Multi-disciplinarity in Mathematical & Computational tools Abstract Dr Portes will be talking about his multi-disciplinary scientific career and experience, connecting everything into a coherent narrative under the umbrella concept of "data science". Specifically, it is a story about the development, adaptation and application of mathematical/computational...

Statistical Models to Incorporate Heterogeneity in Spatio-temporal Prediction by Clara Grazian Abstract Dirichlet processes and their extensions have reached great popularity in Bayesian nonparametric statistics. They have also been introduced for spatial and spatio-temporal data, as a tool to analyse and predict surfaces.   A...