Seminar Series MT 2020-21

The TCD Statistics Seminar series for Michaelmas Term of the 2020/2021 year will take place on Microsoft Teams, unless otherwise stated. Seminars usually involve a 30 minute presentation followed by 15-20 minutes discussion. Access to the online meetings is currently restricted to users whose email addresses are on the email distribution list for the Seminar Series. If you would like to be added to the distribution list, or to a particular talk, mail tobinjo at tcd.ie, including ‘Seminar Series Access’ in the subject.

Talks on work in progress are encouraged, as well as presentation of completed research. The seminar series also provides graduate students with an opportunity to develop their presentation skills and discuss their research.

For more information about each seminar, please click the link in the ‘Details’ column below.

Schedules for past semesters can be found here.

DateSpeakerTitleDetailsTime
09/9Daniel DempseyReading Group: ‘The Bayesian Bootstrap’ by Donald B. Rubin. (1981). Read here.Link12:00
30/9Jason WyseReading Group: ‘A modern maximum-likelihood theory for high-dimensional logistic regression.’  by Pragya Sur and Emmanuel J. Candès. (2019). Read here.Link12:00
11/11Joshua TobinClustering Big Data with Mixed AttributesLink12:00
18/11Philip CooneyHazard Changepoint Analysis with Collapsing Changepoint ModelsLink12:00
25/11Sultan ImangaliyevExplainable Machine Learning for Cervical Cancer Risk Factors AssessmentLink12:00
02/12Bahman NasseroleslamiNon-Parametric Rank Statistics for Spectral Power and Coherence.Link12:00