CfS Launch Event

Program:

• 14:00–14:15: Dave Robertson (Head of College of Science and Engineering).

  • The Importance of Statistics for Edinburgh Data Science.
• 14:15–14:30: Jon Oberlander (Director of the Bayes Centre).
  • The Bayes Centre.
• 14:30–14:45: Jonathan Gair (Director of the Centre for Statistics).
  • The Centre for Statistics.
• 14:45–15:10: Ruth King (School of Mathematics).
  • Statistics in the College of Science and Engineering.
• 15:10–15:35: Coffee Break.
• 15:35–16:00: Paul McKeigue (Usher Institute)
  • Stratified Medicine as a Statistical Modelling Problem: Learning Finite Mixture Models for Disease Dubtyping.
• 16:00–16:25: Glenn Marion (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland.
  • Doing Statistics with Dynamics: Inferring Biological Mechanisms from Data.
• 16:25–16:45: Cristina Iannelli (School of Education).
  • Statistics in CAHSS.
• 16:45–17:00 John MacInnes (School of Social and Political Science).
  • Statistics in CAHSS.
• 17:00–18:00: Wine Reception.