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Upcoming invited talks

In chronological order:

• BSI Seminar (Durham, June 2024)

Invited talks

Slides, audio and video are indicated where available. The talks are listed in reverse chronological order.

2024

• Durham-Newcastle Stats and Probability Research Day (Durham, March 2024)

2023

• DAFNI@Durham (Durham, December 2023) [slides]
• 75th Géotechnique Anniversary event (London, October 2023) [slides]
• Bayes4Health Masterclass on parallel computing (Lancaster, September 2023) [materials]
• RSS Discussion Meeting on Probabilistic and Statistical Aspects of Machine Learning - Invited discussant and proposer of the vote of thanks (Harrogate, September 2023) [materials]
• BioInference 2023 (Oxford, June 2023)
• 13th BISP (Madrid, Spain, May 2023) [contributed talk]
• Jyväskylä Statistics Seminar (online/Jyväskylä, Finland, May 2023)
• StatML course on functional programming for statistical computing (Oxford, May 2023)
• Durham University Data Science Society (Durham, January 2023) [materials]

2022

• APTS course on Statistical Computing (Warwick, December 2022)
• RSS Merseyside local group session on Real Time Modelling (Liverpool, September 2022) [video]
• RSS 2022 Conference (Aberdeen, September 2022)
• University of Cape Town Statistical Sciences Seminar (online/Cape Town, South Africa, September 2022)
• Improbable seminar (online, June 2022)
• RSS North East Inaugural Boys Lecture, following the Richard J Boys Memorial Workshop (Newcastle, June 2022) [materials]
• Bayesian Inference in High-Energy Physics (Durham, May 2022) [materials]
• Laplace's Demon Seminar (online, May 2022) [materials]
• UCL Statistical Science Seminar (online/London, February 2022)

2021

• APTS course on Statistical Computing (Warwick, December 2021)
• Turing Fellow seminar (online, November 2021)
• ISBA 2021 World Meeting (online, June 2021) [materials for contributed presentation]

2020

• APTS course on Statistical Computing (online/Cambridge, December 2020)
• Stuttgart Research Center Systems Biology Seminar (online/Stuttgart, Germany, November 2020)
• Royal Society symposium on Microbial ecology for engineering biology (Chicheley Hall, April 2020) [Cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic]
• SIAM conference on UQ (Munich, Germany, March 2020) [Cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic]
• Turing workshop on Data science and AI at scale (London, Februrary 2020)
• Bristol data science seminar (Bristol, February 2020)

2019

• APTS course on Statistical Computing (Cambridge, December 2019)
• RSS Read paper meeting (Unbiased MCMC) - Invited discussant and proposer of the vote of thanks (London, December 2019) [materials]
• Bayes4Health and CoSInES Workshop (Lancaster, September 2019)
• Western Swiss Doctoral School in Statistics and Probability (Switzerland, September 2019)
• ACHILLES workshop on Statistics for data-centric engineering (Bristol, July 2019) [materials]
• Turing workshop on Advanced statistical modelling and machine learning for molecular biology (London, July 2019) [organiser/academic lead]
• EBI Metagenomics Bioinformatics (Hinxton, Cambridge, June 2019) [materials]
• Advances and challenges in Machine Learning Languages (Cambridge, May 2019) [slides]
• CRM workshop on Data assimilation: Methodology and applications (Montreal, Canada, May 2019)
• Crick Institute seminar (London, January 2019)

2018

• APTS course on Statistical Computing (Cambridge, December 2018)
• CIRM Workshop on Bayesian statistics in the Big Data Era (Luminy, France, November 2018) [slides]
• BIRS Workshop on Mathematical and statistical challenges in bridging model development, parameter identification and model selection in the biological sciences (Banff, Canada, November 2018) [video]
• LMS Prospects Meeting (Warwick, September 2018)
• EBI Metagenomics Bioinformatics (Hinxton, Cambridge, July 2018) [materials]
• INI Seminar on Statistical Scalability (Cambridge, February 2018) [video]
• Amazon Research (Cambridge, January 2018)
• STOR-i Annual Conference (Lancaster, January 2018)

2017

• Short course on Scala for statistical computing and data science (London, December 2017)
• Mathematical Biology Seminar (Edinburgh, November 2017)
• INI Workshop on Scalable statistical inference (Cambridge, July 2017) [contributed talk, video]
• Short course on Scala for statistical computing and data science (London, May 2017)
• RSS Emerging Applications Section Meeting on Statistical Network Science (London, May 2017)
• Bayes@Lund (Lund, Sweden, April 2017)

2016

• Bayesian mixer (London, October 2016)
• Metagenomics Bioinformatics (Hinxton, Cambridge, October 2016) [materials]
• ICMS Workshop on MCMC and particle methods (Edinburgh, September 2016)
• Computational Challenges in Biochemical Networks: Multiscale Modelling and Inverse Problems (Manchester, August 2016)
• ICERM Workshop on Stochastic numerical algorithms, multiscale modeling and high-dimensional data analytics (Brown, RI, USA, July 2016) [abstract, slides, video]
• Mathematical Biology and Ecology seminar (Oxford, May 2016)
• Statistics seminar (Durham, May 2016)
• INI Workshop on Stochastic Dynamical Systems in Biology (non-spatial models) (Cambridge, April 2016) [video]
• CIRM Workshop on Bayesian Statistics and Algorithms (Marseille, France, February 2016) [slides]
• OxWaSP Symposium (Warwick, February 2016)
• INI Workshop on Stochastic Dynamical Systems in Biology (opening workshop) (Cambridge, January 2016) [video]
• Workshop on Systems challenges in the Internet of Things (Northumberland, January 2016)
• Theory of Big Data 2 (UCL, London, January 2016)

2015

• Statistics seminar (Bristol, December 2015)
• Exploiting Metagenomics Approaches in Life Science Research (EBI, Cambridge, December 2015)
• Mathematics in the Life Sciences Seminar (Manchester, October 2015)
• EMS 2015 (Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2015)
• DWP Analytics Seminar (Newcastle, June 2015)
• ICMS Workshop on Statistical Modelling for Big Data (Edinburgh, May 2015)
• Data Assimilation in the Sciences (Fudan University, Shanghai, China, March 2015)
• QBM Seminar (Munich, Germany, March 2015)
• OxWaSP Symposium (Warwick, February 2015)
• Roslin Institute Seminar (Edinburgh, February 2015)

2014

• Statistical Systems Biology (Warwick University, December 2014)
• 12th Rob Kempton Lecture (Edinburgh, November 2014)
• RSS Statistical Computing Section (London, November 2014) [slides and code]
• EPSRC/RSS GTP Short course on Bayesian Modelling for Systems Biology (Newcastle, September 2014)
• BIRS Workshop on Statistics and Nonlinear Dynamics in Biology and Medicine [organiser] (Banff, Canada, July 2014) [video]
• CRiSM seminar (Warwick University, March 2014)
• BIRS Workshop on Advances in Scalable Bayesian Computation (Banff, Canada, March 2014) [video]
• Mathematics seminar (Dundee University, February 2014)

2013

• Systems Biology Seminar (Groningen, Netherlands, September 2013)
• ICMS IPISB Workshop (Edinburgh, July 2013)
• BAYSM 2013 (Milan, Italy, June 2013)
• ABC in Rome (Rome, Italy, May 2013) [slides]
• Scottish and Northumbrian Academic Statisticians Meeting (Newcastle, May 2013) [slides]
• id² Conference (London, May 2013)
• Statistical network science with applications (Leiden, Netherlands, April 2013)
• Statistics seminar (Reading, January 2013)

2012

• ISL Seminar (Bristol, November 2012)
• BISON Seminar (Zurich, Switzerland, November 2012)
• Short course on Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology (Tampere, Finland, October 2012)
• SMC 2012 (Warwick, September 2012)
• ABS12 - 2012 Applied Bayesian Statistics School on Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology (Pavia, Italy, September 2012)
• Greek Stochastics (Kalamata, Greece, August 2012)
• LASR 2012 - New Biology... New Statistics (Leeds, July 2012)
• EURANDOM Workshop on Parameter Estimation for Dynamical Systems (PEDS-II) (Eindhoven, Netherlands, June 2012) [slides]
• Statistics seminar (Lancaster, May 2012)
• ICMS Workshop on Advances in MCMC (Edinburgh, April 2012)
• Workshop on Confronting Intractability in Statistical Inference, (Bristol, April 2012)
• [BC]^2 seminar (Basel, Switzerland, April 2012)
• CSML Seminar (UCL, London, March 2012)

2011

• Statistics seminar (Glasgow, November 2011)
• Statslab seminar (Cambridge, October 2011)
• ESF Workshop on Modeling in ecology (London, September 2011)
• Bayes 250 (Edinburgh, September 2011) [slides]
• ISI 2011 (Dublin, Ireland, August 2011)
• LMS/EPSRC Symposium on the Mathematics of Data Assimilation (Durham, August 2011) [slides and video]

2010

• Math-Bio-Medicine (MBM) Seminar (Leeds, December 2010)
• Noise in Life 2010 (Benasque, Spain, October 2010)
• Workshop on Advanced Modelling and Simulation Techniques (Edinburgh, October 2010)
• ICSB 2010 [contributed talk] (Edinburgh, October 2010)
• Duke statistics seminar (Durham, NC, USA, September 2010)
• IMS 2010 Annual Meeting (Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2010)
• Uncertainty in Computer Models 2010 (Sheffield, July 2010)
• Bayesian Statistics 9, (Valencia, Spain, June 2010)
• NSF Workshop on Cellular Decision Making, (NSF, Arlington, VA, USA, April 2010) [talk not delivered due to Icelandic volcano]
• Heriot-Watt statistics seminar (Edinburgh, February 2010)
• BIRS Workshop on Multiscale stochastic modelling of cell dynamics (Banff, Canada, January 2010)

2009

• Statistics seminar (Southampton, November 2009)
• SAMSI Workshop on Stochastic Dynamics [slides] (RTP, NC, USA, August 2009)
• Challenges in Scientific Computing [slides] (Warwick, June 2009)
• Workshop on Statistical Bioinformatics and Stochastic Systems Biology (Newcastle, May 2009)
• BBSRC Mathematical Biology Workshop (Warwick, May 2009)
• North East Fungal Forum (Newcastle, April 2009)
• Statistical Methods for Post Genomic Data 2009 [slides] (Paris, France, January 2009)

2008

• BBSRC Systems Biology Grantholders Workshop [slides] (Nottingham, December 2008)
• New technologies for Protein Analysis (London, December 2008)
• Joint RSS Local Group/Medical Section meeting (Leeds, November 2008)
• Biology Seminar (York, October 2008)
• WCSB 2008 (Keynote lecture, Leipzig, June 2008)
• RSS Statistical Computing Section meeting (London, May 2008)
• IMA workshop on Stochastic Models for Intracellular Reaction Networks [abstract, slides and video] (Minnesota, May 2008)
• INI/CRiSM Workshop on Bayesian Analysis of High Dimensional Data (Warwick, April 2008)
• IMS statistics seminar (Kent, February 2008)
• Applied Statistics seminar (Reading, February 2008)
• OCISB launch meeting - Visions for Systems Biology (Oxford, January 2008)

2007

• Statistics seminar (Durham, December 2007)
• Systems Biology seminar (Warwick, October 2007)
• BIRS workshop on Bioinformatics, Genetics and Stochastic Computation (Banff, Canada, July 2007)
• SAMSI Complex Computer Models transition workshop [slides] (Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, May 2007)
• NIEHS Biostatistics seminar (Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, April 2007)
• SAMSI Undergraduate workshop on complex computer models (Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, March 2007)

2006

• INI workshop on Recent Advances in Monte Carlo Based Inference [slides and audio] (Cambridge, November 2006)
• IMS workshop on Statistical Inference for Biological Networks (London, October 2006)
• Centre for Mathematical Medicine seminar (Nottingham, October 2006)
• SAMSI Complex Computer Models kickoff workshop (Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, September 2006)
• High Performance Computing and Statistical Inference (Dublin, Ireland, August 2006)
• JSM 06 (Seattle, WA, August 2006)
• UBC workshop on Stochastic Computation and Bioinformatics (Vancouver, Canada, August 2006)
• EBI Industry Club meeting on Systems Biology (Cambridge, June 2006)
• 8th Valencia meeting on Bayesian Statistics (Benidorm, Spain, June 2006)
• Statistics seminar (Oxford, January 2006)
• EURANDOM workshop on Statistics for Biological Networks (Eindhoven, Netherlands, January 2006)

2005

• ICMS workshop on diffusions (Edinburgh, December 2005)
• Statistics seminar (Warwick, November 2005)
• Statistics seminar (Glasgow, November 2005)
• ISDS Statistics Seminar (Duke, NC, USA, October 2005)
• Imperial Genomics Workshop (London, September 2005)
• BISP 4 (Varenna, Italy, June 2005)
• Statistics Seminar (Bath, April 2005)