Seminar Series

The Mathematical and Statistical Modelling cluster organises a seminar series which runs in each of the Autumn and Spring semesters.  Some of our recent and forthcoming speakers are listed below. 

Autumn Semester 2025

Date Name Affiliation Title (if confirmed)

29 Sept Thomas Hughes University of Bath Interface evolution in bistable spatial population models

6 Oct Jonathan Jordan University of Sheffield

& Bas Lodewijks

13 Oct Mehmet Ucar University of Sheffield

20 Oct Guillermo Serrano Najera University of Cambridge 

3 Nov Emma Horton University of Bath

10 Nov Lukas Eigentler University of Warwick

17 Nov Elizabeth Osuno Valuation Office Agency

24 Nov Hossein Mohammadi University of Exeter

1 Dec Steve Webb Syngenta

8 Dec Daniel Kious University of Bath

15 Dec Elisabetta Dixon University of Belfast

Recent previous speakers

Ellen Powell University of Durham Thick points of the planar Gaussian free field

Femke van den Berg FERA Mathematical modelling to enhance pest & disease management: from theory to practice

Nadhir Ben Rached University of Leeds Importance Sampling for McKean-Vlasov Stochastic Differential Equation

Enrico R. Crema University of Cambridge Measurements errors, missing data, and uncertainty in Archaeological inference

Rachel McCrea University of Lancaster Bias adjusting statistical models for ecological applications

Javier Rubio UCL     Dynamic survival analysis: modelling the hazard function via ordinary differential equations

John Moriarty QMUL The one-shot problem: Solution to an open question of finite-fuel singular control with discretionary stopping

Yurij Salmaniw University of Oxford Bifurcation analysis of nonlocal aggregation-diffusion equations and systems

Daniel Bearup University of Leicester Modelling interactions between community and habitat structure to understand biodiversity on a landscape

Dan Pagendam CSIRO Data 61, Brisbane Killing Invasive Mosquitoes with Bayesian State-Space Models

Peter Gracar University of Leeds Dynamics and scale-free geometric random graphs

Sam Jackson University of Durham Advances in UQ for Computer Models with Application to System Biology: Known Boundary Emulation and Design of Experiments for History Matching

Adam Stone, John Gosling University of Durham AddiVortes: (Bayesian) Additive Voronoi Tessellations.

Radek Erban University of Oxford Stochastic Modelling of Reaction-Diffusion Processes