Events
March 2026 | |
 Thu 19 Mar 2026 | Seminar: Xiaowen Dong (Oxford): Bayesian optimisation of graph-based functions Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science The increasing availability of graph-structured data motivates a new type of optimisation problems over graph-based functions, i.e., searching for the graph or node that maximises the value of an underlying function. Such optimisation problems are... |
| Thu 26 Mar 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Euan McGonigle (University of Southampton): General purpose time series segmentation using estimating functions Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science In time series analysis, many data sets of practical interest contain abrupt changes in structure, such as the canonical setting of change points in the mean. We propose new methodology based on estimating functions in a general framework for... |
April 2026 | |
| Thu 2 Apr 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Rajen Shah (Cambridge): Hunt and test for assessing the fit of semiparametric regression models Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science We consider testing the goodness of fit of semiparametric regression models, such as generalised additive models, partially linear models, or quantile additive regression models. We propose an approach that involves first splitting the data in two... |
| Thu 9 Apr 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Tom Berrett (Warwick): Density Ratio Permutation Tests with connections to distributional shifts and conditional two-sample testing Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science We introduce novel hypothesis tests to allow for statistical inference for density ratios. More precisely, we introduce the Density Ratio Permutation Test (DRPT) for testing $H_0: g \propto r f$ based on independent data drawn from distributions with... |
| Thu 16 Apr 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Abhinav Venkatesh Natarajan (Oxford): Chromatic Delaunay Triangulations for Labelled Datasets Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science TBC |
| Thu 23 Apr 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Haiyan Zheng (University of Bath): TBC Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science TBC |
May 2026 | |
| Thu 7 May 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Emma Simpson (UCL): TBC Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science TBC |
| Thu 14 May 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Emiko Dupont (University of Bath): TBC Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science Hybrid: MB503, SMS, QMUL, or via the Teams link below |
| Thu 21 May 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Sandipan Roy (University of Bath): Double Adjacency Based Spectral Clustering in Networks Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science Spectral clustering has been used widely as a popular tool for community detection in data with network structure. However, spectral clustering does not perform well on certain network structures, particularly core-periphery networks. To improve... |
| Thu 28 May 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: Gabriel Wallin (Lancaster): TBC Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science TBC |