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Department of Statistics

Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Trajectories: a robust alternative to Hamiltonian Monte-Carlo

Lionel Riou-Durand gives a talk on sampling methods.
Department of Statistics

Modelling infectious diseases: what can branching processes tell us?

Professor Samir Bhatt gives a talk on the mathematics underpinning infectious disease models.
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Mathemalchemy: a mathematical and artistic adventure

This lecture is a visual treat as Ingrid Daubechies celebrates the joy, creativity and beauty of mathematics.
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I is a Strange Loop - written and performed by Marcus du Sautoy and Victoria Gould

From the creative ensemble behind Complicité’s sensational A Disappearing Number, this two-hander unfolds to reveal an intriguing take on mortality, consciousness and artificial life.
Department of Statistics

A primer on PAC-Bayesian learning *followed by* News from the PAC-Bayes frontline

Benjamin Guedj, University College London, gives a OxCSML Seminar on 26th March 2021.
Department of Statistics

Approximate Bayesian computation with surrogate posteriors

Julyan Arbel (Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes), gives an OxCSML Seminar on Friday 30th April 2021, for the Department of Statistics.
Department of Statistics

Introduction to Bayesian inference for Differential Equation Models Using PINTS

Ben Lambert, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, gives the Graduate Lecture on Thursday 6th May 2021, for the Department of Statistics.
Department of Statistics

On classification with small Bayes error and the max-margin classifier

Professor Sara Van de Geer, ETH Zürich, gives the Distinguished Speaker Seminar on Thursday 29th April 2021 for the Department of Statistics.
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Ideas for a Complex World - Anna Seigal

Science and maths are full of smart tools for explaining the world around us. Those tools can feel far removed from the way the rest of us understand that world. Can we reconcile the two approaches? Oxford Mathematician Anna Seigal provides some answers.
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Henry Segerman - Artistic Mathematics: truth and beauty

Mathematicians get up to all sorts. Geometers and Topologists in particular occupy a world of inconceivable shapes, concepts and dimensions. But how do you visualise such ideas? Sure, there's computer graphics, but what about over here, in the real world?
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Mathematics Public Lecture: How Learning Ten Equations Can Improve Your Life - David Sumpter

Mathematics has a lot going for it, but David Sumpter argues that it can not only provide you with endless YouTube recommendations, and even make you rich, but it can make you a better person.
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: How to Make the World Add Up - Tim Harford

You have to sympathise with statistics. Misunderstood and misused when all they want to do is accumulate. What they need is a little human understanding. Tim Harford's Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture does just that.
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Can maths tell us how to win at Fantasy Football? - Joshua Bull

Oxford Mathematician Josh Bull won the 2019-2020 Premier League Fantasy Football competition from nearly 8 million entrants. So how did he do it? Did he by any chance use mathematics?
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Squirrels, Turing and Excitability - Mathematical Modelling in Biology, Ecology and Medicine

The Grey Squirrel invasion explaining tumour cell proliferation? Alan Turing explaining football shirt patterns? The close relationship between slugs and the human heart? What is the common link? Mathematics of course. And Philip Maini.
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Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Number Theory: Primitive Roots

In this, the second online lecture we are making widely available, Ben Green introduces and delivers a short lecture on Primitive Roots, part of the Number Theory Lecture course for Second Year Undergraduates.
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Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Graph Theory: Shortest Paths

Oxford has gone online for lockdown. So how do our student lectures look? Let Marc Lackenby show you as he looks at paths between vertices in a graph with a view to finding the shortest route between any two vertices. Works for your Satnav for example.
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Smartphones v COVID 19

Smartphones will help save lives. Smartphones' value is exaggerated. What is the reality? And, as ever, what is the Maths behind it all? Leading Network Scientist Renaud Lambiotte downloads the facts in this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture.
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Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 2

Oxford Mathematician Peter Howell starts the second part of the 2nd year Differential Equations course which focuses on boundary problems.
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Alan Champneys - Why pedestrian bridges wobble: Synchronisation and the wisdom of the crowd

So much noise, so many opinions. Perhaps time for Occam's Razor to start its scientific shaving?
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Oxford Mathematics 3rd Year Student Lecture - Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives

Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the third year course on Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives from Sam Cohen where we hear that the role of derivatives is not to make money but to avoid being exploited.

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