UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics Seminars

Statistics and Actuarial Science Seminars 2026

Mortality improvements, excess mortality, and socio-economic differentials: Evidence from England 2001-2022

Ayse Arik (University of New South Wales)
Thu 8th January 2026 - 3:00PM

Pooled vs. meta-analytic models in multi-ancestry genome-wide association studies: Power, population structure, and prac

Julie-Alexia Dias (Harvard University)
Thu 15th January 2026 - 3:00PM

The grammar of conflict: Discovering motifs in armed violence

 Thomas Chadefaux (Trinity College Dublin)
Thu 12th February 2026 - 3:00PM

A structured estimator for large covariance matrices in the presence of pairwise and spatial covariates

Martin Metodiev (Université Clermont Auvergne)
Thu 19th February 2026 - 3:00PM

pdglasso: an R package for Gaussian graphical models for paired data

Saverio Ranciati (University of Bologna)
Thu 26th February 2026 - 3:00PM

Categorical instrumental variable model: Characterization, partial identification, and statistical inference

Richard Guo (University of Michigan)
Thu 5th March 2026 - 3:00PM

Zeroth-order parallel sampling

Francesco Pozza (UCD, SMS)
Thu 1st October 2026 - 3:00PM

Credit transition and default risk

Andrew Smith (UCD)
Thu 8th October 2026 - 3:00PM

Generative Regression Models for Functional and Object Data

Edward Gunning (UCC)
Thu 15th October 2026 - 3:00PM

Local summary statistics and Dirichlet processes for spatial intensity estimation and automatic cluster detection

Jorge Mateu (Universitat Jaume I)
Thu 22nd October 2026 - 3:00PM

Extreme Event Attribution: How does human-influenced climate change alter the frequency and severity of extreme weather

Claire Bergin (Maynooth University)
Thu 29th October 2026 - 3:00PM

Beyond point estimation: explaining the posterior in Bayesian cluster analysis

Sara Wade (University of Edinburgh)
Thu 5th November 2026 - 11:00AM

Statistical issues in the case of Lucy Letby

Richard Gill (Leiden University)
Thu 12th November 2026 - 3:00PM

Risk significance versus statistical significance: an epistemology of quantitative risk

Hirbod Assa (UCD)
Thu 19th November 2026 - 3:00PM

Quantifying Intransitive Dominance Relations Using Static Covariates

Hisaya Okahara (Tokyo University of Science)
Thu 3rd December 2026 - 3:00PM

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