CHICAS Forum Talks
This is an informal internal forum programme where members of the group are invited to present and discuss their current work. We occasionally have external speakers. For more information, contact Dr Ben Taylor.
Programme
Forthcoming Talks
Wed 2nd May 2012: Re-arranged.
Wed 9th May 2012: Reading Group. CHICAS Meeting Room, Physics Building. LINK TO PAPER
Wed 23rd May 2012 12pm: Nicola Reeve. Applications of spatial statistical methods: two example studies. Bowland North Seminar Room 19.
Wed 30th May 2012: TBA. Bowland North Seminar Room 19.
Wed 6th June 2012: Reading Group. CHICAS Meeting Room, Physics Building.
Wed 13th June 2012: TBA. Bowland North Seminar Room 19.
Wed 20th June 2012: TBA. Bowland North Seminar Room 19.
Wed 27th June 2012: TBA. Bowland North Seminar Room 19.
Past Talks
Wed 29th February 2012: Journal club (12pm)
Wed 15th February 2012: Ivonne Solis-Trapala: Graphical models with latent variables and their application in neuropsychology
Wed 8th February 2012: Russell Stothart (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine): Should SANTA leave his predictive statistics behind? Abstract
Wed 18th January 2012: Journal discussion: Infectious disease outbreaks
Wed 14th December 2011: Matt Sperrin (Department of Mathematics & Statistics): Time origins in survival analysis
Wed 30th November 2011: Peter Diggle: Prevalence estimation
Wed 16th November 2011: Carmen Armero: An illness-death model for studying Stage IV lung cancer progression
Wed 9th November 2011: Tom Fanshawe: Plague : History, epidemiology and statistics
Thu 3rd November 2011: Lightning talks (featuring talks from Nicola Reeve, Michelle Stanton and Tom Fanshawe)
Wed 19th October 2011: Peter Diggle: Monitoring progression towards renal failure
Tue 5th July 2011: Carlos Perez (International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University) : A 30-year high-resolution model reanalysis of dust and climate for the Meningitis Belt
Tue 14th June 2011: Nicola Reeve : A spatial analysis of the health effects of industrial incinerators
Tue 31st May 2011: Ben Taylor : Spatio-temporal Log-Gaussian Cox Processes - Properties, Inference and an R Package
Thu 19th May 2011: Lightning talks (featuring talks from Barry Rowlingson, Nicolas Capian and Alex Oldroyd)
Tue 3rd May 2011: Barry Rowlingson : Swine flu
Tue 5th April 2011: Debashis Mondal (University of Chicago) : Generalized Gaussian Markov random fields and modelling disease risk
Wed 30th March 2011: Lydiane Agier : A transition model for discretised incidence data of infectious disease
Tue 29th March 2011: Tom Keegan : Standardisation
Tue 1st March 2011: Peter Diggle : A short history of spatial statistics
Wed 19th January 2011: Daniel Boakye (University of Ghana) : Neglected tropical diseases and malaria: The need for mapping
Tue 11th January 2011: Tom Fanshawe : Simulated Annealing
Other Programmes
Other relevant forum and seminar programmes in the University: