Spatial and Bayesian implementations of decision tree methods for big data Candidate: Jacinta Holloway When: Friday, 8th May 2020 3:00 PM-4:00 PM Zoom link: https://qut.zoom.us/meeting/register/uZ0ocuyprjsqTei9gs0SEGiqLalrG7obkg Note: attendees need to register via this link. Supervisors: Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen Dr Kate Helmstedt Dr Michael Schmidt (external) Review Panel: A/Professor Michael Bode (Chair) Dr Alan Woodley Distinguished…
When: Thursday 9th April 2020, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y-801 and via Zoom Included in meeting: Our fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held this Thursday 9/4/20 at 1pm via Zoom. Details are at the bottom of this email. If you are on campus room Y801 is still booked. This week we will have a presentations by Shuwen Hu and…
Hydrogel Spacers in External Beam Radiation Therapy of Prostate Cancer: Patient Selection and Cost-Effectiveness Candidate: Scott Jones When: Wednesday, 8th April 2020 12:00 PM-1:00 PM Where: Zoom link: https://qut.zoom.us/j/710993319 Supervisors: Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen Dr Nicole White Dr Cathy Hargrave Professor Nicholas Graves Review Panel: Professor Benoit Liquet (Chair) Dr Kim-Huong Nguyen (UQ) Distinguished Professor Kerrie…
When: Thursday 26th March 2020, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y-801 and via Zoom Included in meeting: Our fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held this Thursday 26/03/20 at 1pm via Zoom. Details are at the bottom of this post. If you are on campus room Y801 is still booked. This week we will have a presentation by MJ…
When: Thursday 12th March 2020, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y-801 Included in meeting: The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held this Thursday 12/03/20 at 1pm in room Y801. Matthew Adams and Jacinta Holloway Brown will be presenting. Abstracts are below. Matthew’s talk Title: Introducing Bayesian inference methods to ecologists Abstract Working across multiple disciplines can be incredibly rewarding, but…
When: Thursday 27th February 2020, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y-801 Included in meeting: The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held this Thursday 27/02/20 at 1pm in room Y-801. This week Trish and Ishara will be presenting. Trish’s talk Title: A Bayesian hierarchical item-response model for predicting children’s early development using sparsely sampled developmental milestone measurements Abstract Item-response…
QUT Centre for Data Science Postdoc positions: Applications Close: 22nd March 2020: Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate in Data Science (6 positions), Centre for Data Science, Science and Engineering Faculty Total remuneration range: AU$80,792 to AU$109,627 (LEVA) OR AU$115,398 to AU$137,050 pa (LEVB) (inclusive of AU$68,139 to AU$92,458 LEVA pa OR AU$97,325 to AU$ 115,586 LEVB pa;…
Bayesian nonparametric approaches for Hawkes processes, and their applications Student: Raiha Browning When: Tuesday, 3rd March 2020, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM Where: GP-B Block, Level 1, Room 124 Panel Members: Prof David Lovell (Chair) Prof You-Gan Wang A/Prof Benoit Liquet DProf Kerrie Mengersen Supervisors: DProf Kerrie Mengersen Dr Gentry White Prof Judith Rousseau Abstract: A Hawkes process…
ARC Linkage Funded Scholarship: Applications Close: 17th April 2020: Revolutionising high resolution water quality monitoring in the information age. About the scholarship Funded by the Australian Research Council through a Linkage Project titled ‘Revolutionising high resolution water quality monitoring in the information age’, this PhD project will see the successful applicant develop new statistical and…
When: Thursday 13th February 2020, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-M-303 Please note change of location (this week only) Included in meeting: The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held next Thursday 13/02/20 at 1pm in room M-303. Gentry White, Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Sciences at QUT will be presenting for us so please come along – noting we are in a…
When: Thursday 30th January 2020, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held Thursday 30/01/20 at 1pm in room Y801. This week Brodie Lawson will be presenting. The abstract for the presentation is below: Title: Independent Proposals for Discrete Variables in Sequential Monte Carlo Abstract: The success, or at least certainly the…
When: Thursday 16th January 2020, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Hi all, The first BRAG meeting for 2020 is Thursday 16 January. We will have one presentation by Earl Duncan. The abstract for the presentation is below: MCMC sampling: Creating a generic sampler and comparing MCMC algorithms The main task of statistical modelling is estimating…
