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2019
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, 29 November, 14:00, room 39A 208 | A/Prof Lassi Roininen, Lappeenranta University of Technology | Posterior inference for sparse hierarchical non-stationary models |
| Tuesday, 22 October, 14:30, room 39A.208 | Roman Marchant, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Translational Data Science, University of Sydney | Bayesian optimisation for decision making in spatial-temporal processes |
| Thursday, 17 October, 13:30, room 67.101 | Michael Bertolacci, Andrew Zammit Mangion, Noel Cressie (and Bohai Zhang), NIASRA, SMAS, UOW | Climate-change research in UOW's Centre for Environmental Informatics |
| Thursday, 10 October, 13:30, room 1.G05 | Rune Christiansen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen | Using space as an anchor: causality meets spatial data |
| Friday, 4 October, 11:00, room 4.G31 | Bryan Manly, Manly Biostatistics Ltd, Dunedin, New Zealand | Statistical Consulting in the USA: Marine Mammals, Birds and Fish in and Around Water and a Little Bit of Medical Research |
| Thursday, 12 September, 2:30pm, room 39A.208 | Bradley Wakefield, NIASRA, SMAS, UOW | A general framework for measuring disclosure of protected micro-level data |
| Wednesday 4 September, 1:30pm, room 39C.174 | Senior Research Scientist Dan Pagendam, CSIRO Data61 | Statistical Modelling to Support Mosquito Biocontrol Programs |
| Monday, 22 July, 2.30pm, room 6.210 | Associate Professor Daniel Simpson, University of Toronto | Sometimes having a continuous interpretation is useful. Sometimes it isn't. A story about Gaussian random fields |
| Wednesday, 10 July, 10:30am, room 39A.208 | Valeria Paccapelo, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries QLD | A whole genome QTL analysis for NAM populations |
| Friday, 5 July, 2:30pm, room 39A.208 | Dr Brenda Vo, University of New England | Statistical inference for agent based models in cell biology |
| Friday, 14 June, 10:00am, room 39A.208 | Professor Murray Aitkin, University of Melbourne | Statistical modelling education for Data Science |
| Thursday, 13 June, 2:30pm, room 39A.208 | Dr Michael Betancourt, Symplectomorphic, LLC | Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo |
| Thursday, 13 June, 2.30pm, room 39A.208 | Professor Murray Aitkin, University of Melbourne | An alternative measure of income inequality over successive surveys |
| Thursday 28 March, 2:30pm, room 39A.208 | Dr Matt Moore, University of Wollongong | R package ‘bayesImageS’: a case study in Bayesian computation using Rcpp and OpenMP |
| Tuesday 19 March, 2:30pm, room 6.210 | Dr Michael David, University of Newcastle | A preventative approach for minimising the impact of attrition in longitudinal studies |
| Wednesday 20 February, 1:30pm, room 4.G31 | Dr Michael Betancourt, Symplectomorphic, LLC | Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo |
| Wednesday 13 February, 9:30am, room 39A.208 | William Gross, University of Wollongong | Using Population Groups for Replicate Variance Estimation |
| Tuesday 12 February, 2:30pm, room 39A.208 | Professor Irene Hudson, Swinburne University of Technology | Multidisciplinary research with impact: the integration of statistics and data science in research |
| Monday 11 February, 2:30pm, room 39A.208 | Professor Andrew Wood, University of Nottingham | Regression modelling using the scaled von Mises-Fisher distribution: an example of manifold-valued response data |
| Wednesday 6 February, 1:30pm, room 32.G01 | Olivier Thas, I-Biostat, Hasselt Unversity, Belgium Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, Belgium NIASRA, University of Wollongong, Australia Leyla Kodalci, Hasselt University | A semiparametric model for compositional data with applications to RNASeq and microbiome studies |
2018
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 10 December, 1:30pm, room 4.G31 | Dr Tom Stindl, UNSW Sydney | Direct Likelihood Evaluation for the Renewal Hawkes Process |
| Wednesday 5 December, 11:00am, room 39A.208 | Associate Professor Mirko Draca, University of Warwick Carlo Schwarz, University of Warwick | How Polarised are Citizens? Measuring Ideology from the Ground Up |
| Thursday 15 November, 11:30am, room 6.210 | Victoria Leaver, Assistant Director, Advanced Modelling & Optimisation, Methodology Division, Australian Bureau of Statistics | Comparison of likelihood-based methods for size-biased sampling |
| Thursday 9 November, 11:30am, room 4.G31 | Dr Tao Zou, ANU | Covariance Regression Model for Non-Normal Data |
| Thursday 27 September, 11:30am, room 3.122 | Dr Petra Kuhnert, Data61, CSRIO | The Provision and Utility of Science to Decision-Makers in the Face of Uncertainty |
| Monday 17 September, 1:30pm, room 1.G04 | Dr Gordana Popovic, Research Associate in Statistics, University of New South Wales | Covariance modelling and inference for multivariate discrete data in ecology |
| Thursday 6 September, 1:30pm, room 3.122 | Dr Hsin-Cheng Huang, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica | Spatial Analysis of Fine Particulate Matter in Taiwan |
| Friday 24 August, 11:30am, room 6.210 | AProf Michael Schweinberger, Department of Statistics, Rice University, U.S.A. | High-dimensional multivariate time series with spatial structure |
| Wednesday 22 August, 11:30am, room 3.123 | Prof Alan T. Murray, Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara | Observed Spatial Clustering |
| Thursday 16 August, 1:30pm, room 3.123 | Dr Liuhua Peng, Lecturer in Statistics, University of Melbourne | Distributed Statistical Inference for Massive Data |
| Thursday 9 August, 1pm, room 1.G03 | Ms Helani Kottage | Multiple imputation (MI) for handling the problem of missingness in categorical variables |
| Tuesday 17 July, 11:30am, room 6.210 | Dr Linda Tan, Assistant professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore | Topic-Adjusted Visibility Metric for Scientific Articles |
| Wednesday 27 June, 1:30pm, room 32.G01 (IHMRI) | Prof Noel Cressie, University of Wollongong | Atmospheric carbon and the statistical science of measuring, mapping, and uncertainty quantification |
| Wednesday 13 June, 1:30pm, room 6.210 | Ray Chambers, University of Wollongong | Domain Estimation Under Informative Linkage |
| Wednesday 6 June, 9:30am, room 39A.208 | Mossamet Nesa, University of Wollongong | Fay-Herriot estimators |
| Wednesday 7 February, 11:30am, room 4.G31 | Conjoint Professor John Rayner, University of Newcastle | Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit for Extended GLMs |
| Friday 2 February, 11:30am, room 4.G31 | Roberto Benedetti, Department of Economic Studies, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Federica Piersimoni, Istat, Directorate for Methodology and Statistical Process Design, Italy | Identifying spatial regimes in environmental and ecological models |
2017
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 12 December, 1:30pm, room 8.G25 | Assoc. Prof. David Nott, Associate Professor of Statistics, National University of Singapore, Singapore | Gaussian variational approximation with structured covariance matrices |
| Tuesday 5 December, 1:30pm, room 8.G25 | Dr. Bohai Zhang, Research fellow, Centre for Environmental Informatics, NIASRA, University of Wollongong | Smoothed Full-Scale Approximation of Gaussian Process Models for Computation of Large Spatial Datasets |
| Wednesday 8 November, 1:30pm, room 32.G01 | Prof. Paul Clarke, Professor of Social Statistics, Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex, UK | Panel-data modelling using structural mean models |
| Friday 6 October, 12:30pm, room 6.210 | Mr. Patrick McDermott, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA | Dynamical Machine Learning Models for Forecasting Spatio-Temporal Processes |
| Wednesday 27 September, 1:30pm, room 15.206 | Dr. Hassan Doosti, Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Macquarie University | Nonparametric tilted density function estimation |
| Wednesday 20 September, 1:30pm, room 19.1056 | Dr. Thomas Fung, Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Macquarie University | Semiparametric generalized linear models for time-series data |
| Wednesday 13 September, 1:30pm, room 4.G31 | Dr. Thomas Suesse, Senior lecturer in Statistics, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Assessing the Fit of Finite Mixture Distributions |
| Wednesday 30 August, 1:30pm, room 4.G31 | Dr. Pauline O'Shaughnessy, Lecturer in Statistics, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Bootstrapping longitudinal data with multiple levels of variation |
| Thursday 8 June, 1:30pm, room 8.G25 | Dr. Yanan Fan, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Australia | Quantile pyramids for simultaneous quantile regression |
| Thursday 1 June, 1:30pm, room 1.G05 | Dr. Andrew Zammit Mangion, Senior Lecturer, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), University of Wollongong | Sparse approximate inference for spatio-temporal point process models with application to armed conflict |
| Thursday 18 May, 1:30pm, room 1.G05 | Dr. Jakub Stoklosa, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Australia | A Generalized Estimating Equation approach to Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline |
| Thursday 11 May, 1:30pm, room 6.210 | Dr. Francis Hui, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University | Teaching an old dog new tricks: Joint selection in mixed models using regularized PQL |
| Thursday 4 May, 1:30pm, room 1.G05 | Dr. Walt Davis, NIASRA, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Causal Analysis in Social Research |
| Thursday 13 April, 1:30pm, room 1.G05 | Dr. John Ormerod, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Australia | Bayesian hypothesis tests with diffuse priors: Can we have our cake and eat it too? |
| Thursday 23 March, 1:30pm, room 4.G31 | A/Prof. Olivier Thas, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Belgium NIASRA, University of Wollongong, Australia | Estimation in the Probabilistic Index Model |
| Tuesday 21 March, 1:30pm, room 19.G026 | Prof. John Rayner, NIASRA, University of Wollongong School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia | New Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel Results |
| Friday 24 February, 11:00am, room 6.210 | Prof. Alfred Stein, Institute of Statistical Science, Professor in Spatial Statistics and Image Analysis University of Twente, the Netherlands | Objects as subjects: modeling the uncertainty in spatial big data |
2016
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 29 November, 1.30pm, room 1.G04 | Dr. Hsin-Cheng Huang, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica | Multi-Resolution Spatial Random-Effects Models for Automatic Fixed-Rank Kriging |
| Thursday 10 November, 1.30pm, room 8.G25 | Dr. Robert G. Aykroyd, Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds Visiting Fellow, University of Technology Sydney | A statistician’s perspective on inverse problems in medicine, archaeology, and industrial process engineering |
| Wednesday 26 October, 1.30pm, room 25.G05 | Mr. Luke Mazur, Centre for Bioinformatics and Biometrics (CBB), National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Equivalence of Cholesky Factorization and Absorption |
| Wednesday 19 October, 1.30pm, room 1.G05 | Dr. Martin Tingley, Senior Research Analyst, Insurance Australia Group | Insurance applications of the 0-1-inflated beta distributions |
| Wednesday 5 October, 1.30pm, room 1.G05 | A/Prof. Robert Clark, Director, Centre for Sample Survey Methodology, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Generalised Linear Models Under Response Dependent Sampling |
| Wednesday 14 September, 1.30pm, room 3.122 | Dr. Emi Tanaka, Research Fellow, Centre of Bioinformatics and Biometrics, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | How statistics feeds us – applied statistics in agriculture |
| Thursday 25 August, 3.00pm, room 6.210 | A/Prof. Olivier Thas, Associate Professor in Statistics, Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics, and Process Control, Ghent University Associate Professor in Statistics, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | The Statistical Analysis of Microbiome Data |
| Monday 4 July, 2.30pm, room 6.210 | Dr. Wesley Brooks, Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales | Fast variational estimation of a Cox process model for spatial point patterns using spatial random effects |
| Wednesday 1 June, 2.30pm, room 1.G03 | Dr. David Clifford, Director of Science, Climate Corporation | From the ground up: Data science to agronomic insights |
| Wednesday 25 May, 2.30pm, room 1.G01 | Dr. Ben Marwick, Senior Research Scientist, School of Earth and Environment Sciences, University of Wollongong Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle | Computational reproducibility in research and teaching: A case study from archaeology |
| Wednesday 4 May, 2.30pm, room 1.G01 | Prof. Noel Cressie, Distinguished Professor, Director of Centre for Environmental Informatics, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Predictive Inference for Big, Spatial, Non-Gaussian Data: MODIS Cloud Data and its Change-of-Support |
| Wednesday 20 April, 2.30pm, room 6.102 | Dr. Shuvo Bakar, Lecturer, Centre for Social Research and Methods, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University | A Bayesian Spatial Model for Small Area Estimation |
| Wednesday 13 April, 2.30pm, room 1.G01 | Mr. James Dawber, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Method of moments approach to nuisance scale estimation for Huber M-quantiles |
| Wednesday 6 April, 2.30pm, room 1.G05 | Dr. Cécile Hardouin, Maître de Conférences, Team MODAL’X, Université Paris Ouest | Misparametrisation Subsets for Penalised Least Squares Model Selection |
| Wednesday 30 March, 2.30pm, room 1.G03 | Dr. Thomas Suesse, Senior Lecturer, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Spatial Econometric Models under the Presence of Missing Data |
| Thursday 3 March, 2.30pm, room 4.G31 | Associate Professor Eun-Hye Enki Yoo, Department of Geology, State University of New York at Buffalo | A geospatial approach to air pollution exposure assessment |
| Thursday 11 February, 2.30pm, room 8.G25 | Prof. David Balding, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne | Statistical evaluation of DNA evidence in criminal casework |
| Monday 8 February, 1.30pm, room 15.206 | Prof. Martina Morris, Professor of Sociology and Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle | Identifying Network Effects in Infectious Disease Dynamics |
| Thursday 28 January, 1.30pm, room 6.102 | Dr. Mark Tanmer, Social Sciences, University of Manchester (UK), Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow (UK) | What Is The Relational Event Model (REM)? |
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Archived Seminars
Last reviewed: 26 November, 2019