pierre Nolin (City University of Hong Kong).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

High dimensional data and latent confounding II

User Rajen Shah (University of Cambridge).

House MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models

User Song Liu — University of Bristol.

House MR12.

Friday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Cutoff for Random Walk on Random Cayley Graphs

User Sam Thomas (Statslab).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

High dimensional data and latent confounding I

User Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR6, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Asymptotic normality of certain transformation averages

User Peter Orbanz — University College London.

House MR12.

Friday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Distributed Statistics à la Economics

User Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

House MR12.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Fortuin-Kastelyn type representations for Threshold Gaussian and Stable Vectors: aka Divide and Color processes (joint work with Malin Palö Forsström)

User Jeff Steif (Chalmers).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Simplicity and Complexity of Belief-Propagation

User Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Monday 14 October 2019, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

On the robustness of gradient-based MCMC algorithms

User Sam Livingstone — University College London.

House MR12.

Friday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Clueless Voting

User Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

House MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor).

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 11 September 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 07 August 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 July 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Regularized linear autoencoders, the Morse theory of loss, and backprop in the brain

User Jon Bloom (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard).

House MR12.

Monday 24 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Hard-core configurations on Z^2 and other lattices

User Izabella Stuhl (Penn State).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Geometrizing rates of convergence under local differential privacy

User Lukas Steinberger, University of Freiburg.

House MR12.

Friday 07 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models

User Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

House MR12.

Friday 07 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor).

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Large deviations of subgraph counts for sparse random graphs

User Amir Dembo (Stanford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

An Introduction to Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations

This is a joint ACA–CCIMI seminar

User Ilse Ipsen (NCSU).

House MR 14.

Monday 03 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients

User Roger Koenker, University College London.

House MR12.

Friday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Communication in the presence of sparsity

User Yiannis Kontoyiannis (Cambridge).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed - CCIMI Colloquium

User Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge.

House Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 00:00-00:00

Probability

Isomorphism theorems and the sign cluster geometry of the Gaussian free field

User Pierre-Francois Rodriguez (IHES, Paris).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Video Contest

User CCIMI Members.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 14:30-17:30

Statistics

MAP estimators and posterior consistency for Bayesian inverse problems with exponential priors

User Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

House MR12.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Diffusion bridge simulation in geometric statistics

User Frank van der Meulen, Delft University of Technology.

House CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Existence and uniqueness of the Liouville quantum gravity metric for γ ∈ (0, 2)

User Ewain Gwynne (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On distributed Bayesian computation

User Harry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

House MR12.

Friday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Stochastic homogenization in amorphous media and applications to exclusion processes

User Alessandra Faggionato (La Sapienza, Rome).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On the Consistency of Supervised Learning with Missing Values

User Julie Josse, École Polytechnique.

House MR12.

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable methods for machine learning optimisation

User Milan Vojnovic (LSE).

House MR12.

Friday 10 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable stochastic optimization and large-scale data

User Michael W. Mahoney (ICSI and Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley).

House MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Flux Large Deviations

User Robert Patterson (Weierstrass Institute, Berlin).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Stochastic variants of classical optimization methods, with complexity guarantees

User Professor Coralia Cartis.

House CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The Algorithm is Going to Get You: Should We Fear the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice?

User Matthew Bland, Institute of Criminology.

House Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WG.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Covariance formulas for fluctuations of linear spectral statistics for Wigner matrices with few moments

User Anna Maltsev (Queen Mary University of London).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nuisance parameters

User Heather Battey, Imperial College London.

House MR12.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - Easter Vacation

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions

User Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

A Bayesian model‐free approach to combination therapy phase I trials using censored time‐to‐toxicity data

User Graham Wheeler, Cancer Research UK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre @ University College London.

House Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Large Seminar Room (First Floor), Forvie Site, Robinson Way. CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Large deviations for the maximum of a branching random walk

User Nina Gantert (Technical University of Munich).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

A variational approach to nonlinear and interacting diffusions

User Professor Pierre Del Moral.

House CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Explicit stabilised Runge-Kutta methods and their application to Bayesian inverse problems

User Kostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh.

House MR12.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Entropy decay and concentration for Strong Rayleigh measures via couplings

User Jonathan Hermon (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Analysis of Networks via the Sparse β-Model

User Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

House MR12.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Subsequential limits for Liouville graph distance

User Alex Dunlap (Stanford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Solving the Reproducibility Crisis

User Nicole Janz, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham.

House The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Monday 25 February 2019, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

High-dimensional sign tests for the direction of a skewed single-spiked distribution

User Davy Paindaveine, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

House MR12.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Advances in machine learning for molecules

User José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Department of Engineering (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Mixing times of exclusion processes on regular graphs

User Richard Pymar (Birkbeck).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On the fundamental understanding of distributed computation

User Botond Szabó, University of Leiden.

House MR12.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Scaling limit of the condensate dynamics in a reversible zero range process

User Michail Loulakis (Athens).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Post-selection confidence intervals and confidence curves

User Gerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

House MR12.

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Bootstrap percolation and kinetically constrained spin models: critical time scales

User Cristina Toninelli (Dauphine).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

From Fingertips to RAP: getting statistics into public health policy and practice

User Sian Evans and Stephen Yeung (Public Health England).

House Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB..

Monday 04 February 2019, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Model selection with Lasso-Zero and a robust extension with an application to the problem of missing covariates

User Sylvain Sardy, Université de Genève.

House MR12.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Psychology talks and events

How People Really Make Medical Decisions: The Problem of the Patient

User Prof Talya Miron-Shatz - Ono Academic College, Israel.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Pure Mathematics in Crisis

User Professor Kevin Buzzard.

House CMS, MR3.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Sumset bounds for the entropy on abelian groups

User Ioannis Kontoyiannis (Engineering, Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems

User Alexandros Beskos, University College London .

House MR12.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Scaling limits for planar aggregation with subcritical fluctuations

User Amanda Turner (Lancaster).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Mapping Health: Why, How, Considering what ...

User Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit @ University of Cambridge.

House MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

On the hypocoercivity of some PDMP-Monte Carlo algorithms

User Christophe Andrieu, University of Bristol.

House MR12.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - Christmas Vacation

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 16:30-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Radial excitations of superconducting (Witten) vortices

Note: MONDAY lunchtime

User Patrick Peter (DAMTP, and Inst. Astrophys. Paris).

House Potter Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Kazhdan groups have cost 1

User Tom Hutchcroft (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Gen-Oja: A Simple and Efficient Algorithm for Streaming Generalized Eigenvector Computation

User Dr Nicolas Flammarion.

House CMS, MR11.

Monday 26 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Posterior concentration for Bayesian regression trees and their ensembles

User Stephanie van der Pas, University of Leiden.

House MR12.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Bayesian and structural integration of background evidence in the design, analysis and interpretation of clinical trial data

User Fabio Rigat (GSK) & Nicky Best (Imperial College).

House Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 19:15-21:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Topological Terms in Sigma Models on Homogeneous Spaces

User Joe Davighi (DAMTP).

House MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

On gradient estimates for random walks in time-dependent random environments

User Martin Slowik (Berlin).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Concentration of tempered posteriors and of their variational approximations

User Pierre Alquier, ENSAE.

House MR12.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)5.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The smoothed KPZ equation in dimension three and higher: Edwards-Wilkinson regime of its fluctuations and its localization properties

User Chiranjib Mukherjee (Munster).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Phase transitions on community detectability for various types of stochastic block models

User Laurent Massoulié, INRIA.

House MR12.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Adaptive and robust nonparametric Bayesian contraction rates for discretely observed compound Poisson processes

User Dr Alberto J. Coca.

House CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Loop Correlations in Random Wire Models

User Costanza Benassi (Northumbria).

House MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

The TAP-Plefka variational principle for mean field spin glasses

User David Belius (Basel).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Towards a better understanding of early stopping for boosting algorithms

User Yuting Wei, Stanford University.

House MR12.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

Volatility and arbitrage: short- and long-term relative arbitrage in stochastic portfolio theory

User Johannes Ruf, LSE.

House CMS, MR15.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)5.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Estimation of Low-Rank Matrices via Approximate Message Passing

User Dr Ramji Venkataramanan.

House CMS, MR15.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Newton-Cartan Gravity with Unconstrained Torsion: a Galilean General Theory of Gravity

User Marco Cariglia (U. Fed. Ouro Preto, Brazil).

House MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Nonpositive curvature is not coarsely universal

User Alexandros Eskenazis (Princeton).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Bayesian regression models for complex spatially or serially correlated functional data

User Jeffrey Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

House MR12.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Making Sense of the Standard Model: an Exceptional Quantum Algebra

Note -- on THURSDAY

User Ivan Todorov (Sofia, Bulgaria).

House MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Mixing time for the non-babktracking random walk on random graphs with communities

User Anna Ben-Hamou (Paris).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nonparametric Bayes for support boundary recovery

User Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

House MR12.

Friday 19 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Kinks with Long-range Tails

User Nick Manton (DAMTP).

House MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Last-Passage Percolation with constraints, and applications to polymers in random environment

User Quentin Berger (Paris).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Uniform rates of Glivenko-Cantelli convergence and their use in Bayesian inference

User Emanuele Dolera, Università degli Studi di Pavia.

House MR12.

Friday 12 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Heteroskedastic PCA: Algorithm, Optimality, and Applications

User Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania.

House MR13.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Why is cancer survival lower in England than in other high income countries?

User Sarah Walters & Sara Benitez Majano, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 19:15-21:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

When Statistics Meets Computing

User Professor Tony Cai (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Skyrmion Vibrations

User Chris Halcrow (Leeds).

House MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Invariance principle for the random Lorentz gas beyond the [Boltzmann-Grad / Gallavotti-Spohn] limit

User Balint Toth (Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 19 September 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The Dirichlet problem for circle packings

User Asaf Nachmias (Tel Aviv).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 18 September 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 15 August 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Delocalization of uniform graph homomorphisms from Z^2 to Z

User Martin Tassy (Dartmouth).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 August 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 18 July 2018, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Sketchy decisions: Low-rank convex matrix optimization with optimal storage

User Joel Tropp (Caltech).

House MR12.

Monday 18 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Short course: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems

First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Additional large-scale algorithms

User Stephen Becker, University of Colorado.

House MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 15 June 2018, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Polluted Bootstrap Percolation

User Alexander E Holroyd.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Short course: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems

First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Modern first-order methods for structured convex problems

User Stephen Becker, University of Colorado.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 11 June 2018, 14:00-16:00

CCIMI Short course: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems

First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Convex optimization problems and optimality

User Stephen Becker, University of Colorado.

House MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 08 June 2018, 14:00-16:00

Statistics

What is the dimension of a stochastic process?

User Victor Panaretos (EPFL).

House MR11.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Short course: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems

First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Convex analysis

User Stephen Becker, University of Colorado.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 04 June 2018, 14:00-16:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

User Sabyasachi Chatterjee (UIUC).

House MR12.

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 21 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

High-density hard-core configurations on a triangular lattice

User Yuri Suhov (Penn State and Statslab).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CL-CompBio

Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond

User Thomas Kipf, University of Amsterdam.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Friday 25 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A particle model for Wasserstein type diffusion

User Vitalii Konarovskyi.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization

User Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India).

House MR14.

Monday 21 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Bayesian estimation of the mean response in a missing data model

User Kolyan Ray (King's College London).

House MR12.

Friday 18 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

The criticality of a randomly-driven front

User Amir Dembo (Stanford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Multiple change point estimation based on moving sum statistics

User Claudia Kirch (Magdeburg).

House MR12.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Relevance Forcing: More Interpretable Neural Networks through Prior Knowledge

User Christian Etmann (University of Bremen).

House MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 15:30-16:30

CCIMI Seminars

Spectral rigidity of the round Earth

User Joonas Ilmavirta, University of Jyväskylä.

House MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Reconciling Bayesian Regularization And Total Variation Regularization - CCIMI colloquium

Free event, but registration required: https://ccimi-colloquium-andrew-stuart.eventbrite.co.uk

User Andrew Stuart, Caltech.

House MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Probability

First passage percolation in hostile environment (on hyperbolic graphs)

User Elisabetta Candellero (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Landauer's Principle in Repeated Interaction Systems

Part of the Mathematics of Quantum Information workshop

User Yan Pautrat, Paris-Sud University.

House MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 04 May 2018, 15:30-16:30

CCIMI Seminars

Undecidability in Quantum Physics: Hilbert’s Second and Sixth Problems Meet

Part of the Mathematics of Quantum Information workshop

User David Pérez García, Complutense University of Madrid.

House MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 04 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Quantum conditional mutual information

Part of the Mathematics of Quantum Information workshop

User Omar Fawzi, ENS de Lyon.

House MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 04 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

CCIMI Seminars

Multipartite SLOCC and LOCC transformations

Part of the Mathematics of Quantum Information workshop

User Barbara Kraus, University of Innsbruck.

House MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 04 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Mordell Lectures

Cohomology of the moduli space of curves

User Rahul Pandharipande (ETH).

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

CCIMI short course: Quantum Computing - Theory and Practice

Quantum Computing - Theory and Practice: Quantum algorithms, quantum noise and quantum operations

User Lior Horesh, IBM.

House CMS, MR3.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-16:30

CCIMI short course: Quantum Computing - Theory and Practice

Quantum Computing - Theory and Practice: The Qubit and Quantum computation

User Lior Horesh, IBM.

House CMS, MR4.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 14:00-16:30

Probability

Asymptotics for 2D critical and near-critical first-passage percolation

User Changlong Yao (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI short course: Quantum Computing - Theory and Practice

Quantum Computing - Theory and Practice: Introduction and overview

User Lior Horesh, IBM.

House CMS, MR3.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 14:00-16:30

Statistics

Orbit recovery from invariants

User Jonathan Weed (MIT).

House MR12.

Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Statistical Methods in Pre- and Clinical Drug Development: Tumour Growth-Inhibition Model Example

User Robert Kozarski, AstraZeneca.

House Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park, CB4 0WG.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 16:30-18:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Improving Generative Adversarial Networks using Game Theory and Statistics

Joint CCIMI-ACA seminar

User Constantinos Daskalakis (MIT).

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 29 March 2018, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Vacation

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (back building, ground floor).

Wednesday 28 March 2018, 16:30-18:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Auction Design via Optimal Transportation

User Constantinos Daskalakis (MIT).

House CMS, MR13.

Monday 26 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Stochastic gradient & Random coordinate descent methods - Part 3

User Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

House MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 16:00-16:45

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Stochastic gradient & Random coordinate descent methods - Part 2

User Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

House MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 15:00-15:45

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Stochastic gradient & Random coordinate descent methods - Part 1

User Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

House MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 14:00-14:45

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Constrained convex minimization - Part 3

User Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

House MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 16:00-16:45

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Constrained convex minimization - Part 2

User Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

House MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 15:00-15:45

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Constrained convex minimization - Part 1

User Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

House MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 14:00-14:45

Probability

Extremal and local statistics for gradient field models

User Wei Wu (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 16:15-17:15

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Variable metric methods

User Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

House MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 16:00-16:45

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Unconstrained smooth minimization

User Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

House MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 15:00-15:45

Probability

Parking

User Matthew Junge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 15:00-16:00

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Introduction to convex optimization and iterative methods

User Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS).

House MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 14:00-14:45

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Recurrence of the vertex-reinforced jump process in two dimensions

User Tyler Helmuth (Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

On the gap between local recovery guarantees in structured compressed sensing and oracle estimates

User Claire Boyer (UPMC).

House MR12.

Friday 02 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Solving the Reproducibility Crisis

User Nicole Janz, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

House The Music Room, Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1DQ.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Criticality in random transposition random walk

User Dominic Yeo (Technion, Haifa).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Approximations of the Restless Bandit Problem

User Azadeh Khaleghi (Lancaster).

House MR12.

Friday 23 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Theory for local optima of nonconvex high-dimensional M-estimators

User Po-Ling Loh, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

House MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

User Ben Wallace (IST, Austria).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 16:15-17:15

Probability

The Fyodorov-Bouchaud conjecture and Liouville conformal field theory

User Guillaume Remy (ENS Paris).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Bregman distances in frequentist inverse problems

User Tapio Helin, University of Helsinki.

House MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Determinantal structures in (2+1)-dimensional growth and decay models

User Theodoros Assiotis (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 30 January 2018, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Bayesian nonparametric estimation of the intensities in multivariate Hawkes processes

User Judith Rousseau (Oxford).

House MR12.

Friday 26 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Variation of the Nazarov-Sodin constant for random plane waves and arithmetic random waves

User Igor Wigman (King's College, London).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Christmas Vacation 2017

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 06 December 2017, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Bayesian Probabilistic Numerical Methods

User Chris Oates - Newcastle Universtity.

House MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Improved bounds for sampling colorings of sparse random graphs

User Charis Efthymiou (Frankfurt).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

From linear programming to statistics: Fast algorithms for sampling based on interior point methods

User Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley).

House MR12.

Friday 24 November 2017, 15:30-16:30

Statistics

Optimal Sup-norm Rates and Uniform Inference on Nonlinear Functionals of Nonparametric IV Regression

User Xiaohong Chen (Yale).

House MR12.

Friday 24 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging

Applications and extensions. Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging - Lecture 3

User Martin Holler, University of Graz.

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 14:00-16:00

Probability

Statistical mechanics on nonamenable graphs

User Tom Hutchcroft (Cambridge) .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 16:15-17:15

Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging

Total Generalised Variation regularisaton for linear inverse problems. Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging - Lecture 2

User Martin Holler, University of Graz.

House MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 14:00-16:00

Statistics

Learning from MOM's principles

User Guillaume Lecué (ENSAE).

House MR12.

Friday 17 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging

Functions of bounded variation and derivative-based regularisation. Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging - Lecture 1

User Martin Holler, University of Graz.

House MR4.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Student Video Contest

User CCIMI students.

House MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The frequency of ‘America’ in America

User Adam Kashlak, Statistical Laboratory.

House Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Macroscopic loops in the loop O(n) model

User Yinon Spinka (Tel Aviv).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Accelerated Consensus via Min-Sum Splitting

User Patrick Rebeschini (Oxford).

House MR12.

Friday 10 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Limit theory for statistics of random geometric structures

User Joe Yukich (Lehigh University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Randomised dimensionality reduction for persistent homology

User Martin Lotz - University of Manchester.

House MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Matrix Dyson equation and random matrices with correlations

User Laszlo Erdös (IST Austria).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Online nonparametric regression with adversarial data

User Pierre Gaillard (INRIA Paris).

House MR12.

Friday 27 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Random cluster dynamics for the Ising model is rapidly mixing

User Mark Jerrum (Queen Mary, London).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Analysis of regularized inversion of data corrupted by white Gaussian noise

User Hanne Kekonnen.

House MR12.

Friday 20 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Approximating conditional distributions

User Alessandra Cipriani (Bath).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Probabilistic machine learning: foundations and frontiers

User Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering.

House Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Haldane relation for interacting dimers

User Alessandro Giuliani (Rome 3).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

CCIMI Seminar: Kernel-based Methods for Bandit Convex Optimization

User Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond).

House MR12.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 20 September 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 23 August 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 12 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 July 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The Laplacian on some finitely ramified self-conformal circle packing fractals and Weyl's asymptotics for its eigenvalues

User Naotaka Kajino (Kobe University, Japan).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Decoding from Pooled Data: Information-Theoretic bounds and a Message-Passing Algorithm

User Ahmed El Alaoui (UC Berkeley).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 16 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Analysts' Knowledge Exchange

Physical Perspectives on Modern Computation

User Samuel Power (University of Cambridge).

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Seemingly Unrelated Regression models for mixed-type data with an application to "fine-mapping" in genetics

Joint CMIH-CCIMI seminar. Note unusual time.

User Leonardo Bottolo (MRC Biostatistics Unit & ATI fellow).

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:30-14:30

Statistics

Variable clustering: optimal bounds and a convex approach

User Nicolas Verzelen (INRA).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 09 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Mordell Lectures

Complex dynamics and elliptic curves

User Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University).

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 14 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

On the long time stability of travelling wave for the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equations

User Erwan Faou (Inria).

House MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The Structure of Extreme Level Sets in Branching Brownian Motion

User Lisa Hartung (NYU).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 16:15-17:15

CMIH Hub seminar series

Microstructure imaging with MRI, data-driven disease progression modelling, and other topics at UCL-CMIC

Joint CMIH-CCIMI seminar.

User Danny Alexander, UCL.

House MR13 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Stabilizing unstable flows by coarse mesh observables and actuators - a pavement to data assimilation

User Edriss Titi (Weizmann Institite & Texas A&M University).

House MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

CCIMI Seminars

Exceptional orthogonal polynomials

Note late change of room!

User David Gomez-Ullate (ICMAT and Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

House MR11 CMS.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI special lecture: Mathematics Enters the Picture

BOOKING REQUIRED - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mathematics-enters-the-picture-tickets-34031599430

User Massimo Fornasier (TUM - Technische Universität München).

House MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Testing

User Guang Cheng (Purdue).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Learning and Sparse Control of Multiagent Systems

User Massimo Fornasier (TUM - Technische Universität München).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

How to replace random walk representations in models that don't have one?

User Erwin Bolthausen (Zurich).

House MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Robust ranking, constrained ranking and rank aggregation via eigenvector and semidefinite programming synchronization

User Mihai Cucuringu (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 19 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Energy methods for the geodesic X-ray transform

User Mikko Salo (University of Jyväskylä).

House MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

CCIMI Seminars

A macroscopic limit for an ecology model.

User Gaël Raoul (Ecole polytechnique).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Constrained low-rank matrix estimation

User Lenka Zdeborova (IPhT).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 12 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Probabilizing Parking Functions

User Persi Diaconis (Stanford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

CMS Colloquia

Bose in Boxes

User Persi Diaconis (Stanford).

House CMS, MR2.

Monday 08 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Statistical challenges posed by the analyses of the human microbiome

User Susan Holmes (Stanford).

House MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The Bouncy Particle Sampler

User Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (UBC).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Innovative statistical approaches for studies in anti-infective drug combination development

User Alun Bedding (Roche Products).

House Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 19:15-21:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciences

User Professor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Sharpness of the phase transition for random-cluster and Potts model via decision trees

User Aran Raoufi (Geneva).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

Probability

Variational principles for discrete maps

User Martin Tassy (UCLA).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Geometric aspects of Statistical Learning Theory

User Shahar Mendelson (ANU).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Vacation 2017

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 12 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Image Analysis Seminars

Local Convergence of the Heavy-ball Method and iPiano for Non-convex Optimization

Joint CIA-CCIMI seminar

User Peter Ochs (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg).

House MR 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Mapping regulatory variation in human cells

User Daniel Gaffney, Sanger Institute.

House Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 03 April 2017, 19:15-21:30

CCIMI Seminars

STORM: Stochastic Trust Region Framework with Random Models

User Katya Scheinberg, Lehigh University.

House MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The distribution of ζ'/ζ about a random point on the critical line

User Sasha Sodin (Queen Mary, London).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

Modelling commodity prices using novel data sources

Industrial Seminar

User Chris Longworth, Cantab.

House MR14.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Discrete structures and prediction in Bayesian Nonparametrics

User Igor Pruenster (Universita' Bocconi).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 10 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Practical Bayesian modelling: Populism, polls, and petitions.

User Tom Gillam (Cantab Capital Partners).

House MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

A lab of one’s own: science & suffrage in the First World War

User Patricia Fara, Clare College.

House Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 19:15-21:30

Probability

The front location in branching Brownian motion with decay of mass

User Sarah Pennington (Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

Below zero - negative interest rates as a challenge for the financial sector

Industrial Seminar

User Helge Grütjen, D-Fine Ltd.

House MR14.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Spectral radii of sparse random matrices

User Antti Knowles (Geneva).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 15:15-16:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

From Infinite to Finite Programs: Explicit Error Bounds with Applications to Approximate Dynamic Programming

User Tobias Sutter, ETH Zurich.

House MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Quantum ergodicity and Benjamini-Schramm convergence of hyperbolic surfaces

User Etienne Le Masson (Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

An industrial researcher’s learning experience

Industrial Seminar

User Evren Yarman, Schlumberger.

House MR14.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

CMS Colloquia

NATO: Hobbes to Trump - Motion and Emotion - Can Mathematicians help?

User James Bergeron, NATO.

House CMS, MR2.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

CCIMI Seminars

Advancing Medicine through Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

User Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Oxford and Alan Turing Institute.

House MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Invariance principle for random walk in time-dependent balanced random environment

User Jean-Dominique Deuschel (Berlin).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

High frequency statistics of semimartingales

User Mark Podolskij (Aarhus).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 17 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Hook-up probabilities for conformal loop ensembles

User Wendelin Werner (ETH).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Simultaneous multiple change-point and factor analysis for high-dimensional time series

User Haeran Cho (Bristol).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 10 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Applications of numerical algebraic geometry

User Heather Harrington Oxford.

House MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 February 2017, 15:00-16:00

CCIMI Seminars

Flux and context-dependent graphs for metabolic networks

User Mariano Beguerisse, Oxford.

House MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Eigenvectors and spectral measure of random regular graphs of fixed degree

User Roland Bauerschmidt (Cambridge) .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

Decision-making and artificial general intelligence using deep neural networks

Industrial Seminar

User Audrunas Gruslys, Google Deep Mind.

House MR14.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Sleeping Beauty’s Credences

User Mark Schervisch (CMU).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 03 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

What can gambling machine data tell us about betting behaviour?

User David Excell, Featurespace.

House Coslett Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 18:45-21:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Percolation games

User James Martin (Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 16:30-17:30

CCIMI Seminars

Estimation in the Ising blockmodel

User Quentin Berthet.

House MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Delocalising the parabolic Anderson model

User Nadia Sidorova (UCL).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

High-Dimensional Bayesian Geostatistics

User Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Monday 23 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

A new perspective from Information Theory on genetic sequences

User Omri Tal, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.

House MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic, Christmas Vacation 2016

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 14 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Gaussian vectors, half-spaces, and convexity

User Joe Neeman (UT Austin & Bonn).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 02 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Quantum Dots and Dislocations: Dynamics of Materials Defects

User Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University.

House MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 15:00-16:00

CCIMI Seminars

Inferring rapidly-varying big data time series--from deconvolution to a new form of time series model

User Sofia Olhede, UCL.

House MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Phaseless super-resolution using masks

User James Saunderson, Monash University.

House MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 28 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Measuring sample quality with diffusions

User Sebastian Vollmer (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 25 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Diffusion processes on branching Brownian motion

User Sebastian Andres (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Use of historical information to supplement a future study: opportunity and difficulty

User Nick Galwey, GlaxoSmithKline.

House Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Monday 21 November 2016, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Principal Nested Shape Space Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Data

User Ian Dryden (Nottingham).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 18 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Effective inversion of the attenuated X-ray transform associated with a connection.

User Gabriel Paternain - DPMMS.

House MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Critical branching diffusions in bounded domains.

User Ellen Powell (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

CCIMI Seminars

Free Boundaries and Price Formation in Economic Markets

User Peter Markowich.

House MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 14 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Short Course: Lecture 2 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration

User Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech..

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 11 November 2016, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (First floor, Pavillion B).

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Short Course: Lecture 1 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration

User Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech..

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 14:00-16:00

Probability

Quasilinear SPDEs via rough paths

User Hendrik Weber (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Constrained and Localized Nonparametric Estimation and Optimization

User John Lafferty (U of Chicago).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 04 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Semidefinite approximations of matrix logarithm

User Hamza Fawzi, University of Cambridge.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar Room.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Exceptional times of the critical Erdős-Rényi graph

User Matt Roberts (Bath).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Image Analysis Seminars

Optical Flow on Evolving Sphere-Like Surfaces

This is a joint CIA-CCIMI seminar

User Lukas Lang (University of Vienna).

House MR 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Normal Approximation and Concentration for Functions of Sample Covariance Operators

User Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 28 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Sparse recovery by l0 penalty

This is a joint ACA-CCIMI seminar

User Bangti Jin (UCL).

House MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Discontinuity of the phase transition for the planar random-cluster and Potts models with q > 4

User Matan Harel (IHES Paris).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Double random currents, dimers and trees

User Marcin Lis (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 15:15-16:15

Statistics

Minimax adaptive estimation in nonparametric Hidden Markov Models

User Yohann de Castro (Paris Sud - Orsay).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 21 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Small-time fluctuations for sub-Riemannian diffusion loops

User Karen Habermann (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Community Detection on the Weighted Stochastic Block Model

User Min Xu (U Penn).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 14 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Driving the Robustness of Preclinical Research within the Pharmaceutical Industry

User Katrina Gore, formerly of Pfizer Neusentis.

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Local time at zero metric associated to a GFF on a cable graph.

User Titus Lupu (ETH Zurich).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Convergence Rates for Least-Squares Regression

User Francis Bach (INRIA).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 07 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation 2016 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 07 September 2016, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation 2016 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 10 August 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Weighted information and weighted entropy

User I Stuhl (Denver/Debrecen) and Y Suhov (Penn State/Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 01 August 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation 2016 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 July 2016, 16:30-18:00

CMS Colloquia

Topology of the set of singularities of viscosity solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation

User Albert Fathi (ENS Lyon).

House CMS, MR12.

Monday 27 June 2016, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Chaining and convexity

User Ramon van Handel (Princeton).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 10 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - IV (Note Early Start Time)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (First floor, Pavillion B).

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 15:00-16:30

Statistics

A Bayesian nonparametric approach to testing for dependence between random variables

User Sarah Filippi (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 03 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Biased Random Walks among random conductances

User Nina Gantert (TU Munich).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 31 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (First floor, Pavillion B).

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Perturbative regimes for deterministic dynamics of a diluted gas of hard spheres

User Thierry Bodineau (École Polytechnique).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Conformal restriction: the trichordal case

User Wei Qian (ETH).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 15:15-16:15

Statistics

Distance Shrinkage and Euclidean Embedding via Regularized Kernel Estimation

User Ming Yuan (U. of Wisconsin).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Dimers Day in Cambridge

User Boutiller, Chhita, Dubedat, Laslier, Toninelli.

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 23 May 2016, 10:45-17:45

Mordell Lectures

Why Mathematical Proof?

User Dana Scott (Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Scholar in Mathematics, Berkeley) .

House MR2, CMS.

Friday 20 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Tail index estimation, concentration, adaptation...

User Stéphane Boucheron (Paris Diderot).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

User A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat.

House CMS MR5.

Friday 20 May 2016, 11:00-12:30

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

User A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat.

House CMS MR5.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 10:30-12:30

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

User A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat.

House CMS MR5.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

User A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat.

House CMS MR5.

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

User A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat .

House CMS MR5.

Monday 16 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Statistics

Random warping functions for function/curve registration

User Karthik Bharath (Nottingham).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 13 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - II (Note Room Change)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Growth exponent for loop-erased random walk in 3 dimensions

User Daisuke Shiraishi (Kyoto and ETH).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Computational Challenges in Sleeping Combinatorial Experts

User Varun Kanade (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 06 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Probability

A new proof of Friedman’s second eigenvalue Theorem and its extensions

User Charles Bordenave (Toulouse).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Risk prediction for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases

User Lisa Pennells, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

House Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

From disorder relevance to the 2d Stochastic Heat Equation.

User Nikolaos Zygouras (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

The information complexity of sequential resource allocation

User Emilie Kaufmann (INRIA LIlle).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 22 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

CMS Colloquia

Publicising Surgeons' Performance: the Maths of Naming and Shaming

User Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, DPMMS.

House CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 14:50-15:15

CMS Colloquia

Computational Biology

User Dr Stephen Eglen, DAMTP.

House CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 14:25-14:50

CMS Colloquia

Seeing More in Images - a Mathematical Perspective

User Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Director, Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information and Head of Cambridge Image Analysis, DAMTP.

House CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 14:00-14:25

CMS Colloquia

Calculating Implied Volatility

User Dr Mike Tehranchi, Statistical Laboratory, DPMMS.

House CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 12:35-13:00

CMS Colloquia

Quantum Computing

User Professor Richard Jozsa, Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics, DAMTP.

House CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 12:10-12:35

CMS Colloquia

Extreme Universe Computing

User Professor Paul Shellard, Director, Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.

House CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 11:45-12:10

CMS Colloquia

Analysis of Motion Data for Healthcare and Rehabilitation

User Dr Joan Lasenby, Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory, Department of Engineering.

House CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 11:00-11:25

CMS Colloquia

The Particulars of Particulates

User Dr Nathalie Vriend, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, DAMTP.

House CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 10:35-11:00

CMS Colloquia

New Materials by Design

User Professor Mike Cates, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP.

House CMS Core.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 10:10-10:35

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Vacation 2016

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 April 2016, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Genome-wide association studies: in search of common and low frequency variants in complex traits

User Ioanna Tachmazidou, Sanger Institute.

House Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 07 April 2016, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Signal Recovery from Scattering Convolutional Neural Networks

User Joan Bruna (Berkeley).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Thursday 24 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Measuring Ethnicity in the NHS

User Katie Saunders, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research.

House Lloyd Room, Christ's College, Saint Andrews Street, Cambridge CB2 3BU.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Steiner trees in the stochastic mean-field model of distance

User Ayalvadi Ganesh (Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Update Tolerance in Uniform Spanning Forests

User Tom Hutchcroft (UBC).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Information bounds for inverse problems with application to deconvolution and Lévy models

User Mathias Trabs (CEREMADE, Paris Dauphine).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 04 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Random geodesics for the corner growth model

User Nicos Georgiou (Sussex).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

CYCLING PATHWAYS TO OCCUPY MARS

This talk will be streamed to MR3 and MR15

User Dr Buzz Aldrin.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Statistically optimal robust estimation of the precision matrix by convex programming

User Arnak Dalayan (ENSAE).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Scaling limits of random walks and their time changes on trees and other graphs

User David Croydon (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Ordering random variables and racing prime numbers

User Adam Harper (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Probability

A rough describtion of local sets of bounded type for the Gaussian free field

User Juhan Aru (ETH).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Distribution-Free Detection of Structured Anomalies: Permutation and Rank-Based Scans

User Rui Castro (Eindhoven).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 12 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Cutoff for the random walk on random directed graphs

User Justin Salez.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

My Fisher: Memories of R.A. Fisher by his last student

User Anthony Edwards, Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge.

House Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Monday 08 February 2016, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Statistical algorithms and planted satisfiability problems

User Will Perkins (Birmingham).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 05 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

The data-driven (s,S) policy: why you can have confidence in censored demand data

User Gah-Yi Vahn (London School of Business).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 29 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Non-extensive condensation in reinforced branching processes

User Cécile Mailler .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Nonlinear shrinkage of Eigenvalues in Integrated Covolatility Matrix for Portfolio Allocation in High Frequency Data

User Clifford Lam (LSE).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 22 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Condensation of a self-attracting random walk

User Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 15:00-16:00

CMS Colloquia

The black hole information paradox re-visited

User Andrew Strominger, Gwill E. York Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 18 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Boosting in the presence of outliers: adaptive classification with non-convex loss functions

User Jelena Bradic (UC San Diego).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 11 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Graph-Guided Banding for Covariance Estimation

User Jacob Bien (Cornell University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 11 December 2015, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures

User François Caron (Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 04 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Monodromies of ramified random coverings and geometry on partitions

User Franck Gabriel (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Exact simulation of the Wright-Fisher diffusion

User Paul Jenkins (Warwick).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 27 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The phase transition in bounded-size Achlioptas processes

User Lutz Warnke (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

Langlands and arithmetic

User Jack Thorne (Cambridge).

House MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 23 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Fast low-rank estimation by projected gradient descent: Statistical and algorithmic guarantees

User Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 20 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Weakly asymmetric bridges and the KPZ equation

User Cyril Labbé (Paris-Dauphine).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

How to initialise a second class particle?

User Marton Balazs (Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Variation in measures and markers of timeliness of diagnosis in cancer

User Yoryos Lyratzopoulos, Cancer Epidemiology & Cancer Research-UK.

House Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambidge.

Monday 16 November 2015, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Fixed-energy harmonic functions

User Richard Kenyon (Brown).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Shape modelling using contours and fields, with applications to image segmentation

User Ian Jermyn (Durham).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 06 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Efficient and Parsimonious Agnostic Active Learning

User Alekh Agarwal (Microsoft Research NY) .

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 06 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Every planar graph with the Liouville property is amenable

User Johannes Carmesin (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Highly-Smooth Zero-th Order Online Optimization

User Vianney Perchet (INRIA & Paris Diderot).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Dimers on Rail Yard Graphs

User Sanjay Ramassamy (Brown).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

On the support of extremal martingale measures with given marginals: the countable case

User Luciano Campi.

House CMS, MR15.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Nonparametric estimation of s-concave and log-concave densities: an alternative to maximum likelihood

User Jon Wellner (University of Washington).

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Random walks on groups and the Kaimanovich-Vershik conjecture

User Russell Lyons (Indiana University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Hyperplane arrangements and Stopping times

User Evita Nestoridi (Stanford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

CMS Colloquia

Computation, Dynamics, Evidence, and Experience: Quantum Computing Colloquium

User Charlie Bennett (Variously Principal Scientist, Fellow, IBM Research Headquarters, NY).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 19 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Nonstandard complete class theorems

User Daniel Roy (University of Toronto).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Friday 16 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - I (please note early start time)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Fundamental Fallacies of Finance

User Chris Rogers, Statistical Laboratory.

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Lévy master fields on the plane

User Antoine Dahlqvist (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

The positive Jacobian constraint in elasticity theory and orientation-preserving Young measures

User Dr Filip Rindler, University of Warwick.

House MR2.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 14:00-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2015 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 16 September 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2015 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 August 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2015 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 15 July 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The master field on the plane

User Thierry Levy (UPMC).

House Seminar Room 2 Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge.

Tuesday 23 June 2015, 15:00-16:00

Rollo Davidson Lectures

Random walk on the random graph

User Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research, Redmond).

House MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Easter - IV (earlier start time, 1530-1700)

Important: time change due to the statslab summer party on 10 Jun. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 15:30-17:00

Probability

Diffusivity of random walks in random environments

User Balint Toth (Bristol and Budapest).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Markov model of a limit order book: thresholds, recurrence, and trading strategies

User Frank Kelly (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Incentive Mechanisms for User-Provided Networks

note unusual time and place

User Jianwei Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 08 June 2015, 15:15-16:15

Probability

The full extremal process of the discrete Gaussian free field in 2D

User Oren Louidor (Technion).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

A KPZ formula for SLE and Brownian motion

User Nina Holden (MIT).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 15:00-16:00

Mordell Lectures

The solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem

User Daniel Spielman (Yale).

House MR2, CMS.

Monday 01 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

A Conditional Dependence Measure with Applications to Undirected Graphical Models

User Yang Feng, Columbia University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 29 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2015 - III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Fluctuation results for Hastings-Levitov planar growth

User Vittoria Silvestri (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Amenability of automata groups

User Omer Angel (UBC).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Random Walk in a Queueing-Network Environment and Related Problems

User Yuri Suhov (Pennsylvania State University and Statslab).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Third and Fourth Cumulants in Independent Component Analysis

User Hannu Oja, University of Turku.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Analysis of complex phenotypes in genomics

User Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Frozen percolation

User Rob van den Berg (CWI Amsterdam).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Recent applications of a rigorous renormalisation group method to critical phenomena

User Gordon Slade (University of British Columbia).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Text Mining in Dynamic Networks of Documents

User David Banks, Duke University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2015 - II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Random cascade measures and self-similar structures

User Kenneth Falconer (St. Andrews).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Group Walk Random Graphs

User A. Georgakopoulos (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

General Bayesian updating and model misspecification

User Chris Holmes, University of Oxford.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 08 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The cost of saving nature: how much and is it a price worth paying

User Donal McCarthy, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

House Amgen Limited, Cambridge Science Park.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 19:15-21:30

Probability

On Talagrand's convolution conjecture in Gaussian space

User Ronen Eldan (Berkeley).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Locality of critical points: the connective constant

User Geoffrey Grimmett (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Robust Matrix Completion

User Olga Klopp, Université Paris Ouest.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2015 - I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

On a simple model of deposition

User Amine Asselah (Paris 12).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Stochastic dynamics of discrete interfaces and dimer models

User Benoit Laslier (Statslab).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Stein estimation of the intensity of a spatial homogeneous Poisson point process

User Marianne Clausel, University of Grenoble.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

A Framework for Elastic Shape Analysis of Objects

User Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Break II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 15 April 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Conformally invariant loop measures

User Stéphane Benoist (Columbia).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Planar maps, circle patterns, conformal point processes and 2D gravity

User François David (CEA).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 April 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Stable Weights that Balance Covariates for Causal Inference and Estimation with Incomplete Outcome Data

Note the different room

User José Zubizarreta, Columbia University.

House MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Blyth abandoned: sound science or flawed policy?

User Richard Steward, Blyth Estuary Group.

House Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 26 March 2015, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Break I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 25 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Invariants of Random Knots

User Chaim Even Zohar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Random loop models and quantum spin systems

User Daniel Ueltschi (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

Probability

On the Gibbs states of the Ising and Potts models

User Loren Coquille, Bonn University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

The maximal particle of branching random walk in random environment

User Alexander Drewitz (Columbia).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Resource Allocation for Statistical Estimation

User Quentin Berthet, California Institute of Technology.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 09 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Sparse CCA: Statistical and Computational Limits

User Chao Gao, Yale University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Statistics and Examinations

User Tom Bramley, Cambridge Assessment.

House Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Learning Markov Networks for Mixed Big Data: Applications to Cancer Genomics

User Genevera Allen, Rice University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Metropolis dynamics of mean-field spin glasses

User Jiri Cerny, Vienna.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Cluster growth in a forest fire model

User Nic Freeman, Bristol.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Complexity analysis of the Lasso regularization path and an application of sparsity to isoform detection in RNA-seq data

User Julien Mairal, INRIA, Grenoble.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Continuity and stability of the cut locus of the Brownian map

User Brett Kolesnik (UBC).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

CMS Colloquia

Purely Kinetic Lagrangians.

User Professor Nick Manton, DAMTP..

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 23 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Spectral thresholding in quantum state estimation for low rank states

User Madalin Guta, University of Nottingham.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

probability

Liouville Brownian motion and thick points of the Gaussian free field

This talk has been canceled/deleted

User Henry Jackson, Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Liouville Brownian motion and thick points of the Gaussian free field

User Henry Jackson, Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Some ideas in nonparametric estimation

User Piotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Analysis of a stochastic branching recursion related to the Anderson transition

User Dr. Christian Webb.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 15:45-16:45

Statistics

Algorithmic Approaches to Statistical Estimation under Structural Constraints

User Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Edinburgh.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Approximation in Stochastic Scheduling

User Nicole Megow (TU Berlin).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

On reading Bernoulli’s Ars conjectandi 1713

User Anthony Edwards, Gonville and Caius.

House Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Monday 02 February 2015, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Bayesian nonparametrics with heterogeneous data

User Antonio Lijoi, University of Pavia.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 30 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

A novel (pre-)metric for causal graphs

User Jonas Peters, ETH Zürich.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 30 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:30-18:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of talks exploring the links between classical information theory, probability, statistics and their quantum counterparts.

User Reinhard Werner (Hannover), Fernando Brandao (Microsoft Research), Robert Koenig (TU Munich), Renato Renner (ETH Zurich).

House MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-18:10

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Skill based parallel servers under FCFS-ALIS and infinite bipartite matching

note unusual time and place

User Gideon Weiss (University of Haifa).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On the use of non-local priors for joint high-dimensional estimation and selection

User David Rossel, University of Warwick.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 16 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Random Dirichlet series arising from records

User Dr Ryokichi Tanaka, Tohoku University .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 15:30-16:30

Statistics

Dynamic functional principal components

User Siegfried Hörmann, Université libre de Bruxelles.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic IV - Michaelmas 2014

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

On the peeling process of random planar maps

User Professor Nicolas Curien, Universite Paris-Sud Orsay .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Efficient Advert Assignment

User Peter Key (MSR Cambridge).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Analysis and Forecasting of Locally Stationary Time Series

User Guy Nason, University of Bristol.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Bernoulli convolutions for algebraic parameters

User Dr Peter Varju, University of Cambridge .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Algorithms as Mechanisms: The Price of Anarchy of Relax and Round

User Paul Dütting (LSE).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Reflections on a career as a professional statistician and the increasing value of the role of professional bodies

User Trevor Lewis, PhD, CStat, CSci, PStat, Director, TLwise Consulting Limited and RSS Theme Director for Professional Affairs.

House Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambidge.

Monday 17 November 2014, 19:15-21:30

CMS Colloquia

Wild and tame behaviour in group theory

User Henry Wilton (DPMMS, Cambridge).

House MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 17 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Average derivative projection pursuit regression

User Frédéric Ferraty, Toulouse.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic III - Michaelmas 2014

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Maximal couplings and geometry

User Dr Sayan Banerjee, University of Warwick.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Elicitation for Aggregation

User Ian Kash (MSR Cambridge).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Ranking from pairwise comparisons using Seriation

User Alexandre d'Aspremont, CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Probability

The characteristic polynomial of a random unitary matrix and Gaussian multiplicative chaos.

User Dr Christian Webb, Aalto University, Finland .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 04 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Low rank as a model for quantum and classical estimation problems

User David Gross, University of Freiburg.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 31 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic II - Michaelmas 2014

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Scaling limit of the largest clusters in critical percolation and FK-Ising models in two dimensions

User Dr Demeter Kiss, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Framework for Decentralised Combinatorial Auctions with Applications to Subadditive Bidders

User Richard Steinberg (LSE).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Adaptive posterior contraction

User Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Adaptive dose-finding designs to identify multiple doses that achieve multiple response targets

Please note change to original date

User Adrian Mander, MRC Biostatistics Unit Hub for Trials Methodology Research.

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Solving the dynamical sine-Gordon equation

User Dr Hao Shen, University of Warwick .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Current Practice in Combinatorial Auctions for Radio Spectrum

User Robert Leese (Smith Institute).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Flexible multiple testing using closed testing and Simes

User Jelle Goeman, Radboud University Medical Center.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Semivarying Coefficient Models for Capture--recapture Data: Colony Size Estimation for the Little Penguin

User Richard Huggins, University of Melbourne.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic I - Michaelmas 2014

Please be aware of the room change.

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (Ground floor, Pavillion B).

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Random walk on hyperbolic unimodular triangulations and circle packing

User Dr Gourab Ray, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Selection and estimation in sparse, high-dimensional models

User Maarten Jansen, Université libre de Bruxelles.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Peter Whittle Colloquium

User Yuval Peres (MSR Redmond) , Bálint Tóth (TU Budapest/U Bristol) , Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich) .

House MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 October 2014, 16:00-19:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic - Summer III

Room changed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3.

Wednesday 17 September 2014, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic - Summer II

Room changed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3.

Wednesday 20 August 2014, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic - Summer I

Room changed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (Ground floor, Pavillion B).

Wednesday 23 July 2014, 16:30-18:00

Mordell Lectures

The SL(2,R) action on Moduli space

User Professor Alex Eskin (University of Chicago).

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 03 July 2014, 17:00-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Modeling Crowdsourcing Systems: Design and Analysis of Incentive and Reputation Systems

User John C.S. Lui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong).

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 July 2014, 15:00-16:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Estimating a directional trend from noisy directional data

User Rudy Beran, University of California Davis.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 15:45-16:15

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Empirical risk minimization for heavy-tailed losses

User Gábor Lugosi, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 15:15-15:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

On tensor completion via nuclear norm minimization

User Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University, USA.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 14:45-15:15

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Empirical entropy, minimax regret and minimax risk

User Alexandre (Sasha) Tsybakov, Laboratoire de Statistique, CREST and Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires CNRS.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 14:15-14:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

General Strassen type results for partial sum processes in Euclidean space

User Uwe Einmahl, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 12:00-12:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Moment estimates implied by modified log-Sobolev inequalities

User Radoslaw Adamczak, Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 11:30-12:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Precise moment and tail estimates for Rademacher series in terms of weak parameters

User Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics, University of Warsaw.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 11:00-11:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Adaptive estimation of the copula correlation matrix for semiparametic elliptical copulas

User Marten H. Wegkamp, Cornell University.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 10:00-10:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

The Hurst Phenomenon and the Rescaled Range Statistic

User David M. Mason, University of Delaware.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 09:30-10:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Some historical remarks on the Giné-Zinn work on empirical processes

User Richard Dudley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 16:45-17:15

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Functional depth and quantiles

User Joel Zinn, Texas A&M University.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 16:15-16:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Gaussian Approximations and Bootstrap with p >> n.

User Victor Chernozhukov, MIT.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 15:15-15:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Estimation of the Lévy measure: statistical inverse problem and Donsker Theorem

User Markus Reiß, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 14:45-15:15

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Regularity of Gaussian processes in a geometric framework

User Gerard Kerkyacharian, Université Paris VII.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 14:15-14:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Confidence bands for distribution functions: A new look at the law of the iterated logarithm

User Lutz Dümbgen, University of Bern, Switzerland.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 12:00-12:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Exponential inequalities and local independence graphs to unravel functional neuronal connectivity

User Patricia Reynaud-Bouret, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 11:30-12:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Estimator selection: methods and calibration

User Pascal Massart, Université de Paris-Sud,.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 11:00-11:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

A robust and adaptive estimator for regression II

User Yannick Baraud, Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Nice.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 10:00-10:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

A robust and adaptive estimator for regression I

User Lucien Birgé, Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Paris.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 09:30-10:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Adaptation in some shape-constrained regression problems

User Adityanand Guntuboyina, University of California, Berkeley,.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 16:45-17:15

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

On the structure of random coordinate projections

User Shahar Mendelson, The Australian National Univeristy and Technion, Israel .

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 16:15-16:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Title to be confirmed

User Victor de la Pena, Columbia University .

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 15:15-15:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

On the nonparametric Bernstein-von Mises phenomenon

User Ismaël Castillo, Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Paris.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 14:45-15:15

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Adaptive nonparametric credible balls

User Aad van der Vaart, Leiden Univeristy .

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 14:15-14:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Cauchy-Schwarz Principles for uniform entropy

User Ramon van Handel, Princeton University .

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 12:00-12:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Sequential complexities and uniform martingale LLN

User Alexander Rakhlin, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 11:30-12:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Asymptotic expansions for entropy distances in limit theorems

User Friedrich Götze, Bielefeld University, Germany.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 11:00-11:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Suprema of Bernoulli processes

User Rafal Latala, University of Warsaw.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 10:00-10:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Stein's method, logarithmic Sobolev and transport inequalities

User Michel Ledoux, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 09:30-10:00

Probability

What happens to a random walk of chained particles when the chain forms a loop or is very long?

User Professor Serge Cohen, Institut Mathematique de Toulouse.

House MR13, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Adaptive Piecewise Polynomial Estimation via Trend Filtering

User Ryan J. Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Phase transition in loop percolation

User Dr Artem Sapozhnikov, Max-Planck Institut fur Mathematik, Leipzig.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

The discrete convex least-squares estimator of a probability mass function

User Cécile Durot, Université Paris-Sud.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 23 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Rounding Markov Chains and Iterative Load-Balancing Schemes

User Dr Thomas Sauerwald, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Polymer pinning with sparse disorder

User Professor Ken Alexander, University of Southern California.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

The BRAVO Effect in Queues

User Yoni Nazarathy (University of Queensland).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Histograms, Graph Limits, and the Asymptotic Behavior of Large Networks

User Sofia Olhede, University College London.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Random lattice triangulations

User Dr Alexandre Stauffer, University of Bath .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Information Geometry: From Divergence Functions to Geometric Structures

User Jun Zhang, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Random loop models with links to quantaum spin systems

User Dr Daniel Ueltschi, Warwick University .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

It is hard to be strongly faithful

User Caroline Uhler, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Counting the Emperor

Please note further change of date to those originally listed

User Peter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey.

House Amgen Limited, Cambridge Science Park.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter I

Normal session during the term

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Mixing-time and cut-off window for the exclusion process on 1-dimensional graphs

User Dr Hubert Lacoin, Universite Paris Dauphine.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

Relativistic Quantum Cryptography: controlling Information by fundamental physics

User Adrian Kent, DAMTP.

House NOTE ROOM CHANGE TO MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 28 April 2014, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Limit theorems for nearly unstable Hawkes processes

User Mathieu Rosenbaum, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 25 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Probability

A dynamical system of the WR model in 1D

User Dr Yuri Suhov, Statslab/University of Sao Paulo, Brazil .

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 April 2014, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter Break

Extra session before Easter term

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 02 April 2014, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Working with Epidemiologists

Please note change of date to that originally listed

User Nick Galwey, GlaxoSmithKline.

House Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Addenbrookes Hospital.

Thursday 27 March 2014, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Alpha-Stable Poisson-Kingman Processes: Some Applications and Methodologies

User Yee Whye Teh, University of Oxford.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Statistical modelling of networks in disease biology

User Sach Mukherjee, MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 March 2014, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Planar lattices do not recover from forest fires

User Demeter Kiss (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Lent IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Some properties of the true self-repelling motion

User Laure Dumaz (Cambridge) .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Optimal Consistent Segregation

User Herve Moulin (University of Glasgow).

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

CMS Colloquia

The Accelerating Universe

User Professor Anne-Christine Davis, University of Cambridge.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Invariant Coordinate Selection revisited: Fisher Symmetry and Symmetric Component Analysis

User Frank Critchley, Open University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

High-Dimensional Covariance Structure Estimation

User Zhao Ren, Yale University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

In Defense of Simplex’ Worst-Case Behavior

User Yann Disser (TU Berlin).

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Random stable looptrees

User Igor Kortchemski (ENS Paris).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The Double Sin of the Skew-Normal: Skew-Symmetric Families of Distributions and Fisher Information

User Marc Hallin, Université libre de Bruxelles.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

High-dimensional variable selection

User Richard Samworth, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site, Cambridge .

Thursday 20 February 2014, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Lent III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Asymptotic normality of fringe subtrees in conditioned Galton--Watson trees

User Svante Janson (Uppsala University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 18 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Expanding Search on Networks

User Steve Alpern (University of Warwick).

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Random matrices at high temperature

User Romain Allez (Berlin) .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A More General Pandora Rule?

User Richard Weber (University of Cambridge).

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Asymptotics for In-Sample Density Forecasting

User Enno Mammen, University of Mannheim.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Stein's method, information theory and Bayesian statistics

User Christophe Ley, Université libre de Bruxelles.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Lent II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

About the FK-Potts relation in the continuous CLE setup, and its connection to the Gaussian Free Field

User Wendelin Werner (ETH).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 04 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Welfare and Fairness in Dominant-Strategy Mechanisms

User Victor Naroditskiy (University of Southampton).

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Detection of Changepoints in Multiple Channels

User David Siegmund, Stanford University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 31 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Probability

An analytic inequality and some random applications

User Prof Ken Falconer (St Andrews).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Quantitative Comparative Statics

Canceled

User Tobias Harks (Maastricht University).

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The UK10K Cohorts Project: Rare variant analysis by whole genome sequencing in 3,621 samples

Please note change of date to that originally advertised

User Klaudia Walter, Sanger Institute.

House Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Monday 27 January 2014, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Uniform Ergodicity of the Iterated Conditional SMC and Geometric Ergodicity of Particle Gibbs samplers

User Anthony Lee, University of Warwick.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Lent I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Lengths of Monotone Subsequences in a Mallows Permutation

User Nayantara Bhatnagar (University of Delaware).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Probability

On exact scaling log-infinitely divisible cascades

User Xiong Jin (Manchester).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 15:15-16:15

Statistics

Sharp bounds for compressive learning

User Ata Kaban, University of Birmingham.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

High Dimensional Influence Measure

User Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 06 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Localization of weighted vertex reinforced random walks on the integers

User Bruno Schapira (Aix-Marseille).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 December 2013, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Recent progress in multi-type WR models

User Yuri Suhov (Cambridge & Sao Paulo) .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 December 2013, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Regret-regression for optimal dynamic treatment allocation, without and with missing data

User Robin Henderson, Newcastle University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 29 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Michaelmas IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Brownian motion in Liouville quantum gravity

User Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge) .

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Design of multi-arm multi-stage trials

User James Wason, MRC Biostatistics.

House Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambidge.

Monday 25 November 2013, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

High-dimensional causal inference

User Marloes Maathuis, ETH Zürich.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Conformal invariance of isoradial dimers

User Zhongyang Li (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Competition for resources - The equilibrium existence problem in congestion games

User Max Klimm (TU Berlin).

House MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 November 2013, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

The use of survey weights in regression modelling

User Chris Skinner, London School of Economics.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Statistical Risk Characterization of Penalized Likelihood Procedures: An Information-Theoretic Determination

User Andrew Barron, Yale University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Michaelmas III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Local limit theorem for ballistic random walk in random environments

User Noam Berger (Munich).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

Image reconstruction from corrupted and undersampled data

User Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, DAMTP.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 11 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Unitary operators, empirical processes and goodness of fit problem in R^d

User Estate Khmaladze, Victoria University of Wellington.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 08 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Uniformity of the late points of the random walk on the discrete torus

User Perla Sousi (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 05 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Nonparametric estimation under shape constraints

User Piet Groeneboom, Delft University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Michaelmas II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Small-particle scaling limits in a regularized Laplacian growth model

User Alan Sola (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Matching Quantiles Estimation

User Qiwei Yao, London School of Economics.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 25 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Coulomb gas ensembles in 2D

User Håkan Hedenmalm (KTH).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Implementing (Multiple) Monte Carlo Tests

User Axel Gandy, Imperial College London.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 18 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Simulating environmental systems: the benefits of being discrete

User Mike Bithell, Department of Geography.

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Large N asymptotics of the Yang-Mills measure

User Thierry Levy (Paris VI).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The Geometry of Needlets Excursion Sets

User Domenico Marinucci, University of Roma Tor Vergata.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 11 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Michaelmas I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5.

Wednesday 09 October 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3.

Wednesday 11 September 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3.

Wednesday 21 August 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3.

Wednesday 17 July 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Percolation of finite clusters

User Geoffrey Grimmett (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Discrete Fourier transform methods in the analysis of nonstationary time series

User Suhasini Subba Rao, Texas A&M University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 31 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Self-avoiding walk on regular graphs

User Zhongyang Li (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

What is the chance that the match is coincidence?

User Richard Gill, Leiden University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Nodal length fluctuations for arithmetic random waves.

User Igor Wigman, (King's College London).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Classification Using Censored Functional Data

User Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 17 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (LG, Central building).

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Nucleation and growth in the Ising model at very low temperatures (joint work with Francesco Manzo, Roma)

User Raphael Cerf (Université Paris-Sud).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On the Computational and Statistical Interface and "Big Data"

User Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley.

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute.

Friday 10 May 2013, 15:45-16:45

Statistics

From depth to local depth : a focus on centrality

User Davy Paindaveine, Université libre de Bruxelles.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 03 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (LG, Central building).

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Approximating Data

User Laurie Davies, Univeristy of Duisburg-Essen.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 26 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

CMS Colloquia

WHAT GALOIS THEORY CAN TEACH US ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS: A COSMIC GALOIS GROUP?

User Pierre Cartier (Institut Des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 14:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Initiative (CSI)

Cambridge Statistics Initiative One-Day Meeting 2013

User Various speakers.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 22 April 2013, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter Break

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (First floor, Pavillion B).

Wednesday 03 April 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics Reading Group

Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces in Non-parametric Statistics

Note the unusual time and location to allow attendance at the RSS Ordinary meeting

User Bharath Sriperumbudur, Statistical Laboratory.

House MR-12.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 13:15-14:30

Probability

Connectivity patterns in loop percolation and constant term identities

User Dan Romik (UC Davis).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

The Bayesian Approach To Inverse Problems

User Andrew Stuart, University of Warwick.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent IV

User Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 16:30-18:00

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

Robust calibration of models in finance

User Professor Josef Teichmann (ETH University of Zurich).

House CMS, MR4.

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Frequentist coverage and adaptation of nonparametric Bayesian credible sets

User Harry van Zanten, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 01 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

Minimax lower bound using Assouad's method

User Arlene Kim (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Discrete holomorphicity and Ising model transfer matrix formalism

User Kalle Kytölä (Helsinki).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Optimization meets Statistics: Fast global convergence for high-dimensional statistical recovery

User Martin Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 22 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent III

User Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Probability

A consistency estimate for Kac's model of elastic collisions in a dilute gas

User James Norris (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Pareto Optimality in Coalition Formation

User Paul Harrenstein (University of Oxford).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Strong Oracle Optimality of Folded Concave Penalized Estimation

User Jianqing Fan, Princeton University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 15 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Efficient implementation of Markov chain Monte Carlo when using an unbiased likelihood estimator

User Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 15 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

Statistics Reading Group

Adaptive algorithms for Stratified Sampling Monte Carlo

Note the earlier time and different room to allow attendance at the RSS Ordinary Meeting

User Alexandra Carpentier (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR9, CMS.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:00-15:30

Probability

Flows driven by rough paths

User Ismael Bailleul (IRMAR).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Strongly polynomial algorithm for a class of nonlinear minimum-cost flow problems

User László Végh (LSE).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Local Bilinear Multiple-Output Quantile Regression: from $L_1$ Optimization to Regression Depth

User Marc Hallin, ECARES, Universite libre de Bruxelles and ORFE, Princeton University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent II

User Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Self-avoiding walks, one-third and two-thirds, and KPZ universality

User Alan Hammond (Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Local Optimality in Algebraic Path Problems

User Timothy Griffin (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 04 February 2013, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

When Bayesians Can't Handle the Truth

User Cosma Shalizi, Carnegie Mellon University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 01 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

Theory and applications of proper scoring rules

User Philip Dawid (Statistical Laboratory).

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Intermediated Exchange: Theory and Experiments

User Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Finite range decomposition of free fields

User Roland Bauerschmidt (UBC).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication

User Rosemary Bailey, Queen Mary University of London.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent I

User Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Diffusivity of random walk in divergence free random drift field in 2d

User Balint Toth (TU Budapest ).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Probability

The free Bose gas and permutations of integers

User Thomas Richthammer (Munich).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Winter 2012

User Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Minimax Lower Bounds

User Adityanand Guntuboyina, UC Berkeley.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

Hunting down the Black Swan: Correlation, Contagion & Endogenous Risk in Financial Markets

User Professor Rama Cont (Imperial College London).

House CMS, MR2.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Probability

A new approach to the Brownian web

User Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Stability

User Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 26 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

General Truthfulness Characterizations Via Convex Analysis

User Ian Kash (MSR Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 26 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Random Fraction of a Biased Sample: old models and a new one

User Geurt Jongbloed, TU Delft, EURANDOM.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 23 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Invariant and unimodular measures in the theory of random graphs

User Vadim Kaimanovich (University of Ottawa).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

Curvature, Sphere Theorems, and the Ricci Flow

To be followed by a reception in the central core

User Prof. Simon Brendle (Stanford).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 19 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Pathways to Equilibria, Pretty Pictures and Diagrams (PPAD)

User Bernhard von Stengel (LSE).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 19 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Interim Monitoring of Clinical Trials: Decision Theory, Dynamic Programming and Optimal Stopping

User Chris Jennison, University of Bath.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

On the Tradeoff between Economic Efficiency and Strategyproofness in Randomized Social Choice

User Markus Brill (TU Munich).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 12 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Theoretical Analysis of Crowdsourced Content Curation

User Greg Stoddard (Northwestern).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 05 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

A semiparametric model for heterogeneous panel data with fixed effects

User Oliver Linton, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Probability

On the monotonicity of the speed of biased random walk on a Galton-Watson tree without leaves

User Alexander Fribergh (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Adversarial Option Pricing: How Robust is Black-Scholes?

User Rafael M. Frongillo (Berkeley).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 29 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Suprema of Chaos Processes and the Restricted Isometry Property

User Felix Krahmer (Goettingen).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 26 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Open Afternoon

User James Norris.

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Probability

SLE(8/3)-bubbles

User Dmitry Belyaev (Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Robust and Frugal Mechanisms for Hiring a Team

User Mahyar Salek (MSR Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 22 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Wavelet-based estimation of the long memory parameter in Gaussian non-gappy and gappy time series

User Peter Craigmile, University of Glasgow.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 19 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Zero-temperature Stochastic 2D Ising model and anisotropic curve-shortening flow

User Hubert Lacoin (Université Paris Dauphine ).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Prioritising Diversity in School Choice

User Aytek Erdil (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 15 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Space-time percolation and detection by mobile nodes

User Alexandre Stauffer (Microsoft Research).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Nonparametric regression for locally stationary time series

User Michael Vogt, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 05 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 22 August 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 18 July 2012, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Recurrence of planar graph limits

User Ori Gurel-Gurevich (University of British Columbia).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 17 July 2012, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Variations of the Mermin--Wagner theorem

User Yuri Suhov (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 14:15-15:15

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Valuation Compressions in Combinatorial Auctions

User Paul Dütting (EPFL).

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 June 2012, 15:00-16:00

Mordell Lectures

Categorical dynamics

User Paul Seidel (MIT).

House MR2, CMS.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

Statistics Reading Group

Graphical communication of variability, risk and uncertainty

User David Spiegelhalter (Cambridge).

House MR2, CMS.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Model and estimator selection for density estimation with L2-loss

User Lucien Birgé, Paris VI.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Simple Dynamics in Large Games

User R. Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 June 2012, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Searching for Multiple Hidden Objects

User Thomas Lidbetter (LSE).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 June 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Continuous-time Importance Sampling for Multivariate Diffusions

User Paul Fearnhead, Lancaster University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Investing and Stopping, and Firms, Banks and Households

User Moritz Duembgen and Pawel Zaczkowski (U. of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR14.

Monday 04 June 2012, 13:30-14:30

Statistics

Likelihood based inference for current status data on a grid: a boundary phenomenon and an adaptive inference procedure

User Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 01 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

Modern advances in likelihood ratio inference

User Moulinath Banerjee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA).

House MR2, CMS.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Probability

On the continuity of SLE(k) curves in k and their behavior at the tip

User Fredrik Johansson Viklund (Columbia).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

The Topological Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality

Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Pure Mathematics

User Danny Calegari (Cambridge).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 28 May 2012, 17:00-18:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Branching particle systems with selection

User Lee Zhuo Zhao (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR14.

Monday 28 May 2012, 13:30-14:30

Statistics

Modelling Network Data

User Patrick Wolfe, University College London.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Managing Air Traffic Disruptions Through Strategic Prioritization

User Ian Kash (MSR Cambridge).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 21 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

The Merton Problem with a drawdown constraint on consumption

User Arun Thillaisundaram (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR14.

Monday 21 May 2012, 13:30-14:30

Statistics

Statistical inference for compound regression

User Alexandre Tsybakov, Université Paris VI.

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 18 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Edge reinforced random walks, Vertex reinforced jump process, and the SuSy hyperbolic sigma model.

User Pierre Tarres (Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Analytic Results on a Decentralized Combinatorial Auction

User Richard Steinberg (LSE).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 14 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

From statistical estimation to well localized frames, via heat kernel

User Gerard Kerkyacharian, Université Paris VI.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 11 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Grouping strategies for denoising

User Dominique Picard.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Exponential Lower Bounds for Solving Infinitary Payoff Games and Linear Programs

User Oliver Friedmann (LMU Munich).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 07 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Large-scale convex optimization for machine learning

User Francis Bach, INRIA, Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Log-concave distributions: definitions, properties, and consequences

User Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington.

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Magnetization field at criticality in the Ising model

User Christophe Garban.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

History of Statistics (up to ~1900)

User Elena Yudovina (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR14.

Monday 30 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The distribution of the maximal difference between a Brownian bridge and its concave majorant

User Fadoua Balabdaoui, Université Paris Dauphine.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Generalized sub-Riemannian cut loci and implied/local volatility smiles

User Peter Friz (TU Berlin).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

An overview of shape-constrained estimation problems

User Yining Chen (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR12.

Monday 12 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Hilbert Space Embedding of Probability Measures: Theory and Applications

User Bharath Sriperumbudur.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Loop statistics for dimer models on the torus

User Cedric Boutillier (Paris).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 14:15-15:15

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

High-dimensional statistics

User Rajen Shah.

House CMS, MR12.

Monday 05 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Second-Order Comparison of Functional Data with Applications to DNA Geom

User Victor Panaretos, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Random rigidity in the free group

User Danny Calegari (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Excursions of Brownian motion and some applications

User Moritz Duembgen (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR12.

Monday 27 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Random Toeplitz matrices

User Arnab Sen (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

A quick tour through dynamic programming

User Pawel Zaczkowski.

House CMS, MR12.

Monday 20 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nonparametric estimation of the division rate of a size-structured population

User Vincent Rivoirard, Université Paris-Dauphine.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 17 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Goodness-of-fit tests for noisy directional data

User Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc, Université Paris Sud, Orsay.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 17 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Disorder, entropy and harmonic functions

User Hugo Duminil (Geneva).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

An Introduction to No-Arbitrage Pricing

User Arun Thillaisundaram (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR12.

Monday 13 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Safe Learning: How to Modify Bayesian Inference when All Models are Wrong

User Peter Grünwald, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 10 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Another natural random triangulation of the disk

User Wendelin Werner (Paris-Sud).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Branching Brownian motion with selection

User Pascal Maillard (UPMC).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 14:15-15:15

Statistics

Marginal Models for Dependent, Clustered, and Longitudinal Categorical Data

User Wicher Bergsma, London School of Economics and Political Science.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 03 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Analytical and Combinatorial Problems via Probability

Joint Seminar with Combinatorics Series

User Jordan Stoyanov (Newcastle).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Statistics Reading Group

Robust Statistics: An Overview and Some Questions

User Subhra Sankar Dhar, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Connectivity properties of random interlacements

User Balazs Rath (ETH, Zurich).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Scaling limits for anisotropic Hastings-Levitov type clusters

User Alan Sola (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

An Introduction to Price Indices

User James Lawrence (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR12.

Monday 30 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Approximate Bayesian Computation for model selection

User Christian Robert, Universite Paris-Dauphine and IUF.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Energy of cutoff functions and heat kernel upper bounds

User Martin Barlow (UBC).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

TCP/IP: what does it do, and why does it work

User Elena Yudovina (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR9.

Monday 23 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Random forests

User Gérard Biau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 20 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Organizational meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House CMS, MR9.

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Probability

Probabilistic models for causal quantum gravity and scale dependent spectral dimension

User Stefan Zohren (Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 17 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Spectral statistics of large random matrices

User Antti Knowles (Harvard).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 17 January 2012, 14:15-15:15

Statistics

Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models

User Samuel Kou, Harvard University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Critical 2-dimensional Ising model: local statistics and combinatorics via dimers

User Beatrice de Tiliere (Paris).

House TBC, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Alias Detection and Spectral Correction for Locally Stationary Time Series

User Idris Eckley, Lancaster University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Experiments with dynamic networks of virtual routers

This talk is a part of the SRG-SEMINAR series, and it is listed here as it may be of interest to this seminar's audience as well.

User Richard G. Clegg (UCL).

House FW26, Computer Lab, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

D-optimal design of experiments

User Radoslav Harman, Comenius University.

House CMS, MR9.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Algorithmic Barriers from Phase Transitions

User Dimitris Achlioptas (University of Athens & RACTI).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Algorithmic Barriers from Phase Transitions

User Dimitris Achlioptas (University of Athens & RACTI).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

Black holes and extra dimensions

User Dr Harvey Reall, DAMTP.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 21 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Excursions for Brownian motion -- POSTPONED

User Moritz Duembgen (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR13.

Monday 21 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

The aggregation problems in learning theory

User Guillaume Lecue, CNRS, Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-vallee.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 18 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

The Merton Problem for Optimal Investment

User Arun Thillaisundaram (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR9.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Modelling electricity day-ahead prices by multivariate Levy semistationary processes

User Almut Veraart, Imperial College London.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 11 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Random matrices and something

User Andrei Bejan (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR9.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

Probability

On the relation of random unitary matrices and zeta function zeros

User Vladislav Kargin (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Speed of random walks

User Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research, Redmond).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Statistics

Data-driven calibration of linear estimators with minimal penalties, with an application to multi-task regression

User Sylvain Arlot, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Mixing times of Markov chains

User Guolong Li.

House CMS, MR10.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

Statistics Reading Group

Statistical problems in Astronomy and High Energy Physics

User Bodhi Sen, University of Cambridge.

House MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Cover times, blanket times, and the Gaussian free field.

User Yuval Peres Microsoft Research, Redmond.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Statistics

On adaptation of false discovery rate

User Etienne Roquain, Université Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 28 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Non-parametric density estimation

User Andre Kueh.

House CMS, MR9.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Statistical Multiscale Analysis: From Signal Detection to Nanoscale Photonic Imaging

User Axel Munk, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Georg August University Goettingen and Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Critical Temperature of Periodic Ising Models

User Zhongyang Li (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Statistics

Focussed Information Criteria for Model Selection and Model Averaging

User Nils Hjort, University of Oslo.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 21 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Excursion theory for a finite-state Markov process

User Moritz Duembgen (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR9.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Mixing times are hitting times of large sets

User Perla Sousi (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Bayesian inference for Markov processes with application to biochemical network dynamics

User Darren Wilkinson, University of Newcastle.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 14 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Braess's paradox

User Elena Yudovina (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR9.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Universality and RSW for inhomogeneous bond percolation

User Ioan Manolescu (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Boundary estimation in the presence of measurement error with unknown variance

User Ingrid van Keilegom, Université catholique de Louvain.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 07 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Organizational meeting

User Elena Yudovina (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR to be confirmed.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 15:15-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 28 September 2011, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Unbiased Shifts for Brownian Motion

User Hermann Thorisson (University of Iceland).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 26 September 2011, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Statistics Initiative (CSI)

CSI Special One-Day Meeting

User See website.

House Isaac Newton Institute.

Monday 26 September 2011, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 24 August 2011, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 20 July 2011, 16:30-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Control of Stochastic Processing Networks

User R. J. Williams (Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 July 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats clinic Easter IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11.

Wednesday 22 June 2011, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Symmetric processes and Ocone martingales

User Thorsten Rheinlander.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 June 2011, 16:30-17:30

Statistics Reading Group

Statistical image processing for electron microscopy on molecular machines

User Sjors Scheres, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House MR11, CMS.

Monday 13 June 2011, 14:00-15:30

Probability

Connectivity in discrete random processes

User Po-Shen Loh (Carnegie-Mellon).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 16:30-17:30

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

An Introduction to Dynamic Causal Inference and Multi-state Modelling in Longitudinal Data

User Aidan O'Keeffe (MRC-BSU, Cambridge).

House CMS, MR11.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 15:15-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats clinic III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11.

Wednesday 08 June 2011, 16:30-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Efficient entropy-based detection of change-points in streaming data

User James Cruise (Heriot-Watt University).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 06 June 2011, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Non-parametric regression with observations at imprecise times: Bayesian radiocarbon calibration

User Tim Heaton (Sheffield).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 03 June 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

Bayesian Clustering with the Dirichlet-Process Prior

User Dr. Audrey Q Fu, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

House MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 01 June 2011, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Dynamics of the evolving Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent

User Jason Schweinsberg (UCSD).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Media landscape in Twitter: A world of new conventions and political diversity

User Jisun An (Computer Lab, University of Cambridge).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 30 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Additive Models for Quantile Regression: Model Selection and Confidence Bandaids

User Roger Koenker (Univ. Illinois).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Simultaneous confidences bands with the volume-of-tube formula and spline estimators

User Tatyana Krivobokova (Goettingen).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats clinic Easter II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11.

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Probabilistic Euler Scheme for Fractional Conservational Laws

User Raphael Roux (Dauphine).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Hawkes process as models for some genomic data

User Patricia Reynaud-Bouret (CNRS and Univ. Nice).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 20 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Mutually beneficial contingent claims in incomplete markets

User Ezequiel Antar (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR11.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 15:15-16:00

Statistics Reading Group

Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation

User Florian Gach, Statistical Laboratory.

House MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 18 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Aggregation and Coalescence III

User James Norris (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Behavioral Network Formation

User Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 16 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Bernstein - von Mises Theorems for general functionals

User Judith Rousseau (Paris Dauphine).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 13 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Bayesian non-parametric analysis of diffusions

User Gareth Roberts (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 13 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats clinic Easter I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11.

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Old and new results on stationary tessellations

User Guenter Last (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Aggregation and Coalescence II

User James Norris (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Likelihood Inference and Bayesian MCMC

User Don Pierce (Oregon State University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 06 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Littlemann Paths: an interface between representations of semi simple Lie algebras and probabilistic study of functions on the set of walks on lattices

User Marjorie Batchelor (DPMMS).

House CMS, MR11.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 15:15-16:00

Statistics Reading Group

Exact simulation

User Tom Dean, Engineering department.

House MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Aggregation and Coalescence I

User James Norris (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Viral Processes by Random Walks on Random Graphs

User Mohammed Abdullah, KCL.

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Mordell Lectures

Short presentations of finite groups

User Alex Lubotzky.

House Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 17:00-18:30

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

On the estimation of causal associations with a binary outcome

User Stephen Burgess (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR11.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 15:15-16:15

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of Mathematics and Biology

User Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute), Glenn Vinnicombe (Engineering Department), Ottoline Leyser (Sainsbury Laboratory).

House Wolfson Room (MR2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 26 April 2011, 14:00-19:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Coalescent theory

User Clement Foucart (visiting from Universite Pierre et Marie Curie).

House CMS, MR11.

Thursday 21 April 2011, 15:15-16:15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Easter vacation Statistics Clinic

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11.

Wednesday 06 April 2011, 16:30-18:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Causality

User Nayia Constantinou.

House CMS, MR11.

Thursday 31 March 2011, 15:15-16:15

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 8

User Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 25 March 2011, 10:00-11:00

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Generalized sampling and infinite-dimensional compressed sensing

User Anders Hansen (University of Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 24 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 7

User Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 24 March 2011, 14:00-15:30

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 6

User Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 24 March 2011, 10:00-11:00

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Minimisation of sparse higher-order energies for large-scale problems in imaging

User Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 5

User Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 March 2011, 14:00-15:30

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 4

User Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 March 2011, 10:00-11:00

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

The Dantzig selector for high dimensional statistical problems

User Vincent Rivoirard (Université Paris-Dauphine).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 22 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 3

User Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 22 March 2011, 14:00-15:30

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 2

User Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 22 March 2011, 10:00-11:00

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed Sensing in RF

User Mike Davies (University of Edinburgh).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 21 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 1

User Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 21 March 2011, 14:00-15:30

Probability

Critical temperature of the square lattice Potts model

User Hugo Dominil-Copin (Geneva).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Matchings on large diluted graphs : The cavity method at positive temperature.

User Charles Bordenave, Université de Toulouse.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 14 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

M-estimation strategies for the ranking problem

User Nicolas Vayatis, ENS Cachan.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Large deviations

User Elena Yudovina ( DPMMS).

House CMS, MR4.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 15:15-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The branching Brownian motion seen from its tip

User Julien Berestycki (Paris VI).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats clinic Easter III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 16:30-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Stability conditions for some random multiple-access protocols with spatial interactions

User Seva Shneer, Heriot-Watt University.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 07 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Detecting Change Points in Multidimensional Functional Data

User John Aston, Warwick.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

Model criticism in complex Bayesian evidence synthesis for infectious disease models

User Anne Presanis, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Probability

New results on spectra of multi-particle Schrödinger operators with random potentials.

User Yuri Suhov (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Large-scale asymptotics in some queueing models

User Yuriy Suhov (Statslab).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 28 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Markov chain Monte Carlo on Riemann manifolds

User Mark Girolami (UCL).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Random matrices

User Stephanie Jacquot (Statslab).

House CMS, MR4.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 15:15-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Self-interacting random walks and their asymptotic behavior

User Wendelin Werner (Universite Paris-Sud and ENS).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Approximate Inference for the Loss-Calibrated Bayesian

User Simon Lacoste-Julien (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 18 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation

User Florian Gach, Statistical Laboratory.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Probability

A probabilistic approach to Carne's bound

User Remi Peyre (UPMA.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Mutations and Card Shuffling

User Richard Pymar (University of Cambridge).

House CMS, MR4.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 15:15-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Scaling limits of forest fire processes.

User Nicolas Fournier (Marne-La-Vallée).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

Solving Linear Equations

User Professor Arieh Iserles (DAMTP).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 07 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Mobile geometric graphs: detection, coverage and percolation

User Perla Sousi ( Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 07 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Bayesian semiparametrics with Gaussian process priors

User Ismael Castillo (CNRS and Paris 6).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

Frameworks for causal inference

User Roland Ramsahai, Statistical Laboratory.

House MR2, CMS.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Probabilistic representation of quantum correlation

User Daniel Ueltschi (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Simultaneous local and global adaptivity of Bayesian wavelet estimators in nonparametric regression

User Natalia Bochkina (Edinburgh).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 28 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

The limits of arbitrage, exploring "noise traders" risk

User Omri Ross.

House CMS, MR4.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 15:15-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Continuity of mutual information and the entropy-power inequality

User Mark Kelbert (Swansea).

House MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Abelian sandpiles on infinite graphs

User Antal Jarai (Bath).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Hedging under arbitrage

User Johannes Ruf (Columbia).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Time inhomogeneous Markov chains: merging and stability

User Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 18 January 2011, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas V (Extra session: note change of venue)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 08 December 2010, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Talk cancelled

User Michael Keane (Wesleyan University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 30 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Concentration inequalities by the entropy method, variations

User Stephane Boucheron (Universite Paris 7).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 26 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Concentration inequalities by the entropy method, variations

User Stephane Boucheron (Universite Paris 7).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 26 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Lifetime of relativistic diffusions

User Ismael Bailleul (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Load balancing in stochastic networks

User Elena Yudovina ( DPMMS).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 22 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

On adaptive nonparametric inference

User Richard Nickl (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 19 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

New Thinking about Statistical Inference and its Application to Climate Prediction

User Arthur Dempster (Harvard).

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Regret Bounds for Gaussian Process Bandit Problems

User Steffen Grunewalder (University College London).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Bulk scaling limit of the Laguerre ensemble

User Stephanie Jacquot (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Applications of Bernstein polynomials in Statistics

User Sonia Petrone (University Bocconi Milan).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 05 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Relativistic stochastic processes

User Fabrice Debbasch (Paris VI).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Coalescing systems of non-Brownian particles

User Arnab Sen (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Insensitive, maximum stable allocations converge to proportional fairness

User Neil Walton (University of Cambridge, Statistical Laboratory.).

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 01 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Sparsity pattern aggregation for convex stochastic optimization.

User Phillipe Rigollet (Princeton University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 29 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 October 2010, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Statistics at the tip of a branching random walk, and simple models of evolution with selection.

User Bernard Derrida (ENS Paris).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Queues with skill based routing under FCFS - ALIS (Assign Longest Idle Server) regime

User Gideon Weiss, The University of Haifa.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 25 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Control variates for reversible MCMC samplers

User Petros Dellaportas (Athens University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 22 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Near-critical scaling limits

User Christophe Garban (CNRS, Lyon).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

The Pointless Universe

Inaugural Lecture as 18th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

User Professor Michael Green DAMTP.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 18 October 2010, 17:00-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

The Weighted Proportional Resource Allocation

User Milan Vojnovic, Microsoft research Cambridge.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Stochastic Differential Games and Applications to Energy and Consumer Goods Markets

User Ronnie Sircar (Princeton).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Queues, Counters and Optimization

User R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Insensitive, maximum stable allocations converge to proportional fairness

User Neil Walton, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge..

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 20 August 2010, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank

User Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University.

House Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge..

Tuesday 03 August 2010, 11:00-12:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Some Uses of Hashing in Networking Problems

User Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory..

Monday 02 August 2010, 14:15-15:15

Probability

On the Range of a Random Walk In a Torus

User Eric Shellef (Weizmann Institute).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 June 2010, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Easter IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 14.

Wednesday 09 June 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Introduction to adaptive estimation

User Oleg Lepski (Universite de Provence).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Sparse Recovery in Linear Spans and Convex Hulls of Infinite Dictionaries

User Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

An Introduction to High-Dimensional Problems, Sparsity and Oracle Inequalities

User Karim Lounici (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 16:00-16:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Load Balancing via Random Local Search in Closed and Open systems

User Sarah Lilienthal, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

A Look at Partial Projections for Regression onto Text

User Matt Taddy (University of Chicago).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 28 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Easter III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 14.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Approximation by Log-Concave Distributions

User Lutz Dumbgen (University of Bern).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Detection of critical events before public announcements

User Arne Lokka (LSE).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Order-theoretic properties of the Skorokhod reflection mapping.

User Takis Konstantopoulos, Heriot-Watt.

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

Online Expectation-Maximisation

User Chris Anagnostopoulos, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Statistical problems in complex networks

User Edoardo Airoldi - Harvard University, USA.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Probability

Stochastic geometry of the quantum Ising model

User Jakob Bjornberg (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 18 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Postulating monotonicity in nonparametric Bayesian regression

User Elja Arjas (University of Helsinki).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 14 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Easter II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 14.

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Branching Brownian motion in an inhomogeneous breeding potentia - CANCELLED

User Simon Harris (University of Bath).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Probability

On a Heath-Jarrow-Morton approach for stock options

User Jan Kallsen, University of Kiel.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 16:30-18:30

Dirac Lecture

Phase Transitions: Scaling, Universality and Renormalization

User Professor Leo P. Kadanoff University of Chicago and Perimeter Institute.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 14:45-16:00

Statistics

Sparse NonGaussian Component Analysis

User Vladimir Spokoiny (Weierstrass Institute).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 07 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Rollo Davidson Lectures

Discrete complex analysis and probability

User Stanislav Smirnov (University of Geneva).

House Wolfson Lecture Room (AL.06), Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Probability

Discrete complex analysis and probability

User Stanislav Smirnov (University of Geneva).

House A1.06 Wolfson Lecture Room , CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Statistics Reading Group

Recent Advances in Particle Based Simulation Methods

User J.D.Lawrence@statslab.cam.ac.uk.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Asymptotic behaviour of near-critical branching Brownian motion

User Nathanaël Berestycki (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Distilled Sensing: Adaptive Sequential Experimental Designs for Large-Scale Multiple Hypothesis Testing

User Rob Nowak (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Easter I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 14.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Recursive triangulations and fragmentation theory

User Nicolas Curien (ENS).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 April 2010, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

An investigation of proportionally fair ramp metering

User R. J. Gibbens, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 26 April 2010, 15:00-16:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Transport that Waits for You: Planning and Operating Personal Rapid Transit Systems

User John Lees-Miller (University of Bristol).

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 26 April 2010, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Stochastic Volatility Models Including Open, Close, High and Low Prices - NOW CANCELLED

User Enrique ter Horst (Euromed School of Management).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 23 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

On Bayes-Nash implementation of combinatorial auctions: structure and efficiency

User Hajek, B (Illinois).

House MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 17 March 2010, 15:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Martingale calculus and a maximal inequality for supermartingales

User Hajek, B (Illinois).

House MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 15 March 2010, 15:00-17:00

Statistics

Asymptotic equivalence and sufficiency for volatility estimation under microstructure noise

User Markus Reiss (Humboldt University Berlin).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 March 2010, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The noisy veto-voter model: a Recursive Distributional Equation on [0,1]

User Saul Jacka (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 09 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

Dynamics of superfluid states of matter

User Dr Natasha Berloff (DAMTP).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 08 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Identifying separated time scales in stochastic models of reaction networks

Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

User Thomas Kurtz, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

House Seminar Room 2, CMS Gatehouse.

Monday 08 March 2010, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Smoothed absolute loadings principal components analysis

User Bernie Silverman (Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 05 March 2010, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Random shapes and Sierpinski-type carpets

User Wendelin Werner (ENS Paris and Orsay).

House MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 05 March 2010, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Associative neural memories and oscillatory operation

Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

User Peter Whittle, Univerisity of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 15:00-16:00

Statistics Reading Group

Variational methods continued

User David Knowles, Machine learning group, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Martingale Framework for Trust

Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

User Bruce Hajek, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 01 March 2010, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

What's the right complexity measure for inferring causal relations?

User Dominik Janzing (Max Planck Institute Tuebingen).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 26 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Applications of a Markov mapping theorem

User Tom Kurtz (Wisconsin).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 23 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Simulation-based computation of the workload correlation function in a Levy-driven queue

Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

User Michel Mandjes, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Eurandom, Eindhoven.

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 22 February 2010, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

A Backward Particle Interpretation of Feynman-Kac Formulae

User Pierre Del Moral (INRIA Bordeaux).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 19 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Statistics

On combinatorial testing problems

User Gabor Lugosi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 19 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

Statistics Reading Group

An Introduction to Variational Methods for Approximate Inference in Graphical Models

User Silvia Chiappa.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Probability

Embeddings, entanglement, and percolation

User Geoffrey Grimmett (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 16 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Case-Control Studies when Cases are Extreme Values of a Continuous Variable

User David Steinberg (Tel Aviv University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Quantitative chaos propagation estimates for jump processes

User Clement Mouhot (CNRS & Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 09 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Compressed sensing in infinite dimensions

User Anders Hansen (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 05 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Queuing systems with multi-type jobs and multi-type servers

User Prof. Gideon Weiss, University Haifa.

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 15:00-16:00

Statistics Reading Group

Reversible jump MCMC

User Eleni Bakra, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Collision of random walks

User Perla Sousi (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 02 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Collision of random walks

User Perla Sousi, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge..

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 02 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

CMS Colloquia

Recent advances on quantum systems with random Hamiltonians

User Professor Yuri Suhov (DPMMS).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 01 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Title: Ergodicity of a stress release point process seismic model with aftershocks

Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

User Prof. Seguei Foss, Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Heriot-Watt..

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 01 February 2010, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Thick-pen transformation for time series

User Piotr Fryzlewicz (London School of Economics).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 29 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 16:30-18:00

CMS Colloquia

Special values of L-functions - an Ariadne's thread in number theory

User Professor Don Zagier (College de France).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 25 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Diffusion and cascading behavior in random networks

Joint with Probability Series and Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

User Marc LeLarge, École Normale Supérieure, Paris..

House Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 25 January 2010, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

On the Distribution of the Adaptive LASSO Estimator

User Ulrike Schneider (University of Goettingen).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 22 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

Statistics Reading Group

New approaches to Bayesian asymptotics

User Heather Battey, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Scaling limits of random planar maps with large faces

User Gregory Miermont (Paris-Sud Orsay).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Anonymity via networks of mixes

User Venkat Anantharam, EECS Department, University of California Berkeley..

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 18 January 2010, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Brunet-Derrida particle systems, free boundary problems and Wiener-Hopf equations

User Daniel Remenik, Cornell University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Diffusion and cascading behavior in random networks

Note unusual day and time: 3pm in MR5 (joint with Networks).

User Mark LeLarge (ENS Paris).

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 11 January 2010, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Conditional Predictive Inference Post-Model Selection

User Hannes Leeb (Univ. Vienna).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 04 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Directed polymers in random environment with heavy tails.

User Oren Louidor (NYU).

House Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse..

Friday 04 December 2009, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas V

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas IV

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Percolation of random interlacements under small intensities

User Augusto Teixeira (ETH-Zürich).

House Newton Institute Gatehouse.

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

CMS Colloquia

Integrability and String Theory

User Professor Nick Dorey.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 30 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics: Gaussian process priors

Joint with Probability Series

User Aad van der Vaart (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam).

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

An introduction to sequential Monte Carlo methods

User Ioana Cosma, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics: Gaussian process priors

Joint with Probability Series

User Aad van der Vaart (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam).

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Concentration inequalities for random matrix and operator eigenvalues

User Yuri Suhov.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Bayesian nonrandom walk through the world of the queues

User Carmen Armero, University of Valencia.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 23 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

A Bayesian nonrandom walk through the world of the queues

User Carmen Armero, University of Valencia.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 23 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Empirical support for DNA match probabilities

User James Curran (Auckland).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas III

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 18 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

User Aleksander Mijatovic (Imperial College).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Temporal analysis and small world properties of social and technological networks.

User Cecillia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory..

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 16 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Statistical estimation of a multifractal function

User Marc Hoffmann (Paris).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 13 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

Compressed Sensing - Introduction and Future Aspects

User Anders Hansen, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Put-call Symmetry

User Mike Tehranchi (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Dynamics, Robustness and Multiscale Modularity of Complex Networks

User Renaud Lambiotte, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London..

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 09 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Soap film smoothing

User Simon Wood (Bath).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 06 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic, Michaelmas II, 2009

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Drift, draft and structure: modelling evolution in a spatial continuum

User Alison Etheridge, Oxford (TBC).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 16:00-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Insensitivity results for the limit of a multi-class queueing network

User Neil Walton, University of Cambridge, Statistical Laboratory..

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 02 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Risk Hull Methods for Inverse Problems

User Laurent Cavalier (Marseille).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

Bayesian Nonparametric Mixture Models

User Jurgen Van Gael, Engineering department, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Sandpiles, Staircases and Self-organized criticality

User Anne Fey, Eindehoven.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Bits and particles: Spin-glass analogies and beyond

User Adria Tauste, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering..

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 26 October 2009, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Bayesian Methods in Cosmology

User Mike Hobson (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 23 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Probabilistic Expert Systems for Handling Artifacts in Complex DNA Mixtures

User Julia Mortera (University of Roma Tre).

House MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Directed polymers and the quantum Toda lattice

User Neil O'Connell (Univ .Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Forward Smoothing using Sequential Monte Carlo with Application to Recursive Parameter Estimation

User Arnaud Doucet (Univ. of British Columbia and ISM Tokyo).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 15:00-16:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Stochastic Modelling of Nanog-Oct4-Sox2 Gene Regulatory Network

User Yang Luo (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

CMS Colloquia

The Cauchy problem in general relativity

User Dr Mihalis Dafermos.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Choosing a good histogram

User Yannick Baraud (Univ. Nice).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

When can we quantify uncertainty?

User David Spiegelhalter, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The simple harmonic urn

User Stas Voklov (Univ. Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 13 October 2009, 16:00-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Busy Periods in Fluid Queues with Multiple Emptying Input States

User Prof. Peter Harrison, Imperial College London..

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 12 October 2009, 14:30-15:30

Statistics

Total variation and curves

User Arne Kovac (Univ. Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 09 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Initiative (CSI)

CSI Special One-Day Meeting

User http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/CSI/onedaymeeting.html.

House Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

Friday 25 September 2009, 09:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Pricing, Competition, and Routing in Relay Networks

User Edmund Yeh, Electrical Engineering, Yale University..

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 12 August 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Network-Based Ranking Systems in Paired Comparisons.

User Dr Juyong Park, Seoul National University..

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 24 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Working with over-parameterized models

User David Firth, University of Warwick.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

The Flow of Information in Complex Networks

Kuwait Foundation Lecture

User Jon Kleinberg (Cornell)..

House Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Thursday 11 June 2009, 17:00-18:00

Statistics Reading Group

The Dantzig Selector

User Matthew Parry, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Friday 05 June 2009, 16:00-17:30

Statistics

Bayesian Inference of Transmission Fidelity Rates of DNA Methylation Patterns

User Audrey Fu (University of Cambridge Systems Biology Center).

House MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Connectivity Properties of Cooperative Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

User Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Microsoft Research Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 03 June 2009, 15:00-16:00

Probability

A diffusion description of the random matrix hard edge

User Brian Rider (Colorado).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 02 June 2009, 14:00-15:00

Public Understanding of Risk

Homo heuristicus: Why biased minds make better inferences

Free Public Lecture

User Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

Monday 01 June 2009, 17:30-19:00

Statistics

Graphical Gaussian Models with Edge and Vertex Symmetries

User Steffen Lauritzen University of Oxford.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 29 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Large clusters as rare events, their simulation and connection to critical percolation

User Andrei Bejan, Computer Laboratory..

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 27 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Optimal Control of Manufacturing Systems

Solution of a Fluid Approximation and Tracking by a Queueing Model.

User Gideon Weiss, The University of Haifa..

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Second Generation Wavelets and Astrophysics

User Gerard Kerkyacharian Paris 10 and LPMA.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 22 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Routing Games with Elastic Traffic

User Peter Key, Microsoft Research Cambridge..

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 20 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Brownian polymers

User Pierre Tarres (Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 16:00-17:30

Probability

The mathematics of collective synchronization (Rouse Ball Lecture)

User Professor Steven Strogatz Cornell University.

House Room 3, Mill Lane lecture rooms.

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

CMS Colloquia

QRT maps and elliptic surfaces

User Prof. J.J. Duistermaat, Utrecht.

House Lecture Room 1 (INI).

Monday 18 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Particle Learning

User Nicholas Polson University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 15 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Crowdsourcing and All-Pay Auctions

User Milan Vojnovic, Microsoft research Cambridge..

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Parameter Estimation for Rough Differential Equations

User Anastasia Papavasilious (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

CMS Colloquia

Langlands' functorality viewed as a kind of function theoretic Poisson formula problem

User Prof. L. Lafforgue, IHES.

House Lecture Room 1 (INI).

Monday 11 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Likelihood p-values ancillaries and the vector quantile function

User Don Fraser, University of Toronto.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Mordell Lectures

KAM and Rigidity

User Professor Anatole Katok (Penn State University).

House Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Default priors and model parametrization

User Nancy Reid, University of Toronto.

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Robust Networks

User Sanjeev Goyal, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 06 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Construction of a probability measure with a prescribed logarithmic derivative ; existence and uniqueness.

User Paul Malliavin (Paris VI).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 29 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe

User Carlos Carvalho, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 24 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Pinning-depinning transition in Random Polymers

User Nikos Zygouras (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

An Incentive Mechanism to Decongest Road Traffic

User Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science..

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 18 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Bayes and empirical-Bayes multiplicity adjustment in the variable-selection problem

User James Scott, Duke University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 13 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

The EM algorithm and applications

User Robert Gramacy, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Product forms in Neural Networks, G-Networks and Chemical Systems

User Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College & Microsoft Research.

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

User Alexander Holroyd (Microsoft Research and UBC).

House MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Do New Roads Generate Traffic?

User Charlene Rohr, RAND Europe.

House MR13, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Stochastic Models of Economic Equilibrium on Directed Graphs

User Prof. Michael Dempster, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School and Statistical Laboratory.

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

CMS Colloquia

Effective evolution equations from many body quantum dynamics

User Dr Benjamin Schlein (DPMMS).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 02 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Discrete Statistical Modeling using Chain Event Graphs

User Jim Smith, Warwick.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Convolution tail equivalent distributions: basic properties

User Prof Dmitri Korshunov, (Novosibirsk).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Convolution tail equivalent distributions: basic properties (Joint with Networks (OR) seminar).

User Dmitri Korshunov (Novosibirsk).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 27 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

A historical law of large numbers for the Marcus-Lushnikov process

User Stephanie Jacquot, Statslab.

House CMS, MR13.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

A historical law of large numbers for the Marcus-Lushnikov process

User Stephanie Jacquot (Statslab).

House CMS, MR13.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Statistics Reading Group

Ferguson's 1973 paper on the Dirichlet process

User University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Refined and enhanced FFT techniques, with applications to pricing barrier options and their sensitivities

User Sergei Levendorskii (Univeristy of Chicago).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 15:30-16:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Survey of Results for Deletion Channels and Related Synchronization Channels

Joint With Probability Seminar Series.

User Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University.

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:00-15:30

Probability

JOINT WITH NETWORKS (OR) SEMINAR SERIES:A Survey of Results for Deletion Channels and Related Synchronization Channels

User Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Bloom Filters, Related Data Structures, and their Applications

Kuwait Foundation Lecture

User Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard).

House Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Monday 23 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

A generalization of Fisher's exact test: rock-paper-scissors and friendly ghosts

User Robin Hankin.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 20 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

The diffusion of trends on social networks.

User Moez Draief, Imperial College London.

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 18 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

CMS Colloquia

How to Sequence 1000 Human Genomes Efficiently

User Professor Richard Durbin, Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 16 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Diffusions limits of the Random Walk Metropolis Algorithm in High Dimensions:

User Natesh Pillai, Warwick.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 13 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

Learning based on Data Compression

User Steven de Rooij, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 11 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Rate Adaptation Games in Wireless LANs: Nash Equilibrium and Price of Anarchy

User Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research Cambridge..

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 11 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Local semicircle law and level repulsion for Wigner random matrices

User Benjamin Schlein (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Nonparametric inference for networks of queues

Joint Statistics Seminar

User Cornelia Wichelhaus, Heidelberg university, Germany..

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 06 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Nonparametric inference for networks of queues

User Cornelia Wichelhaus, Universität Heidelberg.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 06 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Probability

A new combinatorial method for calculating the moments of Lévy area

User Daniel Levin (Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Stepwise Searching for Feature Variables in High-Dimensional Linear Regression

User Qiwei Yao, LSE.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

The 1995 Benjamini and Hochberg paper on false discovery rates

User Richard Samworth, University of Cambridge.

House MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 28 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Scaling Framework for the Many Flows Asymptotic, through Large Deviations.

User James Cruise, Bristol University..

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 28 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Stochastic Financial Models - Optional Economics Brief

User Elie Bassouls.

House MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

CMS Colloquia

Genus-minimizing surfaces

User Dr Jake Rasmussen (DPMMS).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 26 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Probability

On the mixing time of random conjugacy walks

User Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge)..

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 26 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Probabilistic refinement of cellular pathway models.

User Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Towards a (rough) pathwise theory of fully non-linear stochastic partial differential equations

User Harald Oberhauser, Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Towards a (rough) pathwise theory of fully non-linear stochastic partial differential equations"

User Harald Oberhauser (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 19 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Building and fitting a stochastic phylogentic model for Dollo traits, and its application to reconstructing the diversification of the Indo-European languages

User Geoff Nicholls, Oxford.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Exploring the dynamics of network optimisation

User Nigel Walker, Ben Strulo, British Telecomm.

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 14 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Initiative (CSI)

Communicating Complex Statistical Evidence

User Various.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Thursday 08 January 2009, 09:00-19:00

Statistics

Simple Methods to Improve MCMC Efficiency in Random Effect Models

User Bill Brown (University of Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 05 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Distributed Computation over Random Geometric Graphs: Some Asymptotic Results

User D. Manjunath, Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT, Bombay.

House MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 04 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Talagrand's concentration inequality for empirical processes

User Richard Nickl (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Projective Limits of Bayes Equations

User Peter Orbanz (Dept. Engineering, Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 28 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

The 1995 wavelet paper of Donoho, Johnstone, Kerkyacharian and Picard

User Richard Nickl, University of Cambridge.

House MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Internet evolution and misleading networking myths

User Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota.

House MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Trees and rough paths

User Jean Picard (Clermont-Ferrand).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Evaluating survey designs for inference of Plasmodium falciparum malaria prevalence

User Anand Patil (University of Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 21 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Bayesians turn to Experts for Advice!

User Steven de Rooij (Cambridge).

House CMS, MR4.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Estimation and variable selection with Lasso and Dantzig Selector in the high-dimensional regression model

User Karim Lounici, Université Paris 7.

House MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Is the law of the jungle sustainable for the Internet?

User Alexandre Proutiere, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

House MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Loop-erased random walk on planar graphs

User Ariel Yadin (Weizmann Institute).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

CMS Colloquia

Reversibility, Chaos and Self-Organization

User Prof. J. Gollub (DAMTP and Haverford Coll.).

House MR2.

Monday 17 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Sampling bias in logistic models

User Peter McCullagh (University of Chicago).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 14 November 2008, 16:00-17:30

Statistics Reading Group

Ronald Fisher's 1934 likelihood and inference paper

User Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago.

House MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Some stationary fields and their spectral measure on hyperbolic plane

User Serge Cohen (Toulouse).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Bayesian Model Determination for Multivariate Ordinal and Binary Data

User Jon Forster (University of Southampton).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 07 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Stochastic modelling in Biology

User Yang Luo (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

House CMS, MR4.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Probability

On refracted stochastic processes and the analysis of insurance risk

User Hansjoerg Albrecher (RICAM, Linz).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Fair charge heuristics for dynamic resource allocation --- a queueing example

User David Hodge, Lancaster University.

House MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 03 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Theoretical properties of Cook's Principal Fitted Components algorithm

User Oliver Johnson (University of Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 31 October 2008, 16:00-17:30

Mordell Lectures

Geometric PDE

The lecture will be followed by a Reception in the Saltmarsh Rooms, King's College from 7 p.m.

User Prof Tobias Colding (MIT).

House Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Statistics Reading Group

David Cox's 1972 proportional hazards paper

User Phil Dawid, University of Cambridge.

House MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Optimal Gateway Selection in VoIP

User Richard Weber, University of Cambridge.

House MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Phase transitions for dilute particle systems with potentials of Lennard-Jones type

User Nadia Sidorova (UCL).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Simultaneous Confidence Band and Hypothesis Test in Generalised Varying-Coefficient Models

User Wenyang Zhang (University of Bath).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 24 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Public Understanding of Risk

How the Media Promote the Public Misunderstanding of Science

Free Public Lecture. All Welcome!

User Ben Goldacre, Author, broadcaster, doctor and blogger - badscience.net.

House Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

CMS Colloquia

D-branes and Derived Categories

This talk follows the talk by Dr D. Tong

User Prof. T.A. Bridgeland (Sheffield).

House MR2.

Monday 20 October 2008, 17:15-18:00

CMS Colloquia

Uses of D-branes

Note early start. This talk is followed by a related talk by Prof T.A. Bridgeland. Dr Tong and Professor Bridgeland shared the 2008 Adams Prize.

User Dr D. Tong (DAMTP).

House MR2.

Monday 20 October 2008, 16:30-17:15

Statistics

Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators

joint Statistics/Probability Seminar

User Evarist Gine (University of Conneticut).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 20 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Probability

Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators

joint Statistics/Probability Seminar

User Evarist Gine (University of Connecticut).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 20 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Statistics

The Gaussian Semiparametric Partial Linear Model Asymptotic Theory and a Useful Difference-Based Estimator and Tests

User Professor Larry Brown (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylavnia).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Statistics Reading Group

Charles Stein's 1956 inadmissibility paper

User Larry Brown, Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania.

House MR12, CMS.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Consensus -- with Limited Memory and Signalling

User Milan Vojnovic, Microsoft research Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Transience in a Statistical Mechanics model of Random Band Matrices

User Tom Spencer (IAS, Princeton).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The oriented swap process

User Dan Romik (Hebrew University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Rethinking Internet Traffic Management: From Multiple Decompositions to a Practical Protocol

User Martin Suchara, Computer Science Department, Princeton.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 September 2008, 16:00-17:30

Probability

Moment explosions and long-term behaviour of affine stochastic volatility models

User Martin Keller-Ressel (TU Vienna).

House MR14, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 18 June 2008, 14:15-15:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Estimation of the relative risk and risk difference

User Thomas Richardson (University of Washington).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 06 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A model for the evolution of an order book

User Sasha Stoikov (Columbia).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

CMS Colloquia

Maps and Graphs on Surfaces

User Professor C Thomassen (Technical University of Denmark).

House Lecture Room 1 (INI).

Monday 02 June 2008, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Testing lack-of-fit in inverse regression models

User Gerda Claeskens (K.U.Leuven).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Super-Brownian motion among Poissonian obstacles

User Amandine Veber (Ecole Normale).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

MCMC for doubly-intractable distributions

User Iain Murray (University of Toronto).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 23 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Random attractors for stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in some unbounded domains

User Zdzislaw Brzezniak (York).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Chance is a Fine Thing

Inaugural Lecture as Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk

User David Spiegelhalter (Cambridge).

House MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 19 May 2008, 17:30-18:30

Statistics

Flexible Covariance estimation in Gaussian Graphical models

User Bala Rajaratnam (Stanford University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Where does randomness lead in spacetime?

User Ismael Bailleul (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Latent class models for the causal effect of a treatment

User Antonio Forcina (University of Perugia).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 09 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Behaviour near the extinction time in stable fragmentation processes

User Christina Goldschmidt (Oxford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 06 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Large deviations, metastability, and stochastic resonance

User Mark Freidlin (University of Maryland).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 May 2008, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Large deviations, metastability, and stochastic resonance

User Mark Freidlin (University of Maryland).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 May 2008, 15:30-16:30

Statistics

On Grobner bases of Elimination and Toric Ideals describing Maximum Entropy models

User Ambedkar Dukkipatti (EURANDOM).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

CMS Colloquia

Astrophysical Accretion and Bright Black Holes

User Dr Gordon I. Ogilvie (DAMTP).

House MR2.

Monday 28 April 2008, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Efficient sparse recovery with no assumption on the dictionary

User Alexander (Sasha) Tsybakov (CREST et Université Paris).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Local and discrete scoring rules

User Matt Parry (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 14 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Parameter and Functional Estimation in Semiparametric Models

User Yanyuan Ma (Universite de Neuchatel).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 07 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Predictive Modeling Approaches to Gene Regulation

User Jun Liu (Harvard University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Faculty of Mathematics Lectures

Singularities of Harmonic Maps, Minimal Surfaces and Mean Curvature Flows

User Dr Neshan Wickramasekera (DPMMS).

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 March 2008, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Advances in Bayesian Latent Factor Modelling: The Incredible Shrinking Model

User Daniel Merl (Duke University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 29 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

User Yves Le Jan (Orsay).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Equivalence of prospective and retrospective likelihood methods in case-control studies

User Ana-Maria Staicu (Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 22 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Combining police perceptions with police records of serious crime areas

User Robert Haining (Dept. Geography, University of Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 15 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Alternative Splicing in Tumors: Detection and Interpretation

User Terry Speed (Berkeley).

House MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Probability

A natural notion of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes with applications to simulated annealing

User Josef Teichmann (TU Vienna).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Adversarial Risk Analysis: A Smallpox Example

User David Banks (Duke University).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 08 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Random walks in random environment in the sub-ballistic regime: ageing and localization

User Olivier Zindy (WIAS).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Statistical deconvolution problems with Fourier-oscillating error densities

User Alexander Meister (Universitat Ulm).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 01 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Optimal Skorokhod embeddings with applications to pricing and hedging of double barrier options

User Jan Obloj (Imperial).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Identifying Direct and Indirect effects

User Sara Geneletti (Imperial).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A characterization of forward utility functions

User Mike Tehranchi (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

A theoretical and methodological discussion of nested sampling

User Nicolas Chopin (Bristol).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 18 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Assessing the finite-dimensionality of functional data

User Celine Vial (Rennes).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 30 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Title to be confirmed

User Gaurav Raina.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 28 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Birth-and-death Markov processes in spatial ecology

User Yuri Kondratiev (University of Reading).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

A Life-Time of Stochastic Self-Organisation - 1977 - 2007

User David Probert (VAZA International).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 23 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Direct and indirect causal effects: a helpful distinction?

User Donald B. Rubin (Harvard).

House MR14, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Differential equations arrising in network problems

User N Vvedenskaya (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow).

House MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 15:30-16:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Random Medium Access Control algorithms, an asymptotic approach

User Alexandre Proutiere (Microsoft).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Recent progress in the multi-patricle Anderson tight binding model

User Prof. Y.M. Suhov (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Neither finance nor pharma -- life as an industrial statistician. To be followed by an introduction to the Royal Statistical Society

User Philip Jonathan and Yanyun Wu (Shell).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Probability

On the relations between implied and spot volatilities

User Valdo Durrleman (Ecole Polytechnique).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 16 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Positive Externalities, Negative Externalities, and Optimal Scale

User Ramesh Johari (Stanford).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The discrete Feynman integral

User Tony Dorlas (DIAS).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Some universality results for 2D percolation

User Helen Lei (UCLA).

House MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 09 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Prequential Statistics

User Phil Dawid (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 09 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Wireless Spectral Sharing Techniques and Issues

User Fletcher Wicker (The Aerospace Corporation / Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Dynamics for the Brownian web

User Jonathan Warren (Warwick).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 06 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Quantum randomness and Kolmogorov probability

User Patricia Grambsch, University of Minnesota, visiting Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 02 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Optmisation and Evolution of Networks

User Peter Whittle (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 31 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

DPMMS Pure Maths Seminar

The Langlands correspondence: prime numbers, symmetry and algebraic geometry

CMS Colloquium

User Dr Teruyoshi Yoshida (DPMMS).

House MR2.

Monday 29 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Probability

Random even graphs and the Ising model

User Geoffrey Grimmett, University of Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 23 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Double phase transition for a self-repelling Brownian particle

User Nathanael Berestycki, University of Cambridge.

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Jump Telegraph Processes and a Volatility Smile

User Nikita Ratanov (University of Rosario, Bogota).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 October 2007, 15:30-16:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Incentivizing Participation in Resource-sharing Networks

User Richard Weber (Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Coalescing Brownian motions

User James Norris (University of Cambridge).

House MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 09 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Acoustical Spacetime Geometry and Shock Formation

User Professor Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH-Zurich.

House Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 08 May 2007, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Ergodic theorems along polynomials: from combinatorial applications to challenges for physicists

The lecture will be followed by a reception from 6.30 p.m. in St John's College gardens.

User Professor Vitaly Bergelson, The Ohio State University.

House Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 May 2006, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

The Ramanujan Conjecture and its generalizations

The lecture will be followed by a reception from 6.30 p.m. at the Trinity bowling green (Nevile's Court cloisters if wet).

User Professor Peter Sarnak, Princeton.

House Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 17 May 2005, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Polynomials in Discrete Mathematics

User Professor Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University.

House Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 May 2004, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Algebraic Topology and Modular Forms

The lecture will be followed by drinks in Pavilion E Common Room

User Professor Mike Hopkins, MIT.

House Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 May 2003, 17:00-18:00

Rollo Davidson Lectures

Random planar curves and conformal invariance

User Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud).

House Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 July 2001, 18:00-19:00

Rollo Davidson Lectures

The mathematics of making a mess

User Professor Persi Diaconis (Harvard).

House Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

Wednesday 08 May 1996, 17:00-18:00

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Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 V

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Probability

Massive holomorphicity in near-critical dimers and the Sine Gordon model

👤 Nathanael Berestycki (University of Vienna) 📅 Tuesday 17 March 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Scalable causal discovery for statistically efficient causal inference

👤 Sara Magliacane (University of Amsterdam) 📅 Friday 13 March 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Wandering exponent and free energy for the Mézard-Parisi elastic polymer

👤 Gérard Ben Arous (Courant) 📅 Friday 13 March 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR9

Peter Whittle Lecture

The role of Random Matrix Theory for the optimization algorithms of Machine Learning

👤 Gérard Ben Arous (Courant) 📅 Thursday 12 March 2026, 16:30-17:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

How can the pedagogy of statistics inform the teaching of machine learning?

👤 Paul Fannon, Department of Genetics: Bioinformatics Training Facility 📅 Wednesday 11 March 2026, 19:15-21:00 📍 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF

Information Theory Seminar

Optimal Estimation in Orthogonally Invariant Generalized Linear Models

👤 Dr Yihan Zhang, University of Bristol 📅 Wednesday 11 March 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Statistics

Meta Flow Maps enable scalable reward alignment

👤 Yee Whye Teh (Oxford/Deepmind) 📅 Friday 06 March 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 04 March 2026, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Graph Joinings, Graph Isomorphism, and Reversible Markov Chains

👤 Prof Andrew Nobel, UNC Chapel Hill 📅 Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Quantitative Brownian Regularity of the KPZ fixed point

👤 Pantelis Tassopoulos (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 03 March 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Rainfall, volatility and roughness: an intriguing story across scales

👤 Marc Hoffmann (Université Paris-Dauphine) 📅 Friday 27 February 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

The random walk on the exclusion process: a Law of Large numbers in dimensions $\geq 5$

👤 Guillaume Conchon--Kerjan (King's College London) 📅 Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Minimax rate for multivariate data under componentwise local differential privacy constraints

👤 Chiara Amorino (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) 📅 Friday 20 February 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 18 February 2026, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Applications of Algorithmic Information Theory

👤 Prof Marcus Hutter, Google DeepMind, London 📅 Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

The polaron problem and Kac type interactions

👤 Erwin Bolthausen (Zurich) 📅 Tuesday 17 February 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Towards multi-purpose locally differentially-private synthetic data release via plug-in estimation

👤 Botond Szabo (Bocconi University) 📅 Friday 13 February 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Group Entropies: functionals on probability spaces, state space growth rates, energy, and connections to thermodynamics

👤 Prof. Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Imperial College London 📅 Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Large deviations in sparse random graphs

👤 Anirban Basak (ICTS, Tata Institute) 📅 Tuesday 10 February 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Nonparametric Bayesian intensity estimation for covariate-driven point processes

👤 Matteo Giordano (Università degli Studi di Torino) 📅 Friday 06 February 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 04 February 2026, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Deep Learning via the Minimum Description Length Principle

👤 Dr Yoshinari Takeishi, Kyushu University 📅 Wednesday 04 February 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Connecting the False Discovery Rate to shrunk estimates

👤 Nick W Galwey (Former Statistics Leader, Research Statistics, at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development (Retired)) 📅 Tuesday 03 February 2026, 19:15-21:00 📍 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF

Probability

Chemical distance in high-dimensional percolation

👤 Jack Hanson (Universität Hamburg) 📅 Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

The Geometry of Random Neural Networks

👤 Domenico Marinucci (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) 📅 Friday 30 January 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

The Minimum Description Length Principle and Machine Learning

👤 Dr Yoshinari Takeishi, Kyushu University 📅 Wednesday 28 January 2026, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 21 January 2026, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 V

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 03 December 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Information Constraints in Human Decision-Making: From Theory to Computation

👤 Dr Stefan Bucher, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 03 December 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Stochastic heat equation and directed polymers in dimension d=2

👤 Quentin Berger (Paris 13) 📅 Tuesday 02 December 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Valid F-screening in linear regression

👤 Daniela Witten (University of Washington) 📅 Friday 28 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

100 years of educational trials – no significant difference?

👤 Riikka Hofmann, Faculty of Education 📅 Wednesday 26 November 2025, 19:15-21:00 📍 City House, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1RY

Information Theory Seminar

Optimal Quantization for Matrix Multiplication

👤 Or Ordentlich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 📅 Wednesday 26 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Spectral laws of sparse iid matrices

👤 Julian Sahasrabudhe (University of Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 25 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

On the sample complexity of multi-objective learning

👤 Fanny Yang (ETH Zurich) 📅 Friday 21 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 19 November 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Probability

The Markov property for \varphi^4_3 on cylinders

👤 Trishen Gunaratnam (TIFR Mumbai and ICTS Bangalore) 📅 Tuesday 18 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Statistical guarantees for neural operator surrogates

👤 Sven Wang (EPFL) 📅 Friday 14 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Breaking the Sample Size Barrier in Reinforcement Learning

👤 Yuxin Chen, University of Pennsylvania 📅 Wednesday 12 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Spectral gaps of random hyperbolic surfaces

👤 Will Hide (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 11 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Statistical Investigations into the Unseen: Missing Mass for Markov Samples and Natural Distribution Estimation

👤 Prof. Andrew Thangaraj, Indian Institute of Technology Madras 📅 Monday 10 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar Room

Statistics

The manifold hypothesis in science & AI

👤 Patrick Rubin-Delanchy (Edinburgh) 📅 Friday 07 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 05 November 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Zero-Error Communications over Modulo-Additive Noise Channels with Assistance

👤 Prof. Amos Lapidoth, ETH Zurich 📅 Wednesday 05 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Games on trees

👤 Omer Angel (UBC) 📅 Tuesday 04 November 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Benefits of data openness in a digital world

👤 Sam Gilbert, Bennett Institute for Public Policy 📅 Monday 03 November 2025, 19:00-21:00 📍 The Statistical Laboratory,Centre for Mathematical Sciences,Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Adaptation through prior tails and deep neural networks

👤 Ismael Castillo (Sorbonne Université) 📅 Friday 31 October 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Mixing time of random walk on the small-world network

👤 Andjela Sarkovic (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 28 October 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Universal Copulas

👤 Gery Geenens (University of New South Wales) 📅 Friday 24 October 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 22 October 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

De Bruijn's identity and stability in the Entropy Power Inequality without finite variance

👤 Dr Lampros Gavalakis, DPMMS, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 22 October 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Capacity for branching random walks and percolation

👤 Perla Sousi (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 21 October 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

On uncertainty quantification for nonparametric multivariate Hawkes processes

👤 Judith Rousseau (Université Paris Dauphine) 📅 Friday 17 October 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Statistical Signal Processing for Quantum Error Mitigation

👤 Prof. Dror Baron, North Carolina State University 📅 Wednesday 15 October 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

On large clusters for the Gaussian free field

👤 Pierre-François Rodriguez (Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 14 October 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Geometric extremal graphical models

👤 Jennifer Wadsworth (Lancaster) 📅 Friday 10 October 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 08 October 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

All models are wrong and yours are useless: making clinical prediction models impactful for patients

👤 Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute 📅 Tuesday 07 October 2025, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge

Information Theory Seminar

Efficient gradient coding for mitigating stragglers within distributed machine learning

👤 Prof. Aditya Ramamoorthy, Iowa State University 📅 Wednesday 01 October 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR9, CMS Pavilion B

Information Theory Seminar

Inequalities Revisited

👤 Prof. Raymond W. Yeung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 📅 Friday 19 September 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 James Dyson Building Seminar Room, Department of Engineering

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 17 September 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR14

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 27 August 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR14

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 06 August 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR14

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 16 July 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR14

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 V

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 25 June 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR14

Statistics

Detecting Changes in Production Frontier and Beyond

👤 Yining Chen (LSE) 📅 Friday 13 June 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 11 June 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR2

Statistics

Complexity of sampling truncated log-concave measures, and the role of stochastic localization

👤 Yuansi Chen (ETH Zurich) 📅 Friday 06 June 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

In-sample calibration yields conformal calibration guarantees

👤 Johanna Ziegel (ETH Zurich) 📅 Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 28 May 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR14

Information Theory Seminar

Learning Privately in High Dimensions

👤 Prof. Marco Mondelli, Institute of Science and Technology Austria 📅 Wednesday 28 May 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Mixing of a random walk on a randomly twisted hypercube

👤 Zsuzsa Baran (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 20 May 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies.

👤 Kosuke Imai (Harvard University) 📅 Friday 16 May 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Thursday 15 May 2025, 09:00-13:00 📍 CMS, Room MR2

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 II

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Probability

Metrics and random walks on 2D critical percolation and CLE

👤 Yizheng Yuan 📅 Tuesday 13 May 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Extrapolation-aware statistical machine learning

👤 Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich) 📅 Friday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Graph Data Compression: Practical Methods and Information-Theoretic Limits

👤 Prof. Justin Coon, University of Oxford 📅 Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

The Porous Medium Equation: Multiscale Analysis of a Zero-Range Process, Integrability Estimate and Large Deviations

👤 Daniel Heydecker (Imperial College) 📅 Tuesday 06 May 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Improved performance guarantees for Tukey’s median

👤 Stanislav Minsker (University of Southern California) 📅 Friday 02 May 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Mordell Lectures

Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory

👤 Tim Austin (Warwick) 📅 Thursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR2, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 I

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 30 April 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Predicting recurrence of prostate cancer: a Bayesian approach

👤 Roger Sewell 📅 Thursday 10 April 2025, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF

Information Theory Seminar

Group Testing: Something old, something new, something borrowed

👤 Dr Nikhil Karamchandani, IIT Bombay 📅 Wednesday 26 March 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR13, CMS Pavilion E

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Graphical Approach to State Variable Selection in Off-policy Learning

👤 Joakim Blach Andersen (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Friday 21 March 2025, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 V

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Entropy comparison inequalities with applications to additive noise channels

👤 Dr Lampros Gavalakis, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Large Values of the Riemann Zeta Function in Short Intervals

👤 Louis-Pierre Arguin (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Evaluating a black-box algorithm: stability, risk, and model comparisons

👤 Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago) 📅 Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Peter Whittle Lecture

Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

👤 Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago) 📅 Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:30-17:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2

Causal Inference Reading Group

Estimating the Global Average Treatment Effect under Structured Interference

👤 Shuangning Li (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business) 📅 Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:30-16:00 📍 MR19, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Sharp threshold for the ballisticity of the random walk on the exclusion process

👤 Daniel Kious (Bath) 📅 Tuesday 11 March 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Causal Inference Reading Group

Discussion on Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Texts as Treatments

👤 Martina Scauda (University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 07 March 2025, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 IV

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Data Compression with Relative Entropy Coding

👤 Gergely Flamich, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 05 March 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

The scaling limit of random planar maps with large faces.

👤 Armand Riera (Paris) 📅 Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

👤 James Grime, Institute of Continuing Education 📅 Monday 03 March 2025, 19:15-21:00 📍 Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP

Information Theory Seminar

Variations of the Expectation due to Changes in the Measure: Applications to Generalization and Game Theory

👤 Dr Samir Perlaza, INRIA 📅 Wednesday 26 February 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Branching random walk with non-local competition

👤 Sarah Penington (Bath) 📅 Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

👤 Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University) 📅 Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 III

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Probability

Height gap of the planar Brownian motion

👤 Titus Lupu (Paris) 📅 Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Causal Inference Reading Group

Discussion on Confidence Intervals for Policy Evaluation in Adaptive Experiments

👤 Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Friday 14 February 2025, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Gaussian and non-Gaussian universality, with applications to data augmentation

⚠️ Note unusual location

👤 Peter Orbanz (UCL) 📅 Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS

Information Theory Seminar

Sampling using Diffusion Processes

👤 Dr Nicolas Macris, EPFL 📅 Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

A switching property for percolation of Brownian loops

👤 Wendelin Werner (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

⚠️ Note unusual location

👤 Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich) 📅 Friday 07 February 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 II

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Generalization and Informativeness of Conformal Prediction

👤 Dr Fredrik Hellstrom, UCL 📅 Wednesday 05 February 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Road layout in the KPZ class

👤 Marton Balazs (Bristol) 📅 Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Building global resilience to high-impact volcanic eruptions

👤 Lara Mani, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk 📅 Monday 03 February 2025, 19:00-21:00 📍 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Metric and variable selection for functional nonparametric regression models

👤 Torben Sell (University of Edinburgh) 📅 Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Causal Inference Reading Group

Debiased regression adjustment in completely randomized experiments with moderately high-dimensional covariates

👤 Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua University) 📅 Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:00-14:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 I

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 22 January 2025, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Causal Inference Reading Group

An Anatomy of Event Studies: Hypothetical Experiments, Exact Decomposition, and Weighting Diagnostics

👤 José R. Zubizarreta, Harvard University 📅 Friday 13 December 2024, 17:30-18:00 📍 MR20, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Information Theory Seminar

Exploiting Statistical Hardness for Increased Privacy in Wireless Systems

⚠️ Note unusual time and room

👤 Prof. Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California 📅 Monday 09 December 2024, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR13, CMS Pavilion E

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 V

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 04 December 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Probability

The Brownian loop measure on Riemann surfaces and applications to length spectra

👤 Yilin Wang (IHES) 📅 Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation

👤 Kelly Zhang (Imperial College London) 📅 Friday 29 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Cancer: misfortune or carelessness?

👤 Peter Treasure, Peter Treasure Statistical Services Ltd 📅 Wednesday 27 November 2024, 19:15-21:30 📍 AstraZeneca, Academy House, Hills Road Cambridge CB2 8PA

Information Theory Seminar

From Classical to Quantum: Uniform Continuity Bounds on Entropies in Infinite Dimensions

👤 Prof. Nilanjana Datta, DAMTP 📅 Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

The *-Edge Reinforced random walk, bayesian statistics and statistical physics

👤 Pierre Tarres (Paris and Shanghai) 📅 Tuesday 26 November 2024, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Mixing times for the open ASEP

👤 Dominik Schmid (Columbia) 📅 Tuesday 26 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Change point estimation for a stochastic heat equation

👤 Lukas Trottner (University of Birmingham) 📅 Friday 22 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 IV

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 20 November 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Probability

The point of view of the particle for 2D random walks in Dirichlet environment

👤 Christophe Sabot (Lyon) 📅 Tuesday 19 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Causal Inference Reading Group

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

👤 Pietro Lesci, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 15 November 2024, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

👤 Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University) 📅 Friday 15 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Information Theory Seminar

Diffusion-based Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation: Overdamped, Accelerated, and Proximal

👤 Dr Deniz Akyildiz, Imperial College London 📅 Wednesday 13 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

A reduction of the theta(pc) problem to a correlation inequality.

👤 Gady Kozma (Weizmann Institute) 📅 Tuesday 12 November 2024, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Random growth models with half space geometry

👤 Jimmy He (Ohio State University) 📅 Tuesday 12 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Causal Inference Reading Group

Developing Causal Network Models to Untangle the Mechanisms Behind Past Large-Scale Climate Reorganizations

👤 Peisong Zheng (University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 08 November 2024, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

👤 Tatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 08 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 III

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 06 November 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Symmetrized KL information: Channel Capacity and Learning Theory

👤 Dr Gholamali Aminian, Alan Turing Institute 📅 Wednesday 06 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Rotationally Invariant First passage percolation - Scaling and Chaos

👤 Allan Sly (Princeton) 📅 Tuesday 05 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Time: The next frontier in causal machine learning

👤 Mihaela van der Schaar, Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine 📅 Monday 04 November 2024, 19:00-21:00 📍 Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge

Rollo Davidson Lectures

Spatial shuffling: the interchange process in dimension 5

👤 Allan Sly (Princeton) 📅 Monday 04 November 2024, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

On statistical models associated with acyclic directed mixed graphs

👤 Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Friday 01 November 2024, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Skew-symmetric schemes for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift: an unadjusted Barker algorithm

👤 Sam Livingstone (UCL) 📅 Friday 01 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Causal Inference Reading Group

Rethinking Weak Instruments with a focus on the Multiple Risk Factors Setting

👤 James Lane (University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 25 October 2024, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

👤 Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna) 📅 Friday 25 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 II

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 23 October 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Probability

Fragmentations with erasure

👤 Serge Cohen, Toulouse 📅 Tuesday 22 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Causal Inference Reading Group

A matrix algebra for graphical statistical models

👤 Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Friday 18 October 2024, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

On optimal treatment regimes assisted by algorithms

👤 Mats Stensrud (EPFL) 📅 Friday 18 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Information Theory Seminar

Structural, Temporal and Semantic Information

👤 Prof. Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue University 📅 Wednesday 16 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Universality of directed polymers in the intermediate disorder regime

👤 Julian Ransford (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 15 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

👤 Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich) 📅 Friday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 I

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 09 October 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Some contributions of information theory to pure mathematics

👤 Dr Thomas Karam, University of Oxford 📅 Wednesday 09 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR11 (B1.39), CMS Pavilion B

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

A conservative approach to leveraging external evidence for effective clinical trial design

👤 Fabio Rigat, AstraZeneca Ltd) 📅 Tuesday 08 October 2024, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

👤 Stefan Wager (Stanford University) 📅 Monday 23 September 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Causal Inference Reading Group

Kernel Ridge Regression Inference with Applications to Preference Data

👤 Rahul Singh (Harvard University) 📅 Friday 20 September 2024, 09:00-10:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 IV

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 11 September 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 III

👤 MR15 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 21 August 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 II

👤 MR14 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 31 July 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR14

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 I

👤 MR15 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 10 July 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR15

Causal Inference Reading Group

Local causal discovery for downstream effect estimation

👤 Jacqueline Maasch (Cornell Tech) 📅 Friday 28 June 2024, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 V

👤 MR4 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 19 June 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR4

Statistics

Nonparametric classification with missing data

👤 Tim Cannings, University of Edinburgh 📅 Friday 14 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

👤 Purnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin 📅 Friday 07 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 IV

👤 MR12 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 05 June 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Loop-erased random walk in three dimensions

👤 Daisuke Shiraishi (Kyoto) 📅 Tuesday 04 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Learning with latent symmetries

👤 Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore 📅 Friday 31 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Reinforced Random Walk and a Supersymmetric Spin System on the Tree

👤 Peter Wildemann (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 28 May 2024, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12

Probability

Scaling limit of high-dimensional random spanning trees

👤 Eleanor Archer (Paris) 📅 Tuesday 28 May 2024, 14:14-15:15 📍 MR12

Statistics

On Independent Samples along the Langevin Dynamics and Algorithm

👤 Andre Wibisono, Yale University 📅 Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 III

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 22 May 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Communication over many-user channels via Approximate Message Passing

👤 Xiaoqi (Shirley) Liu, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 22 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Statistics

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

👤 Alexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam 📅 Friday 17 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Quickest Change Detection Using Mismatched CUSUM

⚠️ Note unusual day of the week and location

👤 Prof Sean Meyn, University of Florida 📅 Monday 13 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 LT6, First floor Baker building, Dept. of Engineering, Trumpington Street, CB2 1PZ

Information Theory Seminar

Information Theory Colloquium

👤 Prof. Oliver Johnson, Prof. Thomas Courtade, Prof. Yossef Steinberg 📅 Friday 10 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 Dept. of Engineering, Trumpington Street, CB2 1PZ

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 II

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 08 May 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Stability of the Poincaré-Korn inequality

👤 Prof Thomas Courtade, UC Berkeley 📅 Wednesday 08 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Two new results on random matrices

👤 Yi Han (Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 07 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

👤 Sara van de Geer, ETH Zürich 📅 Friday 03 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Monitoring Vaccine Effectiveness: can we trust results from parties with a vested interest?

👤 Roger Sewell 📅 Thursday 02 May 2024, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF

Mordell Lectures

Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos

👤 Rob Morris (IMPA Rio) 📅 Thursday 02 May 2024, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR2, CMS

Information Theory Seminar

Information Measures in Selected Learning Problems

⚠️ Note unusual day of the week and location

👤 Prof Chao Tian, Texas A&M University 📅 Tuesday 30 April 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR3, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Packing Spheres Randomly

👤 Marcelo Campos (DPMMS) 📅 Tuesday 30 April 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Causal Inference Reading Group

Leveraging multi-study, multi-outcome data to improve external validity and efficiency of clinical trials for managing schizophrenia

👤 Caleb Miles (Columbia University) 📅 Friday 26 April 2024, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Spatial causal inference in the presence of unmeasured confounding and interference

👤 Georgia Padadogeorgou, University of Florida 📅 Friday 26 April 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 I

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 24 April 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Some combinatorial problems in information theory

👤 Prof. Marco Dalai, University of Brescia 📅 Wednesday 24 April 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Statistics

Quantitative Uniform Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure

👤 George Degliannidis, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 19 April 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

What has genomics ever done for us? A 20-year history of the human genome

👤 Klaudia Walter, Sanger Institute 📅 Thursday 21 March 2024, 19:15-21:30 📍 Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 V

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 13 March 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Feature learning and normalization layers

👤 Dr Matus Telgarsky, NYU 📅 Wednesday 13 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Statistics

Concentration and Free Probability

👤 Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich) 📅 Tuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Matrix Concentration and Free Probability

👤 Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich) 📅 Tuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Quantitative sub-ballisticity of self-avoiding walk on the hexagonal lattice

👤 Christoforos Panagiotis (University of Bath) 📅 Tuesday 05 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

👤 Anna Calissano (Imperial College) 📅 Friday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 IV

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Quantum Machine Learning: An Information-Theoretic Perspective

👤 Prof. Osvaldo Simeone, King's College London 📅 Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:15 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Two-periodic weighted dominos and the sine-Gordon field at the free fermion point

👤 Scott Mason (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 27 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Causal Inference Reading Group

Genetics-based drug discovery: Some stories from the frontline

👤 Matt Tudball (5 Prime Sciences) 📅 Tuesday 27 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Information Theory Seminar

Information-theoretic techniques and context-tree methods for time series

👤 Ioannis Papageorgiou, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

The Critical 2d Stochastic Heat Flow and other critical SPDEs

👤 Nikos Zygouras (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

👤 Giovanni Alberti (University of Genova) 📅 Friday 16 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 III

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 14 February 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

A theory of social balance

👤 Dr George Cantwell, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Excess Folding for Transient Random Walks, Simple or Branching

👤 Amine Asselah (Paris) and Bruno Schapira (Marseille) 📅 Tuesday 13 February 2024, 14:00-16:15 📍 MR12

Statistics

Robust density estimation and model selection for the L1 loss : Applications to shape-constrained density estimation.

👤 Hélène Halconruy (Télécom SudParis) 📅 Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Seminars

Homotopy methods for convex optimization

👤 Andreas Klingler (Innsbruck) 📅 Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:30-15:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR11, CMS

Information Theory Seminar

Enabling Fast, Robust, and Personalized Federated Learning

👤 Prof Ramtin Pedarsani, UC Santa Barbara 📅 Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Distances on the CLE(4), critical Liouville quantum gravity and 3/2-stable maps

👤 Emmanuel Kammerer (Ecole Polytechnique) 📅 Tuesday 06 February 2024, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Wildlife from space: detecting, monitoring and studying wildlife using satellite imagery

👤 Peter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey 📅 Monday 05 February 2024, 19:00-21:00 📍 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge

Statistics

M-estimation, noisy optimization and user-level local privacy

👤 Marco Avella Medina (Columbia University) 📅 Friday 02 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 II

👤 MR5 at CMS 📅 Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Probability

The invariant measure of the 2D Yang-Mills Langevin dynamic

👤 Ilya Chevyrev (Edinburgh) 📅 Tuesday 30 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Causal Inference Reading Group

Optimization-based Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding using Partial Correlations

👤 Tobias Freidling (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Friday 26 January 2024, 15:30-17:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

👤 Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge) 📅 Friday 26 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Some aspects of the Anderson Hamiltonian in 1D

👤 Laure Dumaz (CNRS, ENS Paris) 📅 Tuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

👤 Perrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon) 📅 Friday 19 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 I

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 17 January 2024, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Convexity properties of information functionals for Gaussian mixtures

👤 Dr Lampros Gavalakis, Gustave Eiffel University 📅 Wednesday 17 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 V

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 29 November 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

The Role of Information Measures on the Regularization of Empirical Risk Minimization

👤 Dr Iñaki Esnaola, University of Sheffield 📅 Wednesday 29 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Weak coupling scaling of critical SPDEs

👤 Guiseppe Cannizzaro, University of Warwick 📅 Tuesday 28 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

👤 Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore) 📅 Friday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Quantifying personal exposure to air pollution with sensor technologies and digital science

👤 Lia Chatzidiakou/Rod Jones 📅 Wednesday 22 November 2023, 19:00-21:00 📍 Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge

Information Theory Seminar

Provably Safe Certification for Machine Learning Models under Adversarial Attacks

👤 Prof. Miguel Rodrigues, UCL 📅 Wednesday 22 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Critical core percolation on random graphs

👤 Alice Contat (University of Paris-Saclay) 📅 Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Causal Inference Reading Group

Comparative Frameworks for Relative Multivariate Analysis

👤 Ganesh Karapakula (Economics Faculty - University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 17 November 2023, 15:30-17:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12

Statistics

Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms

👤 Kengo Kato (Cornell University) 📅 Friday 17 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 IV

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 15 November 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Statistical-Computational Tradeoffs in Mixed Sparse Linear Regression

👤 Gabriel Arpino, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 15 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

A topological transition in the XY model

👤 Diederik van Engelenburg (Lyon) 📅 Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

👤 Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin) 📅 Friday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

A functional perspective on Information Measures

👤 Dr Amedeo Esposito, Institute of Science and Technology Austria 📅 Wednesday 08 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Phase transitions of the graphical representations of the Ising model

👤 Frederik Ravn Klausen (University of Copenhagen) 📅 Tuesday 07 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Frequency and cardinality recovery from sketched data: a novel approach bridging Bayesian and frequentist views

👤 Stefano Favaro (University of Turin) 📅 Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 III

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 01 November 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Classical and quantum zero error communication

👤 Satvik Singh, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

How long are the arms in Dielectric-Breakdown Model?

👤 Ilya Losev (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Causal Inference Reading Group

Confounder selection via iterative graph expansion

👤 Richard Guo (University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 27 October 2023, 15:30-17:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12

Statistics

Adaptive two-sample testing

👤 Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) 📅 Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Thompson Sampling for Stochastic Bandits with Noisy Contexts: An Information-Theoretic Analysis

👤 Dr Sharu Jose, University of Birmingham 📅 Wednesday 25 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Determinants of Laplacians of converging surfaces

👤 Renan Gross (Tel Aviv) 📅 Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

👤 Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London) 📅 Friday 20 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

👤 Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) 📅 Wednesday 18 October 2023, 16:30-17:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 II

👤 MR4 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 18 October 2023, 15:00-16:30 📍 MR4

Probability

Spin glass phase in the Edwards-Anderson model at zero temperature

👤 Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) 📅 Tuesday 17 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Causal Inference Reading Group

Assumption-lean Inference for Generalised Linear Model Parameters

👤 Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University) 📅 Friday 13 October 2023, 15:30-17:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12

Statistics

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

👤 Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University) 📅 Friday 13 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Sharp convergence guarantees for iterative (non)-convex empirical risk minimization with random data

👤 Dr. Kabir Verchand, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 11 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Statistics and Data Analytics in the Film Industry

👤 Allègre L. Hadida, Cambridge Judge Business School & Magdalene College 📅 Tuesday 10 October 2023, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Probability

Sampling from the random cluster model on the random regular graph at all temperatures

👤 Andreas Galanis (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

👤 Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study) 📅 Friday 06 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 I

👤 MR5 at the CMS 📅 Wednesday 04 October 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Probability

Right-Most Position of a Last Progeny Modified Branching Random Walk

👤 Antar Bandyopadhyay, ISI Delhi 📅 Wednesday 04 October 2023, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR11

Information Theory Seminar

Load Balancing under Data Locality: Extending Mean-Field Framework to Constrained Large-Scale Systems

👤 Dr Debankur Mukherjee, Georgia Tech 📅 Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 IV

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR12 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 13 September 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Residual Permutation Test for High-Dimensional Regression Coefficient Testing

👤 Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University 📅 Friday 08 September 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 III

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 23 August 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 II

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 02 August 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Causal Inference Reading Group

[Journal Club] Granger Causality: A Review and Recent Advances

👤 Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Friday 21 July 2023, 15:30-17:00 📍 Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 I

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 19 July 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 V

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 21 June 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Causal Inference Reading Group

Journal Club - Interventional Causal Representation Learning

👤 Max Zhu (Statistical Laboratory, Department of Computer Science) 📅 Friday 16 June 2023, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

⚠️ Canceled

👤 Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit) 📅 Friday 16 June 2023, 00:00-00:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

Probability

Scaling limits and decay of correlations for non-convex interaction

👤 Stefan Adams (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 13 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR14

Probability

Scaling limits and decay of correlations for non-convex interaction

👤 Stefan Adams (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 13 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR14

Causal Inference Reading Group

A powerful methodology for analyzing correlated high dimensional data with factor models

⚠️ Room changed

👤 Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University) 📅 Friday 09 June 2023, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR1, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

⚠️ Room changed

👤 John Liechty (Pennsylvania State University) 📅 Friday 09 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 IV

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR14 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 07 June 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR14

Causal Inference Reading Group

Journal Club - Bridging Matching, Regression, and Weighting as Math Programs for Causal Inference

⚠️ Room changed

👤 Tobias Freidling (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Friday 02 June 2023, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR1, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Simultaneous Directional Inference

⚠️ Room changed

👤 Ruth Heller (Tel-Aviv University) 📅 Friday 02 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

On Lévy-driven Loewner Evolutions

⚠️ Room changed

👤 Anne Schreuder (Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR14

Causal Inference Reading Group

A High-dimensional Convergence Theorem for U-statistics with Applications to Kernel-based Testing

👤 Kevin Han Huang (Gatsby Unit, UCL) 📅 Friday 26 May 2023, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Randomized and exchangeable improvements of Markov's, Chebyshev's and Chernoff's inequalities

👤 Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University) 📅 Friday 26 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 III

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 24 May 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Probability

Sphere-packings on lattices in mathematical physics

👤 Izabella Stuhl (Penn State) 📅 Tuesday 23 May 2023, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Scaling limit of multi-type stationary measures in the KPZ class

👤 Ofer Busani (Bonn) 📅 Tuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

The multicast transmission approach to converse theorems

⚠️ Note unusual day of the week

👤 Dr Anelia Somekh-Baruch, Bar-Ilan University 📅 Monday 22 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Causal Inference Reading Group

Selective randomization inference for enrichment trials

👤 Zijun Gao, Tobias Freidling (University of Cambridge - Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Friday 19 May 2023, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Physics informed spatial and functional data analysis over non-Euclidean domains

👤 Laura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan) 📅 Friday 19 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Causal Identification: Are We There Yet?

👤 Prof. Negar Kiyavash, EPFL 📅 Wednesday 17 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Mixing time of random walk on dynamical random cluster

👤 Alexandre Stauffer (Bath) 📅 Tuesday 16 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Causal Inference Reading Group

Journal Club: Separable Effects for Competing Events

👤 Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Friday 12 May 2023, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

A powerful empirical Bayes approach for high dimensional replicability analysis

👤 Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University) 📅 Friday 12 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 II

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 10 May 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Causal Inference Reading Group

Stable Weighting and Estimation of conditional treatment effects

👤 Ganesh Karapakula (University of Cambridge - Economics) 📅 Friday 05 May 2023, 15:30-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

👤 Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft) 📅 Friday 05 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Mordell Lectures

Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions

👤 Aad van der Vaart (Delft) 📅 Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, CMS

Information Theory Seminar

Error exponents for source coding under logarithmic loss

👤 Dr Hamdi Joudeh 📅 Wednesday 03 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

The bead process on the torus

👤 Samuel Johnston (King's College London) 📅 Tuesday 02 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Causal Inference Reading Group

Model-X and doubly robust conditional independence testing

👤 Eugene Katsevich (University of Pennsylvania) 📅 Friday 28 April 2023, 15:30-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

👤 Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich 📅 Friday 28 April 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 I

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR11 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 26 April 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR11

Information Theory Seminar

Approximate fixed points of classical and quantum channels and robustness theory of quantum Markov chains

⚠️ Room changed

👤 Robert Salzmann, DAMTP, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 26 April 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR11 (B1.39), CMS Pavilion B

Information Theory Seminar

Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium

👤 Multiple speakers (Deepmind, ETH Zurich, University of Surrey, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) 📅 Friday 21 April 2023, 10:00-17:00 📍 James Dyson Building Seminar Room - Department of Engineering

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 V

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 15 March 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Fundamental limits in structured PCA, and how to reach them

⚠️ Note: different room from the usual

👤 Dr Jean Barbier, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) 📅 Wednesday 15 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 B1.19 (MR19), CMS Pavilion B

Probability

Capacity of the range of random walk

👤 Izumi Okada (Tokyo) 📅 Tuesday 14 March 2023, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Transition of the simple random walk on the graph of the ice-model

👤 Serge Cohen (Toulouse) 📅 Tuesday 14 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

⚠️ Note unusual time

👤 Hongyu Zhao (Yale University) 📅 Friday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Generalization Bounds via Online Learning

👤 Dr Gergely Neu, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 📅 Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Properties of the gradient squared of the Gaussian free field

👤 Alessandra Cipriani (UCL) 📅 Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

👤 Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics) 📅 Friday 03 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 IV

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 01 March 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Discriminating Classical and Quantum Channels

👤 Bjarne Bergh, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 01 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

On the Replica Symmetric Regime of the SK Model

👤 Christian Brennecke (Bonn) 📅 Tuesday 28 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

👤 Ricardo Silva (UCL) 📅 Friday 24 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Semantic and Pragmatic Communications

👤 Prof. Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London 📅 Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Random trees conditioned on the number of vertices and leaves

👤 Slava Kargin (Binghampton) 📅 Tuesday 21 February 2023, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Large deviations for out of equilibrium correlations in the symmetric simple exclusion process

👤 Benoit Dagallier (Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

👤 Robin Evans (University of Oxford) 📅 Friday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 III

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 15 February 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Bayes-optimal estimation in generalized linear models

👤 Ramji Venkataramanan, Department of Engineering, Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 15 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Statistics

The Kalman-Bucy filter revisited: Mean-field equations & duality

⚠️ Joint Statistics and CCIMI Seminar (note unusual time)

👤 Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam) 📅 Friday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

An Entropy-Based Model for Hierarchical Learning

👤 Dr Amir Asadi, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Random tournaments

👤 Brett Kolesnik (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 07 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

👤 Joshua Loftus (London School of Economics) 📅 Friday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 II

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 01 February 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Statistics

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

👤 Ieva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 27 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

👤 Alastair Young (Imperial College, London) 📅 Friday 20 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 I

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 18 January 2023, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 V

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Uniform entropic continuity bounds via majorization flow

👤 Prof. Nilanjana Datta, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

CCIMI Seminars

Deep reinforced active learning

👤 Emma Slade - GSK 📅 Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR4

Probability

On the number of level sets of smooth Gaussian fields

👤 Dmitry Belyaev (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

⚠️ Unusual starting time to accommodate a special tea event after the seminar

👤 John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit) 📅 Friday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

How the strength of the inductive bias affects the generalization performance of interpolators

👤 Dr Fanny Yang, ETH Zurich 📅 Wednesday 23 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

The contact process over a dynamical d-regular graph

👤 Daniel Valesin (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 22 November 2022, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Expander graphs are globally synchronising

👤 Victor Souza, Cambridge 📅 Monday 21 November 2022, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

👤 Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology) 📅 Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 IV

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 16 November 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Typical error exponents

👤 Dr Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Gaussian multiplicative chaos measures, Painlevé equations, and conformal blocks

👤 Harini Desiraju (Newton Institute) 📅 Tuesday 15 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

👤 Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center) 📅 Friday 11 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Communication in the presence of adversarial jamming: The curious case of the erasure channel

👤 Dr Sidharth Jaggi, University of Bristol 📅 Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

The scaling limit theory of critical planar fuzzy Potts models

👤 Matthis Lehmkuehler (ETH Zurich) 📅 Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Local Independence Graphs

👤 Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen) 📅 Friday 04 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 III

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 02 November 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Energy-Optimal Signaling using the Example of Optical Communication

👤 Dr Stefan Moser, ETH Zurich 📅 Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Regularity of SLE: Precise variation and modulus of continuity

👤 Yizheng Yuan (Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

👤 Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan) 📅 Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

👤 Liza Levina (Michigan) 📅 Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2

Information Theory Seminar

On the monotonicity of entropy in the discrete entropic central limit theorem

👤 Mr Lampros Gavalakis, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

State spaces and stochastic dynamics for Yang Mills in 2D and 3D

👤 Ajay Chandra (Imperial) 📅 Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks

👤 Min Xu (Rutgers University) 📅 Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 II

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 19 October 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Information Theory Seminar

Communication-constrained hypothesis testing: Optimality, robustness, and reverse data processing inequalities

👤 Dr Varun Jog, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

Scaling limit of a branching process in a varying environment

👤 Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan (Bath) 📅 Tuesday 18 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Comparison of Markov chains via weak Poincaré inequalities, with application to pseudo-marginal MCMC

👤 Sam Power (University of Bristol) 📅 Friday 14 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Information Theory Seminar

Strong and epsilon-dependent converses for source or channel coding and for hypothesis testing

👤 Prof. Michele Wigger, Telecom Paris 📅 Wednesday 12 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS Pavilion A

Probability

The scaling limit of the 2D discrete Gaussian model at high temperature

👤 Jiwoon Park (Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 11 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning

⚠️ Statistics and CCIMI seminar, followed by a drinks reception

👤 Victor Chernozhukov (MIT) 📅 Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 I

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 05 October 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 IV

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 21 September 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

Probability

Schur-Weyl duality and large $N$ limit in 2d Yang-Mills theory

👤 Thierry Lévy (Sorbonne Université) 📅 Wednesday 07 September 2022, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Well-posedness and large-particle limit for a model in collective dynamics

👤 Sara Merino-Aceituno (Universität Wien) 📅 Wednesday 07 September 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Planar aggregation with subcritical fluctuations and the Hastings-Levitov models

👤 Vittoria Silvestri (Università di Roma La Sapienza) 📅 Wednesday 07 September 2022, 11:30-12:30 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

The Anderson operator

👤 Ismael Bailleul (Université de Rennes) 📅 Wednesday 07 September 2022, 10:00-11:00 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Limits of Polya urns with innovations

👤 Jean Bertoin (Zurich) 📅 Wednesday 07 September 2022, 09:00-10:00 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Depth-First Search in a Random Digraph

👤 Svante Janson (Uppsala Universitet) 📅 Tuesday 06 September 2022, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Hidden Ancestor Graphs with Assortative Vertex Attributes

👤 Richard Darling (NSA) 📅 Tuesday 06 September 2022, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Kac's process and the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation

👤 Daniel Heydecker (MPI) 📅 Tuesday 06 September 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Height function delocalisation on cubic planar graphs

👤 Piet Lammers (IHES) 📅 Tuesday 06 September 2022, 11:30-12:30 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

On the enumeration of random maps with three tight boundaries and its probabilistic consequences

👤 Gregory Miermont (Lyon) 📅 Tuesday 06 September 2022, 10:00-11:00 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

The motion of hybrid zones (and how to stop them)

👤 Alison Etheridge (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 06 September 2022, 09:00-10:00 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Stability of the elliptic Harnack Inequality

👤 Martin Barlow (UBC) 📅 Monday 05 September 2022, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

A polynomial expansion for Brownian motion and the associated fluctuation process

👤 Karen Habermann (Warwick) 📅 Monday 05 September 2022, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Signatures and functions on unparameterised path space

👤 Thomas Cass (Imperial College London) 📅 Monday 05 September 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Rough Paths and more scalable data science

👤 Terry Lyons (Oxford) 📅 Monday 05 September 2022, 11:30-12:30 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Stochastic quantisation of Yang-Mills

👤 Martin Hairer (Imperial College London) 📅 Monday 05 September 2022, 10:00-11:00 📍 MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 III

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 31 August 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 II

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 03 August 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 I

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 13 July 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

Causal Inference Reading Group

Causal de Finetti: On the Identification of Invariant Causal Structure in Exchangeable Data

👤 Siyuan Guo (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 04 July 2022, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Causal Inference Reading Group

Counterfactual inference in sequential experimental design

👤 Raaz Dwivedi (Harvard and MIT) 📅 Friday 24 June 2022, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

(CANCELLED) Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

👤 Ricardo Silva (UCL) 📅 Friday 17 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Seminars

The implicit boundary integral method

👤 Richard Tsai (UT Austin) 📅 Wednesday 15 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR5

Probability

Exit sets for vector valued GFF and interplay with planar O(N) models

👤 Christophe Garban (Lyon) 📅 Tuesday 14 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 IV

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 08 June 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

Probability

A dynamical approach to lattice Yang-Mills

👤 Hao Shen (Wisconsin, Madison) 📅 Tuesday 07 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Causal Inference Reading Group

Unbiased Set-Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects

👤 Ganesh Karapakula (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 06 June 2022, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR11 (B1.39), CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

A machine learning approach for causal structure estimation in high dimensions

👤 Sach Mukherjee (MRC Biostatistics Unit) 📅 Friday 03 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09

CCIMI Seminars

Inverse consistency and global convergence of ResNets

👤 Francois-Xavier Vialard (Université Gustave Eiffel) 📅 Wednesday 01 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Virtual

Probability

Scaling limit of the heavy-tailed ballistic deposition model with p-sticking

👤 Santiago Saglietti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) 📅 Tuesday 31 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Online (Zoom)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 III

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 25 May 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

Probability

Percolation, long-range correlations and critical exponents on transient graphs

👤 Alexander Drewitz (Universität zu Köln) 📅 Tuesday 24 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Scaling limits and macroscopic behavior for stochastic models of active matter

👤 Clément Erignoux, INRIA Lille Nord 📅 Tuesday 17 May 2022, 13:00-14:30 📍 MR2

Statistics

Optimal prediction of Markov chains without mixing conditions

👤 Yihong Wu (Yale University) 📅 Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 II

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 11 May 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

CCIMI Seminars

Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Trajectories: a robust alternative to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

👤 Lionel Riou-Durand (University of Warwick) 📅 Wednesday 11 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14

Probability

The chemical distance in random interlacements in the low-intensity regime

👤 Saraí Hernández-Torres (Technion) 📅 Tuesday 10 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Minimum L1-norm interpolators: Precise asymptotics and multiple descent

👤 Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania) 📅 Friday 06 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 I

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

CCIMI Seminars

Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution

👤 Stefano Ermon (Stanford University) 📅 Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16:00-17:00 📍 Virtual (Zoom details under abstract)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 V

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 30 March 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

Peter Whittle Lecture

Demystifying Deep Learning

👤 Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin) 📅 Thursday 17 March 2022, 17:00-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2

Probability

Integrable fluctuations in random growth

👤 Jeremy Quastel (Toronto) 📅 Tuesday 15 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Online (Zoom)

Mordell Lectures

Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach

👤 Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon 📅 Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR2, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 IV

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 09 March 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

CCIMI Seminars

Model free Deep Hedging

👤 Josef Teichmann (ETH Zurich) 📅 Wednesday 09 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Virtual (Zoom details under abstract)

Probability

Mixing times for the TASEP on the circle

👤 Dominik Schmid (Princeton and Bonn) 📅 Tuesday 08 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Random Planted Forest: a directly interpretable tree ensemble

👤 Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University) 📅 Friday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09

Probability

Absolutely Continuous Self Similar Measures

👤 Sam Kittle (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 01 March 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Interpretable Model-Independent Detection of New Physics Signals

👤 Purvasha Chakravarti (Imperial College London) 📅 Friday 25 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 III

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 23 February 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

CCIMI Seminars

Variational Bayes for high-dimensional linear regression with sparse priors

👤 Kolyan Ray (Imperial College London) 📅 Wednesday 23 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Sharpness of the phase transition for level set percolation of long-range correlated Gaussian fields

👤 Stephen Muirhead (Melbourne) 📅 Tuesday 22 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Probability

The interchange model and related spin systems on two-block graphs

👤 Jakob Bjornberg (Chalmers) 📅 Tuesday 15 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Robust inference for intractable likelihood models using kernel divergences

👤 Francois-Xavier Briol (UCL) 📅 Friday 11 February 2022, 13:00-14:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 II

⚠️ The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 09 February 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

CCIMI Seminars

On the Sample Complexity of Learning with Geometric Stability

👤 Alberto Bietti (NYU) 📅 Wednesday 09 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Virtual (Zoom details under abstract)

Probability

Entropic Independence and Optimal Sampling from Combinatorial Distributions

👤 Nima Anari (Stanford) 📅 Tuesday 08 February 2022, 16:30-17:30 📍 Online (Zoom)

Probability

Characteristic of a second class particle.

👤 Mustazee Rahman, Durham University 📅 Tuesday 01 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Online (Zoom)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 26 January 2022, 16:30-18:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

CCIMI Seminars

Deep and reliable – Uncertainty quantification using Empirical Bayesian deep neural networks.

👤 Stefan Franssen (TU Delft) 📅 Wednesday 26 January 2022, 14:00-15:00 📍 Virtual (Zoom details under abstract)

Statistics

Two-sample testing of high-dimensional linear regression coefficients via complementary sketching

👤 Tengyao Wang (LSE) 📅 Friday 21 January 2022, 13:30-14:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 V

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 15 December 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 01 December 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

Deep Denoising for Scientific Discovery

👤 Carlos Fernandez-Granda (NYU) 📅 Wednesday 01 December 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Virtual (Zoom details under abstract)

Probability

Brownian excursions, conformal loop ensembles and critical Liouville quantum gravity

👤 Ellen Powell (Durham) 📅 Tuesday 30 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

CANCELLED: Systematic inducement of sparsity

👤 Heather Battey (Imperial College London) 📅 Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Geodesic stars in Brownian geometry

👤 Jean-Francois Le Gall (Universite Paris-Saclay) 📅 Tuesday 23 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Online (Zoom)

Statistics

Variable elimination and graph reduction: towards an efficient g-formula for causal DAGs

👤 Richard Guo (University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 19 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 17 November 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

On a probabilistic approach to the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system

👤 Milica Tomasevic (École Polytechnique) 📅 Tuesday 16 November 2021, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Regularity of the SLE(4) uniformizing map and the SLE(8) trace

👤 Konstantinos Kavvadias (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 16 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Random Graph Asymptotics for Treatment Effect Estimation under Network Interference

👤 Shuangning Li (Stanford University) 📅 Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09

CCIMI Seminars

A medley of geometry, optimal transport, and machine learning

👤 Varun Jog (Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 10 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Virtual (Zoom details under abstract)

Probability

Large degrees yield short trees

👤 Serte Donderwinkel (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 09 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

New Approaches for Inference on Optimal Treatment Regimes

👤 Lan Wang (University of Miami) 📅 Friday 05 November 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 03 November 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

Coordinate Descent on the Orthogonal Group for Recurrent Neural Network Training

👤 Estelle Massart (Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 03 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Virtual (Zoom details under abstract)

Probability

Learning low-degree functions from few random queries

👤 Alexandros Eskenazis (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 02 November 2021, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Empirical measures, geodesic lengths, and a variational formula in first-passage percolation

👤 Erik Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison 📅 Tuesday 02 November 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

MARS via LASSO

👤 Aditya Guntuboyina (UC Berkeley) 📅 Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09

Probability

Distribution dependent SDEs driven by additive continuous and fractional Brownian noise

👤 Avi Mayorcas (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 26 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 20 October 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

CCIMI Seminars

Three-point bounds for sphere packing

👤 David de Laat (Delft) 📅 Wednesday 20 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Virtual (Zoom details under abstract)

Probability

Quenched and annealed heat kernels on the uniform spanning tree

👤 Martin Barlow (UBC) 📅 Tuesday 19 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Kernel Thinning and Stein Thinning

👤 Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research) 📅 Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09

Probability

The Slow Bond Problem

👤 Sourav Sarkar (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 12 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Global testing for dependent Bernoullis

👤 Sumit Mukherjee (Columbia University) 📅 Friday 08 October 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session IV

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 22 September 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype/Zoom

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session III

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 01 September 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype/Zoom

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session II

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 04 August 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype/Zoom

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session I

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 14 July 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype/Zoom

Probability

Wilson loop expectations as sums over surfaces in 2D

👤 Minjae Park (MIT) 📅 Tuesday 15 June 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 Zoom

Probability

Wilson loop expectations as sums over surfaces in 2D

👤 Minjae Park (MIT) 📅 Tuesday 15 June 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 Zoom

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session IV

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 09 June 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype/Zoom

Probability

The directed landscape

👤 Duncan Dauvergne (Princeton) 📅 Tuesday 08 June 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Probability

Hastings-Levitov planar aggregation

👤 James Norris (Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 01 June 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Statistics

Distribution-free inference for regression: discrete, continuous, and in between

👤 Rina Foygel Barber, University of Chicago 📅 Friday 28 May 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session III

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 26 May 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype/Zoom

Probability

Integrability of the conformal loop ensemble

👤 Morris Ang (MIT) 📅 Tuesday 25 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Statistics

Distribution-Free Nonparametric Inference Based on Optimal Transport: Efficiency Lower Bounds and Rank-Kernel Tests

👤 Bhaswar Bhattacharya, University of Pennsylvania 📅 Friday 21 May 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09

Probability

Intersection of the traces of two independent walks in high dimensions

👤 Amine Asselah (Paris-Est Creteil) 📅 Tuesday 18 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Statistics

Correlated randomly growing graphs

👤 Miklos Racz, Princeton University 📅 Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session II

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 12 May 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Probability

Revisiting optimal scaling of Metropolis-Hastings methods

👤 Jure Vogrinc 📅 Tuesday 11 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

CCIMI Seminars

Finding stationary points on the bounded-rank variety: a geometric hurdle and a smooth workaround

👤 Nicolas Boumal (EPFL) 📅 Wednesday 05 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Online (Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81608191565?pwd=RDR2Uk1pU1Y3bHdZV3Q0SFlWdVYzdz09)

Probability

On the radius of Gaussian free field excursion clusters

👤 Franco Severo (Geneva and IHES) 📅 Tuesday 04 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Statistics

Recent progress on the KLS conjecture and Eldan’s stochastic localization scheme

👤 Yuansi Chen, Duke University 📅 Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session I

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 28 April 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic 2021 Easter Vacation - Skype session

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 31 March 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Causal Inference Reading Group

Causal Inference for Nonlinear Outcome Models with Possibly Invalid Instrumental Variables

👤 Sai Li (University of Pennsylvania) 📅 Thursday 25 March 2021, 13:30-15:00 📍 https://zoom.us/j/97791179955?pwd=eFMrTFNSRmhnTzBHdDBLZlgrTFRQdz09

Probability

Supercritical Percolation on Finite Transitive Graphs

👤 Philip Easo (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 16 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Causal Inference Reading Group

Sharp Sensitivity Analysis for Inverse Propensity Weighting via Quantile Balancing

👤 Kevin Guo, Stanford University 📅 Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:30 📍 https://zoom.us/j/97791179955?pwd=eFMrTFNSRmhnTzBHdDBLZlgrTFRQdz09

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session IV

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Probability

Fluctuation bounds for O'Connell-Yor type systems

👤 Philippe Sosoe (Cornell) 📅 Tuesday 09 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Statistics

Functional Models for Time Varying Random Objects

👤 Paromita Dubey, Stanford University 📅 Friday 05 March 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09

Probability

Soliton decomposition of the Box-Ball System

👤 Leo Rolla (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 02 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Statistics

Seminar Cancelled

👤 Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago) 📅 Friday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session III

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 24 February 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Probability

Variational methods for a singular SPDE yielding the universality of the magnetisation ripple

👤 Pavlos Tsatsoulis (Max-Planck-Institut, Leipzig) 📅 Tuesday 23 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Statistics

Optimal rates for independence testing via U-statistic permutation tests

👤 Tom Berrett, University of Warwick 📅 Friday 19 February 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09

Probability

Limiting Behaviour for Heat Kernels of Random Processes in Random Environments

👤 Peter Taylor (Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 16 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Causal Inference Reading Group

Fair Data Adaptation with Quantile Preservation

👤 Harvey Klyne (Stats Lab) 📅 Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:30-15:00 📍 Zoom

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session II

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 10 February 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Probability

Geodesics in the Brownian map: Strong confluence and geometric structure

👤 Wei Qian (Orsay) 📅 Monday 08 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Statistics

Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets

👤 Stephen Bates, University of California Berkeley 📅 Friday 05 February 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09

Probability

Random walks on decorated Galton-Watson trees

👤 Ellie Archer (Tel Aviv) 📅 Tuesday 02 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session I

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 27 January 2021, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Probability

Factors in probability and ergodic theory

👤 Terry Soo (UCL) 📅 Tuesday 26 January 2021, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Statistics

A precise high-dimensional asymptotic theory for Adaboost

👤 Pragya Sur (Harvard University) 📅 Friday 22 January 2021, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session (Christmas vacation)

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 16 December 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Causal Inference Reading Group

Structural Nested Models and G-estimation: The Partially Realized Promise

👤 Katarzyna Reluga (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 03 December 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 Zoom

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session IV

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Probability

Maximum and coupling of the sine-Gordon field

👤 Michael Hofstetter (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 01 December 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Statistics

Generalized Kernel Two-Sample Tests

👤 Hao Chen (University of California, Davis) 📅 Friday 27 November 2020, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session III

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Statistics

Provable representation learning in deep learning

👤 Jason Lee (Princeton University) 📅 Friday 13 November 2020, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09

Probability

How far do activated random walkers spread from a single source?

👤 Vittoria Silvestri (La Sapienza, Rome) 📅 Tuesday 10 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Statistics

Minimax estimation of smooth densities in Wasserstein distance

👤 Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute) 📅 Friday 06 November 2020, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session II

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Probability

Monotonicity and phase transition for the edge-reinforced random walk

👤 Remy Poudevigne 📅 Tuesday 03 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Statistics

Model selection for estimation of causal parameters

👤 Dominik Rothenhaeusler (Stanford University) 📅 Friday 30 October 2020, 16:00-17:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09

CCIMI Seminars

Practical Challenges in Portfolio Construction

👤 James Ng (GAM Systematic) 📅 Wednesday 28 October 2020, 15:00-16:00 📍 Online (email ccimi@maths.cam.ac.uk for the link)

Probability

Dimensions of the two-valued sets of the 2D GFF

👤 Lukas Schoug (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 27 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/5903322638?pwd=dzJRRS9BKzhEaGVCNncxaWcvL0IxQT09

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Negative Correlation Strategy for Bracketing in Difference-in-Differences

👤 Ting Ye (University of Pennsylvania) 📅 Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 Zoom

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session I

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Probability

Percolation for the Gaussian free field on the cable system

👤 Alexis Prévost 📅 Tuesday 20 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92621143616?pwd=YWZsclZMb2Mwa2hOZ09IajNOUTNEdz09

Probability

A Markov Process associated to the noncutoff Boltzmann Equation

👤 Daniel Heydecker (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 13 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

👤 Rod Jones, Department of Chemistry 📅 Tuesday 06 October 2020, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

👤 Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute) 📅 Tuesday 06 October 2020, 16:00-17:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session III

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 23 September 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Causal Inference Reading Group

Synthetic Difference in Differences

👤 Yuhao Wang 📅 Thursday 13 August 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 https://zoom.us/j/97791179955

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session II

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 12 August 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Causal Inference Reading Group

Minimax Crossover Designs

👤 Yao Zhang (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 30 July 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 https://zoom.us/j/97791179955

CCIMI Seminars

Iteratively Reweighted FGMRES and FLSQR for sparse reconstruction

👤 Silvia Gazzola 📅 Wednesday 15 July 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Virtual Zoom meeting

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Formal Causal Interpretation of the Case-Crossover Design

👤 yao zhang (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 02 July 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 https://zoom.us/j/97791179955

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session I

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 01 July 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Causal Inference Reading Group

Bias and high-dimensional adjustment in observational studies of peer effects

👤 Florian Pein 📅 Thursday 18 June 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 https://zoom.us/j/97791179955

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session III

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 17 June 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

CCIMI Seminars

A nonparametric problem for stochastic PDEs

👤 Randolf Altmeyer 📅 Wednesday 17 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Virtual Zoom meeting

Causal Inference Reading Group

Partial identification in instrumental variables

👤 Yuhao Wang 📅 Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 https://zoom.us/j/97791179955

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session II

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 03 June 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 Skype

Statistics

Implicit Regularization for Optimal Sparse Recovery

👤 Varun Kanade, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 29 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09

Statistics

Improved Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation using Transfer Learning

👤 Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California 📅 Friday 22 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09

Causal Inference Reading Group

Identification In Missing Data Models Represented By Directed Acyclic Graphs

👤 Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Thursday 21 May 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 https://zoom.us/j/97791179955

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session I

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 20 May 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Statistics

Network Representation Using Graph Root Distributions

👤 Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University 📅 Friday 15 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09

Statistics

Neyman-Pearson Classification

👤 Xin Tong, University of Southern California 📅 Friday 08 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09

Statistics

Spillover Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials with Noncompliance

👤 Hyunseung Kang, University of Wisconsin 📅 Friday 01 May 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/98898559684?pwd=MTZ2Q1dvUUZucDdwUXZVVUp1VjhsQT09 Meeting ID: 988 9855 9684 Password: likelihood

Probability

Random measures on the Brownian path with prescribed expectation

👤 Abel Farkas (Rényi Institute, Budapest) 📅 Tuesday 28 April 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Langevin Monte Carlo for Degenerately Convex Potentials

👤 Murat Erdogdu, University of Toronto 📅 Friday 24 April 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/96976140978 Meeting ID: 969 7614 0978 Password: likelihood

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic - Skype session

👤 Statistics Clinic team 📅 Wednesday 01 April 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Skype

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - Easter Vacation: CANCELLED

👤 CANCELLED 📅 Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 CANCELLED

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Random walk on the simple symmetric exclusion process

👤 Daniel Kious (Bath) 📅 Tuesday 10 March 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

Causal Inference in Genetic Trio Studies

👤 yao zhang (University of Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 10 March 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Network change point detection

👤 Yi Yu, University of Warwick 📅 Friday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12

Probability

On the statistical behavior of the Riemann zeta function

👤 Christian Webb (Aalto, Finland) 📅 Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

Dynamic Treatment Regimes III

👤 Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Selection bias, missing data and causal inference

👤 Kate Tilling, University of Bristol 📅 Friday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions

👤 Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics 📅 Thursday 27 February 2020, 19:15-21:30 📍 The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Empirical Measure and Small Noise Asymptotics under Large Deviation Scaling for Interacting Diffusions

👤 Amarjit Budhiraja (UNC Chapel Hill) 📅 Tuesday 25 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

The concept of separable effects for causal mediation and competing risks analyses

👤 Vanessa Didelez, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany 📅 Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

CCIMI Seminars

The Cycle of Statistical Research

👤 Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Wednesday 19 February 2020, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

The optimal matching problem

👤 Martin Huesmann 📅 Tuesday 18 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

Stable prediction

👤 Harvey Klyne 📅 Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Posterior contraction rates for potentially nonlinear inverse problems

👤 Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus 📅 Friday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

Computer-aided worst-case analyses and design of first-order methods for convex optimization

👤 Adrien Taylor (INRIA Paris) 📅 Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Local geometry of the rough-smooth interface in the two-periodic Aztec diamond.

👤 Sunil Chhita (Durham) 📅 Tuesday 11 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

Dynamic treatment regimes II

👤 Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Tuesday 11 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

👤 Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics 📅 Friday 07 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Causal Inference Reading Group

Graphical models for extremes

👤 Harvey Klyne 📅 Tuesday 04 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Mixing and cut-off for random walks on finite fields and random polynomials

👤 Emmanuel Breuillard (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 04 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The impact of uncertainty on trade agreements between the UK and EU

👤 Oliver Exton, Department of Economics 📅 Monday 03 February 2020, 19:15-21:30 📍 Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Statistics

Convergence of Gaussian process emulators with estimated hyper-parameters and applications in Bayesian inverse problems

👤 Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh 📅 Friday 31 January 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Patterns and Szemerédi phenomena in random fractals

👤 Pablo Shmerkin (Buenos Aires) 📅 Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

Dynamic treatment regimes I

👤 Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

👤 Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Fluctuations in the number of level set components of planar Gaussian fields

👤 Stephen Muirhead (Queen Mary) 📅 Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

Negative controls in causal inference

👤 Yuhao Wang 📅 Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions

👤 Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 📅 Friday 17 January 2020, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - Christmas Vacation

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 11 December 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor)

CCIMI Seminars

Collaborative Analytics and Education in Data Science

👤 Martin Spott (HTW Berlin) 📅 Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Kinetic theory for the low-density Lorentz gas

👤 Jens Marklof (Bristol) 📅 Tuesday 03 December 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

Regression discontinuity design

👤 Florian Pein 📅 Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR10, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

On the convergence of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm and other irreversible MCMC methods

👤 Alain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan 📅 Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

How feasible is DNA as a long-term digital storage system?

👤 Nick Goldman, European Bioinformatics Institute 📅 Tuesday 26 November 2019, 19:15-21:30 📍 The Statistical Laboratory,Centre for Mathematical Sciences,Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

Anchor regression

👤 Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Optimal Transport for Machine Learning

👤 Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure 📅 Friday 22 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 20 November 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

Machine learning and theorem proving

👤 Henryk Michalewski 📅 Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR14

Causal Inference Reading Group

Higher-order influence function

👤 Dr Yuhao Wang 📅 Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Multiscale Analysis of Bayesian CART

👤 Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago 📅 Friday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Colloquium - The Statistical Finite Element Method

👤 Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 13 November 2019, 17:00-19:00 📍 MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions

👤 Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics 📅 Tuesday 12 November 2019, 19:15-21:30 📍 The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP

Probability

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREMS AND THE GEOMETRY OF POLYNOMIALS

👤 Julian Sahasrabudhe (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 12 November 2019, 15:15-16:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Variational principle for lattice models with long-range interactions

👤 Piet Lammers (Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 12 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

Tackling invalid instrumental variables

👤 Sven Wang (University of Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Identifying Cointegration by Eigenanalysis

👤 Qiwei Yao — London School of Economics 📅 Friday 08 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Understanding Liouville quantum gravity through two square subdivision models

👤 Josh Pfeffer (MIT) 📅 Tuesday 05 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

The Blessing of Multiple Causes

👤 Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces

👤 Henry Reeve — University of Birmingham 📅 Friday 01 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Cutoff for the mean-field zero-range process

👤 Justin Salez (Paris-Dauphine) 📅 Tuesday 29 October 2019, 15:15-16:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Forest fire processes and near-critical percolation with heavy-tailed impurities

👤 Pierre Nolin (City University of Hong Kong) 📅 Tuesday 29 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

High dimensional data and latent confounding II

👤 Rajen Shah (University of Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models

👤 Song Liu — University of Bristol 📅 Friday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Cutoff for Random Walk on Random Cayley Graphs

👤 Sam Thomas (Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 22 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Causal Inference Reading Group

High dimensional data and latent confounding I

👤 Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:30-15:00 📍 MR6, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Asymptotic normality of certain transformation averages

👤 Peter Orbanz — University College London 📅 Friday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Distributed Statistics à la Economics

👤 Elchanan Mossel (MIT) 📅 Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Fortuin-Kastelyn type representations for Threshold Gaussian and Stable Vectors: aka Divide and Color processes (joint work with Malin Palö Forsström)

👤 Jeff Steif (Chalmers) 📅 Tuesday 15 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Peter Whittle Lecture

Simplicity and Complexity of Belief-Propagation

👤 Elchanan Mossel (MIT) 📅 Monday 14 October 2019, 16:30-17:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2

Statistics

On the robustness of gradient-based MCMC algorithms

👤 Sam Livingstone — University College London 📅 Friday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Clueless Voting

👤 Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics 📅 Wednesday 09 October 2019, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 09 October 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 11 September 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 07 August 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 17 July 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Statistics

Regularized linear autoencoders, the Morse theory of loss, and backprop in the brain

👤 Jon Bloom (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) 📅 Monday 24 June 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 19 June 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Hard-core configurations on Z^2 and other lattices

👤 Izabella Stuhl (Penn State) 📅 Tuesday 11 June 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Geometrizing rates of convergence under local differential privacy

👤 Lukas Steinberger, University of Freiburg 📅 Friday 07 June 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models

👤 Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan 📅 Friday 07 June 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 05 June 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor)

Probability

Large deviations of subgraph counts for sparse random graphs

👤 Amir Dembo (Stanford) 📅 Tuesday 04 June 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Applied and Computational Analysis

An Introduction to Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations

⚠️ This is a joint ACA–CCIMI seminar

👤 Ilse Ipsen (NCSU) 📅 Monday 03 June 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR 14

Statistics

Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients

👤 Roger Koenker, University College London 📅 Friday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Communication in the presence of sparsity

👤 Yiannis Kontoyiannis (Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed - CCIMI Colloquium

👤 Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 29 May 2019, 00:00-00:00 📍 Venue to be confirmed

Probability

Isomorphism theorems and the sign cluster geometry of the Gaussian free field

👤 Pierre-Francois Rodriguez (IHES, Paris) 📅 Tuesday 28 May 2019, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Video Contest

👤 CCIMI Members 📅 Tuesday 28 May 2019, 14:30-17:30 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

MAP estimators and posterior consistency for Bayesian inverse problems with exponential priors

👤 Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex 📅 Friday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 22 May 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

Diffusion bridge simulation in geometric statistics

👤 Frank van der Meulen, Delft University of Technology 📅 Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR14

Probability

Existence and uniqueness of the Liouville quantum gravity metric for γ ∈ (0, 2)

👤 Ewain Gwynne (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 21 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

On distributed Bayesian computation

👤 Harry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam 📅 Friday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Stochastic homogenization in amorphous media and applications to exclusion processes

👤 Alessandra Faggionato (La Sapienza, Rome) 📅 Tuesday 14 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

On the Consistency of Supervised Learning with Missing Values

👤 Julie Josse, École Polytechnique 📅 Friday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable methods for machine learning optimisation

👤 Milan Vojnovic (LSE) 📅 Friday 10 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 08 May 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Statistics

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable stochastic optimization and large-scale data

👤 Michael W. Mahoney (ICSI and Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley) 📅 Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Flux Large Deviations

👤 Robert Patterson (Weierstrass Institute, Berlin) 📅 Tuesday 07 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CCIMI Seminars

Stochastic variants of classical optimization methods, with complexity guarantees

👤 Professor Coralia Cartis 📅 Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR14

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The Algorithm is Going to Get You: Should We Fear the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice?

👤 Matthew Bland, Institute of Criminology 📅 Tuesday 30 April 2019, 19:15-21:30 📍 Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WG

Probability

Covariance formulas for fluctuations of linear spectral statistics for Wigner matrices with few moments

👤 Anna Maltsev (Queen Mary University of London) 📅 Tuesday 30 April 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Nuisance parameters

👤 Heather Battey, Imperial College London 📅 Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - Easter Vacation

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Mordell Lectures

Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions

👤 Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem 📅 Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR2, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

A Bayesian model‐free approach to combination therapy phase I trials using censored time‐to‐toxicity data

👤 Graham Wheeler, Cancer Research UK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre @ University College London 📅 Tuesday 19 March 2019, 19:15-21:30 📍 Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Large Seminar Room (First Floor), Forvie Site, Robinson Way. CB2 0SR

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Large deviations for the maximum of a branching random walk

👤 Nina Gantert (Technical University of Munich) 📅 Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CCIMI Seminars

A variational approach to nonlinear and interacting diffusions

👤 Professor Pierre Del Moral 📅 Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR11

Statistics

Explicit stabilised Runge-Kutta methods and their application to Bayesian inverse problems

👤 Kostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh 📅 Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Entropy decay and concentration for Strong Rayleigh measures via couplings

👤 Jonathan Hermon (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 05 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Analysis of Networks via the Sparse β-Model

👤 Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick 📅 Friday 01 March 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Subsequential limits for Liouville graph distance

👤 Alex Dunlap (Stanford) 📅 Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Solving the Reproducibility Crisis

👤 Nicole Janz, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham 📅 Monday 25 February 2019, 19:15-21:30 📍 The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP

Statistics

High-dimensional sign tests for the direction of a skewed single-spiked distribution

👤 Davy Paindaveine, Université Libre de Bruxelles 📅 Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

CCIMI Seminars

Advances in machine learning for molecules

👤 José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Department of Engineering (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:30-15:30 📍 CMS, MR14

Probability

Mixing times of exclusion processes on regular graphs

👤 Richard Pymar (Birkbeck) 📅 Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

On the fundamental understanding of distributed computation

👤 Botond Szabó, University of Leiden 📅 Friday 15 February 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Scaling limit of the condensate dynamics in a reversible zero range process

👤 Michail Loulakis (Athens) 📅 Tuesday 12 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Post-selection confidence intervals and confidence curves

👤 Gerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 📅 Friday 08 February 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Bootstrap percolation and kinetically constrained spin models: critical time scales

👤 Cristina Toninelli (Dauphine) 📅 Tuesday 05 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

From Fingertips to RAP: getting statistics into public health policy and practice

👤 Sian Evans and Stephen Yeung (Public Health England) 📅 Monday 04 February 2019, 19:15-21:30 📍 Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Statistics

Model selection with Lasso-Zero and a robust extension with an application to the problem of missing covariates

👤 Sylvain Sardy, Université de Genève 📅 Friday 01 February 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Psychology talks and events

How People Really Make Medical Decisions: The Problem of the Patient

👤 Prof Talya Miron-Shatz - Ono Academic College, Israel 📅 Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

Pure Mathematics in Crisis

👤 Professor Kevin Buzzard 📅 Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR3

Probability

Sumset bounds for the entropy on abelian groups

👤 Ioannis Kontoyiannis (Engineering, Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 29 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems

👤 Alexandros Beskos, University College London 📅 Friday 25 January 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Scaling limits for planar aggregation with subcritical fluctuations

👤 Amanda Turner (Lancaster) 📅 Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Mapping Health: Why, How, Considering what ...

👤 Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit @ University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 21 January 2019, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF

Statistics

On the hypocoercivity of some PDMP-Monte Carlo algorithms

👤 Christophe Andrieu, University of Bristol 📅 Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - Christmas Vacation

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 12 December 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Radial excitations of superconducting (Witten) vortices

⚠️ Note: MONDAY lunchtime

👤 Patrick Peter (DAMTP, and Inst. Astrophys. Paris) 📅 Monday 03 December 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 Potter Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Kazhdan groups have cost 1

👤 Tom Hutchcroft (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CCIMI Seminars

Gen-Oja: A Simple and Efficient Algorithm for Streaming Generalized Eigenvector Computation

👤 Dr Nicolas Flammarion 📅 Monday 26 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR11

Statistics

Posterior concentration for Bayesian regression trees and their ensembles

👤 Stephanie van der Pas, University of Leiden 📅 Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Bayesian and structural integration of background evidence in the design, analysis and interpretation of clinical trial data

👤 Fabio Rigat (GSK) & Nicky Best (Imperial College) 📅 Tuesday 20 November 2018, 19:15-21:30 📍 Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Topological Terms in Sigma Models on Homogeneous Spaces

👤 Joe Davighi (DAMTP) 📅 Tuesday 20 November 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

On gradient estimates for random walks in time-dependent random environments

👤 Martin Slowik (Berlin) 📅 Tuesday 20 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Concentration of tempered posteriors and of their variational approximations

👤 Pierre Alquier, ENSAE 📅 Friday 16 November 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)5

Probability

The smoothed KPZ equation in dimension three and higher: Edwards-Wilkinson regime of its fluctuations and its localization properties

👤 Chiranjib Mukherjee (Munster) 📅 Tuesday 13 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Phase transitions on community detectability for various types of stochastic block models

👤 Laurent Massoulié, INRIA 📅 Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

CCIMI Seminars

Adaptive and robust nonparametric Bayesian contraction rates for discretely observed compound Poisson processes

👤 Dr Alberto J. Coca 📅 Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR14

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Loop Correlations in Random Wire Models

👤 Costanza Benassi (Northumbria) 📅 Tuesday 06 November 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

The TAP-Plefka variational principle for mean field spin glasses

👤 David Belius (Basel) 📅 Tuesday 06 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Towards a better understanding of early stopping for boosting algorithms

👤 Yuting Wei, Stanford University 📅 Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

Volatility and arbitrage: short- and long-term relative arbitrage in stochastic portfolio theory

👤 Johannes Ruf, LSE 📅 Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:00-14:00 📍 CMS, MR15

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)5

CCIMI Seminars

Estimation of Low-Rank Matrices via Approximate Message Passing

👤 Dr Ramji Venkataramanan 📅 Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Newton-Cartan Gravity with Unconstrained Torsion: a Galilean General Theory of Gravity

👤 Marco Cariglia (U. Fed. Ouro Preto, Brazil) 📅 Tuesday 30 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Nonpositive curvature is not coarsely universal

👤 Alexandros Eskenazis (Princeton) 📅 Tuesday 30 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Bayesian regression models for complex spatially or serially correlated functional data

👤 Jeffrey Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center 📅 Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Making Sense of the Standard Model: an Exceptional Quantum Algebra

⚠️ Note -- on THURSDAY

👤 Ivan Todorov (Sofia, Bulgaria) 📅 Thursday 25 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Mixing time for the non-babktracking random walk on random graphs with communities

👤 Anna Ben-Hamou (Paris) 📅 Tuesday 23 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Nonparametric Bayes for support boundary recovery

👤 Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden 📅 Friday 19 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Kinks with Long-range Tails

👤 Nick Manton (DAMTP) 📅 Tuesday 16 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Last-Passage Percolation with constraints, and applications to polymers in random environment

👤 Quentin Berger (Paris) 📅 Tuesday 16 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Uniform rates of Glivenko-Cantelli convergence and their use in Bayesian inference

👤 Emanuele Dolera, Università degli Studi di Pavia 📅 Friday 12 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Statistics

Heteroskedastic PCA: Algorithm, Optimality, and Applications

👤 Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania 📅 Thursday 11 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR13

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Why is cancer survival lower in England than in other high income countries?

👤 Sarah Walters & Sara Benitez Majano, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 📅 Wednesday 10 October 2018, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF

Peter Whittle Lecture

When Statistics Meets Computing

👤 Professor Tony Cai (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania) 📅 Wednesday 10 October 2018, 17:00-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Skyrmion Vibrations

👤 Chris Halcrow (Leeds) 📅 Tuesday 09 October 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Invariance principle for the random Lorentz gas beyond the [Boltzmann-Grad / Gallavotti-Spohn] limit

👤 Balint Toth (Bristol) 📅 Tuesday 09 October 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 19 September 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

The Dirichlet problem for circle packings

👤 Asaf Nachmias (Tel Aviv) 📅 Tuesday 18 September 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 15 August 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Delocalization of uniform graph homomorphisms from Z^2 to Z

👤 Martin Tassy (Dartmouth) 📅 Tuesday 07 August 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 18 July 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Statistics

Sketchy decisions: Low-rank convex matrix optimization with optimal storage

👤 Joel Tropp (Caltech) 📅 Monday 18 June 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

CCIMI Short course: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems

First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Additional large-scale algorithms

👤 Stephen Becker, University of Colorado 📅 Friday 15 June 2018, 14:00-16:00 📍 MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 13 June 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Polluted Bootstrap Percolation

👤 Alexander E Holroyd 📅 Tuesday 12 June 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CCIMI Short course: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems

First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Modern first-order methods for structured convex problems

👤 Stephen Becker, University of Colorado 📅 Monday 11 June 2018, 14:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Short course: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems

First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Convex optimization problems and optimality

👤 Stephen Becker, University of Colorado 📅 Friday 08 June 2018, 14:00-16:00 📍 MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

What is the dimension of a stochastic process?

👤 Victor Panaretos (EPFL) 📅 Thursday 07 June 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR11

CCIMI Short course: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems

First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Convex analysis

👤 Stephen Becker, University of Colorado 📅 Monday 04 June 2018, 14:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

👤 Sabyasachi Chatterjee (UIUC) 📅 Friday 01 June 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 21 (centre building, basement)

Probability

High-density hard-core configurations on a triangular lattice

👤 Yuri Suhov (Penn State and Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 29 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CL-CompBio

Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond

👤 Thomas Kipf, University of Amsterdam 📅 Friday 25 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 Lecture Theatre 2, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge

Probability

A particle model for Wasserstein type diffusion

👤 Vitalii Konarovskyi 📅 Tuesday 22 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization

👤 Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India) 📅 Monday 21 May 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR14

Statistics

Bayesian estimation of the mean response in a missing data model

👤 Kolyan Ray (King's College London) 📅 Friday 18 May 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Probability

The criticality of a randomly-driven front

👤 Amir Dembo (Stanford) 📅 Tuesday 15 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Multiple change point estimation based on moving sum statistics

👤 Claudia Kirch (Magdeburg) 📅 Friday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

Relevance Forcing: More Interpretable Neural Networks through Prior Knowledge

👤 Christian Etmann (University of Bremen) 📅 Wednesday 09 May 2018, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Seminars

Spectral rigidity of the round Earth

👤 Joonas Ilmavirta, University of Jyväskylä 📅 Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Seminars

Reconciling Bayesian Regularization And Total Variation Regularization - CCIMI colloquium

⚠️ Free event, but registration required: https://ccimi-colloquium-andrew-stuart.eventbrite.co.uk

👤 Andrew Stuart, Caltech 📅 Tuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-19:00 📍 MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

First passage percolation in hostile environment (on hyperbolic graphs)

👤 Elisabetta Candellero (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 08 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CCIMI Seminars

Landauer's Principle in Repeated Interaction Systems

⚠️ Part of the Mathematics of Quantum Information workshop

👤 Yan Pautrat, Paris-Sud University 📅 Friday 04 May 2018, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Seminars

Undecidability in Quantum Physics: Hilbert’s Second and Sixth Problems Meet

⚠️ Part of the Mathematics of Quantum Information workshop

👤 David Pérez García, Complutense University of Madrid 📅 Friday 04 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Seminars

Quantum conditional mutual information

⚠️ Part of the Mathematics of Quantum Information workshop

👤 Omar Fawzi, ENS de Lyon 📅 Friday 04 May 2018, 12:00-13:00 📍 MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Seminars

Multipartite SLOCC and LOCC transformations

⚠️ Part of the Mathematics of Quantum Information workshop

👤 Barbara Kraus, University of Innsbruck 📅 Friday 04 May 2018, 11:00-12:00 📍 MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Mordell Lectures

Cohomology of the moduli space of curves

👤 Rahul Pandharipande (ETH) 📅 Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, CMS

CCIMI short course: Quantum Computing - Theory and Practice

Quantum Computing - Theory and Practice: Quantum algorithms, quantum noise and quantum operations

👤 Lior Horesh, IBM 📅 Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-16:30 📍 CMS, MR3

CCIMI short course: Quantum Computing - Theory and Practice

Quantum Computing - Theory and Practice: The Qubit and Quantum computation

👤 Lior Horesh, IBM 📅 Wednesday 02 May 2018, 14:00-16:30 📍 CMS, MR4

Probability

Asymptotics for 2D critical and near-critical first-passage percolation

👤 Changlong Yao (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences) 📅 Tuesday 01 May 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CCIMI short course: Quantum Computing - Theory and Practice

Quantum Computing - Theory and Practice: Introduction and overview

👤 Lior Horesh, IBM 📅 Tuesday 01 May 2018, 14:00-16:30 📍 CMS, MR3

Statistics

Orbit recovery from invariants

👤 Jonathan Weed (MIT) 📅 Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Statistical Methods in Pre- and Clinical Drug Development: Tumour Growth-Inhibition Model Example

👤 Robert Kozarski, AstraZeneca 📅 Thursday 26 April 2018, 19:15-21:30 📍 Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park, CB4 0WG

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 25 April 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Applied and Computational Analysis

Improving Generative Adversarial Networks using Game Theory and Statistics

⚠️ Joint CCIMI-ACA seminar

👤 Constantinos Daskalakis (MIT) 📅 Thursday 29 March 2018, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Vacation

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 28 March 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (back building, ground floor)

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Auction Design via Optimal Transportation

👤 Constantinos Daskalakis (MIT) 📅 Monday 26 March 2018, 16:30-17:30 📍 CMS, MR13

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Stochastic gradient & Random coordinate descent methods - Part 3

👤 Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS) 📅 Thursday 15 March 2018, 16:00-16:45 📍 MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Stochastic gradient & Random coordinate descent methods - Part 2

👤 Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS) 📅 Thursday 15 March 2018, 15:00-15:45 📍 MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Stochastic gradient & Random coordinate descent methods - Part 1

👤 Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS) 📅 Thursday 15 March 2018, 14:00-14:45 📍 MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Constrained convex minimization - Part 3

👤 Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS) 📅 Wednesday 14 March 2018, 16:00-16:45 📍 MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Constrained convex minimization - Part 2

👤 Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS) 📅 Wednesday 14 March 2018, 15:00-15:45 📍 MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Constrained convex minimization - Part 1

👤 Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS) 📅 Wednesday 14 March 2018, 14:00-14:45 📍 MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Extremal and local statistics for gradient field models

👤 Wei Wu (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 13 March 2018, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Variable metric methods

👤 Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS) 📅 Tuesday 13 March 2018, 16:00-16:45 📍 MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Unconstrained smooth minimization

👤 Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS) 📅 Tuesday 13 March 2018, 15:00-15:45 📍 MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Parking

👤 Matthew Junge 📅 Tuesday 13 March 2018, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CCIMI Short Course: Mathematics of Data - From Theory to Computation

Introduction to convex optimization and iterative methods

👤 Volkan Cevher (Laboratory For Information And Inference Systems, LIONS) 📅 Tuesday 13 March 2018, 14:00-14:45 📍 MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 07 March 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Recurrence of the vertex-reinforced jump process in two dimensions

👤 Tyler Helmuth (Bristol) 📅 Tuesday 06 March 2018, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

On the gap between local recovery guarantees in structured compressed sensing and oracle estimates

👤 Claire Boyer (UPMC) 📅 Friday 02 March 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Solving the Reproducibility Crisis

👤 Nicole Janz, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 01 March 2018, 19:15-21:30 📍 The Music Room, Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1DQ

Probability

Criticality in random transposition random walk

👤 Dominic Yeo (Technion, Haifa) 📅 Tuesday 27 February 2018, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Approximations of the Restless Bandit Problem

👤 Azadeh Khaleghi (Lancaster) 📅 Friday 23 February 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 21 February 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

Theory for local optima of nonconvex high-dimensional M-estimators

👤 Po-Ling Loh, University of Wisconsin - Madison 📅 Wednesday 21 February 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Title to be confirmed

👤 Ben Wallace (IST, Austria) 📅 Tuesday 20 February 2018, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

The Fyodorov-Bouchaud conjecture and Liouville conformal field theory

👤 Guillaume Remy (ENS Paris) 📅 Tuesday 13 February 2018, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 31 January 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

Bregman distances in frequentist inverse problems

👤 Tapio Helin, University of Helsinki 📅 Wednesday 31 January 2018, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Determinantal structures in (2+1)-dimensional growth and decay models

👤 Theodoros Assiotis (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 30 January 2018, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Bayesian nonparametric estimation of the intensities in multivariate Hawkes processes

👤 Judith Rousseau (Oxford) 📅 Friday 26 January 2018, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Variation of the Nazarov-Sodin constant for random plane waves and arithmetic random waves

👤 Igor Wigman (King's College, London) 📅 Tuesday 23 January 2018, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 17 January 2018, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Christmas Vacation 2017

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 06 December 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

Bayesian Probabilistic Numerical Methods

👤 Chris Oates - Newcastle Universtity 📅 Wednesday 29 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Improved bounds for sampling colorings of sparse random graphs

👤 Charis Efthymiou (Frankfurt) 📅 Tuesday 28 November 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

From linear programming to statistics: Fast algorithms for sampling based on interior point methods

👤 Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley) 📅 Friday 24 November 2017, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12

Statistics

Optimal Sup-norm Rates and Uniform Inference on Nonlinear Functionals of Nonparametric IV Regression

👤 Xiaohong Chen (Yale) 📅 Friday 24 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12

Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging

Applications and extensions. Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging - Lecture 3

👤 Martin Holler, University of Graz 📅 Thursday 23 November 2017, 14:00-16:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Statistical mechanics on nonamenable graphs

👤 Tom Hutchcroft (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 21 November 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging

Total Generalised Variation regularisaton for linear inverse problems. Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging - Lecture 2

👤 Martin Holler, University of Graz 📅 Tuesday 21 November 2017, 14:00-16:00 📍 MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Learning from MOM's principles

👤 Guillaume Lecué (ENSAE) 📅 Friday 17 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging

Functions of bounded variation and derivative-based regularisation. Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging - Lecture 1

👤 Martin Holler, University of Graz 📅 Thursday 16 November 2017, 14:00-16:00 📍 MR4

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Student Video Contest

👤 CCIMI students 📅 Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:00-18:00 📍 MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The frequency of ‘America’ in America

👤 Adam Kashlak, Statistical Laboratory 📅 Tuesday 14 November 2017, 19:15-21:30 📍 Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, CB3 0WB

Probability

Macroscopic loops in the loop O(n) model

👤 Yinon Spinka (Tel Aviv) 📅 Tuesday 14 November 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Accelerated Consensus via Min-Sum Splitting

👤 Patrick Rebeschini (Oxford) 📅 Friday 10 November 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Limit theory for statistics of random geometric structures

👤 Joe Yukich (Lehigh University) 📅 Tuesday 07 November 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 01 November 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

Randomised dimensionality reduction for persistent homology

👤 Martin Lotz - University of Manchester 📅 Wednesday 01 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Matrix Dyson equation and random matrices with correlations

👤 Laszlo Erdös (IST Austria) 📅 Tuesday 31 October 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Online nonparametric regression with adversarial data

👤 Pierre Gaillard (INRIA Paris) 📅 Friday 27 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Probability

Random cluster dynamics for the Ising model is rapidly mixing

👤 Mark Jerrum (Queen Mary, London) 📅 Tuesday 24 October 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Analysis of regularized inversion of data corrupted by white Gaussian noise

👤 Hanne Kekonnen 📅 Friday 20 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 18 October 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Approximating conditional distributions

👤 Alessandra Cipriani (Bath) 📅 Tuesday 17 October 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Probabilistic machine learning: foundations and frontiers

👤 Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering 📅 Tuesday 10 October 2017, 19:15-21:30 📍 Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge

Probability

Haldane relation for interacting dimers

👤 Alessandro Giuliani (Rome 3) 📅 Tuesday 10 October 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 04 October 2017, 17:00-18:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Statistics

CCIMI Seminar: Kernel-based Methods for Bandit Convex Optimization

👤 Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond) 📅 Wednesday 04 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 20 September 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 23 August 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 12 July 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 12 (centre building, basement)

Probability

The Laplacian on some finitely ramified self-conformal circle packing fractals and Weyl's asymptotics for its eigenvalues

👤 Naotaka Kajino (Kobe University, Japan) 📅 Tuesday 04 July 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Decoding from Pooled Data: Information-Theoretic bounds and a Message-Passing Algorithm

👤 Ahmed El Alaoui (UC Berkeley) 📅 Friday 16 June 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Analysts' Knowledge Exchange

Physical Perspectives on Modern Computation

👤 Samuel Power (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 14 June 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Seminars

Seemingly Unrelated Regression models for mixed-type data with an application to "fine-mapping" in genetics

⚠️ Joint CMIH-CCIMI seminar. Note unusual time.

👤 Leonardo Bottolo (MRC Biostatistics Unit & ATI fellow) 📅 Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:30-14:30 📍 MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Variable clustering: optimal bounds and a convex approach

👤 Nicolas Verzelen (INRA) 📅 Friday 09 June 2017, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Mordell Lectures

Complex dynamics and elliptic curves

👤 Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University) 📅 Thursday 08 June 2017, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 14 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

On the long time stability of travelling wave for the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equations

👤 Erwan Faou (Inria) 📅 Wednesday 07 June 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

The Structure of Extreme Level Sets in Branching Brownian Motion

👤 Lisa Hartung (NYU) 📅 Tuesday 06 June 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMIH Hub seminar series

Microstructure imaging with MRI, data-driven disease progression modelling, and other topics at UCL-CMIC

⚠️ Joint CMIH-CCIMI seminar.

👤 Danny Alexander, UCL 📅 Friday 02 June 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR13 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Applied and Computational Analysis

Stabilizing unstable flows by coarse mesh observables and actuators - a pavement to data assimilation

👤 Edriss Titi (Weizmann Institite & Texas A&M University) 📅 Thursday 01 June 2017, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR 14, CMS

CCIMI Seminars

Exceptional orthogonal polynomials

⚠️ Note late change of room!

👤 David Gomez-Ullate (ICMAT and Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 📅 Wednesday 31 May 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR11 CMS

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI special lecture: Mathematics Enters the Picture

⚠️ BOOKING REQUIRED - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mathematics-enters-the-picture-tickets-34031599430

👤 Massimo Fornasier (TUM - Technische Universität München) 📅 Friday 26 May 2017, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Testing

👤 Guang Cheng (Purdue) 📅 Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

CCIMI Seminars

Learning and Sparse Control of Multiagent Systems

👤 Massimo Fornasier (TUM - Technische Universität München) 📅 Friday 26 May 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

How to replace random walk representations in models that don't have one?

👤 Erwin Bolthausen (Zurich) 📅 Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Robust ranking, constrained ranking and rank aggregation via eigenvector and semidefinite programming synchronization

👤 Mihai Cucuringu (Oxford) 📅 Friday 19 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

CCIMI Seminars

Energy methods for the geodesic X-ray transform

👤 Mikko Salo (University of Jyväskylä) 📅 Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Seminars

A macroscopic limit for an ecology model.

👤 Gaël Raoul (Ecole polytechnique) 📅 Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Constrained low-rank matrix estimation

👤 Lenka Zdeborova (IPhT) 📅 Friday 12 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Probabilizing Parking Functions

👤 Persi Diaconis (Stanford) 📅 Tuesday 09 May 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Bose in Boxes

👤 Persi Diaconis (Stanford) 📅 Monday 08 May 2017, 17:00-18:00 📍 CMS, MR2

Statistics

Statistical challenges posed by the analyses of the human microbiome

👤 Susan Holmes (Stanford) 📅 Monday 08 May 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

The Bouncy Particle Sampler

👤 Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (UBC) 📅 Friday 05 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Innovative statistical approaches for studies in anti-infective drug combination development

👤 Alun Bedding (Roche Products) 📅 Wednesday 03 May 2017, 19:15-21:30 📍 Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park

Cavendish Physical Society

Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciences

👤 Professor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc 📅 Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory

Probability

Sharpness of the phase transition for random-cluster and Potts model via decision trees

👤 Aran Raoufi (Geneva) 📅 Tuesday 02 May 2017, 16:15-17:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Variational principles for discrete maps

👤 Martin Tassy (UCLA) 📅 Tuesday 02 May 2017, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Geometric aspects of Statistical Learning Theory

👤 Shahar Mendelson (ANU) 📅 Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 26 April 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Vacation 2017

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 05 April 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 12 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Image Analysis Seminars

Local Convergence of the Heavy-ball Method and iPiano for Non-convex Optimization

⚠️ Joint CIA-CCIMI seminar

👤 Peter Ochs (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg) 📅 Wednesday 05 April 2017, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Mapping regulatory variation in human cells

👤 Daniel Gaffney, Sanger Institute 📅 Monday 03 April 2017, 19:15-21:30 📍 Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge

CCIMI Seminars

STORM: Stochastic Trust Region Framework with Random Models

👤 Katya Scheinberg, Lehigh University 📅 Wednesday 15 March 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

The distribution of ζ'/ζ about a random point on the critical line

👤 Sasha Sodin (Queen Mary, London) 📅 Tuesday 14 March 2017, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

Modelling commodity prices using novel data sources

⚠️ Industrial Seminar

👤 Chris Longworth, Cantab 📅 Tuesday 14 March 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR14

Statistics

Discrete structures and prediction in Bayesian Nonparametrics

👤 Igor Pruenster (Universita' Bocconi) 📅 Friday 10 March 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

CCIMI Seminars

Practical Bayesian modelling: Populism, polls, and petitions.

👤 Tom Gillam (Cantab Capital Partners) 📅 Wednesday 08 March 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

A lab of one’s own: science & suffrage in the First World War

👤 Patricia Fara, Clare College 📅 Tuesday 07 March 2017, 19:15-21:30 📍 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Probability

The front location in branching Brownian motion with decay of mass

👤 Sarah Pennington (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

Below zero - negative interest rates as a challenge for the financial sector

⚠️ Industrial Seminar

👤 Helge Grütjen, D-Fine Ltd 📅 Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR14

Probability

Spectral radii of sparse random matrices

👤 Antti Knowles (Geneva) 📅 Tuesday 07 March 2017, 15:15-16:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 01 March 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

From Infinite to Finite Programs: Explicit Error Bounds with Applications to Approximate Dynamic Programming

👤 Tobias Sutter, ETH Zurich 📅 Wednesday 01 March 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Quantum ergodicity and Benjamini-Schramm convergence of hyperbolic surfaces

👤 Etienne Le Masson (Bristol) 📅 Tuesday 28 February 2017, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

An industrial researcher’s learning experience

⚠️ Industrial Seminar

👤 Evren Yarman, Schlumberger 📅 Tuesday 28 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR14

CMS Colloquia

NATO: Hobbes to Trump - Motion and Emotion - Can Mathematicians help?

👤 James Bergeron, NATO 📅 Thursday 23 February 2017, 17:30-18:30 📍 CMS, MR2

CCIMI Seminars

Advancing Medicine through Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

👤 Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Oxford and Alan Turing Institute 📅 Wednesday 22 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Invariance principle for random walk in time-dependent balanced random environment

👤 Jean-Dominique Deuschel (Berlin) 📅 Tuesday 21 February 2017, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

High frequency statistics of semimartingales

👤 Mark Podolskij (Aarhus) 📅 Friday 17 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 15 February 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Hook-up probabilities for conformal loop ensembles

👤 Wendelin Werner (ETH) 📅 Tuesday 14 February 2017, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Simultaneous multiple change-point and factor analysis for high-dimensional time series

👤 Haeran Cho (Bristol) 📅 Friday 10 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

CCIMI Seminars

Applications of numerical algebraic geometry

👤 Heather Harrington Oxford 📅 Friday 10 February 2017, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Seminars

Flux and context-dependent graphs for metabolic networks

👤 Mariano Beguerisse, Oxford 📅 Friday 10 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Eigenvectors and spectral measure of random regular graphs of fixed degree

👤 Roland Bauerschmidt (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 07 February 2017, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

Decision-making and artificial general intelligence using deep neural networks

⚠️ Industrial Seminar

👤 Audrunas Gruslys, Google Deep Mind 📅 Tuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR14

Statistics

Sleeping Beauty’s Credences

👤 Mark Schervisch (CMU) 📅 Friday 03 February 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

What can gambling machine data tell us about betting behaviour?

👤 David Excell, Featurespace 📅 Thursday 02 February 2017, 18:45-21:00 📍 Coslett Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 01 February 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Percolation games

👤 James Martin (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 31 January 2017, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CCIMI Seminars

Estimation in the Ising blockmodel

👤 Quentin Berthet 📅 Wednesday 25 January 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Delocalising the parabolic Anderson model

👤 Nadia Sidorova (UCL) 📅 Tuesday 24 January 2017, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

High-Dimensional Bayesian Geostatistics

👤 Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA) 📅 Monday 23 January 2017, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 18 January 2017, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

CCIMI Seminars

A new perspective from Information Theory on genetic sequences

👤 Omri Tal, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences 📅 Friday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic, Christmas Vacation 2016

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 14 December 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Statistics

Gaussian vectors, half-spaces, and convexity

👤 Joe Neeman (UT Austin & Bonn) 📅 Friday 02 December 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

CCIMI Seminars

Quantum Dots and Dislocations: Dynamics of Materials Defects

👤 Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University 📅 Thursday 01 December 2016, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Seminars

Inferring rapidly-varying big data time series--from deconvolution to a new form of time series model

👤 Sofia Olhede, UCL 📅 Wednesday 30 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

CCIMI Seminars

Phaseless super-resolution using masks

👤 James Saunderson, Monash University 📅 Monday 28 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Measuring sample quality with diffusions

👤 Sebastian Vollmer (Oxford) 📅 Friday 25 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Diffusion processes on branching Brownian motion

👤 Sebastian Andres (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 22 November 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Use of historical information to supplement a future study: opportunity and difficulty

👤 Nick Galwey, GlaxoSmithKline 📅 Monday 21 November 2016, 19:15-21:30 📍 Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Statistics

Principal Nested Shape Space Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Data

👤 Ian Dryden (Nottingham) 📅 Friday 18 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

CCIMI Seminars

Effective inversion of the attenuated X-ray transform associated with a connection.

👤 Gabriel Paternain - DPMMS 📅 Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Critical branching diffusions in bounded domains.

👤 Ellen Powell (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 15 November 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CCIMI Seminars

Free Boundaries and Price Formation in Economic Markets

👤 Peter Markowich 📅 Monday 14 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Short Course: Lecture 2 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration

👤 Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech. 📅 Friday 11 November 2016, 14:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 09 November 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (First floor, Pavillion B)

Statistics

Short Course: Lecture 1 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration

👤 Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech. 📅 Wednesday 09 November 2016, 14:00-16:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Probability

Quasilinear SPDEs via rough paths

👤 Hendrik Weber (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 08 November 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Constrained and Localized Nonparametric Estimation and Optimization

👤 John Lafferty (U of Chicago) 📅 Friday 04 November 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

CUED Control Group Seminars

Semidefinite approximations of matrix logarithm

👤 Hamza Fawzi, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar Room

Probability

Exceptional times of the critical Erdős-Rényi graph

👤 Matt Roberts (Bath) 📅 Tuesday 01 November 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Image Analysis Seminars

Optical Flow on Evolving Sphere-Like Surfaces

⚠️ This is a joint CIA-CCIMI seminar

👤 Lukas Lang (University of Vienna) 📅 Tuesday 01 November 2016, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR 14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Normal Approximation and Concentration for Functions of Sample Covariance Operators

👤 Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech) 📅 Friday 28 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Applied and Computational Analysis

Sparse recovery by l0 penalty

⚠️ This is a joint ACA-CCIMI seminar

👤 Bangti Jin (UCL) 📅 Thursday 27 October 2016, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR 14, CMS

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Discontinuity of the phase transition for the planar random-cluster and Potts models with q > 4

👤 Matan Harel (IHES Paris) 📅 Tuesday 25 October 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Double random currents, dimers and trees

👤 Marcin Lis (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 25 October 2016, 15:15-16:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Minimax adaptive estimation in nonparametric Hidden Markov Models

👤 Yohann de Castro (Paris Sud - Orsay) 📅 Friday 21 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Probability

Small-time fluctuations for sub-Riemannian diffusion loops

👤 Karen Habermann (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 18 October 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Community Detection on the Weighted Stochastic Block Model

👤 Min Xu (U Penn) 📅 Friday 14 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Driving the Robustness of Preclinical Research within the Pharmaceutical Industry

👤 Katrina Gore, formerly of Pfizer Neusentis 📅 Tuesday 11 October 2016, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Probability

Local time at zero metric associated to a GFF on a cable graph.

👤 Titus Lupu (ETH Zurich) 📅 Tuesday 11 October 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Convergence Rates for Least-Squares Regression

👤 Francis Bach (INRIA) 📅 Friday 07 October 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation 2016 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 07 September 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation 2016 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 10 August 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Weighted information and weighted entropy

👤 I Stuhl (Denver/Debrecen) and Y Suhov (Penn State/Cambridge) 📅 Monday 01 August 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation 2016 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 13 July 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

CMS Colloquia

Topology of the set of singularities of viscosity solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation

👤 Albert Fathi (ENS Lyon) 📅 Monday 27 June 2016, 17:00-18:00 📍 CMS, MR12

Statistics

Chaining and convexity

👤 Ramon van Handel (Princeton) 📅 Friday 10 June 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - IV (Note Early Start Time)

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 08 June 2016, 15:00-16:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (First floor, Pavillion B)

Statistics

A Bayesian nonparametric approach to testing for dependence between random variables

👤 Sarah Filippi (Oxford) 📅 Friday 03 June 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Probability

Biased Random Walks among random conductances

👤 Nina Gantert (TU Munich) 📅 Tuesday 31 May 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 25 May 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (First floor, Pavillion B)

Probability

Perturbative regimes for deterministic dynamics of a diluted gas of hard spheres

👤 Thierry Bodineau (École Polytechnique) 📅 Tuesday 24 May 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Conformal restriction: the trichordal case

👤 Wei Qian (ETH) 📅 Tuesday 24 May 2016, 15:15-16:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Distance Shrinkage and Euclidean Embedding via Regularized Kernel Estimation

👤 Ming Yuan (U. of Wisconsin) 📅 Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Peter Whittle Lecture

Dimers Day in Cambridge

👤 Boutiller, Chhita, Dubedat, Laslier, Toninelli 📅 Monday 23 May 2016, 10:45-17:45 📍 MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Mordell Lectures

Why Mathematical Proof?

👤 Dana Scott (Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Scholar in Mathematics, Berkeley) 📅 Friday 20 May 2016, 17:30-18:30 📍 MR2, CMS

Statistics

Tail index estimation, concentration, adaptation...

👤 Stéphane Boucheron (Paris Diderot) 📅 Friday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

👤 A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat 📅 Friday 20 May 2016, 11:00-12:30 📍 CMS MR5

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

👤 A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat 📅 Thursday 19 May 2016, 10:30-12:30 📍 CMS MR5

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

👤 A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat 📅 Wednesday 18 May 2016, 11:30-12:30 📍 CMS MR5

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

👤 A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat 📅 Tuesday 17 May 2016, 11:30-12:30 📍 CMS MR5

Dimer observables and Cauchy-Riemann operators

👤 A series of six lectures by Julien Dubédat 📅 Monday 16 May 2016, 11:30-12:30 📍 CMS MR5

Statistics

Random warping functions for function/curve registration

👤 Karthik Bharath (Nottingham) 📅 Friday 13 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - II (Note Room Change)

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 11 May 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Growth exponent for loop-erased random walk in 3 dimensions

👤 Daisuke Shiraishi (Kyoto and ETH) 📅 Tuesday 10 May 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Computational Challenges in Sleeping Combinatorial Experts

👤 Varun Kanade (Oxford) 📅 Friday 06 May 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Probability

A new proof of Friedman’s second eigenvalue Theorem and its extensions

👤 Charles Bordenave (Toulouse) 📅 Tuesday 03 May 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Risk prediction for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases

👤 Lisa Pennells, Department of Public Health and Primary Care 📅 Thursday 28 April 2016, 19:15-21:30 📍 Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

From disorder relevance to the 2d Stochastic Heat Equation.

👤 Nikolaos Zygouras (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 26 April 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

The information complexity of sequential resource allocation

👤 Emilie Kaufmann (INRIA LIlle) 📅 Friday 22 April 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

CMS Colloquia

Publicising Surgeons' Performance: the Maths of Naming and Shaming

👤 Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, DPMMS 📅 Wednesday 20 April 2016, 14:50-15:15 📍 CMS Core

CMS Colloquia

Computational Biology

👤 Dr Stephen Eglen, DAMTP 📅 Wednesday 20 April 2016, 14:25-14:50 📍 CMS Core

CMS Colloquia

Seeing More in Images - a Mathematical Perspective

👤 Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Director, Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information and Head of Cambridge Image Analysis, DAMTP 📅 Wednesday 20 April 2016, 14:00-14:25 📍 CMS Core

CMS Colloquia

Calculating Implied Volatility

👤 Dr Mike Tehranchi, Statistical Laboratory, DPMMS 📅 Wednesday 20 April 2016, 12:35-13:00 📍 CMS Core

CMS Colloquia

Quantum Computing

👤 Professor Richard Jozsa, Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics, DAMTP 📅 Wednesday 20 April 2016, 12:10-12:35 📍 CMS Core

CMS Colloquia

Extreme Universe Computing

👤 Professor Paul Shellard, Director, Centre for Theoretical Cosmology 📅 Wednesday 20 April 2016, 11:45-12:10 📍 CMS Core

CMS Colloquia

Analysis of Motion Data for Healthcare and Rehabilitation

👤 Dr Joan Lasenby, Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory, Department of Engineering 📅 Wednesday 20 April 2016, 11:00-11:25 📍 CMS Core

CMS Colloquia

The Particulars of Particulates

👤 Dr Nathalie Vriend, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, DAMTP 📅 Wednesday 20 April 2016, 10:35-11:00 📍 CMS Core

CMS Colloquia

New Materials by Design

👤 Professor Mike Cates, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP 📅 Wednesday 20 April 2016, 10:10-10:35 📍 CMS Core

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Vacation 2016

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 13 April 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Genome-wide association studies: in search of common and low frequency variants in complex traits

👤 Ioanna Tachmazidou, Sanger Institute 📅 Thursday 07 April 2016, 19:15-21:30 📍 Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge

Statistics

Signal Recovery from Scattering Convolutional Neural Networks

👤 Joan Bruna (Berkeley) 📅 Thursday 24 March 2016, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Measuring Ethnicity in the NHS

👤 Katie Saunders, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research 📅 Thursday 10 March 2016, 19:15-21:30 📍 Lloyd Room, Christ's College, Saint Andrews Street, Cambridge CB2 3BU

Probability

Steiner trees in the stochastic mean-field model of distance

👤 Ayalvadi Ganesh (Bristol) 📅 Tuesday 08 March 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Update Tolerance in Uniform Spanning Forests

👤 Tom Hutchcroft (UBC) 📅 Tuesday 08 March 2016, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Information bounds for inverse problems with application to deconvolution and Lévy models

👤 Mathias Trabs (CEREMADE, Paris Dauphine) 📅 Friday 04 March 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 02 March 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Random geodesics for the corner growth model

👤 Nicos Georgiou (Sussex) 📅 Tuesday 01 March 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

CYCLING PATHWAYS TO OCCUPY MARS

⚠️ This talk will be streamed to MR3 and MR15

👤 Dr Buzz Aldrin 📅 Friday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Statistically optimal robust estimation of the precision matrix by convex programming

👤 Arnak Dalayan (ENSAE) 📅 Friday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Probability

Scaling limits of random walks and their time changes on trees and other graphs

👤 David Croydon (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 23 February 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 17 February 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Ordering random variables and racing prime numbers

👤 Adam Harper (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 16 February 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

A rough describtion of local sets of bounded type for the Gaussian free field

👤 Juhan Aru (ETH) 📅 Tuesday 16 February 2016, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Distribution-Free Detection of Structured Anomalies: Permutation and Rank-Based Scans

👤 Rui Castro (Eindhoven) 📅 Friday 12 February 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Probability

Cutoff for the random walk on random directed graphs

👤 Justin Salez 📅 Tuesday 09 February 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

My Fisher: Memories of R.A. Fisher by his last student

👤 Anthony Edwards, Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 08 February 2016, 19:15-21:30 📍 Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Statistics

Statistical algorithms and planted satisfiability problems

👤 Will Perkins (Birmingham) 📅 Friday 05 February 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Statistics

The data-driven (s,S) policy: why you can have confidence in censored demand data

👤 Gah-Yi Vahn (London School of Business) 📅 Friday 29 January 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Probability

Non-extensive condensation in reinforced branching processes

👤 Cécile Mailler 📅 Tuesday 26 January 2016, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Nonlinear shrinkage of Eigenvalues in Integrated Covolatility Matrix for Portfolio Allocation in High Frequency Data

👤 Clifford Lam (LSE) 📅 Friday 22 January 2016, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 20 January 2016, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Condensation of a self-attracting random walk

👤 Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 19 January 2016, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

The black hole information paradox re-visited

👤 Andrew Strominger, Gwill E. York Professor of Physics, Harvard University 📅 Monday 18 January 2016, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Boosting in the presence of outliers: adaptive classification with non-convex loss functions

👤 Jelena Bradic (UC San Diego) 📅 Friday 11 December 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Statistics

Graph-Guided Banding for Covariance Estimation

👤 Jacob Bien (Cornell University) 📅 Friday 11 December 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Statistics

Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures

👤 François Caron (Oxford) 📅 Friday 04 December 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Probability

Monodromies of ramified random coverings and geometry on partitions

👤 Franck Gabriel (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 01 December 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Exact simulation of the Wright-Fisher diffusion

👤 Paul Jenkins (Warwick) 📅 Friday 27 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

The phase transition in bounded-size Achlioptas processes

👤 Lutz Warnke (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 24 November 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Langlands and arithmetic

👤 Jack Thorne (Cambridge) 📅 Monday 23 November 2015, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Fast low-rank estimation by projected gradient descent: Statistical and algorithmic guarantees

👤 Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley) 📅 Friday 20 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Probability

Weakly asymmetric bridges and the KPZ equation

👤 Cyril Labbé (Paris-Dauphine) 📅 Tuesday 17 November 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

How to initialise a second class particle?

👤 Marton Balazs (Bristol) 📅 Tuesday 17 November 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Variation in measures and markers of timeliness of diagnosis in cancer

👤 Yoryos Lyratzopoulos, Cancer Epidemiology & Cancer Research-UK 📅 Monday 16 November 2015, 19:15-21:30 📍 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambidge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Fixed-energy harmonic functions

👤 Richard Kenyon (Brown) 📅 Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Shape modelling using contours and fields, with applications to image segmentation

👤 Ian Jermyn (Durham) 📅 Friday 06 November 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Statistics

Efficient and Parsimonious Agnostic Active Learning

👤 Alekh Agarwal (Microsoft Research NY) 📅 Friday 06 November 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Probability

Every planar graph with the Liouville property is amenable

👤 Johannes Carmesin (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 03 November 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Highly-Smooth Zero-th Order Online Optimization

👤 Vianney Perchet (INRIA & Paris Diderot) 📅 Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Dimers on Rail Yard Graphs

👤 Sanjay Ramassamy (Brown) 📅 Tuesday 27 October 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

On the support of extremal martingale measures with given marginals: the countable case

👤 Luciano Campi 📅 Tuesday 27 October 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 CMS, MR15

Statistics

Nonparametric estimation of s-concave and log-concave densities: an alternative to maximum likelihood

👤 Jon Wellner (University of Washington) 📅 Thursday 22 October 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Random walks on groups and the Kaimanovich-Vershik conjecture

👤 Russell Lyons (Indiana University) 📅 Tuesday 20 October 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Hyperplane arrangements and Stopping times

👤 Evita Nestoridi (Stanford) 📅 Tuesday 20 October 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Computation, Dynamics, Evidence, and Experience: Quantum Computing Colloquium

👤 Charlie Bennett (Variously Principal Scientist, Fellow, IBM Research Headquarters, NY) 📅 Monday 19 October 2015, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Nonstandard complete class theorems

👤 Daniel Roy (University of Toronto) 📅 Friday 16 October 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - I (please note early start time)

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 14 October 2015, 16:00-17:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Fundamental Fallacies of Finance

👤 Chris Rogers, Statistical Laboratory 📅 Tuesday 13 October 2015, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Probability

Lévy master fields on the plane

👤 Antoine Dahlqvist (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 13 October 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Centre for Analysis talks

The positive Jacobian constraint in elasticity theory and orientation-preserving Young measures

👤 Dr Filip Rindler, University of Warwick 📅 Tuesday 13 October 2015, 14:00-18:00 📍 MR2

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2015 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 16 September 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2015 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 12 August 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2015 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 15 July 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

The master field on the plane

👤 Thierry Levy (UPMC) 📅 Tuesday 23 June 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 Seminar Room 2 Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge

Rollo Davidson Lectures

Random walk on the random graph

👤 Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research, Redmond) 📅 Friday 12 June 2015, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Easter - IV (earlier start time, 1530-1700)

⚠️ Important: time change due to the statslab summer party on 10 Jun. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 10 June 2015, 15:30-17:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability

Diffusivity of random walks in random environments

👤 Balint Toth (Bristol and Budapest) 📅 Tuesday 09 June 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Markov model of a limit order book: thresholds, recurrence, and trading strategies

👤 Frank Kelly (University of Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 09 June 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Incentive Mechanisms for User-Provided Networks

⚠️ note unusual time and place

👤 Jianwei Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 📅 Monday 08 June 2015, 15:15-16:15 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

The full extremal process of the discrete Gaussian free field in 2D

👤 Oren Louidor (Technion) 📅 Tuesday 02 June 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

A KPZ formula for SLE and Brownian motion

👤 Nina Holden (MIT) 📅 Tuesday 02 June 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Mordell Lectures

The solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem

👤 Daniel Spielman (Yale) 📅 Monday 01 June 2015, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, CMS

Statistics

A Conditional Dependence Measure with Applications to Undirected Graphical Models

👤 Yang Feng, Columbia University 📅 Friday 29 May 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2015 - III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 27 May 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability

Fluctuation results for Hastings-Levitov planar growth

👤 Vittoria Silvestri (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 26 May 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Amenability of automata groups

👤 Omer Angel (UBC) 📅 Tuesday 26 May 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Random Walk in a Queueing-Network Environment and Related Problems

👤 Yuri Suhov (Pennsylvania State University and Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 26 May 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Third and Fourth Cumulants in Independent Component Analysis

👤 Hannu Oja, University of Turku 📅 Friday 22 May 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Analysis of complex phenotypes in genomics

👤 Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit 📅 Friday 22 May 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Frozen percolation

👤 Rob van den Berg (CWI Amsterdam) 📅 Tuesday 19 May 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Recent applications of a rigorous renormalisation group method to critical phenomena

👤 Gordon Slade (University of British Columbia) 📅 Tuesday 19 May 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Text Mining in Dynamic Networks of Documents

👤 David Banks, Duke University 📅 Friday 15 May 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2015 - II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 13 May 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5

Probability

Random cascade measures and self-similar structures

👤 Kenneth Falconer (St. Andrews) 📅 Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Group Walk Random Graphs

👤 A. Georgakopoulos (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 12 May 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

General Bayesian updating and model misspecification

👤 Chris Holmes, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 08 May 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The cost of saving nature: how much and is it a price worth paying

👤 Donal McCarthy, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 📅 Thursday 07 May 2015, 19:15-21:30 📍 Amgen Limited, Cambridge Science Park

Probability

On Talagrand's convolution conjecture in Gaussian space

👤 Ronen Eldan (Berkeley) 📅 Tuesday 05 May 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Locality of critical points: the connective constant

👤 Geoffrey Grimmett (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 05 May 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Robust Matrix Completion

👤 Olga Klopp, Université Paris Ouest 📅 Friday 01 May 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2015 - I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 29 April 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5

Probability

On a simple model of deposition

👤 Amine Asselah (Paris 12) 📅 Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Stochastic dynamics of discrete interfaces and dimer models

👤 Benoit Laslier (Statslab) 📅 Tuesday 28 April 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Stein estimation of the intensity of a spatial homogeneous Poisson point process

👤 Marianne Clausel, University of Grenoble 📅 Friday 24 April 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

A Framework for Elastic Shape Analysis of Objects

👤 Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University 📅 Friday 17 April 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Break II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 15 April 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5

Probability

Conformally invariant loop measures

👤 Stéphane Benoist (Columbia) 📅 Tuesday 14 April 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Planar maps, circle patterns, conformal point processes and 2D gravity

👤 François David (CEA) 📅 Tuesday 14 April 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Stable Weights that Balance Covariates for Causal Inference and Estimation with Incomplete Outcome Data

⚠️ Note the different room

👤 José Zubizarreta, Columbia University 📅 Thursday 09 April 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Blyth abandoned: sound science or flawed policy?

👤 Richard Steward, Blyth Estuary Group 📅 Thursday 26 March 2015, 19:15-21:30 📍 Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Break I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 25 March 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5

Probability

Invariants of Random Knots

👤 Chaim Even Zohar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 📅 Tuesday 24 March 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Random loop models and quantum spin systems

👤 Daniel Ueltschi (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 24 March 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

On the Gibbs states of the Ising and Potts models

👤 Loren Coquille, Bonn University 📅 Tuesday 10 March 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

The maximal particle of branching random walk in random environment

👤 Alexander Drewitz (Columbia) 📅 Tuesday 10 March 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Resource Allocation for Statistical Estimation

👤 Quentin Berthet, California Institute of Technology 📅 Monday 09 March 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Sparse CCA: Statistical and Computational Limits

👤 Chao Gao, Yale University 📅 Friday 06 March 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Statistics and Examinations

👤 Tom Bramley, Cambridge Assessment 📅 Thursday 05 March 2015, 19:15-21:30 📍 Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site, University of Cambridge

Statistics

Learning Markov Networks for Mixed Big Data: Applications to Cancer Genomics

👤 Genevera Allen, Rice University 📅 Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Metropolis dynamics of mean-field spin glasses

👤 Jiri Cerny, Vienna 📅 Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Cluster growth in a forest fire model

👤 Nic Freeman, Bristol 📅 Tuesday 03 March 2015, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Complexity analysis of the Lasso regularization path and an application of sparsity to isoform detection in RNA-seq data

👤 Julien Mairal, INRIA, Grenoble 📅 Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Probability

Continuity and stability of the cut locus of the Brownian map

👤 Brett Kolesnik (UBC) 📅 Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Purely Kinetic Lagrangians.

👤 Professor Nick Manton, DAMTP. 📅 Monday 23 February 2015, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Spectral thresholding in quantum state estimation for low rank states

👤 Madalin Guta, University of Nottingham 📅 Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

probability

Liouville Brownian motion and thick points of the Gaussian free field

⚠️ This talk has been canceled/deleted

👤 Henry Jackson, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS

Probability

Liouville Brownian motion and thick points of the Gaussian free field

👤 Henry Jackson, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 17 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Some ideas in nonparametric estimation

👤 Piotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics 📅 Friday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Probability

Analysis of a stochastic branching recursion related to the Anderson transition

👤 Dr. Christian Webb 📅 Tuesday 10 February 2015, 15:45-16:45 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Algorithmic Approaches to Statistical Estimation under Structural Constraints

👤 Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Edinburgh 📅 Friday 06 February 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Approximation in Stochastic Scheduling

👤 Nicole Megow (TU Berlin) 📅 Tuesday 03 February 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

On reading Bernoulli’s Ars conjectandi 1713

👤 Anthony Edwards, Gonville and Caius 📅 Monday 02 February 2015, 19:15-21:30 📍 Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Statistics

Bayesian nonparametrics with heterogeneous data

👤 Antonio Lijoi, University of Pavia 📅 Friday 30 January 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

A novel (pre-)metric for causal graphs

👤 Jonas Peters, ETH Zürich 📅 Friday 30 January 2015, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 28 January 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of talks exploring the links between classical information theory, probability, statistics and their quantum counterparts.

👤 Reinhard Werner (Hannover), Fernando Brandao (Microsoft Research), Robert Koenig (TU Munich), Renato Renner (ETH Zurich) 📅 Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-18:10 📍 MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Skill based parallel servers under FCFS-ALIS and infinite bipartite matching

⚠️ note unusual time and place

👤 Gideon Weiss (University of Haifa) 📅 Wednesday 21 January 2015, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

On the use of non-local priors for joint high-dimensional estimation and selection

👤 David Rossel, University of Warwick 📅 Friday 16 January 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 14 January 2015, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Probability

Random Dirichlet series arising from records

👤 Dr Ryokichi Tanaka, Tohoku University 📅 Tuesday 02 December 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Dynamic functional principal components

👤 Siegfried Hörmann, Université libre de Bruxelles 📅 Friday 28 November 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic IV - Michaelmas 2014

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 26 November 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Probability

On the peeling process of random planar maps

👤 Professor Nicolas Curien, Universite Paris-Sud Orsay 📅 Tuesday 25 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Efficient Advert Assignment

👤 Peter Key (MSR Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 25 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Analysis and Forecasting of Locally Stationary Time Series

👤 Guy Nason, University of Bristol 📅 Friday 21 November 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Bernoulli convolutions for algebraic parameters

👤 Dr Peter Varju, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 18 November 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Algorithms as Mechanisms: The Price of Anarchy of Relax and Round

👤 Paul Dütting (LSE) 📅 Tuesday 18 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Reflections on a career as a professional statistician and the increasing value of the role of professional bodies

👤 Trevor Lewis, PhD, CStat, CSci, PStat, Director, TLwise Consulting Limited and RSS Theme Director for Professional Affairs 📅 Monday 17 November 2014, 19:15-21:30 📍 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambidge

CMS Colloquia

Wild and tame behaviour in group theory

👤 Henry Wilton (DPMMS, Cambridge) 📅 Monday 17 November 2014, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Average derivative projection pursuit regression

👤 Frédéric Ferraty, Toulouse 📅 Friday 14 November 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic III - Michaelmas 2014

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 12 November 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Probability

Maximal couplings and geometry

👤 Dr Sayan Banerjee, University of Warwick 📅 Tuesday 11 November 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Elicitation for Aggregation

👤 Ian Kash (MSR Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 11 November 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Ranking from pairwise comparisons using Seriation

👤 Alexandre d'Aspremont, CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris 📅 Friday 07 November 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

The characteristic polynomial of a random unitary matrix and Gaussian multiplicative chaos.

👤 Dr Christian Webb, Aalto University, Finland 📅 Tuesday 04 November 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Low rank as a model for quantum and classical estimation problems

👤 David Gross, University of Freiburg 📅 Friday 31 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic II - Michaelmas 2014

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 29 October 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Probability

Scaling limit of the largest clusters in critical percolation and FK-Ising models in two dimensions

👤 Dr Demeter Kiss, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 28 October 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Framework for Decentralised Combinatorial Auctions with Applications to Subadditive Bidders

👤 Richard Steinberg (LSE) 📅 Tuesday 28 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Adaptive posterior contraction

👤 Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden 📅 Friday 24 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Adaptive dose-finding designs to identify multiple doses that achieve multiple response targets

⚠️ Please note change to original date

👤 Adrian Mander, MRC Biostatistics Unit Hub for Trials Methodology Research 📅 Tuesday 21 October 2014, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Probability

Solving the dynamical sine-Gordon equation

👤 Dr Hao Shen, University of Warwick 📅 Tuesday 21 October 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Current Practice in Combinatorial Auctions for Radio Spectrum

👤 Robert Leese (Smith Institute) 📅 Tuesday 21 October 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Flexible multiple testing using closed testing and Simes

👤 Jelle Goeman, Radboud University Medical Center 📅 Friday 17 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Semivarying Coefficient Models for Capture--recapture Data: Colony Size Estimation for the Little Penguin

👤 Richard Huggins, University of Melbourne 📅 Friday 17 October 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic I - Michaelmas 2014

⚠️ Please be aware of the room change.

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 15 October 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (Ground floor, Pavillion B)

Probability

Random walk on hyperbolic unimodular triangulations and circle packing

👤 Dr Gourab Ray, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 14 October 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Selection and estimation in sparse, high-dimensional models

👤 Maarten Jansen, Université libre de Bruxelles 📅 Friday 10 October 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Peter Whittle Lecture

Peter Whittle Colloquium

👤 Yuval Peres (MSR Redmond) , Bálint Tóth (TU Budapest/U Bristol) , Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich) 📅 Friday 03 October 2014, 16:00-19:00 📍 MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic - Summer III

⚠️ Room changed

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 17 September 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic - Summer II

⚠️ Room changed

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 20 August 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic - Summer I

⚠️ Room changed

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 23 July 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (Ground floor, Pavillion B)

Mordell Lectures

The SL(2,R) action on Moduli space

👤 Professor Alex Eskin (University of Chicago) 📅 Thursday 03 July 2014, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, CMS

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Modeling Crowdsourcing Systems: Design and Analysis of Incentive and Reputation Systems

👤 John C.S. Lui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 📅 Thursday 03 July 2014, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Estimating a directional trend from noisy directional data

👤 Rudy Beran, University of California Davis 📅 Wednesday 25 June 2014, 15:45-16:15 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Empirical risk minimization for heavy-tailed losses

👤 Gábor Lugosi, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona 📅 Wednesday 25 June 2014, 15:15-15:45 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

On tensor completion via nuclear norm minimization

👤 Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University, USA 📅 Wednesday 25 June 2014, 14:45-15:15 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Empirical entropy, minimax regret and minimax risk

👤 Alexandre (Sasha) Tsybakov, Laboratoire de Statistique, CREST and Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires CNRS 📅 Wednesday 25 June 2014, 14:15-14:45 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

General Strassen type results for partial sum processes in Euclidean space

👤 Uwe Einmahl, Vrije Universiteit Brussel 📅 Wednesday 25 June 2014, 12:00-12:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Moment estimates implied by modified log-Sobolev inequalities

👤 Radoslaw Adamczak, Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw 📅 Wednesday 25 June 2014, 11:30-12:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Precise moment and tail estimates for Rademacher series in terms of weak parameters

👤 Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics, University of Warsaw 📅 Wednesday 25 June 2014, 11:00-11:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Adaptive estimation of the copula correlation matrix for semiparametic elliptical copulas

👤 Marten H. Wegkamp, Cornell University 📅 Wednesday 25 June 2014, 10:00-10:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

The Hurst Phenomenon and the Rescaled Range Statistic

👤 David M. Mason, University of Delaware 📅 Wednesday 25 June 2014, 09:30-10:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Some historical remarks on the Giné-Zinn work on empirical processes

👤 Richard Dudley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 📅 Tuesday 24 June 2014, 16:45-17:15 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Functional depth and quantiles

👤 Joel Zinn, Texas A&M University 📅 Tuesday 24 June 2014, 16:15-16:45 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Gaussian Approximations and Bootstrap with p >> n.

👤 Victor Chernozhukov, MIT 📅 Tuesday 24 June 2014, 15:15-15:45 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Estimation of the Lévy measure: statistical inverse problem and Donsker Theorem

👤 Markus Reiß, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 📅 Tuesday 24 June 2014, 14:45-15:15 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Regularity of Gaussian processes in a geometric framework

👤 Gerard Kerkyacharian, Université Paris VII 📅 Tuesday 24 June 2014, 14:15-14:45 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Confidence bands for distribution functions: A new look at the law of the iterated logarithm

👤 Lutz Dümbgen, University of Bern, Switzerland 📅 Tuesday 24 June 2014, 12:00-12:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Exponential inequalities and local independence graphs to unravel functional neuronal connectivity

👤 Patricia Reynaud-Bouret, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis 📅 Tuesday 24 June 2014, 11:30-12:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Estimator selection: methods and calibration

👤 Pascal Massart, Université de Paris-Sud, 📅 Tuesday 24 June 2014, 11:00-11:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

A robust and adaptive estimator for regression II

👤 Yannick Baraud, Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Nice 📅 Tuesday 24 June 2014, 10:00-10:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

A robust and adaptive estimator for regression I

👤 Lucien Birgé, Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Paris 📅 Tuesday 24 June 2014, 09:30-10:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Adaptation in some shape-constrained regression problems

👤 Adityanand Guntuboyina, University of California, Berkeley, 📅 Monday 23 June 2014, 16:45-17:15 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

On the structure of random coordinate projections

👤 Shahar Mendelson, The Australian National Univeristy and Technion, Israel 📅 Monday 23 June 2014, 16:15-16:45 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Title to be confirmed

👤 Victor de la Pena, Columbia University 📅 Monday 23 June 2014, 15:15-15:45 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

On the nonparametric Bernstein-von Mises phenomenon

👤 Ismaël Castillo, Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Paris 📅 Monday 23 June 2014, 14:45-15:15 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Adaptive nonparametric credible balls

👤 Aad van der Vaart, Leiden Univeristy 📅 Monday 23 June 2014, 14:15-14:45 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Cauchy-Schwarz Principles for uniform entropy

👤 Ramon van Handel, Princeton University 📅 Monday 23 June 2014, 12:00-12:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Sequential complexities and uniform martingale LLN

👤 Alexander Rakhlin, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School 📅 Monday 23 June 2014, 11:30-12:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Asymptotic expansions for entropy distances in limit theorems

👤 Friedrich Götze, Bielefeld University, Germany 📅 Monday 23 June 2014, 11:00-11:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Suprema of Bernoulli processes

👤 Rafal Latala, University of Warsaw 📅 Monday 23 June 2014, 10:00-10:30 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Stein's method, logarithmic Sobolev and transport inequalities

👤 Michel Ledoux, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse 📅 Monday 23 June 2014, 09:30-10:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability

What happens to a random walk of chained particles when the chain forms a loop or is very long?

👤 Professor Serge Cohen, Institut Mathematique de Toulouse 📅 Thursday 12 June 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR13, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 11 June 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Statistics

Adaptive Piecewise Polynomial Estimation via Trend Filtering

👤 Ryan J. Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University 📅 Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability

Phase transition in loop percolation

👤 Dr Artem Sapozhnikov, Max-Planck Institut fur Mathematik, Leipzig 📅 Tuesday 27 May 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

The discrete convex least-squares estimator of a probability mass function

👤 Cécile Durot, Université Paris-Sud 📅 Friday 23 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Rounding Markov Chains and Iterative Load-Balancing Schemes

👤 Dr Thomas Sauerwald, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 20 May 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Polymer pinning with sparse disorder

👤 Professor Ken Alexander, University of Southern California 📅 Tuesday 20 May 2014, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

The BRAVO Effect in Queues

👤 Yoni Nazarathy (University of Queensland) 📅 Tuesday 20 May 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Histograms, Graph Limits, and the Asymptotic Behavior of Large Networks

👤 Sofia Olhede, University College London 📅 Friday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 14 May 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Probability

Random lattice triangulations

👤 Dr Alexandre Stauffer, University of Bath 📅 Tuesday 13 May 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Information Geometry: From Divergence Functions to Geometric Structures

👤 Jun Zhang, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 📅 Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Random loop models with links to quantaum spin systems

👤 Dr Daniel Ueltschi, Warwick University 📅 Tuesday 06 May 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

It is hard to be strongly faithful

👤 Caroline Uhler, Institute of Science and Technology Austria 📅 Friday 02 May 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Counting the Emperor

⚠️ Please note further change of date to those originally listed

👤 Peter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey 📅 Thursday 01 May 2014, 19:15-21:30 📍 Amgen Limited, Cambridge Science Park

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter I

⚠️ Normal session during the term

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 30 April 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Probability

Mixing-time and cut-off window for the exclusion process on 1-dimensional graphs

👤 Dr Hubert Lacoin, Universite Paris Dauphine 📅 Tuesday 29 April 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Relativistic Quantum Cryptography: controlling Information by fundamental physics

👤 Adrian Kent, DAMTP 📅 Monday 28 April 2014, 17:00-18:00 📍 NOTE ROOM CHANGE TO MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Limit theorems for nearly unstable Hawkes processes

👤 Mathieu Rosenbaum, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6) 📅 Friday 25 April 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

A dynamical system of the WR model in 1D

👤 Dr Yuri Suhov, Statslab/University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 📅 Tuesday 15 April 2014, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter Break

⚠️ Extra session before Easter term

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 02 April 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Working with Epidemiologists

⚠️ Please note change of date to that originally listed

👤 Nick Galwey, GlaxoSmithKline 📅 Thursday 27 March 2014, 19:15-21:30 📍 Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Addenbrookes Hospital

Statistics

Alpha-Stable Poisson-Kingman Processes: Some Applications and Methodologies

👤 Yee Whye Teh, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 14 March 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Statistical modelling of networks in disease biology

👤 Sach Mukherjee, MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge 📅 Friday 14 March 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Planar lattices do not recover from forest fires

👤 Demeter Kiss (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 11 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Lent IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 05 March 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5

Probability

Some properties of the true self-repelling motion

👤 Laure Dumaz (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 04 March 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Optimal Consistent Segregation

👤 Herve Moulin (University of Glasgow) 📅 Tuesday 04 March 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

CMS Colloquia

The Accelerating Universe

👤 Professor Anne-Christine Davis, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Invariant Coordinate Selection revisited: Fisher Symmetry and Symmetric Component Analysis

👤 Frank Critchley, Open University 📅 Friday 28 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

High-Dimensional Covariance Structure Estimation

👤 Zhao Ren, Yale University 📅 Friday 28 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

In Defense of Simplex’ Worst-Case Behavior

👤 Yann Disser (TU Berlin) 📅 Tuesday 25 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Random stable looptrees

👤 Igor Kortchemski (ENS Paris) 📅 Tuesday 25 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

The Double Sin of the Skew-Normal: Skew-Symmetric Families of Distributions and Fisher Information

👤 Marc Hallin, Université libre de Bruxelles 📅 Friday 21 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

High-dimensional variable selection

👤 Richard Samworth, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 20 February 2014, 19:15-21:30 📍 Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Lent III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 19 February 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5

Probability

Asymptotic normality of fringe subtrees in conditioned Galton--Watson trees

👤 Svante Janson (Uppsala University) 📅 Tuesday 18 February 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Expanding Search on Networks

👤 Steve Alpern (University of Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 18 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Random matrices at high temperature

👤 Romain Allez (Berlin) 📅 Tuesday 11 February 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A More General Pandora Rule?

👤 Richard Weber (University of Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 11 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Asymptotics for In-Sample Density Forecasting

👤 Enno Mammen, University of Mannheim 📅 Friday 07 February 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Stein's method, information theory and Bayesian statistics

👤 Christophe Ley, Université libre de Bruxelles 📅 Friday 07 February 2014, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Lent II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 05 February 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5

Probability

About the FK-Potts relation in the continuous CLE setup, and its connection to the Gaussian Free Field

👤 Wendelin Werner (ETH) 📅 Tuesday 04 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Welfare and Fairness in Dominant-Strategy Mechanisms

👤 Victor Naroditskiy (University of Southampton) 📅 Tuesday 04 February 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Detection of Changepoints in Multiple Channels

👤 David Siegmund, Stanford University 📅 Friday 31 January 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

An analytic inequality and some random applications

👤 Prof Ken Falconer (St Andrews) 📅 Tuesday 28 January 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Quantitative Comparative Statics

⚠️ Canceled

👤 Tobias Harks (Maastricht University) 📅 Tuesday 28 January 2014, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The UK10K Cohorts Project: Rare variant analysis by whole genome sequencing in 3,621 samples

⚠️ Please note change of date to that originally advertised

👤 Klaudia Walter, Sanger Institute 📅 Monday 27 January 2014, 19:15-21:30 📍 Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Statistics

Uniform Ergodicity of the Iterated Conditional SMC and Geometric Ergodicity of Particle Gibbs samplers

👤 Anthony Lee, University of Warwick 📅 Friday 24 January 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Lent I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 22 January 2014, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5

Probability

Lengths of Monotone Subsequences in a Mallows Permutation

👤 Nayantara Bhatnagar (University of Delaware) 📅 Tuesday 21 January 2014, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

On exact scaling log-infinitely divisible cascades

👤 Xiong Jin (Manchester) 📅 Tuesday 21 January 2014, 15:15-16:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Sharp bounds for compressive learning

👤 Ata Kaban, University of Birmingham 📅 Friday 17 January 2014, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

High Dimensional Influence Measure

👤 Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick 📅 Friday 06 December 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Localization of weighted vertex reinforced random walks on the integers

👤 Bruno Schapira (Aix-Marseille) 📅 Tuesday 03 December 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Recent progress in multi-type WR models

👤 Yuri Suhov (Cambridge & Sao Paulo) 📅 Tuesday 03 December 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Regret-regression for optimal dynamic treatment allocation, without and with missing data

👤 Robin Henderson, Newcastle University 📅 Friday 29 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Michaelmas IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 27 November 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5

Probability

Brownian motion in Liouville quantum gravity

👤 Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 26 November 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Design of multi-arm multi-stage trials

👤 James Wason, MRC Biostatistics 📅 Monday 25 November 2013, 19:15-21:30 📍 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambidge

Statistics

High-dimensional causal inference

👤 Marloes Maathuis, ETH Zürich 📅 Friday 22 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Conformal invariance of isoradial dimers

👤 Zhongyang Li (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 19 November 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Competition for resources - The equilibrium existence problem in congestion games

👤 Max Klimm (TU Berlin) 📅 Monday 18 November 2013, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

The use of survey weights in regression modelling

👤 Chris Skinner, London School of Economics 📅 Friday 15 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Statistical Risk Characterization of Penalized Likelihood Procedures: An Information-Theoretic Determination

👤 Andrew Barron, Yale University 📅 Friday 15 November 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Michaelmas III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 13 November 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5

Probability

Local limit theorem for ballistic random walk in random environments

👤 Noam Berger (Munich) 📅 Tuesday 12 November 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Image reconstruction from corrupted and undersampled data

👤 Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, DAMTP 📅 Monday 11 November 2013, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Unitary operators, empirical processes and goodness of fit problem in R^d

👤 Estate Khmaladze, Victoria University of Wellington 📅 Friday 08 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Uniformity of the late points of the random walk on the discrete torus

👤 Perla Sousi (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 05 November 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Nonparametric estimation under shape constraints

👤 Piet Groeneboom, Delft University 📅 Friday 01 November 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Michaelmas II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 30 October 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5

Probability

Small-particle scaling limits in a regularized Laplacian growth model

👤 Alan Sola (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 29 October 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Matching Quantiles Estimation

👤 Qiwei Yao, London School of Economics 📅 Friday 25 October 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Coulomb gas ensembles in 2D

👤 Håkan Hedenmalm (KTH) 📅 Tuesday 22 October 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Implementing (Multiple) Monte Carlo Tests

👤 Axel Gandy, Imperial College London 📅 Friday 18 October 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Simulating environmental systems: the benefits of being discrete

👤 Mike Bithell, Department of Geography 📅 Tuesday 15 October 2013, 19:15-21:30 📍 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Probability

Large N asymptotics of the Yang-Mills measure

👤 Thierry Levy (Paris VI) 📅 Tuesday 15 October 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

The Geometry of Needlets Excursion Sets

👤 Domenico Marinucci, University of Roma Tor Vergata 📅 Friday 11 October 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Michaelmas I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 09 October 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 11 September 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 21 August 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 17 July 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 3

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 12 June 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability

Percolation of finite clusters

👤 Geoffrey Grimmett (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 11 June 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Discrete Fourier transform methods in the analysis of nonstationary time series

👤 Suhasini Subba Rao, Texas A&M University 📅 Friday 31 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 29 May 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Probability

Self-avoiding walk on regular graphs

👤 Zhongyang Li (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 28 May 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

What is the chance that the match is coincidence?

👤 Richard Gill, Leiden University 📅 Friday 24 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Nodal length fluctuations for arithmetic random waves.

👤 Igor Wigman, (King's College London) 📅 Tuesday 21 May 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Classification Using Censored Functional Data

👤 Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne 📅 Friday 17 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 15 May 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (LG, Central building)

Probability

Nucleation and growth in the Ising model at very low temperatures (joint work with Francesco Manzo, Roma)

👤 Raphael Cerf (Université Paris-Sud) 📅 Tuesday 14 May 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

On the Computational and Statistical Interface and "Big Data"

👤 Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley 📅 Friday 10 May 2013, 15:45-16:45 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute

Statistics

From depth to local depth : a focus on centrality

👤 Davy Paindaveine, Université libre de Bruxelles 📅 Friday 03 May 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (LG, Central building)

Statistics

Approximating Data

👤 Laurie Davies, Univeristy of Duisburg-Essen 📅 Friday 26 April 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

WHAT GALOIS THEORY CAN TEACH US ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS: A COSMIC GALOIS GROUP?

👤 Pierre Cartier (Institut Des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques) 📅 Thursday 25 April 2013, 14:00-17:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Cambridge Statistics Initiative (CSI)

Cambridge Statistics Initiative One-Day Meeting 2013

👤 Various speakers 📅 Monday 22 April 2013, 09:00-17:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter Break

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 03 April 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (First floor, Pavillion B)

Statistics Reading Group

Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces in Non-parametric Statistics

⚠️ Note the unusual time and location to allow attendance at the RSS Ordinary meeting

👤 Bharath Sriperumbudur, Statistical Laboratory 📅 Wednesday 13 March 2013, 13:15-14:30 📍 MR-12

Probability

Connectivity patterns in loop percolation and constant term identities

👤 Dan Romik (UC Davis) 📅 Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

The Bayesian Approach To Inverse Problems

👤 Andrew Stuart, University of Warwick 📅 Friday 08 March 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent IV

👤 Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 06 March 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

Robust calibration of models in finance

👤 Professor Josef Teichmann (ETH University of Zurich) 📅 Tuesday 05 March 2013, 17:00-18:00 📍 CMS, MR4

Statistics

Frequentist coverage and adaptation of nonparametric Bayesian credible sets

👤 Harry van Zanten, Universiteit van Amsterdam 📅 Friday 01 March 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Minimax lower bound using Assouad's method

👤 Arlene Kim (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Wednesday 27 February 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5, CMS

Probability

Discrete holomorphicity and Ising model transfer matrix formalism

👤 Kalle Kytölä (Helsinki) 📅 Tuesday 26 February 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Optimization meets Statistics: Fast global convergence for high-dimensional statistical recovery

👤 Martin Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley 📅 Friday 22 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent III

👤 Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

A consistency estimate for Kac's model of elastic collisions in a dilute gas

👤 James Norris (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 19 February 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Pareto Optimality in Coalition Formation

👤 Paul Harrenstein (University of Oxford) 📅 Monday 18 February 2013, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Strong Oracle Optimality of Folded Concave Penalized Estimation

👤 Jianqing Fan, Princeton University 📅 Friday 15 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Efficient implementation of Markov chain Monte Carlo when using an unbiased likelihood estimator

👤 Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford 📅 Friday 15 February 2013, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Adaptive algorithms for Stratified Sampling Monte Carlo

⚠️ Note the earlier time and different room to allow attendance at the RSS Ordinary Meeting

👤 Alexandra Carpentier (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:00-15:30 📍 MR9, CMS

Probability

Flows driven by rough paths

👤 Ismael Bailleul (IRMAR) 📅 Tuesday 12 February 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Strongly polynomial algorithm for a class of nonlinear minimum-cost flow problems

👤 László Végh (LSE) 📅 Monday 11 February 2013, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Local Bilinear Multiple-Output Quantile Regression: from $L_1$ Optimization to Regression Depth

👤 Marc Hallin, ECARES, Universite libre de Bruxelles and ORFE, Princeton University 📅 Friday 08 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent II

👤 Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Self-avoiding walks, one-third and two-thirds, and KPZ universality

👤 Alan Hammond (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 05 February 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Local Optimality in Algebraic Path Problems

👤 Timothy Griffin (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 04 February 2013, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

When Bayesians Can't Handle the Truth

👤 Cosma Shalizi, Carnegie Mellon University 📅 Friday 01 February 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Theory and applications of proper scoring rules

👤 Philip Dawid (Statistical Laboratory) 📅 Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5, CMS

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Intermediated Exchange: Theory and Experiments

👤 Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 29 January 2013, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Finite range decomposition of free fields

👤 Roland Bauerschmidt (UBC) 📅 Tuesday 29 January 2013, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication

👤 Rosemary Bailey, Queen Mary University of London 📅 Friday 25 January 2013, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent I

👤 Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Diffusivity of random walk in divergence free random drift field in 2d

👤 Balint Toth (TU Budapest ) 📅 Tuesday 22 January 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

The free Bose gas and permutations of integers

👤 Thomas Richthammer (Munich) 📅 Tuesday 15 January 2013, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Winter 2012

👤 Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 12 December 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Statistics

Minimax Lower Bounds

👤 Adityanand Guntuboyina, UC Berkeley 📅 Friday 30 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 28 November 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

Hunting down the Black Swan: Correlation, Contagion & Endogenous Risk in Financial Markets

👤 Professor Rama Cont (Imperial College London) 📅 Tuesday 27 November 2012, 17:00-18:00 📍 CMS, MR2

Probability

A new approach to the Brownian web

👤 Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 27 November 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Stability

👤 Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley 📅 Monday 26 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

General Truthfulness Characterizations Via Convex Analysis

👤 Ian Kash (MSR Cambridge) 📅 Monday 26 November 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Random Fraction of a Biased Sample: old models and a new one

👤 Geurt Jongbloed, TU Delft, EURANDOM 📅 Friday 23 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Invariant and unimodular measures in the theory of random graphs

👤 Vadim Kaimanovich (University of Ottawa) 📅 Tuesday 20 November 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Curvature, Sphere Theorems, and the Ricci Flow

⚠️ To be followed by a reception in the central core

👤 Prof. Simon Brendle (Stanford) 📅 Monday 19 November 2012, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Pathways to Equilibria, Pretty Pictures and Diagrams (PPAD)

👤 Bernhard von Stengel (LSE) 📅 Monday 19 November 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Interim Monitoring of Clinical Trials: Decision Theory, Dynamic Programming and Optimal Stopping

👤 Chris Jennison, University of Bath 📅 Friday 16 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 14 November 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

On the Tradeoff between Economic Efficiency and Strategyproofness in Randomized Social Choice

👤 Markus Brill (TU Munich) 📅 Monday 12 November 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Theoretical Analysis of Crowdsourced Content Curation

👤 Greg Stoddard (Northwestern) 📅 Monday 05 November 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

A semiparametric model for heterogeneous panel data with fixed effects

👤 Oliver Linton, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 02 November 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

On the monotonicity of the speed of biased random walk on a Galton-Watson tree without leaves

👤 Alexander Fribergh (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) 📅 Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Adversarial Option Pricing: How Robust is Black-Scholes?

👤 Rafael M. Frongillo (Berkeley) 📅 Monday 29 October 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Suprema of Chaos Processes and the Restricted Isometry Property

👤 Felix Krahmer (Goettingen) 📅 Friday 26 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Open Afternoon

👤 James Norris 📅 Thursday 25 October 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

SLE(8/3)-bubbles

👤 Dmitry Belyaev (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 23 October 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Robust and Frugal Mechanisms for Hiring a Team

👤 Mahyar Salek (MSR Cambridge) 📅 Monday 22 October 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Wavelet-based estimation of the long memory parameter in Gaussian non-gappy and gappy time series

👤 Peter Craigmile, University of Glasgow 📅 Friday 19 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 17 October 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Zero-temperature Stochastic 2D Ising model and anisotropic curve-shortening flow

👤 Hubert Lacoin (Université Paris Dauphine ) 📅 Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Prioritising Diversity in School Choice

👤 Aytek Erdil (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 15 October 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Probability

Space-time percolation and detection by mobile nodes

👤 Alexandre Stauffer (Microsoft Research) 📅 Tuesday 09 October 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Nonparametric regression for locally stationary time series

👤 Michael Vogt, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 05 October 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 19 September 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 22 August 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 18 July 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Probability

Recurrence of planar graph limits

👤 Ori Gurel-Gurevich (University of British Columbia) 📅 Tuesday 17 July 2012, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 20 June 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Probability

Variations of the Mermin--Wagner theorem

👤 Yuri Suhov (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 19 June 2012, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Valuation Compressions in Combinatorial Auctions

👤 Paul Dütting (EPFL) 📅 Monday 18 June 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Mordell Lectures

Categorical dynamics

👤 Paul Seidel (MIT) 📅 Thursday 14 June 2012, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, CMS

Statistics Reading Group

Graphical communication of variability, risk and uncertainty

👤 David Spiegelhalter (Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 13 June 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR2, CMS

Statistics

Model and estimator selection for density estimation with L2-loss

👤 Lucien Birgé, Paris VI 📅 Tuesday 12 June 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Simple Dynamics in Large Games

👤 R. Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) 📅 Monday 11 June 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Searching for Multiple Hidden Objects

👤 Thomas Lidbetter (LSE) 📅 Monday 11 June 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Continuous-time Importance Sampling for Multivariate Diffusions

👤 Paul Fearnhead, Lancaster University 📅 Friday 08 June 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 06 June 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Investing and Stopping, and Firms, Banks and Households

👤 Moritz Duembgen and Pawel Zaczkowski (U. of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 04 June 2012, 13:30-14:30 📍 CMS, MR14

Statistics

Likelihood based inference for current status data on a grid: a boundary phenomenon and an adaptive inference procedure

👤 Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan 📅 Friday 01 June 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Modern advances in likelihood ratio inference

👤 Moulinath Banerjee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) 📅 Wednesday 30 May 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR2, CMS

Probability

On the continuity of SLE(k) curves in k and their behavior at the tip

👤 Fredrik Johansson Viklund (Columbia) 📅 Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

The Topological Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality

⚠️ Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Pure Mathematics

👤 Danny Calegari (Cambridge) 📅 Monday 28 May 2012, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Branching particle systems with selection

👤 Lee Zhuo Zhao (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 28 May 2012, 13:30-14:30 📍 CMS, MR14

Statistics

Modelling Network Data

👤 Patrick Wolfe, University College London 📅 Friday 25 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 23 May 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Managing Air Traffic Disruptions Through Strategic Prioritization

👤 Ian Kash (MSR Cambridge) 📅 Monday 21 May 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

The Merton Problem with a drawdown constraint on consumption

👤 Arun Thillaisundaram (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 21 May 2012, 13:30-14:30 📍 CMS, MR14

Statistics

Statistical inference for compound regression

👤 Alexandre Tsybakov, Université Paris VI 📅 Friday 18 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Edge reinforced random walks, Vertex reinforced jump process, and the SuSy hyperbolic sigma model.

👤 Pierre Tarres (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 15 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Analytic Results on a Decentralized Combinatorial Auction

👤 Richard Steinberg (LSE) 📅 Monday 14 May 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

From statistical estimation to well localized frames, via heat kernel

👤 Gerard Kerkyacharian, Université Paris VI 📅 Friday 11 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 09 May 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4

Statistics

Grouping strategies for denoising

👤 Dominique Picard 📅 Tuesday 08 May 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Exponential Lower Bounds for Solving Infinitary Payoff Games and Linear Programs

👤 Oliver Friedmann (LMU Munich) 📅 Monday 07 May 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Large-scale convex optimization for machine learning

👤 Francis Bach, INRIA, Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure 📅 Friday 04 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Log-concave distributions: definitions, properties, and consequences

👤 Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington 📅 Wednesday 02 May 2012, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Magnetization field at criticality in the Ising model

👤 Christophe Garban 📅 Tuesday 01 May 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

History of Statistics (up to ~1900)

👤 Elena Yudovina (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 30 April 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR14

Statistics

The distribution of the maximal difference between a Brownian bridge and its concave majorant

👤 Fadoua Balabdaoui, Université Paris Dauphine 📅 Friday 27 April 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Generalized sub-Riemannian cut loci and implied/local volatility smiles

👤 Peter Friz (TU Berlin) 📅 Tuesday 24 April 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

An overview of shape-constrained estimation problems

👤 Yining Chen (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 12 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR12

Statistics

Hilbert Space Embedding of Probability Measures: Theory and Applications

👤 Bharath Sriperumbudur 📅 Friday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 07 March 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11

Probability

Loop statistics for dimer models on the torus

👤 Cedric Boutillier (Paris) 📅 Tuesday 06 March 2012, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

High-dimensional statistics

👤 Rajen Shah 📅 Monday 05 March 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR12

Statistics

Second-Order Comparison of Functional Data with Applications to DNA Geom

👤 Victor Panaretos, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne 📅 Friday 02 March 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Random rigidity in the free group

👤 Danny Calegari (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 28 February 2012, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Excursions of Brownian motion and some applications

👤 Moritz Duembgen (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 27 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR12

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 22 February 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Random Toeplitz matrices

👤 Arnab Sen (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 21 February 2012, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

A quick tour through dynamic programming

👤 Pawel Zaczkowski 📅 Monday 20 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR12

Statistics

Nonparametric estimation of the division rate of a size-structured population

👤 Vincent Rivoirard, Université Paris-Dauphine 📅 Friday 17 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Goodness-of-fit tests for noisy directional data

👤 Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc, Université Paris Sud, Orsay 📅 Friday 17 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Disorder, entropy and harmonic functions

👤 Hugo Duminil (Geneva) 📅 Tuesday 14 February 2012, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

An Introduction to No-Arbitrage Pricing

👤 Arun Thillaisundaram (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 13 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR12

Statistics

Safe Learning: How to Modify Bayesian Inference when All Models are Wrong

👤 Peter Grünwald, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam 📅 Friday 10 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 08 February 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Another natural random triangulation of the disk

👤 Wendelin Werner (Paris-Sud) 📅 Tuesday 07 February 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Branching Brownian motion with selection

👤 Pascal Maillard (UPMC) 📅 Tuesday 07 February 2012, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Marginal Models for Dependent, Clustered, and Longitudinal Categorical Data

👤 Wicher Bergsma, London School of Economics and Political Science 📅 Friday 03 February 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Analytical and Combinatorial Problems via Probability

⚠️ Joint Seminar with Combinatorics Series

👤 Jordan Stoyanov (Newcastle) 📅 Thursday 02 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Robust Statistics: An Overview and Some Questions

👤 Subhra Sankar Dhar, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 01 February 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR5, CMS

Probability

Connectivity properties of random interlacements

👤 Balazs Rath (ETH, Zurich) 📅 Tuesday 31 January 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Scaling limits for anisotropic Hastings-Levitov type clusters

👤 Alan Sola (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 31 January 2012, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

An Introduction to Price Indices

👤 James Lawrence (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 30 January 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR12

Statistics

Approximate Bayesian Computation for model selection

👤 Christian Robert, Universite Paris-Dauphine and IUF 📅 Friday 27 January 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 25 January 2012, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Energy of cutoff functions and heat kernel upper bounds

👤 Martin Barlow (UBC) 📅 Tuesday 24 January 2012, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

TCP/IP: what does it do, and why does it work

👤 Elena Yudovina (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 23 January 2012, 14:00-15:00 📍 CMS, MR9

Statistics

Random forests

👤 Gérard Biau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie 📅 Friday 20 January 2012, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Organizational meeting

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 18 January 2012, 13:00-14:00 📍 CMS, MR9

Probability

Probabilistic models for causal quantum gravity and scale dependent spectral dimension

👤 Stefan Zohren (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 17 January 2012, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Spectral statistics of large random matrices

👤 Antti Knowles (Harvard) 📅 Tuesday 17 January 2012, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models

👤 Samuel Kou, Harvard University 📅 Friday 02 December 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Critical 2-dimensional Ising model: local statistics and combinatorics via dimers

👤 Beatrice de Tiliere (Paris) 📅 Tuesday 29 November 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 TBC, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Alias Detection and Spectral Correction for Locally Stationary Time Series

👤 Idris Eckley, Lancaster University 📅 Friday 25 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Experiments with dynamic networks of virtual routers

⚠️ This talk is a part of the SRG-SEMINAR series, and it is listed here as it may be of interest to this seminar's audience as well.

👤 Richard G. Clegg (UCL) 📅 Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 FW26, Computer Lab, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

D-optimal design of experiments

👤 Radoslav Harman, Comenius University 📅 Thursday 24 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 CMS, MR9

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 23 November 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Algorithmic Barriers from Phase Transitions

👤 Dimitris Achlioptas (University of Athens & RACTI) 📅 Tuesday 22 November 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Algorithmic Barriers from Phase Transitions

👤 Dimitris Achlioptas (University of Athens & RACTI) 📅 Tuesday 22 November 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

CMS Colloquia

Black holes and extra dimensions

👤 Dr Harvey Reall, DAMTP 📅 Monday 21 November 2011, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Excursions for Brownian motion -- POSTPONED

👤 Moritz Duembgen (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 21 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 CMS, MR13

Statistics

The aggregation problems in learning theory

👤 Guillaume Lecue, CNRS, Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-vallee 📅 Friday 18 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

The Merton Problem for Optimal Investment

👤 Arun Thillaisundaram (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 17 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 CMS, MR9

Statistics

Modelling electricity day-ahead prices by multivariate Levy semistationary processes

👤 Almut Veraart, Imperial College London 📅 Friday 11 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Random matrices and something

👤 Andrei Bejan (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 10 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 CMS, MR9

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 09 November 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

On the relation of random unitary matrices and zeta function zeros

👤 Vladislav Kargin (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 08 November 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Speed of random walks

👤 Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research, Redmond) 📅 Tuesday 08 November 2011, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Data-driven calibration of linear estimators with minimal penalties, with an application to multi-task regression

👤 Sylvain Arlot, École Normale Supérieure, Paris 📅 Friday 04 November 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Mixing times of Markov chains

👤 Guolong Li 📅 Thursday 03 November 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 CMS, MR10

Statistics Reading Group

Statistical problems in Astronomy and High Energy Physics

👤 Bodhi Sen, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 02 November 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR4, CMS

Probability

Cover times, blanket times, and the Gaussian free field.

👤 Yuval Peres Microsoft Research, Redmond 📅 Tuesday 01 November 2011, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

On adaptation of false discovery rate

👤 Etienne Roquain, Université Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie 📅 Friday 28 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Non-parametric density estimation

👤 Andre Kueh 📅 Thursday 27 October 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 CMS, MR9

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 26 October 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Statistics

Statistical Multiscale Analysis: From Signal Detection to Nanoscale Photonic Imaging

👤 Axel Munk, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Georg August University Goettingen and Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry 📅 Tuesday 25 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Critical Temperature of Periodic Ising Models

👤 Zhongyang Li (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 25 October 2011, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Focussed Information Criteria for Model Selection and Model Averaging

👤 Nils Hjort, University of Oslo 📅 Friday 21 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Excursion theory for a finite-state Markov process

👤 Moritz Duembgen (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 20 October 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 CMS, MR9

Probability

Mixing times are hitting times of large sets

👤 Perla Sousi (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 18 October 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Bayesian inference for Markov processes with application to biochemical network dynamics

👤 Darren Wilkinson, University of Newcastle 📅 Friday 14 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Braess's paradox

👤 Elena Yudovina (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 13 October 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 CMS, MR9

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 12 October 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Universality and RSW for inhomogeneous bond percolation

👤 Ioan Manolescu (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 11 October 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Boundary estimation in the presence of measurement error with unknown variance

👤 Ingrid van Keilegom, Université catholique de Louvain 📅 Friday 07 October 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Organizational meeting

👤 Elena Yudovina (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 06 October 2011, 15:15-16:00 📍 CMS, MR to be confirmed

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 28 September 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Unbiased Shifts for Brownian Motion

👤 Hermann Thorisson (University of Iceland) 📅 Monday 26 September 2011, 14:15-15:15 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Initiative (CSI)

CSI Special One-Day Meeting

👤 See website 📅 Monday 26 September 2011, 09:00-17:00 📍 Isaac Newton Institute

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 24 August 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 20 July 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Control of Stochastic Processing Networks

👤 R. J. Williams (Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego) 📅 Monday 11 July 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats clinic Easter IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 22 June 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11

Probability

Symmetric processes and Ocone martingales

👤 Thorsten Rheinlander 📅 Tuesday 14 June 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Statistical image processing for electron microscopy on molecular machines

👤 Sjors Scheres, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology 📅 Monday 13 June 2011, 14:00-15:30 📍 MR11, CMS

Probability

Connectivity in discrete random processes

👤 Po-Shen Loh (Carnegie-Mellon) 📅 Thursday 09 June 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

An Introduction to Dynamic Causal Inference and Multi-state Modelling in Longitudinal Data

👤 Aidan O'Keeffe (MRC-BSU, Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 09 June 2011, 15:15-16:00 📍 CMS, MR11

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats clinic III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 08 June 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Efficient entropy-based detection of change-points in streaming data

👤 James Cruise (Heriot-Watt University) 📅 Monday 06 June 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Non-parametric regression with observations at imprecise times: Bayesian radiocarbon calibration

👤 Tim Heaton (Sheffield) 📅 Friday 03 June 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Bayesian Clustering with the Dirichlet-Process Prior

👤 Dr. Audrey Q Fu, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience 📅 Wednesday 01 June 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR11, CMS

Probability

Dynamics of the evolving Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent

👤 Jason Schweinsberg (UCSD) 📅 Tuesday 31 May 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Media landscape in Twitter: A world of new conventions and political diversity

👤 Jisun An (Computer Lab, University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 30 May 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Additive Models for Quantile Regression: Model Selection and Confidence Bandaids

👤 Roger Koenker (Univ. Illinois) 📅 Friday 27 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Simultaneous confidences bands with the volume-of-tube formula and spline estimators

👤 Tatyana Krivobokova (Goettingen) 📅 Friday 27 May 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats clinic Easter II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 25 May 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11

Probability

Probabilistic Euler Scheme for Fractional Conservational Laws

👤 Raphael Roux (Dauphine) 📅 Tuesday 24 May 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Hawkes process as models for some genomic data

👤 Patricia Reynaud-Bouret (CNRS and Univ. Nice) 📅 Friday 20 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Mutually beneficial contingent claims in incomplete markets

👤 Ezequiel Antar (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 19 May 2011, 15:15-16:00 📍 CMS, MR11

Statistics Reading Group

Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation

👤 Florian Gach, Statistical Laboratory 📅 Wednesday 18 May 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR11, CMS

Probability

Aggregation and Coalescence III

👤 James Norris (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 17 May 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Behavioral Network Formation

👤 Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania) 📅 Monday 16 May 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Bernstein - von Mises Theorems for general functionals

👤 Judith Rousseau (Paris Dauphine) 📅 Friday 13 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Bayesian non-parametric analysis of diffusions

👤 Gareth Roberts (Warwick) 📅 Friday 13 May 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats clinic Easter I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 11 May 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11

Probability

Old and new results on stationary tessellations

👤 Guenter Last (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) 📅 Tuesday 10 May 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Aggregation and Coalescence II

👤 James Norris (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 10 May 2011, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Likelihood Inference and Bayesian MCMC

👤 Don Pierce (Oregon State University) 📅 Friday 06 May 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Littlemann Paths: an interface between representations of semi simple Lie algebras and probabilistic study of functions on the set of walks on lattices

👤 Marjorie Batchelor (DPMMS) 📅 Thursday 05 May 2011, 15:15-16:00 📍 CMS, MR11

Statistics Reading Group

Exact simulation

👤 Tom Dean, Engineering department 📅 Wednesday 04 May 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR11, CMS

Probability

Aggregation and Coalescence I

👤 James Norris (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 03 May 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Viral Processes by Random Walks on Random Graphs

👤 Mohammed Abdullah, KCL 📅 Monday 02 May 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Mordell Lectures

Short presentations of finite groups

👤 Alex Lubotzky 📅 Thursday 28 April 2011, 17:00-18:30 📍 Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

On the estimation of causal associations with a binary outcome

👤 Stephen Burgess (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 28 April 2011, 15:15-16:15 📍 CMS, MR11

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of Mathematics and Biology

👤 Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute), Glenn Vinnicombe (Engineering Department), Ottoline Leyser (Sainsbury Laboratory) 📅 Tuesday 26 April 2011, 14:00-19:00 📍 Wolfson Room (MR2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Coalescent theory

👤 Clement Foucart (visiting from Universite Pierre et Marie Curie) 📅 Thursday 21 April 2011, 15:15-16:15 📍 CMS, MR11

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Easter vacation Statistics Clinic

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 06 April 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Causality

👤 Nayia Constantinou 📅 Thursday 31 March 2011, 15:15-16:15 📍 CMS, MR11

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 8

👤 Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University) 📅 Friday 25 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Generalized sampling and infinite-dimensional compressed sensing

👤 Anders Hansen (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 24 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 7

👤 Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University) 📅 Thursday 24 March 2011, 14:00-15:30 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 6

👤 Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University) 📅 Thursday 24 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Minimisation of sparse higher-order energies for large-scale problems in imaging

👤 Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 23 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 5

👤 Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University) 📅 Wednesday 23 March 2011, 14:00-15:30 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 4

👤 Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University) 📅 Wednesday 23 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

The Dantzig selector for high dimensional statistical problems

👤 Vincent Rivoirard (Université Paris-Dauphine) 📅 Tuesday 22 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 3

👤 Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University) 📅 Tuesday 22 March 2011, 14:00-15:30 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 2

👤 Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University) 📅 Tuesday 22 March 2011, 10:00-11:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed Sensing in RF

👤 Mike Davies (University of Edinburgh) 📅 Monday 21 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

LMS Invited Lectures 2011

Compressed sensing: Lecture 1

👤 Emmanuel Candés (Stanford University) 📅 Monday 21 March 2011, 14:00-15:30 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Critical temperature of the square lattice Potts model

👤 Hugo Dominil-Copin (Geneva) 📅 Tuesday 15 March 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Matchings on large diluted graphs : The cavity method at positive temperature.

👤 Charles Bordenave, Université de Toulouse 📅 Monday 14 March 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

M-estimation strategies for the ranking problem

👤 Nicolas Vayatis, ENS Cachan 📅 Friday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Large deviations

👤 Elena Yudovina ( DPMMS) 📅 Thursday 10 March 2011, 15:15-16:00 📍 CMS, MR4

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 09 March 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

The branching Brownian motion seen from its tip

👤 Julien Berestycki (Paris VI) 📅 Tuesday 08 March 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats clinic Easter III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Tuesday 08 March 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Stability conditions for some random multiple-access protocols with spatial interactions

👤 Seva Shneer, Heriot-Watt University 📅 Monday 07 March 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Detecting Change Points in Multidimensional Functional Data

👤 John Aston, Warwick 📅 Friday 04 March 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Model criticism in complex Bayesian evidence synthesis for infectious disease models

👤 Anne Presanis, MRC Biostatistics Unit 📅 Wednesday 02 March 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR5, CMS

Probability

New results on spectra of multi-particle Schrödinger operators with random potentials.

👤 Yuri Suhov (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 01 March 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Large-scale asymptotics in some queueing models

👤 Yuriy Suhov (Statslab) 📅 Monday 28 February 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Markov chain Monte Carlo on Riemann manifolds

👤 Mark Girolami (UCL) 📅 Friday 25 February 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Random matrices

👤 Stephanie Jacquot (Statslab) 📅 Thursday 24 February 2011, 15:15-16:00 📍 CMS, MR4

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 23 February 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Self-interacting random walks and their asymptotic behavior

👤 Wendelin Werner (Universite Paris-Sud and ENS) 📅 Tuesday 22 February 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Approximate Inference for the Loss-Calibrated Bayesian

👤 Simon Lacoste-Julien (Cambridge) 📅 Friday 18 February 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation

👤 Florian Gach, Statistical Laboratory 📅 Wednesday 16 February 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR5, CMS

Probability

A probabilistic approach to Carne's bound

👤 Remi Peyre (UPMA 📅 Tuesday 15 February 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Mutations and Card Shuffling

👤 Richard Pymar (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 10 February 2011, 15:15-16:00 📍 CMS, MR4

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 09 February 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Scaling limits of forest fire processes.

👤 Nicolas Fournier (Marne-La-Vallée) 📅 Tuesday 08 February 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Solving Linear Equations

👤 Professor Arieh Iserles (DAMTP) 📅 Monday 07 February 2011, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Mobile geometric graphs: detection, coverage and percolation

👤 Perla Sousi ( Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.) 📅 Monday 07 February 2011, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Bayesian semiparametrics with Gaussian process priors

👤 Ismael Castillo (CNRS and Paris 6) 📅 Friday 04 February 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Frameworks for causal inference

👤 Roland Ramsahai, Statistical Laboratory 📅 Wednesday 02 February 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR2, CMS

Probability

Probabilistic representation of quantum correlation

👤 Daniel Ueltschi (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 01 February 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Simultaneous local and global adaptivity of Bayesian wavelet estimators in nonparametric regression

👤 Natalia Bochkina (Edinburgh) 📅 Friday 28 January 2011, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

The limits of arbitrage, exploring "noise traders" risk

👤 Omri Ross 📅 Thursday 27 January 2011, 15:15-16:00 📍 CMS, MR4

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 26 January 2011, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Continuity of mutual information and the entropy-power inequality

👤 Mark Kelbert (Swansea) 📅 Wednesday 26 January 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Abelian sandpiles on infinite graphs

👤 Antal Jarai (Bath) 📅 Tuesday 25 January 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Hedging under arbitrage

👤 Johannes Ruf (Columbia) 📅 Tuesday 25 January 2011, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Time inhomogeneous Markov chains: merging and stability

👤 Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell) 📅 Tuesday 18 January 2011, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas V (Extra session: note change of venue)

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 08 December 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Talk cancelled

👤 Michael Keane (Wesleyan University) 📅 Tuesday 30 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Concentration inequalities by the entropy method, variations

👤 Stephane Boucheron (Universite Paris 7) 📅 Friday 26 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Concentration inequalities by the entropy method, variations

👤 Stephane Boucheron (Universite Paris 7) 📅 Friday 26 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 24 November 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Lifetime of relativistic diffusions

👤 Ismael Bailleul (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 23 November 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Load balancing in stochastic networks

👤 Elena Yudovina ( DPMMS) 📅 Monday 22 November 2010, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

On adaptive nonparametric inference

👤 Richard Nickl (Cambridge) 📅 Friday 19 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

New Thinking about Statistical Inference and its Application to Climate Prediction

👤 Arthur Dempster (Harvard) 📅 Wednesday 17 November 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Regret Bounds for Gaussian Process Bandit Problems

👤 Steffen Grunewalder (University College London) 📅 Friday 12 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 10 November 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Bulk scaling limit of the Laguerre ensemble

👤 Stephanie Jacquot (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 09 November 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Applications of Bernstein polynomials in Statistics

👤 Sonia Petrone (University Bocconi Milan) 📅 Friday 05 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Relativistic stochastic processes

👤 Fabrice Debbasch (Paris VI) 📅 Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Coalescing systems of non-Brownian particles

👤 Arnab Sen (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 02 November 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Insensitive, maximum stable allocations converge to proportional fairness

👤 Neil Walton (University of Cambridge, Statistical Laboratory.) 📅 Monday 01 November 2010, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Sparsity pattern aggregation for convex stochastic optimization.

👤 Phillipe Rigollet (Princeton University) 📅 Friday 29 October 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 27 October 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Statistics at the tip of a branching random walk, and simple models of evolution with selection.

👤 Bernard Derrida (ENS Paris) 📅 Tuesday 26 October 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Queues with skill based routing under FCFS - ALIS (Assign Longest Idle Server) regime

👤 Gideon Weiss, The University of Haifa 📅 Monday 25 October 2010, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Control variates for reversible MCMC samplers

👤 Petros Dellaportas (Athens University) 📅 Friday 22 October 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Near-critical scaling limits

👤 Christophe Garban (CNRS, Lyon) 📅 Tuesday 19 October 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

The Pointless Universe

⚠️ Inaugural Lecture as 18th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

👤 Professor Michael Green DAMTP 📅 Monday 18 October 2010, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

The Weighted Proportional Resource Allocation

👤 Milan Vojnovic, Microsoft research Cambridge 📅 Monday 18 October 2010, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 13 October 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Stochastic Differential Games and Applications to Energy and Consumer Goods Markets

👤 Ronnie Sircar (Princeton) 📅 Tuesday 12 October 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Queues, Counters and Optimization

👤 R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 📅 Thursday 09 September 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Insensitive, maximum stable allocations converge to proportional fairness

👤 Neil Walton, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. 📅 Friday 20 August 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank

👤 Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University 📅 Tuesday 03 August 2010, 11:00-12:00 📍 Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Some Uses of Hashing in Networking Problems

👤 Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University 📅 Monday 02 August 2010, 14:15-15:15 📍 Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Probability

On the Range of a Random Walk In a Torus

👤 Eric Shellef (Weizmann Institute) 📅 Tuesday 15 June 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Easter IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 09 June 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 14

Statistics

Introduction to adaptive estimation

👤 Oleg Lepski (Universite de Provence) 📅 Friday 04 June 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Sparse Recovery in Linear Spans and Convex Hulls of Infinite Dictionaries

👤 Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech) 📅 Thursday 03 June 2010, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

An Introduction to High-Dimensional Problems, Sparsity and Oracle Inequalities

👤 Karim Lounici (Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 03 June 2010, 16:00-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Load Balancing via Random Local Search in Closed and Open systems

👤 Sarah Lilienthal, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 01 June 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

A Look at Partial Projections for Regression onto Text

👤 Matt Taddy (University of Chicago) 📅 Friday 28 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Easter III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 14

Statistics

Approximation by Log-Concave Distributions

👤 Lutz Dumbgen (University of Bern) 📅 Wednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Detection of critical events before public announcements

👤 Arne Lokka (LSE) 📅 Tuesday 25 May 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Order-theoretic properties of the Skorokhod reflection mapping.

👤 Takis Konstantopoulos, Heriot-Watt 📅 Thursday 20 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics Reading Group

Online Expectation-Maximisation

👤 Chris Anagnostopoulos, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 19 May 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR5, CMS

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Statistical problems in complex networks

👤 Edoardo Airoldi - Harvard University, USA 📅 Wednesday 19 May 2010, 14:15-15:15 📍 Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building

Probability

Stochastic geometry of the quantum Ising model

👤 Jakob Bjornberg (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 18 May 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Postulating monotonicity in nonparametric Bayesian regression

👤 Elja Arjas (University of Helsinki) 📅 Friday 14 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Easter II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 12 May 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 14

Probability

Branching Brownian motion in an inhomogeneous breeding potentia - CANCELLED

👤 Simon Harris (University of Bath) 📅 Tuesday 11 May 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

On a Heath-Jarrow-Morton approach for stock options

👤 Jan Kallsen, University of Kiel 📅 Tuesday 11 May 2010, 16:30-18:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Dirac Lecture

Phase Transitions: Scaling, Universality and Renormalization

👤 Professor Leo P. Kadanoff University of Chicago and Perimeter Institute 📅 Tuesday 11 May 2010, 14:45-16:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Sparse NonGaussian Component Analysis

👤 Vladimir Spokoiny (Weierstrass Institute) 📅 Friday 07 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Rollo Davidson Lectures

Discrete complex analysis and probability

👤 Stanislav Smirnov (University of Geneva) 📅 Wednesday 05 May 2010, 17:00-18:00 📍 Wolfson Lecture Room (AL.06), Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

Discrete complex analysis and probability

👤 Stanislav Smirnov (University of Geneva) 📅 Wednesday 05 May 2010, 17:00-18:00 📍 A1.06 Wolfson Lecture Room , CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Recent Advances in Particle Based Simulation Methods

👤 J.D.Lawrence@statslab.cam.ac.uk 📅 Wednesday 05 May 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR5, CMS

Probability

Asymptotic behaviour of near-critical branching Brownian motion

👤 Nathanaël Berestycki (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 04 May 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Distilled Sensing: Adaptive Sequential Experimental Designs for Large-Scale Multiple Hypothesis Testing

👤 Rob Nowak (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 📅 Friday 30 April 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Easter I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 28 April 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 14

Probability

Recursive triangulations and fragmentation theory

👤 Nicolas Curien (ENS) 📅 Tuesday 27 April 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

An investigation of proportionally fair ramp metering

👤 R. J. Gibbens, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Monday 26 April 2010, 15:00-16:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Transport that Waits for You: Planning and Operating Personal Rapid Transit Systems

👤 John Lees-Miller (University of Bristol) 📅 Monday 26 April 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Stochastic Volatility Models Including Open, Close, High and Low Prices - NOW CANCELLED

👤 Enrique ter Horst (Euromed School of Management) 📅 Friday 23 April 2010, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

On Bayes-Nash implementation of combinatorial auctions: structure and efficiency

👤 Hajek, B (Illinois) 📅 Wednesday 17 March 2010, 15:00-17:00 📍 MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Martingale calculus and a maximal inequality for supermartingales

👤 Hajek, B (Illinois) 📅 Monday 15 March 2010, 15:00-17:00 📍 MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Asymptotic equivalence and sufficiency for volatility estimation under microstructure noise

👤 Markus Reiss (Humboldt University Berlin) 📅 Friday 12 March 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 10 March 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

The noisy veto-voter model: a Recursive Distributional Equation on [0,1]

👤 Saul Jacka (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 09 March 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Dynamics of superfluid states of matter

👤 Dr Natasha Berloff (DAMTP) 📅 Monday 08 March 2010, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Identifying separated time scales in stochastic models of reaction networks

⚠️ Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

👤 Thomas Kurtz, University of Wisconsin - Madison 📅 Monday 08 March 2010, 15:00-16:00 📍 Seminar Room 2, CMS Gatehouse

Statistics

Smoothed absolute loadings principal components analysis

👤 Bernie Silverman (Oxford) 📅 Friday 05 March 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Random shapes and Sierpinski-type carpets

👤 Wendelin Werner (ENS Paris and Orsay) 📅 Friday 05 March 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Associative neural memories and oscillatory operation

⚠️ Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

👤 Peter Whittle, Univerisity of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 04 March 2010, 15:00-16:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics Reading Group

Variational methods continued

👤 David Knowles, Machine learning group, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 03 March 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR5, CMS

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Martingale Framework for Trust

⚠️ Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

👤 Bruce Hajek, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 📅 Monday 01 March 2010, 15:00-16:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

What's the right complexity measure for inferring causal relations?

👤 Dominik Janzing (Max Planck Institute Tuebingen) 📅 Friday 26 February 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 24 February 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Applications of a Markov mapping theorem

👤 Tom Kurtz (Wisconsin) 📅 Tuesday 23 February 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Simulation-based computation of the workload correlation function in a Levy-driven queue

⚠️ Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

👤 Michel Mandjes, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Eurandom, Eindhoven 📅 Monday 22 February 2010, 15:00-16:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

A Backward Particle Interpretation of Feynman-Kac Formulae

👤 Pierre Del Moral (INRIA Bordeaux) 📅 Friday 19 February 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

On combinatorial testing problems

👤 Gabor Lugosi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) 📅 Friday 19 February 2010, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

An Introduction to Variational Methods for Approximate Inference in Graphical Models

👤 Silvia Chiappa 📅 Wednesday 17 February 2010, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR5, CMS

Probability

Embeddings, entanglement, and percolation

👤 Geoffrey Grimmett (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 16 February 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Case-Control Studies when Cases are Extreme Values of a Continuous Variable

👤 David Steinberg (Tel Aviv University) 📅 Friday 12 February 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent II

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 10 February 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Quantitative chaos propagation estimates for jump processes

👤 Clement Mouhot (CNRS & Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 09 February 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Compressed sensing in infinite dimensions

👤 Anders Hansen (Cambridge) 📅 Friday 05 February 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Queuing systems with multi-type jobs and multi-type servers

👤 Prof. Gideon Weiss, University Haifa 📅 Thursday 04 February 2010, 15:00-16:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics Reading Group

Reversible jump MCMC

👤 Eleni Bakra, MRC Biostatistics Unit 📅 Wednesday 03 February 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5, CMS

Probability

Collision of random walks

👤 Perla Sousi (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 02 February 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Collision of random walks

👤 Perla Sousi, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. 📅 Tuesday 02 February 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Recent advances on quantum systems with random Hamiltonians

👤 Professor Yuri Suhov (DPMMS) 📅 Monday 01 February 2010, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Title: Ergodicity of a stress release point process seismic model with aftershocks

⚠️ Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

👤 Prof. Seguei Foss, Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Heriot-Watt. 📅 Monday 01 February 2010, 15:00-16:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Thick-pen transformation for time series

👤 Piotr Fryzlewicz (London School of Economics) 📅 Friday 29 January 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Lent I

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 27 January 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

CMS Colloquia

Special values of L-functions - an Ariadne's thread in number theory

👤 Professor Don Zagier (College de France) 📅 Monday 25 January 2010, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Diffusion and cascading behavior in random networks

⚠️ Joint with Probability Series and Joint with Newton Institue, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences Program.

👤 Marc LeLarge, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. 📅 Monday 25 January 2010, 15:00-16:00 📍 Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

On the Distribution of the Adaptive LASSO Estimator

👤 Ulrike Schneider (University of Goettingen) 📅 Friday 22 January 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

New approaches to Bayesian asymptotics

👤 Heather Battey, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 20 January 2010, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5, CMS

Probability

Scaling limits of random planar maps with large faces

👤 Gregory Miermont (Paris-Sud Orsay) 📅 Tuesday 19 January 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Anonymity via networks of mixes

👤 Venkat Anantharam, EECS Department, University of California Berkeley. 📅 Monday 18 January 2010, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Brunet-Derrida particle systems, free boundary problems and Wiener-Hopf equations

👤 Daniel Remenik, Cornell University 📅 Tuesday 12 January 2010, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Diffusion and cascading behavior in random networks

⚠️ Note unusual day and time: 3pm in MR5 (joint with Networks).

👤 Mark LeLarge (ENS Paris) 📅 Monday 11 January 2010, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Conditional Predictive Inference Post-Model Selection

👤 Hannes Leeb (Univ. Vienna) 📅 Friday 04 December 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Directed polymers in random environment with heavy tails.

👤 Oren Louidor (NYU) 📅 Friday 04 December 2009, 14:30-15:30 📍 Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas V

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 02 December 2009, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas IV

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 02 December 2009, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Percolation of random interlacements under small intensities

👤 Augusto Teixeira (ETH-Zürich) 📅 Wednesday 02 December 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 Newton Institute Gatehouse

CMS Colloquia

Integrability and String Theory

👤 Professor Nick Dorey 📅 Monday 30 November 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics: Gaussian process priors

⚠️ Joint with Probability Series

👤 Aad van der Vaart (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam) 📅 Friday 27 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

An introduction to sequential Monte Carlo methods

👤 Ioana Cosma, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 25 November 2009, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5, CMS

Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics: Gaussian process priors

⚠️ Joint with Probability Series

👤 Aad van der Vaart (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam) 📅 Wednesday 25 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Concentration inequalities for random matrix and operator eigenvalues

👤 Yuri Suhov 📅 Tuesday 24 November 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Bayesian nonrandom walk through the world of the queues

👤 Carmen Armero, University of Valencia 📅 Monday 23 November 2009, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

A Bayesian nonrandom walk through the world of the queues

👤 Carmen Armero, University of Valencia 📅 Monday 23 November 2009, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Empirical support for DNA match probabilities

👤 James Curran (Auckland) 📅 Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Stats Clinic Michaelmas III

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 18 November 2009, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Title to be confirmed

👤 Aleksander Mijatovic (Imperial College) 📅 Tuesday 17 November 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Temporal analysis and small world properties of social and technological networks.

👤 Cecillia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory. 📅 Monday 16 November 2009, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Statistical estimation of a multifractal function

👤 Marc Hoffmann (Paris) 📅 Friday 13 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Compressed Sensing - Introduction and Future Aspects

👤 Anders Hansen, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 11 November 2009, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5, CMS

Probability

Put-call Symmetry

👤 Mike Tehranchi (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 10 November 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Dynamics, Robustness and Multiscale Modularity of Complex Networks

👤 Renaud Lambiotte, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London. 📅 Monday 09 November 2009, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Soap film smoothing

👤 Simon Wood (Bath) 📅 Friday 06 November 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic, Michaelmas II, 2009

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Wednesday 04 November 2009, 16:30-18:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)

Probability

Drift, draft and structure: modelling evolution in a spatial continuum

👤 Alison Etheridge, Oxford (TBC) 📅 Tuesday 03 November 2009, 16:00-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Insensitivity results for the limit of a multi-class queueing network

👤 Neil Walton, University of Cambridge, Statistical Laboratory. 📅 Monday 02 November 2009, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Risk Hull Methods for Inverse Problems

👤 Laurent Cavalier (Marseille) 📅 Friday 30 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Bayesian Nonparametric Mixture Models

👤 Jurgen Van Gael, Engineering department, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 28 October 2009, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5, CMS

Probability

Sandpiles, Staircases and Self-organized criticality

👤 Anne Fey, Eindehoven 📅 Tuesday 27 October 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Bits and particles: Spin-glass analogies and beyond

👤 Adria Tauste, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering. 📅 Monday 26 October 2009, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Bayesian Methods in Cosmology

👤 Mike Hobson (Cambridge) 📅 Friday 23 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Probabilistic Expert Systems for Handling Artifacts in Complex DNA Mixtures

👤 Julia Mortera (University of Roma Tre) 📅 Wednesday 21 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Directed polymers and the quantum Toda lattice

👤 Neil O'Connell (Univ .Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 20 October 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Forward Smoothing using Sequential Monte Carlo with Application to Recursive Parameter Estimation

👤 Arnaud Doucet (Univ. of British Columbia and ISM Tokyo) 📅 Tuesday 20 October 2009, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Stochastic Modelling of Nanog-Oct4-Sox2 Gene Regulatory Network

👤 Yang Luo (University of Cambridge) 📅 Monday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

The Cauchy problem in general relativity

👤 Dr Mihalis Dafermos 📅 Monday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Choosing a good histogram

👤 Yannick Baraud (Univ. Nice) 📅 Friday 16 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

When can we quantify uncertainty?

👤 David Spiegelhalter, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 14 October 2009, 16:30-18:00 📍 MR5, CMS

Probability

The simple harmonic urn

👤 Stas Voklov (Univ. Bristol) 📅 Tuesday 13 October 2009, 16:00-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Busy Periods in Fluid Queues with Multiple Emptying Input States

👤 Prof. Peter Harrison, Imperial College London. 📅 Monday 12 October 2009, 14:30-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Total variation and curves

👤 Arne Kovac (Univ. Bristol) 📅 Friday 09 October 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Initiative (CSI)

CSI Special One-Day Meeting

👤 http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/CSI/onedaymeeting.html 📅 Friday 25 September 2009, 09:00-17:00 📍 Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Pricing, Competition, and Routing in Relay Networks

👤 Edmund Yeh, Electrical Engineering, Yale University. 📅 Wednesday 12 August 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Network-Based Ranking Systems in Paired Comparisons.

👤 Dr Juyong Park, Seoul National University. 📅 Wednesday 24 June 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Working with over-parameterized models

👤 David Firth, University of Warwick 📅 Friday 12 June 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

The Flow of Information in Complex Networks

⚠️ Kuwait Foundation Lecture

👤 Jon Kleinberg (Cornell). 📅 Thursday 11 June 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Statistics Reading Group

The Dantzig Selector

👤 Matthew Parry, University of Cambridge 📅 Friday 05 June 2009, 16:00-17:30 📍 MR5, CMS

Statistics

Bayesian Inference of Transmission Fidelity Rates of DNA Methylation Patterns

👤 Audrey Fu (University of Cambridge Systems Biology Center) 📅 Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Connectivity Properties of Cooperative Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

👤 Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Microsoft Research Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 03 June 2009, 15:00-16:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

A diffusion description of the random matrix hard edge

👤 Brian Rider (Colorado) 📅 Tuesday 02 June 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Public Understanding of Risk

Homo heuristicus: Why biased minds make better inferences

⚠️ Free Public Lecture

👤 Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 📅 Monday 01 June 2009, 17:30-19:00 📍 Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site

Statistics

Graphical Gaussian Models with Edge and Vertex Symmetries

👤 Steffen Lauritzen University of Oxford 📅 Friday 29 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Large clusters as rare events, their simulation and connection to critical percolation

👤 Andrei Bejan, Computer Laboratory. 📅 Wednesday 27 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Optimal Control of Manufacturing Systems

⚠️ Solution of a Fluid Approximation and Tracking by a Queueing Model.

👤 Gideon Weiss, The University of Haifa. 📅 Tuesday 26 May 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Second Generation Wavelets and Astrophysics

👤 Gerard Kerkyacharian Paris 10 and LPMA 📅 Friday 22 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Routing Games with Elastic Traffic

👤 Peter Key, Microsoft Research Cambridge. 📅 Wednesday 20 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Brownian polymers

👤 Pierre Tarres (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 19 May 2009, 16:00-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

The mathematics of collective synchronization (Rouse Ball Lecture)

👤 Professor Steven Strogatz Cornell University 📅 Tuesday 19 May 2009, 12:00-13:00 📍 Room 3, Mill Lane lecture rooms

CMS Colloquia

QRT maps and elliptic surfaces

👤 Prof. J.J. Duistermaat, Utrecht 📅 Monday 18 May 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 Lecture Room 1 (INI)

Statistics

Particle Learning

👤 Nicholas Polson University of Chicago Booth School of Business 📅 Friday 15 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Crowdsourcing and All-Pay Auctions

👤 Milan Vojnovic, Microsoft research Cambridge. 📅 Wednesday 13 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Parameter Estimation for Rough Differential Equations

👤 Anastasia Papavasilious (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 12 May 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Langlands' functorality viewed as a kind of function theoretic Poisson formula problem

👤 Prof. L. Lafforgue, IHES 📅 Monday 11 May 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 Lecture Room 1 (INI)

Statistics

Likelihood p-values ancillaries and the vector quantile function

👤 Don Fraser, University of Toronto 📅 Friday 08 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Mordell Lectures

KAM and Rigidity

👤 Professor Anatole Katok (Penn State University) 📅 Thursday 07 May 2009, 17:00-18:30 📍 Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics

Default priors and model parametrization

👤 Nancy Reid, University of Toronto 📅 Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Robust Networks

👤 Sanjeev Goyal, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 06 May 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Construction of a probability measure with a prescribed logarithmic derivative ; existence and uniqueness.

👤 Paul Malliavin (Paris VI) 📅 Wednesday 29 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe

👤 Carlos Carvalho, University of Chicago Booth School of Business 📅 Friday 24 April 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Pinning-depinning transition in Random Polymers

👤 Nikos Zygouras (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 21 April 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

An Incentive Mechanism to Decongest Road Traffic

👤 Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 📅 Wednesday 18 March 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Bayes and empirical-Bayes multiplicity adjustment in the variable-selection problem

👤 James Scott, Duke University 📅 Friday 13 March 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

The EM algorithm and applications

👤 Robert Gramacy, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR5, CMS

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Product forms in Neural Networks, G-Networks and Chemical Systems

👤 Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College & Microsoft Research 📅 Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Title to be confirmed

👤 Alexander Holroyd (Microsoft Research and UBC) 📅 Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Do New Roads Generate Traffic?

👤 Charlene Rohr, RAND Europe 📅 Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR13, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Stochastic Models of Economic Equilibrium on Directed Graphs

👤 Prof. Michael Dempster, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School and Statistical Laboratory 📅 Wednesday 04 March 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Effective evolution equations from many body quantum dynamics

👤 Dr Benjamin Schlein (DPMMS) 📅 Monday 02 March 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Discrete Statistical Modeling using Chain Event Graphs

👤 Jim Smith, Warwick 📅 Friday 27 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Convolution tail equivalent distributions: basic properties

👤 Prof Dmitri Korshunov, (Novosibirsk) 📅 Friday 27 February 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Convolution tail equivalent distributions: basic properties (Joint with Networks (OR) seminar).

👤 Dmitri Korshunov (Novosibirsk) 📅 Friday 27 February 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

A historical law of large numbers for the Marcus-Lushnikov process

👤 Stephanie Jacquot, Statslab 📅 Wednesday 25 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 CMS, MR13

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

A historical law of large numbers for the Marcus-Lushnikov process

👤 Stephanie Jacquot (Statslab) 📅 Wednesday 25 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 CMS, MR13

Statistics Reading Group

Ferguson's 1973 paper on the Dirichlet process

👤 University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 25 February 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR5, CMS

Probability

Refined and enhanced FFT techniques, with applications to pricing barrier options and their sensitivities

👤 Sergei Levendorskii (Univeristy of Chicago) 📅 Tuesday 24 February 2009, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Survey of Results for Deletion Channels and Related Synchronization Channels

⚠️ Joint With Probability Seminar Series.

👤 Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University 📅 Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:00-15:30 📍 MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

JOINT WITH NETWORKS (OR) SEMINAR SERIES:A Survey of Results for Deletion Channels and Related Synchronization Channels

👤 Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University 📅 Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Bloom Filters, Related Data Structures, and their Applications

⚠️ Kuwait Foundation Lecture

👤 Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard) 📅 Monday 23 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Statistics

A generalization of Fisher's exact test: rock-paper-scissors and friendly ghosts

👤 Robin Hankin 📅 Friday 20 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

The diffusion of trends on social networks.

👤 Moez Draief, Imperial College London 📅 Wednesday 18 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

How to Sequence 1000 Human Genomes Efficiently

👤 Professor Richard Durbin, Sanger Institute, Hinxton 📅 Monday 16 February 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Diffusions limits of the Random Walk Metropolis Algorithm in High Dimensions:

👤 Natesh Pillai, Warwick 📅 Friday 13 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Learning based on Data Compression

👤 Steven de Rooij, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 11 February 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR5, CMS

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Rate Adaptation Games in Wireless LANs: Nash Equilibrium and Price of Anarchy

👤 Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research Cambridge. 📅 Wednesday 11 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Local semicircle law and level repulsion for Wigner random matrices

👤 Benjamin Schlein (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 10 February 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Nonparametric inference for networks of queues

⚠️ Joint Statistics Seminar

👤 Cornelia Wichelhaus, Heidelberg university, Germany. 📅 Friday 06 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Nonparametric inference for networks of queues

👤 Cornelia Wichelhaus, Universität Heidelberg 📅 Friday 06 February 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

A new combinatorial method for calculating the moments of Lévy area

👤 Daniel Levin (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 03 February 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Stepwise Searching for Feature Variables in High-Dimensional Linear Regression

👤 Qiwei Yao, LSE 📅 Friday 30 January 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

The 1995 Benjamini and Hochberg paper on false discovery rates

👤 Richard Samworth, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 28 January 2009, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR5, CMS

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

A Scaling Framework for the Many Flows Asymptotic, through Large Deviations.

👤 James Cruise, Bristol University. 📅 Wednesday 28 January 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Stochastic Financial Models - Optional Economics Brief

👤 Elie Bassouls 📅 Tuesday 27 January 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Genus-minimizing surfaces

👤 Dr Jake Rasmussen (DPMMS) 📅 Monday 26 January 2009, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Probability

On the mixing time of random conjugacy walks

👤 Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge). 📅 Monday 26 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Probabilistic refinement of cellular pathway models.

👤 Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute 📅 Wednesday 21 January 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Towards a (rough) pathwise theory of fully non-linear stochastic partial differential equations

👤 Harald Oberhauser, Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 20 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Towards a (rough) pathwise theory of fully non-linear stochastic partial differential equations"

👤 Harald Oberhauser (Cambridge) 📅 Monday 19 January 2009, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Building and fitting a stochastic phylogentic model for Dollo traits, and its application to reconstructing the diversification of the Indo-European languages

👤 Geoff Nicholls, Oxford 📅 Friday 16 January 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Exploring the dynamics of network optimisation

👤 Nigel Walker, Ben Strulo, British Telecomm 📅 Wednesday 14 January 2009, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Cambridge Statistics Initiative (CSI)

Communicating Complex Statistical Evidence

👤 Various 📅 Thursday 08 January 2009, 09:00-19:00 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2

Statistics

Simple Methods to Improve MCMC Efficiency in Random Effect Models

👤 Bill Brown (University of Bristol) 📅 Friday 05 December 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Distributed Computation over Random Geometric Graphs: Some Asymptotic Results

👤 D. Manjunath, Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT, Bombay 📅 Thursday 04 December 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Talagrand's concentration inequality for empirical processes

👤 Richard Nickl (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 02 December 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Projective Limits of Bayes Equations

👤 Peter Orbanz (Dept. Engineering, Cambridge) 📅 Friday 28 November 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

The 1995 wavelet paper of Donoho, Johnstone, Kerkyacharian and Picard

👤 Richard Nickl, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 26 November 2008, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR11, CMS

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Internet evolution and misleading networking myths

👤 Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota 📅 Wednesday 26 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Trees and rough paths

👤 Jean Picard (Clermont-Ferrand) 📅 Tuesday 25 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Evaluating survey designs for inference of Plasmodium falciparum malaria prevalence

👤 Anand Patil (University of Oxford) 📅 Friday 21 November 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Bayesians turn to Experts for Advice!

👤 Steven de Rooij (Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 19 November 2008, 17:00-18:00 📍 CMS, MR4

Statistics

Estimation and variable selection with Lasso and Dantzig Selector in the high-dimensional regression model

👤 Karim Lounici, Université Paris 7 📅 Wednesday 19 November 2008, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Is the law of the jungle sustainable for the Internet?

👤 Alexandre Proutiere, Microsoft Research Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 19 November 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Loop-erased random walk on planar graphs

👤 Ariel Yadin (Weizmann Institute) 📅 Tuesday 18 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Reversibility, Chaos and Self-Organization

👤 Prof. J. Gollub (DAMTP and Haverford Coll.) 📅 Monday 17 November 2008, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2

Statistics

Sampling bias in logistic models

👤 Peter McCullagh (University of Chicago) 📅 Friday 14 November 2008, 16:00-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Ronald Fisher's 1934 likelihood and inference paper

👤 Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago 📅 Wednesday 12 November 2008, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR11, CMS

Probability

Some stationary fields and their spectral measure on hyperbolic plane

👤 Serge Cohen (Toulouse) 📅 Tuesday 11 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Bayesian Model Determination for Multivariate Ordinal and Binary Data

👤 Jon Forster (University of Southampton) 📅 Friday 07 November 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistical Laboratory Graduate Seminars

Stochastic modelling in Biology

👤 Yang Luo (MRC Biostatistics Unit) 📅 Wednesday 05 November 2008, 17:00-18:00 📍 CMS, MR4

Probability

On refracted stochastic processes and the analysis of insurance risk

👤 Hansjoerg Albrecher (RICAM, Linz) 📅 Tuesday 04 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Fair charge heuristics for dynamic resource allocation --- a queueing example

👤 David Hodge, Lancaster University 📅 Monday 03 November 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR15, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Theoretical properties of Cook's Principal Fitted Components algorithm

👤 Oliver Johnson (University of Bristol) 📅 Friday 31 October 2008, 16:00-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Mordell Lectures

Geometric PDE

⚠️ The lecture will be followed by a Reception in the Saltmarsh Rooms, King's College from 7 p.m.

👤 Prof Tobias Colding (MIT) 📅 Thursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-18:30 📍 Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Statistics Reading Group

David Cox's 1972 proportional hazards paper

👤 Phil Dawid, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 29 October 2008, 16:30-17:30 📍 MR11, CMS

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Optimal Gateway Selection in VoIP

👤 Richard Weber, University of Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 29 October 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Phase transitions for dilute particle systems with potentials of Lennard-Jones type

👤 Nadia Sidorova (UCL) 📅 Tuesday 28 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Simultaneous Confidence Band and Hypothesis Test in Generalised Varying-Coefficient Models

👤 Wenyang Zhang (University of Bath) 📅 Friday 24 October 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Public Understanding of Risk

How the Media Promote the Public Misunderstanding of Science

⚠️ Free Public Lecture. All Welcome!

👤 Ben Goldacre, Author, broadcaster, doctor and blogger - badscience.net 📅 Tuesday 21 October 2008, 17:30-18:30 📍 Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site

CMS Colloquia

D-branes and Derived Categories

⚠️ This talk follows the talk by Dr D. Tong

👤 Prof. T.A. Bridgeland (Sheffield) 📅 Monday 20 October 2008, 17:15-18:00 📍 MR2

CMS Colloquia

Uses of D-branes

⚠️ Note early start. This talk is followed by a related talk by Prof T.A. Bridgeland. Dr Tong and Professor Bridgeland shared the 2008 Adams Prize.

👤 Dr D. Tong (DAMTP) 📅 Monday 20 October 2008, 16:30-17:15 📍 MR2

Statistics

Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators

⚠️ joint Statistics/Probability Seminar

👤 Evarist Gine (University of Conneticut) 📅 Monday 20 October 2008, 14:00-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators

⚠️ joint Statistics/Probability Seminar

👤 Evarist Gine (University of Connecticut) 📅 Monday 20 October 2008, 14:00-15:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

The Gaussian Semiparametric Partial Linear Model Asymptotic Theory and a Useful Difference-Based Estimator and Tests

👤 Professor Larry Brown (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylavnia) 📅 Friday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics Reading Group

Charles Stein's 1956 inadmissibility paper

👤 Larry Brown, Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania 📅 Thursday 16 October 2008, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR12, CMS

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Consensus -- with Limited Memory and Signalling

👤 Milan Vojnovic, Microsoft research Cambridge 📅 Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Transience in a Statistical Mechanics model of Random Band Matrices

👤 Tom Spencer (IAS, Princeton) 📅 Tuesday 14 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

The oriented swap process

👤 Dan Romik (Hebrew University) 📅 Tuesday 07 October 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Rethinking Internet Traffic Management: From Multiple Decompositions to a Practical Protocol

👤 Martin Suchara, Computer Science Department, Princeton 📅 Friday 12 September 2008, 16:00-17:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Moment explosions and long-term behaviour of affine stochastic volatility models

👤 Martin Keller-Ressel (TU Vienna) 📅 Wednesday 18 June 2008, 14:15-15:00 📍 MR14, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Title to be confirmed

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Tuesday 10 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Estimation of the relative risk and risk difference

👤 Thomas Richardson (University of Washington) 📅 Friday 06 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

A model for the evolution of an order book

👤 Sasha Stoikov (Columbia) 📅 Tuesday 03 June 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Maps and Graphs on Surfaces

👤 Professor C Thomassen (Technical University of Denmark) 📅 Monday 02 June 2008, 17:00-18:00 📍 Lecture Room 1 (INI)

Statistics

Testing lack-of-fit in inverse regression models

👤 Gerda Claeskens (K.U.Leuven) 📅 Friday 30 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Super-Brownian motion among Poissonian obstacles

👤 Amandine Veber (Ecole Normale) 📅 Tuesday 27 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

MCMC for doubly-intractable distributions

👤 Iain Murray (University of Toronto) 📅 Friday 23 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Random attractors for stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in some unbounded domains

👤 Zdzislaw Brzezniak (York) 📅 Tuesday 20 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Chance is a Fine Thing

⚠️ Inaugural Lecture as Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk

👤 David Spiegelhalter (Cambridge) 📅 Monday 19 May 2008, 17:30-18:30 📍 MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Flexible Covariance estimation in Gaussian Graphical models

👤 Bala Rajaratnam (Stanford University) 📅 Friday 16 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Where does randomness lead in spacetime?

👤 Ismael Bailleul (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 13 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Latent class models for the causal effect of a treatment

👤 Antonio Forcina (University of Perugia) 📅 Friday 09 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Behaviour near the extinction time in stable fragmentation processes

👤 Christina Goldschmidt (Oxford) 📅 Tuesday 06 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Large deviations, metastability, and stochastic resonance

👤 Mark Freidlin (University of Maryland) 📅 Friday 02 May 2008, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Large deviations, metastability, and stochastic resonance

👤 Mark Freidlin (University of Maryland) 📅 Friday 02 May 2008, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

On Grobner bases of Elimination and Toric Ideals describing Maximum Entropy models

👤 Ambedkar Dukkipatti (EURANDOM) 📅 Friday 02 May 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Title to be confirmed

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Tuesday 29 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

CMS Colloquia

Astrophysical Accretion and Bright Black Holes

👤 Dr Gordon I. Ogilvie (DAMTP) 📅 Monday 28 April 2008, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2

Statistics

Efficient sparse recovery with no assumption on the dictionary

👤 Alexander (Sasha) Tsybakov (CREST et Université Paris) 📅 Friday 25 April 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Local and discrete scoring rules

👤 Matt Parry (Cambridge) 📅 Friday 14 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Title to be confirmed

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Tuesday 11 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Parameter and Functional Estimation in Semiparametric Models

👤 Yanyuan Ma (Universite de Neuchatel) 📅 Friday 07 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Predictive Modeling Approaches to Gene Regulation

👤 Jun Liu (Harvard University) 📅 Wednesday 05 March 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Faculty of Mathematics Lectures

Singularities of Harmonic Maps, Minimal Surfaces and Mean Curvature Flows

👤 Dr Neshan Wickramasekera (DPMMS) 📅 Monday 03 March 2008, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Statistics

Advances in Bayesian Latent Factor Modelling: The Incredible Shrinking Model

👤 Daniel Merl (Duke University) 📅 Friday 29 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Title to be confirmed

👤 Yves Le Jan (Orsay) 📅 Tuesday 26 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Equivalence of prospective and retrospective likelihood methods in case-control studies

👤 Ana-Maria Staicu (Bristol) 📅 Friday 22 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Title to be confirmed

👤 Speaker to be confirmed 📅 Tuesday 19 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Combining police perceptions with police records of serious crime areas

👤 Robert Haining (Dept. Geography, University of Cambridge) 📅 Friday 15 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Alternative Splicing in Tumors: Detection and Interpretation

👤 Terry Speed (Berkeley) 📅 Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-17:00 📍 MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

A natural notion of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes with applications to simulated annealing

👤 Josef Teichmann (TU Vienna) 📅 Tuesday 12 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Adversarial Risk Analysis: A Smallpox Example

👤 David Banks (Duke University) 📅 Friday 08 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Random walks in random environment in the sub-ballistic regime: ageing and localization

👤 Olivier Zindy (WIAS) 📅 Tuesday 05 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Statistical deconvolution problems with Fourier-oscillating error densities

👤 Alexander Meister (Universitat Ulm) 📅 Friday 01 February 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Optimal Skorokhod embeddings with applications to pricing and hedging of double barrier options

👤 Jan Obloj (Imperial) 📅 Tuesday 29 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Identifying Direct and Indirect effects

👤 Sara Geneletti (Imperial) 📅 Friday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

A characterization of forward utility functions

👤 Mike Tehranchi (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 22 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

A theoretical and methodological discussion of nested sampling

👤 Nicolas Chopin (Bristol) 📅 Friday 18 January 2008, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Assessing the finite-dimensionality of functional data

👤 Celine Vial (Rennes) 📅 Friday 30 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Title to be confirmed

👤 Gaurav Raina 📅 Wednesday 28 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Birth-and-death Markov processes in spatial ecology

👤 Yuri Kondratiev (University of Reading) 📅 Tuesday 27 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

A Life-Time of Stochastic Self-Organisation - 1977 - 2007

👤 David Probert (VAZA International) 📅 Friday 23 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Direct and indirect causal effects: a helpful distinction?

👤 Donald B. Rubin (Harvard) 📅 Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR14, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Differential equations arrising in network problems

👤 N Vvedenskaya (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow) 📅 Wednesday 21 November 2007, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Random Medium Access Control algorithms, an asymptotic approach

👤 Alexandre Proutiere (Microsoft) 📅 Wednesday 21 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Recent progress in the multi-patricle Anderson tight binding model

👤 Prof. Y.M. Suhov (Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 20 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Neither finance nor pharma -- life as an industrial statistician. To be followed by an introduction to the Royal Statistical Society

👤 Philip Jonathan and Yanyun Wu (Shell) 📅 Friday 16 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

On the relations between implied and spot volatilities

👤 Valdo Durrleman (Ecole Polytechnique) 📅 Friday 16 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Positive Externalities, Negative Externalities, and Optimal Scale

👤 Ramesh Johari (Stanford) 📅 Wednesday 14 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

The discrete Feynman integral

👤 Tony Dorlas (DIAS) 📅 Tuesday 13 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Some universality results for 2D percolation

👤 Helen Lei (UCLA) 📅 Friday 09 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Prequential Statistics

👤 Phil Dawid (Cambridge) 📅 Friday 09 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Wireless Spectral Sharing Techniques and Issues

👤 Fletcher Wicker (The Aerospace Corporation / Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 07 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Dynamics for the Brownian web

👤 Jonathan Warren (Warwick) 📅 Tuesday 06 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Quantum randomness and Kolmogorov probability

👤 Patricia Grambsch, University of Minnesota, visiting Cambridge 📅 Friday 02 November 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Optmisation and Evolution of Networks

👤 Peter Whittle (Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 31 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

DPMMS Pure Maths Seminar

The Langlands correspondence: prime numbers, symmetry and algebraic geometry

⚠️ CMS Colloquium

👤 Dr Teruyoshi Yoshida (DPMMS) 📅 Monday 29 October 2007, 17:00-18:00 📍 MR2

Probability

Random even graphs and the Ising model

👤 Geoffrey Grimmett, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 23 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Double phase transition for a self-repelling Brownian particle

👤 Nathanael Berestycki, University of Cambridge 📅 Tuesday 16 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Statistics

Jump Telegraph Processes and a Volatility Smile

👤 Nikita Ratanov (University of Rosario, Bogota) 📅 Friday 12 October 2007, 15:30-16:30 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Incentivizing Participation in Resource-sharing Networks

👤 Richard Weber (Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 10 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Probability

Coalescing Brownian motions

👤 James Norris (University of Cambridge) 📅 Tuesday 09 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 📍 MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB

Mordell Lectures

Acoustical Spacetime Geometry and Shock Formation

👤 Professor Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH-Zurich 📅 Tuesday 08 May 2007, 17:00-18:00 📍 Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Mordell Lectures

Ergodic theorems along polynomials: from combinatorial applications to challenges for physicists

⚠️ The lecture will be followed by a reception from 6.30 p.m. in St John's College gardens.

👤 Professor Vitaly Bergelson, The Ohio State University 📅 Tuesday 09 May 2006, 17:00-18:00 📍 Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Mordell Lectures

The Ramanujan Conjecture and its generalizations

⚠️ The lecture will be followed by a reception from 6.30 p.m. at the Trinity bowling green (Nevile's Court cloisters if wet).

👤 Professor Peter Sarnak, Princeton 📅 Tuesday 17 May 2005, 17:00-18:00 📍 Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Mordell Lectures

Polynomials in Discrete Mathematics

👤 Professor Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University 📅 Tuesday 25 May 2004, 17:00-18:00 📍 Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Mordell Lectures

Algebraic Topology and Modular Forms

⚠️ The lecture will be followed by drinks in Pavilion E Common Room

👤 Professor Mike Hopkins, MIT 📅 Tuesday 13 May 2003, 17:00-18:00 📍 Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge

Rollo Davidson Lectures

Random planar curves and conformal invariance

👤 Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud) 📅 Tuesday 10 July 2001, 18:00-19:00 📍 Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Cambridge

Rollo Davidson Lectures

The mathematics of making a mess

👤 Professor Persi Diaconis (Harvard) 📅 Wednesday 08 May 1996, 17:00-18:00 📍 Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms

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