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2013
May 2013
April 2013
Date: Tuesday April 30
Place: Vilhelm Bjerknes hus, Auditorium 4
Event: Statistics seminars, jointly organized by Department of Mathematics and (sfi)²
Time: 14:15-16:00.
Speakers: Philip Jonathan (Shell Projects & Technology, U.K. and Lancaster University) and David Randell (Shell Projects & Technology and Durham University).
Title: Modelling extreme environments and Locating and quantifying gas emission sources using remotely obtained concentration data.
Date: Thursday April 25
Place: Domus Medica, room 2180
Event: Biostatistics Seminar, jointly organized by BMMS, Department of Biostatistics, Department of Mathematics and (sfi)²
Time: 14:30-15:30. Coffee/tea is served from 14:15.
Speaker: Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba (Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy).
Title: Quantifying the re-exposure process to an infectious agent.
Date: Thursday April 18
Place: Domus Medica, room 2180
Event: Biostatistics Seminar, jointly organized by BMMS, Department of Biostatistics, Department of Mathematics and (sfi)²
Time: 14:30-15:30. Coffee/tea is served from 14:15.
Speaker: Tron Anders Moger (Associate Professor, Department of Health Management and Health Economics and Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo).
Title: Schizophrenia Susceptibility and Age of Diagnosis Onset - A Frailty Approach.
Tore Schweder 70 år: Statistisk dag, Videnskapsakademiet mandag 8. april (09:00-16:00): Tore Schweder er blitt sytti år og glir over i emeriti rekker. De statistikkfaglige miljøer i Oslo markerer Tores lange, brede og innflytelsesrike virke med en statistisk dag i Videnskapsakademiets lokaler, Drammensveien 78, Oslo. Arrangementet er i Tores ånd, altså åpent og gratis. Program og mer informasjon.
March 2013
Date: Tuesday March 12
Place: Auditorium 4, Vilhelm Bjerknes hus
Event: Tuesday statistics seminar (Joint (sfi)² and Dept Mathematics)
Time: 14:15-15:15
Speaker: Peter Müller (The University of Texas, USA)
Title: A Nonparametric Bayesian Model for Local Clustering
February 2013
Date: Tuesday February 26
Place: Auditorium 4, Vilhelm Bjerknes hus
Event: Tuesday statistics seminar (Joint (sfi)² and Dept Mathematics)
Time: 14:15-15:15
Speaker: Kristoffer Herland Hellton (Department of Biostatistics, UiO)
Title: Consistency in high-dimensional principal component analysis
Date: Thursday February 14
Place: Domus Medica/Dept. of
Biochemistry, Seminar room 2240
Event: Forum for causal inference, organized by Department of Biostatistics (UiO)
Time: 14:00-15:15.
Speaker: Theis Lange - University of Copenhagen.
Title: Assessing mediation through multiple pathways. Registration and more information here.
Date: Tuesday February 12
Place: Auditorium 4, Vilhelm Bjerknes hus
Event: Tuesday statistics seminar (Joint (sfi)² and Dept Mathematics)
Time: 14:15-15:15
Speaker: Benjamin Holcblat (Department of Financial Economics, BI)
Title: A Classical Moment-Based Approach with Bayesian Properties: Econometric Theory and Empirical Evidence from Asset Pricing
January 2013
Date: Tuesday January 29
Place: Mathematics building (Niels Henrik Abels hus), room B81
Event: Tuesday statistics seminar (Joint (sfi)² and Dept Mathematics)
Time: 14:15-15:00
Speaker: Michael Scheuerer (Institute of Applied Mathematics, Heidelberg University, Germany)
Title: Statistical post-processing of weather forecasts: The importance of spatial modeling
Date: Tuesday January 22
Place: Mathematics building (Niels Henrik Abels hus), room B81
Event: Tuesday statistics seminar (Joint (sfi)² and Dept Mathematics)
Time: 15:15-16:00
Speaker: Thomas Jaki (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University)
Title: Designing multi-arm multi-stage clinical studies
Date: Tuesday January 22
Place: Mathematics building (Niels Henrik Abels hus), room B81
Event: Tuesday statistics seminar (Joint (sfi)² and Dept Mathematics)
Time: 14:15-15:00
Speaker: Matthew Sperrin (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University)
Title: Modelling the effect of interventions on onset and progression of chronic disease
Date: Thursday January 17
Place: Domus Medica, room 2180
Event: Biostatistics Seminar, jointly organized by BMMS, Department of Biostatistics, Department of Mathematics and (sfi)²
Time: 14:30-15:30. Coffee/tea is served from 14:15.
Speaker: Jukka Corander (Professor, Department of Mathematics and statistics, University of Helsinki).
Title: Going BANANAS when inferring population histories from genetic data.
The International Year of Statistics launch video Improving Human Welfare in 2013 International Year of Statistics may be viewed here.

