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A Good Science Read

A Good Science Read: The importance of Mathematics and Engineering

Professor Marcus du Sautoy joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss A Mathematician’s Apology by GH Hardy and Exactly: How Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester.
Maths + Cancer

6. The shape of data with Professor Heather Harrington

Vicky Neale and Heather Harrington look at how mathematical techniques are used to identify patterns in cancer data, and discuss the creative thinking required of mathematicians.
Maths + Cancer

5. Modelling cancer with Professor Helen Byrne

Vicky Neale sits down with Helen Byrne to discuss her research around mathematical modelling for tumour prediction, and her advice for researchers who want to apply their work to cancer research.
Maths + Cancer

4. Numbers don't tell the whole story with Professor Hannah Fry

Vicky Neale talks to Hannah Fry about the difficulties of using probabilities in medical statistics, and how their own experiences have shaped their perspectives on the tough choices facing those making decisions on cancer care.
Maths + Cancer

3. Medical imaging and radiotherapy with Tom Whyntie

Vicky Neale sits down with Tom Whyntie to look at how mathematics is being used in medical imaging to optimise cancer care, and the ‘epic amounts of data’ behind the technology.
Maths + Cancer

2. Communicating the evidence with Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter

Vicky Neale and David Spiegelhalter explore the role of statisticians in communicating risk to the public, and how patients can be empowered to engage with clinicians when weighing up the benefits and risks of treatment.
Maths + Cancer

1. The relevance of maths to cancer with Professor Philip Maini

Vicky Neale talks to Philip Maini about how mathematical modelling can help researchers and doctors to improve the quality of life for people receiving cancer treatment.
Department of Statistics

Causality and Autoencoders in the Light of Drug Repurposing for COVID-19

Caroline Uhler (MIT), gives a OxCSML Seminar on Friday 2nd July 2021.
Department of Statistics

Recent Applications of Stein's Method in Machine Learning

Qiang Liu (University of Texas at Austin) gives the OxCSML Seminar on Friday 4th June 2021.
Department of Statistics

Do Simpler Models Exist and How Can We Find Them?

Cynthia Rudin (Duke University) gives a OxCSML Seminar on Friday 14th May 2021.
Department of Statistics

Practical pre-asymptotic diagnostic of Monte Carlo estimates in Bayesian inference and machine learning

Aki Vehtari (Aalto University) gives the OxCSML Seminar on Friday 7th May 2021
Department of Statistics

Complexity of local MCMC methods for high-dimensional model selection

Quan Zhou, Texas A and M University, gives an OxCSML Seminar on Friday 25th June 2021.
Department of Statistics

Assessing Personalization in Digital Health

Distinguished Speaker Seminar - Friday 18th June 2021, with Susan Murphy, Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Department of Statistics

Machine Learning in Drug Discovery

Graduate Lecture - Thursday 3rd June 2021, with Dr Fergus Boyles. Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.
Department of Statistics

Several structured thresholding bandit problems

OxCSML Seminar - Friday 28th May 2021, presented by Alexandra Carpentier (University of Magdeburg).
Department of Statistics

Convergence of Online SGD under Infinite Noise Variance, and Non-convexity

Murat Erdogdu gives the OxCSML Seminar on Friday 12th March, 2021, for the Department of Statistics.
Department of Statistics

Florence Nightingale Bicentennial Panel Session

The Florence Nightingale Bicentennial Lecture was followed by a Panel Session with Professor Deborah Ashby, Professor David Cox and Professor David Spiegelhalter. The Panel was chaired by Professor Jennifer Rogers about the role of statistics in society
Department of Statistics

Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society

Professor Deborah Ashby, President of the RSS, gives the 2020 Florence Nightingale lecture.
The Secrets of Mathematics
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How do mathematicians model infectious disease outbreaks?

Models. They are dominating our Lockdown lives. But what is a mathematical model? We hear a lot about the end result, but how is it put together? What are the assumptions? And how accurate can they be?
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Why be a Lunatic

Dr Maggie Adarin-Pocock delivers the 2019 Simonyi Lecture at the Oxford Playhouse

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