Oxford Young Statisticians Seminar
Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Seminar's scheduleThe Oxford Young Statisticians Seminar (OxYSS) is a series of junior seminars in which PhD students and postdocs from the University of Oxford working on statistics and machine learning present their research in an accessible manner. The aim is to provide insight into each other’s work and foster potential collaborations.
Seminar’s Schedule
For any question or request please contact Valentin Kilian
2025
| Section | Date | Time | Location | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keynote talk | 05/03 | 11:00 | Second floor Open Research Area, Department of Statistics | The predictive approach to uncertainty quantification | Vik Shirvaikar |
| Random Graphs | 12/03 | 16:00 | Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College | Introduction to parameter estimation on random graphs | Adrian Fischer |
| 12/03 | 16:30 | Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College | Modelling Extremely Sparse Networks with Random Measures | Valentin Kilian | |
| Diffusion Models | 26/03 | 17:00 | Ground floor Social Area, Department of Statistics | Diffusing through life, mindless and careless | Chris Williams |
| 26/03 | 17:30 | Ground floor Social Area, Department of Statistics | Understanding generalisation in diffusion models | Tyler Farghly | |
| Keynote talk | 01/05 | 11:00 | Second floor Open Research Area, Department of Statistics | The interplay of scaling and generalization | Amitis Shidani |
| Distinguished speaker | 30/05 | 17:00 | Ground floor Social Area, Department of Statistics | Beating the odds: flexible models for predicting football scores | Nick Zhang (University College Dublin) |
| Statistics meet Probability |
18/06 | 11:30 | Second floor Open Research Area, Department of Statistics | TBC | Léo Tyrpak (Probability) |
| 18/06 | 12:00 | Second floor Open Research Area, Department of Statistics | TBC | Ning Zhang (Statistics) |