Operational Research and Statistics Seminars 2008 - 2009
Programme
Investigation throught Simulation of cardiac care pathways in Wales (WIMCS Series Seminar)
Wednesday 8 October
Speaker: Dr W John Watkins (Cardiff)
An Introduction to Metaheuristic Algorithms and the Intractable Problems that they try to Solve (SWORDS Series Seminar)
Wednesday 15 October, 6:30pm - Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre, Cardiff Business School
Speaker: Dr Rhyd Lewis (Cardiff)
What in the world is WISERD? (Statistics Series Seminar)
Wednesday 22 October
Speaker: Dr Scott Orford (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods)
Automating the Selection of a Simulation Warm-up Period (Operational Research Series Seminar)
Wednesday 29 October
Speaker: Professor Stewart Robinson (Warwick)
Interval estimation for quantities relating to proportions - further developments (WIMCS Series Seminar)
Wednesday 5 November - 3rd Floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Building 122, Heath Park Campus
Speaker: Professor Robert Newcombe (Cardiff)
Random Matrices (Statistics Series Seminar)
Wednesday 12 November
Speaker: Professor Vyacheslav Girko (Ukranian National Academy of Sciences)
Vehicle Routing: Transforming the Problem (Operational Research Series Seminar)
Wednesday 19 November
Speaker: Professor Richard Eglese (Lancaster)
Joint modelling of longitudinal and competing risks data (Statistics Series Seminar)
Wednesday 26 November
Speaker: Professor Paula Williamson (Liverpool)
A quirky technique for solving vehicle routing problems (WIMCS Series Seminar)
Wednesday 3 December
Speaker: Dr Christine Mumford (Cardiff)
Applications of Submodular Optimisation to Scheduling with Controllable Processing Times (Operational Research Series Seminar)
Wednesday 10 December
Speaker: Professor Vitaly Strusevich (Greenwich)
Complex engineering systems residual life estimation with applications, a case using Spectrometric Oil Analysis (SOAP) Programme data from diesel engines
Wednesday 28 January
Speaker: Professor Wenbin Wang (Salford Business School, University of Salford)
Modelling in the realisation of competitive manufacturing; practice and research
Wednesday 4 February - 6pm in M/2.06
Speakers: Professor Tim Baines and John Ladbrook (School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University and Ford)
Simple models for censored longitudinal data
Wednesday 11 February
Speaker: Dr Daniel Farewell (Department of Primary Care and Public Health,
School of Medicine, Cardiff University)
Statistical Issues in Organ Transplantation
Wednesday 18 February
Speaker: Professor Dave Collett (NHS Blood and Transplant)
Operational Research and Uncertain Reasoning based Analysis
Wednesday 4 March
Speaker: Dr Malcolm Beynon (Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University)
Applications of Submodular Optimisation to Scheduling with Controllable Processing Times
Wednesday 18 March
Speaker: Professor Vitaly Strusevich (School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich)
Would you trust a ‘simple doctor’?! Current topics in healthcare modelling.
Wednesday 22 April - Bristol (more details on request)
Speaker: Professor Paul Harper (Cardiff Unversity)
Estimating the Effectiveness of Immunization against Paralytic Poliomyelitis in Nigeria
Wednesday 29 April
Speaker: Professor Christl Donnelly (Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College London)