STOR-i Masterclass: Professor Peter Frazier
This week we had the last masterclass of the year given by Professor Peter Frazier from Cornell University. Due to the current uncertainty caused by the coronavirus outbreak around the world, unfortunately Peter was not able to visit Lancaster in person. However, making the most of the situation we instead were able to still interact…
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STOR-i Masterclass: Professor Brendan Murphy
Last week we had the first of this years STOR-i masterclasses given by Professor Brendan Murphy from University College Dublin. He introduced us to model-based clustering and classification. I hope to give a brief insight into his interesting talks over the two days. The goal of clustering analysis is to place objects into groups that…
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Random Graphs
A graph is a pair \( G = (V, E) \) where \(V\) is a set of whose elements represent the verticies of the graph and \(E\) is a set of pairs of vertices that represent the edges of the graph. This is better explained with an example: Here we have \(V = \{1,2,3,4\} \)…
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MCMCMC
Over Christmas I was set the task of writing a report about something that interested my during my first term of the MRes. I chose to look into something called Metropolis-Coupled Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMCMC). This sounds like a mouthful but once broken down isn’t too scary. I will start off by giving a…
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STOR-i Conference 2020
Last week I got to start off the new year at Lancaster by attending the annual STOR-i conference. I was able to sit through a day and a half of talks from academics coming from around the UK as well as Europe and America. My first blog will be about my favourite talk from this…
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