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The DVJ seminar series

David Vere-Jones (SRA Distinguished Associate and VUW Emeritus Professor) turned 75 on 17 April 2011. To mark his 75th year SRA is hosting a series of informal seminars in his honour. The choice of seminar topic is left entirely to the speaker. As might be expected given David's broad interests, the seminars could be, but are not limited to, presentations on the speaker's latest theoretical or applied research, discussions on the history, teaching and dissemination of statistics, or personal reminiscences of working with David.

The seminars are held at Waikanae beach north of Wellington near David's home usually on Wednesday afternoon following lunch. Because space is limited, attendance is by invitation. If you would like an invitation please contact an SRA staff member. The location is the Drift Cafe, 1 Waimea Road, Waikanae Beach and here is a map.

Here is a list of the seminars so far (see here for the abstracts):

4th May, 2011: David Harte, Statistics Research Associates "Modelling NZ Seismicity with the ETAS Model" (abstract, slides)

20 July, 2011: Eugene Seneta, School of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Sydney "Canberra Times (1965-1968) and After" (abstract, slides)

27 July, 2011: Jiancang Zhuang, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo "Testing significance of earthquake precursors: Against complete randomness? Or against earthquake clustering models?" (abstract, slides)

7 September 2011: Peter Smith, Canterbury University "Random matrices, quadratic forms and networks of antenna arrays in wireless communications" (abstract, slides, photos)

12 October 2011: Len Cook (Former Government Statistician) "Putting a value on statistical methods and practice" (abstract, slides)

26 October 2011: Yosihiko Ogata, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo "The M9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and statistical seismology" (abstract, slides)

21 December 2011: Sharleen Forbes, Statistics New Zealand and Victoria University "New directions in statistics education - the impact of technology" (abstract, slides)

18 January 2012: Mark Bebbington, Massey University "The Development of Statistical Volcanology: A Personal Experience" (abstract, slides)

1 February 2012: Daryl Daley, University of Melbourne "Regeneration and Markovianity" (abstract, slides)

15 February 2012: Geoff Eagleson, Australian School of Business, University of NSW "How can the interactions between Statistics and Business be improved? - Reflections on a journey from Pure Mathematics to management consultancy" (abstract, slides, The Hal Varian Video)