The Hon. Doc. Sylvia Richardson Workshop 2017 on Statistics for the Life Sciences
On the occasion of Professor Sylvia Richardson, University of Cambridge, receiving a Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oslo, we arrange a workshop in her honour. Please join us in the celebration of Sylvia and the statistics community at the University of Oslo, with presentations of some of the ongoing statistical research in the life sciences at our university!

Program
11.00-11.10 Welcome
11.10-11.50 Manuela Zucknick: Improving genomic prediction models for cancer with an adaptive informative selection prior
11.50-12.30 Geir Storvik: Bayesian variable selection in high dimensions
12.30-13.10 Lunch
13.10-13.50 Riccardo De Bin: Detection of influential points as a byproduct of resampling-based variable selection procedures
13.50-14.30 Nils Lid Hjort: All models are wrong, but some are more biologically plausible than others: Survival analysis models and methods based on crossing times for cumulative damage processes
14.30-14.45 Coffee Break
14.45-15.45 Seven young statisticians:
Celine Marie Løken Cunen: Game of Thrones vs the Wars of the Roses: survival and competing risks
Emil Aas Stoltenberg: Some insight into the cure model
Kristoffer Herland Hellton: Personalized predictions through focused fine-tuning of ridge regression
Giovanni Romeo: High-dimensional regression on mismeasured data
Vera Djordjilovic: Challenges of mediation analysis in high-dimensional epigenomic studies
Knut Dagestad Rand: Graph Based Reference Genomes
Xiaoran Lai: Towards the personalized computer simulation of breast cancer treatment: a pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics mechanistic multiscale model informed by individual patients
No registration necessary. Please also attend the Honorary Doctorate talks on Friday September 1st:
Sylvia Richardson:
Title: “A personal view of statistics as a tool for discovery in the health sciences”
Time: kl 10.15 – 11.00
Place: Aud 3, Helga Engs hus
Ian Horrocks:
Title: “Representing and Reasoning About Knowledge”
Time: kl 11.15 – 12.00
Place: Aud 3, Helga Engs hus
Welcome from org. comm. Riccardo De Bin, Arnoldo Frigessi and Ingrid Glad