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

On Friday, November 10th, 2023, Dr. Kevin Burke, Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Limerick, presented about automating variable selection in distributional regression. Details for the talk are below. Title Automating variable selection in distributional regression Abstract Variable selection is an important scientific endeavour as it identifies important associations. Of course, this is more … Read more

On Friday, October 20th, 2023, Hannah Comiskey, a postdoctoral researcher at Trinity College Dublin, presented about estimating public and private contraceptive method supply shares using Bayesian hierarchical models. Details for the talk are below. Title Estimating public and private contraceptive method supply shares at national and subnational administration levels, using Bayesian hierarchical models Abstract Contraceptive … Read more