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2020/2021: The seminars happened on Microsoft Teams on Fridays 1pm UK time (or occasionally at different times).

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2020-2021 Organisers: Alice CorbellaLink opens in a new window, Massimiliano Tamborrino, Jure Vogrinc

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Mailing List: algorithmseminar@listserv.csv.warwick.ac.uk (NB - only approved members can post)

Microsoft Teams Link (username/password same as for eduroam) available

Date	Speaker	Title	Abstract	Slides	Video
Week 1: 30/4	Jure VogrincLink opens in a new window		AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 2: 7/5			AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 3: 14/5	Andrea Bertazzi	Euler approximations for Piecewise deterministic Markov processes	AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 4: 21/5	Juan Kuntz NussioLink opens in a new window	Product-form estimators: exploiting independence to scale up Monte Carlo	AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 5: 28/5		The new BFFs in MCMC: Barker and Bernoulli	AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 6: 4/6			AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 7: 11/6	Timoth茅e Stumpf-F茅tizonLink opens in a new window	Exact Bayesian Inference for Markov Switching Diffusions	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 8: 18/6		Information criteria for model choice in finite mixture models	AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 9: 25/6		Deep Learning meets statistics: Improving neural networks with statistical theory	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 10: 2/7	CANCELLED	DUE TO ISBA MEETING

2020/21 Term 2:

Date	Speaker	Title	Abstract	Slides	Video
Week 1: 15/1 (4pm UK time)		Postponed	AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 2: 22/1 (4pm UK time)		MCMC Confidence Intervals and Biases Without CLTs	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 3: 29/1		Subgeometric hypocoercivity for piecewise-deterministic Markov process Monte Carlo methods	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 4: 5/2 (4:30 UK time)		MCMC convergence bounds for reversible chains	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 5: 12/2	Jaromir SantLink opens in a new window	Inference of natural selection from allele frequency time series data using exact simulation techniques	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 6: 19/2		Modelling sparsity, heterogeneity, reciprocity and community structure in temporal interaction data	AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 7: 26/2		Sequential Monte Carlo algorithms for agent-based models of disease transmission	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 8: 5/3		Computational statistics for neuronal mathematical models	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 9: 12/3 (4 pm UK time)		Structure-preserving numerical integrators: classic methods, new perspectives	AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 10: 19/3		Optimization-centric Generalizations of Bayesian Inference	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window

This is the list of confirmed speakers, which will be continuously updated.

Date	Speaker	Title	Abstract	Slides	Video
Week -2: 18/09 (12 UK time)		Approximate Bayesian analysis of (un)conditional copulas	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week -1: 25/09	Joe MeagherLink opens in a new window	Bayesian Ancestral Reconstruction for Bat Echolocation	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week0: 02/10		On the convergence of an improved and adaptive kinetic simulated annealing	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 1: 09/10		cancelled (OxWaSP workshop)
Week 2: 16/10 (2pm UK time)		Sequential Monte Carlo for estimating parameters of differential equations	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 3: 23/10		Part 1: Risk prediction and Risk prediction Part 2: Machine Learning in Julia and benchmarking results on predictive fairness.	AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 4: 30/10 (4pm UK time)		Lifted samplers for partially ordered discrete state-spaces	AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 5: 6/11	Richard EverittLink opens in a new window	Rare event ABC-SMC^2	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 6: 13/11	Letizia AngeliLink opens in a new window	Interacting Particle Systems Approximations of Feynman-Kac Formulae in continuous time	AbstractLink opens in a new window	SlidesLink opens in a new window
Week 7: 20/11		Exact Simulation of Self-Excited Point Process with Levy Driven OU	AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 8: 27/11 (4pm UK time)		COVID-19 data sources and their challenges for modelling and estimation	AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 9: 4/12	Suzie BrownLink opens in a new window	Asymptotic genealogies of sequential Monte Carlo algorithms	AbstractLink opens in a new window
Week 10: 11/12		cancelled

Some key phrases:

- Sampling and inference for diffusions
- Exact algorithms
- Intractable likelihood
- Pseudo-marginal algorithms
- Particle filters
- Importance sampling
- MCMC
- Adaptive MCMC
- Perfect simulation
- Markov chains
- Random structures
- Randomised algorithms