Trinity College Dublin
On Friday, November 15th, 2024, the seminar series hosted a talk by Prof. John Haslett, Fellow Emeritus Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, titled “Thoughts on Academic Writing”. Details for the talk are below. Title Thoughts on Academic Writing Abstract The topic of this seminar, cross-disciplinary Academic Writing, is provoked by several years of work, post-retirement as … Read more
On Friday, September 20th, 2024, the seminar series hosted a talk by Dr. Silvia D’Angelo, Assistant Professor in Statistics at the School of Computer Sciences and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin, titled “Data compression for clustering high-dimensional discrete data”. Details for the talk are below. Title Data compression for clustering high-dimensional discrete data Abstract Clustering high-dimensional … Read more
On Wednesday, April 10th, 2024, the seminar series hosted a talk by Dung Pham, PhD Researcher at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin. Dung talked about approximate linear solvers for scalable statistical algorithms. Details for the talk are below. Title Approximate Linear Solvers for Scalable Statistical Algorithms: A Generalized Approach … Read more
On Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024, the seminar series hosted a talk by Emmanuel Akeweje, PhD Researcher at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin. Emmanuel talked about ensemble clustering techniques for mixtures of Gaussian processes. Details for the talk are below. Title Ensemble Clustering for Learning Mixtures of Gaussian Processes AbstractWe … Read more
On Wednesday, March 27th, 2024, the seminar series hosted a talk by Dr James Ng, Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin. James talked about a generalized Bayesian approach to distribution-on-distribution regression. Details for the talk are below. Title A Generalized Bayesian Approach to Distribution-on-Distribution Regression AbstractIn recent … Read more
On Wednesday, March 13th, 2024, the seminar series hosted a talk by Prof. Paul McNicholas. Paul is the Canada research chair in computational statistics and a professor in the department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, Canada and talked about handling outliers in model based clustering. Details for the talk are below. Title Handling … Read more
On Wednesday, February 28th, 2024, the seminar series hosted a talk by Dr. Arthur White, Assistant Professor in Statistics at the School of Computer Sciences and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin, titled “Cluster Analysis of Linguistic Profiles of Old English Texts”. Details for the talk are below. Title Cluster Analysis of Linguistic Profiles of Old English Texts … Read more
On Wednesday, February 7th, 2024, the seminar series hosted a talk by Prof. Simon Wilson, Chair of Statistical Uncertainty and Risk at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin, on estimating the number of species using proxy data on effort. Details for the talk are below. Title Estimating the number of … Read more
On Friday, December 1st, 2023, the seminar series hosted a talk by Dr. Emma Howard, Assistant Professor in Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, which compared and examined students’ use and perception of online learning and in-person lectures. Title Examining students’ use and perceptions of online learning as compared to in person lectures: Study design and … Read more
On Wednesday, January 31st, 2024, the seminar series hosted a talk by Dr. Joshua Tobin, a postdoctoral researcher in Trinity College Dublin, discussing co-clustering multi-view data with the latent block model. Details for the talk are below. Title Co-clustering multi-view data with the Latent Block Model Abstract The Latent Block Model (LBM) is a prominent … Read more