Stochastic Processes Forgan Smith Building Room 212

Warren Ewens 4 July to 15 July

Robert Adler 6 July to 22 July

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9am-9.45am welcoming ceremony 10am-10.30am morning tea 10.30am Warren Lecture 1 12pm lunch 2pm Warren Lecture 2 3.15pm Braddon Lance: Quantifying variation within structurally conserved regions of proteins BBQ Emmanuel College	9.15am Warren Lecture 3 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Warren Lecture 4 12pm lunch 2pm Joshua Ross: Diffusion approximations and model fitting for ecological systems 3.15pm Wenjuan Hu: Missing value prediction using Bayesian Approach	9.15am Warren Lecture 5 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Robert Lecture 1 12pm lunch 2pm Warren Lecture 6 3.15pm Benjamin Gladwin: Extending the timescale in molecular simulations [optional tutorial]	9.15am Warren Lecture 7 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Robert Lecture 2 12pm lunch 2pm David Sirl: Quasi-stationary distributions for continuous-time Markov Chains. 3.15pm Michael Roper: Multi-dimensional diffusion processes: recent results 7pm Public Lecture	9.15am Warren Lecture 8 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Warren Lecture 9 12pm lunch 2pm Alex Woolaston: Spatial modeling in cDNA microarray experiments 3.15pm Ashley Lim: Diffusion Approximation and moderate deviations for a stochastic Lotka-Volterra system
9.15am Warren Lecture 10 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Robert Lecture 3 12pm lunch 2pm Mitra Jazayeri: Applications and comparisons of dimension reduction techniques in biomedical data 3.15pm Stephen Boyce: A lexicographic-product-based algorithm for mining medical data	9.15am Warren Lecture 11 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Robert Lecture 4 12pm lunch 2pm Xiaoxin Wang: Approximation to the sum of Bernoulli trials by polynomial birth-death distribution using Strin’s method [optional tutorial]	9.15am Warren Lecture 12 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Robert Lecture 5 12pm lunch 2pm Galina Prosselkova: Some methods for protein structure prediction 3.15pm Benjamin Cairns: First exit times for some piecewise – deterministic Markov processes	9.15am Warren Lecture 13 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Feng Chen: Analysis of multivariate current status survival time data based on the frailty model 12pm lunch 2pm Robert Lecture 6 3.15pm Adrian Ratnapala: Atom lasers meet laser light: the present and future of the optical probing of Bose-Einstein condensates BBQ Emmanuel College	9.15am Warren Lecture 14 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Warren Lecture 15 12pm lunch [optional tutorial]
9.15am Robert Lecture 7 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Robert Lecture 8 12pm lunch 2pm Karol Binkowski: Deter-mination of utility curves on the assumption of consumption and decision portfolio selection in the Merton’s model 3.15pm James Li: Power control in ad hoc networks	9.15am Robert Lecture 9 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Robert Lecture 10 12pm lunch 2pm Dale Roberts: Pricing discretely monitored exotic options under the Levy process framework 3.15pm Nathan Pearce: The support vector machine	9.15am Robert Lecture 11 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Robert Lecture 12 12pm lunch 2pm John Ormerod: Penalised spline support vector classifiers using interior point methods 3.15pm Andrew Downes: Option pricing with independent stochastic folatility	9.15am Robert Lecture 13 10.30am-11am morning tea 11am Robert Lecture 14 12pm lunch 2pm Peter Humburg: Analysis of microarray time course data 3.15pm Ranga Muhandiramge: Path planning in a minefield threat environment End of Course Dinner Emmanuel College	9.15am Robert Lecture 15 10.30am-11am morning tea 12pm lunch