Wednesday lunch
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Wednesday (sfi)² lunch
We have started a new tradition: every Wednesday, 12.15-13.15, we have a working lunch at the newly built Living Room of (sfi)². Everybody is invited to join. This will be an informal occasion for all (sfi)² to meet and share ideas, information, knowledge, discuss projects and problems. There will be fresh bread and "pålegg" and fruits, coffee and tea. Wednesday (sfi)² lunches are resticted to (sfi)² associates. Read more here.
- The lunch is currently prepared by Linn Cecilie Bergersen and Elisabeth Orskaug . Takk!
Next Dates and (some of the) topics
Wednesday 17 March 2010 : Lunch, welcome. The programme today is organised by Lars Holden. Our guest will be Morten Dæhlen, chair of the Department of Informatics. Morten will tell us about the organisation of research in his department, on the new building which is growing on our side, on future plans for ifi. He also might touch on the relation between computer scientists and statistics, in a world where technologies are collecting more and more data.
Wednesday 24 March 2010 : Lunch, welcome. Theme TBA.
Wednesday 31 March 2010 : No lunch due to Easter holiday
Wednesday 7 April 2010 : Postdoc Geir Kjetil Sandve, who is one of the project leaders of our genomic hyperbrowser project, will present his views, as a computer scientists within bioinformatics, during our lunch. His title is: "Being a cuckoo in a statistician nest". Welcome!
Wednesday 14 April 2010 : Lunch, welcome. Ole Christian Lingjærde will come to our lunch. He will either present some recent research theme of his, in statistical genomics, or maybe think loud on how it is to work together with molecular biologists. Interesting!
Wednesday 21 April 2010 : Lunch, welcome. Theme TBA.
Wednesday 28 April 2010 : André Teigland (NR and (sfi)2) will be the speaker today. André has been leading one of the largest applied statistics research and consulting group in Europe, and his experience is of great value for the discipline. André will tell us about his philosophies, including how to see reserach-based statistics, how to run a group of statisticians, how to generate, monitor and run hundreds of projects, how to balance individual interests and project needs and more. Welcome!
Wednesday 5 May 2010 : Claudia Czado is visiting us and will introduce some of her research themes for us.
Wednesday 12 May 2010 : Lunch at AvdC (?), welcome. Theme TBA.
Wednesday 19 May 2010 : No Lunch today (still in 17th of May mood).
Wednesday 26 May 2010 : Marit Veierød will come to our lunch today. Marit is a leading figure in the theme skin cancers. Today she will tell us about non-hodgkins lymfom tumors that occur more often in individuals who also develop UVR-related skin cancers. Therefore it was first assumed that sun exposure was a risk factor also for the development of NHL. Results of ecological studies on ambient sun exposure and NHL have been mixed. The first two large case-control studies (2004,2005) found (surprisingly) inverse associations between NHL and measures of personal sun exposure, especially recreational sun exposure, with 20 to 40 % lower risk among the most heavily compared to the least exposed. In contrast, we did not find any significant associations between risk of NHL and measures of sun exposure in our cohort. More on this interesting and controversial story during the lunch seminar!
Summary of previous lunches
Wednesday 10 March 2010 : Lunch, welcome. Today there is no presentation, and we will enjoy free chatting!
Wednesday 3 March 2010 : We celebrate Tore Schweder, who leaves his many years of collaboration with NR, by listening to ... a lecture by Tore, with the title "From blunders to confidence". Welcome! Abstract: "Fischer's biggest blunder" (fiducial distributions) is the start. My, and NR's biggest blunder in 1993 was an eye opener for the necessity of simulation testing new methods. Raftery's blunder in the IWC, where his abundance estimate of bowhead whale abundance was subject to Borel's paradox, suggested to me that distributional inference without priors would be good. Efron calls this (confidence distributions) "statistics for the 21st Century". At the end, some words on confidence from likelihood, even when no MLE exists - illustrated by abundance estimation of minke whales off West Greenland.
Wednesday 24 February 2010 : No lunch due to winter holiday
Wednesday 17 February 2010 : Lunch with Torbjørn Rognes (Joint Centre for Bioinformatics in Oslo) at Veglabben, Gaustadalléen 25, 4. etasje. Theme: New technologies for DNA sequencing and their computational challenges
Wednesday 10 February 2010 : Lunch, welcome. Peter Guttorp is visiting us, and we will use this lunch to discuss on the role of statistics in climate research, with particular focus on uncertainty in climate impact studies. Please join us with your ideas, suggestions and comments.
Wednesday 3 February 2010 : Eva Skovlund will visit us. Eva is Senior adviser at the Norwegian Medicines Agency (Statens Legemiddelverk) and Professor II at University of Oslo, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, School of Pharmacy. Eva will tell us about the role of statistics in approving drugs, the challenges faced as statistician, and about her own work.
Wednesday 27 January 2010 : Arnt-Børre Salberg (NR) will present some of his exciting work on satellite images. We will learn about missing data produced by disturbing clouds and how statistical methods may be applied in classification and image restoration.
Wednesday 20 January 2010 : First lunch in 2010, welcome! Arnoldo will present a couple of videos on the perception of statistics
- The lunch has been previously prepared by Paradiso Import, Ingrid Hobæk Haff, Ola Lindqvist, Mathilde Wilhelmsen, Hege Bøvelstad, Marion Haugen, Siri Øyen Larsen, Bjørnar Mortensen, Steffen Grønneberg, Arnoldo Frigessi, Ida Scheel, Gudmund H. Hermansen, Bård Storvik. Takk! Takk!
