Local Area organizer and Scientific Programme Committee member,
Working Group on Model-Based Clustering Summer Session (18th - 22nd
July) 2011, Glasgow, Scotland.
Upcoming Conference Talks & Presentations
TBA
Previous Conference Talks & Presentations
28th September 2011, Seminar at the Department of Mathematics and
Statistics, University of Maynooth, Ireland. "Cluster Analysis in Educational Testing".
26th August 2011, Invited Talk in Session "Estimating and visualising high
dimensional cluster structure" 58th World Statistics Congress of the
International Statistical Institute, Dublin, Ireland (August 21st to
26th 2011)."Comparing different clustering models on the unit hypercube".
15th July 2011, Invited Talk in Session "Robust clustering and
discrimination session", International Classification Conference
2011, St. Andrews (July 11th to 15th 2011). " Variable selection for latent class analysis applied to HapMap SNP data".
4th August 2010, Contributed Talk in Session "Supervised and Semisupervised Statistical Modeling", JSM 2010 Vancouver (July 31st to August 5th 2010). "Empty K-Means Skill-Set Profile Clustering in Educational Testing ".
3rd August 2010, Invited Talk in Session "Assessing and Relaxing Model Assumptions", JSM 2010 Vancouver (July 31st to August 5th 2010). "Mixture Model Component Trees: A Visualization Tool for Merging Clusters".
21st June 2010, Invited (Short) Talk at the Working Group on Model-Based Clustering, INRIA, Grenoble, France. "Comparing Clustering Methods on the Unit Hypercube".
18th June 2010, Invited Talk at the Classifiation Society Meeting 2010 St. Louis (June 17th to 19th 2010). "Empty K-Means: A Flexible Skill Set Profile Clustering Method".
15th March 2009, Talk in Session "Mixture Analysis - Mixture Estimation and Model Selection", IFCS 2009 Dresden (March 13th to 18th 2009). "Variable Selection and Updating in Model-Based Discriminant Analysis".
20th February 2009, Seminar at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham. . "Mixture Model Component Cluster Trees".
13th February 2009, Seminar at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh. "Mixture Model Component Cluster Trees".
11th February 2009, Seminar at the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, University College London.
6th February 2009, Statistics Seminar at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University. "Mixture Model Component Cluster Trees".
16th October 2008, Seminar at School of Mathematical Sciences in University College Dublin, Ireland. "Mixture Model Component Trees: Visualizing the Hierarchical Structure of Complex Groups".
6th October 2008, Seminar at School of Mathematics and Statistics in the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. "Density-Based Linkage Methods for Visualizing Model-Based Clustering Results via Component Trees".
17th September 2007, Seminar at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Statistics, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. "Variable Selection for the Mixture Model Clustering Framework" [Slides].