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• When? Every Tuesday at 2:30pm
• Where? LG.04, Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles'

Upcoming

Date	Topic	Presenters
26/1	External talk - "Extremal point process of the branching Brownian motion"	Julien Berestycki
Organisational meeting	all
2/2
9/2
16/2
23/2
1/3

Upcoming Topics:

Variational inference and expectation propagation (Yee Whye)

• Wainwright & Jordan
• Heskes & Zoeter
• BB-alpha

SDEs and SGMCMC (Sebastian)

• Emily Fox Family of SDEs paper
• Changyou Chen & Lawrence Carin series (Dec 2015)

Bayesian Nonparametrics and stochastic processes

• [Gnedin & Pitman. Notes on the occupancy problem with infinitely many boxes: general asymptotics and power laws. Proba. surveys.]
• Harry Crane on Ewens' Sampling Formula
• Asmussen & Rosinsky, Cohen & Rosinsky on Gaussian tail approximations of Levy processes
• Tree processes (DDT, PYDT, coalescent, Gibbs fragmentation, continuum random trees?)
• Harry Crane on networks
• Neil Sheppard on Levy processes
• GP inducing points

External speakers

• Andriy Mnih, Nicholas Heess, Charles Blundell
• Richard Xu

Past Meetings (2014-2015)