Presentations

Applications of Gaussian Processes in Oceanography

Invited Lecture to the Gaussian Process Summer School, The University of Manchester

Oceanography has long sought to understand the spatial and temporal structure of many different oceanographic processes: turbulent decay, tides, surface waves, internal…

Some Recent, and Rediscovered, Developments in Bayes Linear Statistics

Seminar presented to the University of Exeter

Bayes linear statistics eschews probabilistic assumptions and instead poses the statistical inference problem by viewing expectation, rather than probability, as the…

An Introduction to Machine Learning

Invited Lecture to the University of Western Australia

This lecture was written for second-year engineering students who do no necessarily have any experience with statistical inference or machine learning. It was written to be…

Debiasing Welch’s Method for Spectral Density Estimation

Seminar presented in various forms to Imperial College London, Lancaster University, Durham University, and The University of Western Australia

Most non-parametric spectral estimation methodologies are based on transformations of the periodogram, a biased and statistically inconsistent estimator to the true spectral…

Inferring nonlinear internal wave currents from sparse observations

Conference presentation to the 2022 FOO/ACOMO Combined Workshop

Nonlinear internal waves (often referred to as solitons) produce transient bursts of high velocity as they propagate on the continental shelf, leading to massive structural…

Reconstructing Boundary Conditions for Complex Simulations with Application to Climate Models

Invited presentation to the Conference of the Royal Statistical Society

Any experiment with climate models relies on a potentially large set of spatio-temporal boundary conditions. These can represent both the initial state of the system and/or…

Kriging Demystified

Workshop given to the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds

This was a workshop presentation given to the School of Earth and Environment about the fundamentals of Kriging. What is it? How does it work? What do we need to think about…