Simon Preston
School of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Nottingham
Simon will give an introduction to statistical shape
analysis and explain its relationship with multidimensional scaling, then talk about
some recent work on developing bootstrap methods for inference of mean shape
from single and multiple samples of landmark data.
Simon is an EPSRC Statistics Mobility Fellow and works with
Prof. Andy Wood on researching new methodologies for statistical problems
involving high-dimensional data. He is also an RCUK Academic Fellow with
interests in modelling multi-agent systems, particularly those that arise in
the biological sciences, and is affiliated with the Wolfson Centre for Stem
Cells, Tissue Engineering and Modelling (STEM) at Nottingham.
For
more details about the speaker and shape analysis, see http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/spp/