16. TALKS GIVEN SINCE 2000:
Invited
speaker: ‘Various actuaries’: Perceptions
of the actuarial profession
Invited
speaker: Edinburgh RSS group: Data mining
and statistics
Invited
speaker: Lancashire/East Cumbria RSS group: Data
mining and statistics
Invited
lecture: Glaxo Wellcome: Data mining in
practice
Invited
lecture: National Audit Office: Data
mining in practice
Invited
seminar: Herts and Beds RSS group: Data
mining in practice
Invited
speaker: German classification society: Modern
data analysis: a clash of paradigms
Invited
lecture: Office for National Statistics: Data
mining in practice
Banquet
guest speaker: Interface 2000, New Orleans: Measuring
the Earth
Invited
speaker: Conference on Statistics, Science and Public Policy V: Society,
Science and Education: Education to equip
people for change.
Invited
seminar: Merseyside RSS local group, Data
mining in practice
Invited
lecture: Conference on measurement and multivariate statistics, Banff: Quantification and human progress.
Invited
speaker: RSS General Applications Section: Statistics
in retail banking.
Invited
speaker: Pzifer: Data mining for fun and
profit
Inaugural
lecture: Imperial College: The end of
statistics?
Keynote
speaker: IFCS 2000, Namur, Belgium: Breaking
the mould: some new problems in supervised classification.
Invited
speaker: ASA, Indianapolis, Credit scoring
Invited
talk: COMPSTAT 2000, Utrecht: Data mining
in practice
Invited
talk: Conference of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors: Behavioural research in consumer banking
Invited
short course: RSS conference, 2000,
Statistics in Finance
Invited
speaker: RSS conference, 2000, Intelligent
tools for data analysis or tools for intelligent data analysis?
Invited
seminar: Birmingham RSS local group, Measurement
Invited
seminar: Exeter RSS local group, Data
mining in practice
Invited
talk: IMA/Bank of England: Assessing
credit risk in retail financial services
Invited
talk: Royal Holloway and Surrey joint meeting: Measurement and statistics
2001
Invited
seminar: Manchester RSS group: Data
mining in practice
Invited
seminar: Manchester Metropolitan Univ: Credit
scoring
Invited
seminar: Imperial College seminar: Data
mining for fun and profit.
Invited
seminar: Highlands RSS group: Data mining
in practice
Invited
seminar: Sussex RSS group: Modelling
consumer credit risk
Invited
speaker: Conference on Statistics, Science and Public Policy VI: The framing of decisions; Science and
scientists – the culture wars; Discussion and conclusions
Keynote
address: Data mining for fun and profit.
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Chicago
Invited
speaker: Pzifer: Deconstructing
statistical questions.
Invited
short course: University of Waterloo, Canada: Classification.
Invited
talk: Canadian International Bank of Commerce: The customer quality scale.
Invited
speaker: Fair Isaac Interact conference, London: The customer quality scale.
Invited
short course: Barcelona: Statistical
methods in consumer credit scoring
Keynote
address: Paragon. The customer quality
scale.
Invited
talk: 2nd International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems: Cambridge: Multiple classifier systems based on
interpretable linear classifiers
Contributed
talk: Edinburgh Credit Scoring and Credit Control VII: Measuring Customer Quality
Contributed
keynote address to replace scheduled keynote after WTC attack: Patterns in data mining
Invited
talk: Glasgow: British Association for the Advancement of Science: Statistical analysis of retail banking data
Invited
seminar: Open University: Multiple
classifier systems based on interpretable linear classifiers
Keynote
speaker: SAS conference M2001: North Carolina: Patterns
Invited
talk: Glaxo-SmithKline, UK Statistics Conference: Patterns in data mining.
RSS
read paper: Fayers and Hand: Causal
variables, indicator variables and measurement scales:
an example from quality of life
Invited
talk: Equifax New Technology Forum Conference
Invited
talk: Sheffield RSS seminar Data mining for fun and profit
Invited
seminar: Imperial College Department of Computing: Modern data analysis: a clash of paradigms
2002
Invited
seminar: Imperial College School of Management: Credit risk in the retail banking sector
Invited
speaker: Conference on Statistics, Science and Public Policy VII: Selling mackerel by the pound.
Invited
speaker: Conference on Statistics, Science and Public Policy VII: Individual freedom and the choice of
umbrella.
Invited
talk: RSS Quality Improvement Committee. Data
mining and data quality.
Invited
talk: IC Innovations Venture Capital evening: Metronomy
Invited
talk: Centre for Innovation in Financial Services: The City and Academia: Horses for courses
Contributed
talk: Conference on Credit Risk Modeling and Decisioning, Wharton School. Scorecard construction with unbalanced class
sizes.
Invited
talk: SchlumbergerSema: The statistical
revolution in retail banking
Invited
talk: Leeds Annual Statistics Research
Workshop: Patterns in data mining.
Invited
talk: International Federation of OR Societies. Building relevant scorecards.
Invited
talk: Portuguese Statistical Society Conference. Supervised classification and tunnel vision
Opening
talk: ESF Workshop on Pattern Detection and Discovery: Patterns
Invited
talk: Unilever: Intelligent data
analysis: paradigms and processes
Invited
talk: Paris: Supervised classification
and tunnel vision
2003
Invited
talk: Eurandom: Eindhoven, Statistical
pattern discovery
Invited
talk: Statistics, Science, and Public Policy 2003: April, Crime and Morality
Invited
seminar: IC Bioinformatics group: Statistical
pattern discovery for genomics and proteomics
Keynote
talk: Italian Statistical Society, Naples, Statistical
pattern discovery
Keynote
speaker: Credit Scoring and Credit Control 8, Edinburgh 2003. Assessing scorecards
Contrib
talk: Credit Scoring and Credit Control 8, Edinburgh 2003: Scorecards for new customers
Professor
in Residence: Leonard N.Stern School of Business, New York University, Sept
- Patterns in data mining
- Marginal classifier improvement
Invited
talk: Banff credit conference: October, Academic
enthusiasms and commercial constraints the role of modern classification tools
in credit scoring.
Invited
talk: GlaxoSmithKline, Ware: Missing data
2004
Invited
talk: University of Florida, 9-10 Jan 04: Data
quality
Invited
seminar: Oxford University: 5 Feb 04:Pattern
discovery
Invited
seminar: Zurich, ETH, 29 Jan 04: Sophisticated
simplicity in statistical classification
Invited
seminar: Zurich, 30 Jan 04: Pattern discovery
Keynote
address: Hamburg, 27 Feb 04: Academic
enthusiasms in classification
Invited
seminar: Gatsby unit, UCL, 11 Feb 11 04: Pattern
discovery
Invited
conference talk: RSS, 21 April, 04: Predicting
customer behaviour in the financial services sector
Invited
conference talk: Statistics, Science, and Public Policy 2004, 21-4 April 04: Grade inflation
RSS
vote of thanks for Friedman and Meulman clustering paper: 5 May 04
Invited
conference talk: Ghent, 10 May 04: Marginal
classifier improvement and reality
Invited
conference talk: Virginia, 17 May 04: Credit Rating and Scoring Models
Conference. Good practice in retail
scorecard assessment
Invited
conference talk: RSS, 9 June 04, Statistical
challenges in credit scoring
Invited
presentation: IC Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 16 June: Pattern recognition
Invited
seminar: QinetiQ: Mining supervised classification
performance studies. 9th July
Invited
conference talk: IFCS Plenary 15 July 04, Chicago: Academic obsessions and classification realities: ignoring
practicalities in supervised classification
Invited
conference talk: ECML/PKDD, 22-4 Sept 04, Pisa, Strength in diversity: the advance of data analysis
Invited
talk: ENBIS: Bank of Greece, 1 Oct 04, Athens, Predicting customer behaviour in the retail banking sector
Keynote
address: IEEE, ICDM, 1-4 Nov 04, Brighton, Deception,
distortion and discovery: data quality in data mining
Invited
seminar: University of Pennsylvania: Nov 04, Measurement, scaling, statistics!
Wharton
credit conference: Nov 04: How do you
know if you’ve got it right? Validating credit scoring models
Invited
seminar: IC SAS seminar series: Nov 04 Data
mining
Invited
seminar: IC Measurement, scaling, statistics!
Invited
talk: Government Statistical Service conference 2004: The many faces of credit scoring
Invited
workshop plenary: BT, Future Directions
in Intelligent Systems for Data Analysis
2005
Invited
seminar: 4th February, Southampton University: Size matters
Invited
presentation: 8th February, Imperial College Maths Institute: Classification
Invited
talk: Office for National Statistics: Size
matters, 25 Feb
Invited
talk: UK KDD Symposium, Liverpool, 6th April: Spotting the difference: detecting anomalies in large data sets
Invited
plenary: ISBIS4, Palm Cove, Australia, 14-16 April: Applications of statistics in the personal banking sector
Invited
talk: Conference on Statistics, Science, and Public Policy, 10: 20-23 April. Universities: neither manufacturing nor
service, but cooperative industry
Invited
seminar: Sheffield: Academic obsessions
and classification realities. 27 April.
Launch
talk: Imperial Mathematical Sciences Institute, 29 April. Mathematical and statistical issues in retail banking
Keynote
address: Niort, France, Statistical
learning: recent advances and applications, 11-12 May
Opening
address: IDA Workshop, Leiden: IDA past,
present, and future, 18-19 May
Invited
presentation: Herman Ader retirement symposium, Amsterdam: 20 May, Deconstructing statistical questions
Invited
talk: RSS Computing and QI Sections. Data
quality in data mining. 23 June
(Shortened version of 2004 ICDM Keynote.)
Tutorial
on data mining: PSI - RSS conference,
Cardiff 11-22 July
Invited
Panelist: JSM, Minneapolis, 7-11 August: Data
mining and privacy, 10th Aug
Invited
seminar: GMAC-RFC, Minneapolis, 8 Aug: On choosing the right thing to do, 8th Aug
Invited
short course: Bremen, German OR Society: 5-6 September, Business Intelligence
Contributed
talks: Edinburgh Credit Conference, 7-9 September: On customer lifetime value
Contributed
talk: University of London Open Day 14 Sept. What is statistics?
Invited
talk: Drug safety conference, London, 28 Sept. Principles of data mining.
Invited
presentation: Hans-Herman Bock retirement, 14 October : Size matters: a paean to quantification.
Invited
keynote: SAS DM2005, Las Vegas. 24-28 October. What you get is what you want? Some dangers of black box data mining.
Invited seminar: Cass Business School:
16 November. Marginal classifier
improvement and reality
Invited seminar: UCL: 21 November. Size matters
R.C.Bose Memorial Lecture, Conf,
Auburn, 2-4 December, Size matters.
2006
Invited talk: Defence Science and
Technology Laboratories, Farnborough, 11th Jan, Classification theory and methods.
Programme leader presentation: IMS
advisory board 22 Feb: Mathematics in
banking and finance
Invited seminar: Cambridge University
Stats Lab 24 Feb: Size matters
Invited seminar: Oxford local RSS
group, 14 March: Size matters
Aladdin project Research Theme 1 presentation:
Individual actors. 21 March.
Invited talk, IC Singapore Alumni
Society, Lotteries, luck, and why
lightning does strike twice. April.
Invited tutorial, PAKDD Singapore, Anomaly detection methods, April
Keynote, PAKDD. Data
mining and personal privacy, April
Invited talk, Statistics, Science and
Public Policy, Herstmonceux, The
information economy: personal privacy and public protection, April
Invited talk, Dutch Classification
Society, Rotterdam, Size matters,
April
Invited talk, Joint British
Classification Society and RSS Statistical Computing Section, IC, Classifier technology and the illusion of
progress, May, London
Invited talk: SMi Fraud conf. 5-6 June, On-line
data mining strategies for detecting personal bank transaction fraud,
London
Opening plenary: Government Statistical
Service conference, 26 June, Size
Matters: a paean to quantification, London
Invited talk: ESRC Research methods
festival, 17-20 July, Data mining: use and misuse
IMS Open Day talk: Mathematical and Statistical Issues in Retail Banking, 20 July.
Presidential Address, IFCS 2006, 25-28
July, The length and breadth of
classification science: the case study of banking fraud. Ljubljana.
Invited talk: COMPSTAT 2006, Detecting banking fraud in a cashless
society, 28Aug-1st Sept., Rome.
Keynote opening address, Polish
Classification Society, SKAD. Size
matters. 20-22nd Sept, Wisła, Poland.
S3RI
Special Seminar,
Southampton University, Statistical
issues in retail banking, Oct 19
Invited seminar, Edinburgh University,
Statistics Department, Size Matters,
3 Nov
Invited seminar, Edinburgh University,
Business School, Mining personal banking
data to detect fraud, 3 Nov
Invited talk, 4th International
Symposium on Confidential Reporting Systems, NPSA, London, Errors, faults, and anomalies: the system or the data?, 30 Nov.
2007
Invited talk, Mertens supervised
classification methods comparison, Leiden, Clinical
mass spectrometry proteomic diagnosis, 1 March
Invited talk, Winton Capital
Management, London, Size Matters, 21
March
Invited talk, RSS General Applications
Section, Data mining meeting, London, What
you get is what you want? Some dangers of black box data mining. 11-12
April,
Invited talk, Statistics, Science and
Public Policy, Measurement in public policy:
hitting a moving target, Herstmonceux, April 18-21.
Invited Presentation to Medicines and
Health Products Regulatory Agency, London, Mining
data for anomalies and unusual events, 10 May
Lead discussion at open meeting at the
Dana Centre on Lies, Damned Lies, and
Statistics
Invited talk: French Statistical
Society, Angers, France, Statistical tools for
fraud detection in personal financial services. June 11-15
Invited talk: Royal Statistical Society Conference, York. Deception and dishonesty with data: fraud in science, July 16-20.
Invited talk: Paris: Workshop on Data
Analysis and Classification, in honour of Edwin Diday, Mining
personal banking data to detect fraud. September 4.
Keynote speaker: Venice: S.Co.2007,
Conference of the Italian Statistical Association. How to
select good classification methods, September 6-8.
Invited talk: Villa Cagnola - Gazzada -
Italy. NATO ASI: Mining massive data sets for security. Statistical
techniques for fraud detection, prevention, and evaluation. September 10-12.
Keynote speaker: Las Vegas. SAS M2007
conference. Fraud! Oct 1-2.
Invited Presentation to Young
Statisticians / Graduate Statisticians, RSS, 11 Nov 07
Invited Presentation at RSS Careers
day, Birmingham, 21 Nov 07
Presentation at IMS, Imperial, to mark
end of ThinkCrime project, 23 Nov 07
Invited Presentation at GSS Young
Statisticians Conference, Warwick, Deception
and dishonesty with data: fraud in science, 10 Dec 07
2008
Invited presentation to Financial
Services Analytics Group, Thinking
outside the box: new approaches to market segmentation. 24 Jan 08, London
Keynote address, Swedish Statistical
Association, Stockholm, The Royal
Statistical Society, Statistics, and the Future, 10-14 Mar 08
Invited presentation at RSS Young
Statisticians meeting, Newport, Protection
or Privacy: Mining Personal Data. 19th March 08
Invited after dinner talk, Statistics,
Science and Public Policy conference, Herstmonceux, Let the
facts speak for themselves, 16-19 Apr 08
Response to Sir Michael Scholar at UKSA
launch, RSS Official Statistics Section, 10 April 08
Invited presentation at RSS young
statisticians meeting, Deception and dishonesty
with data, Nottingham, 8 May 08
Invited presentation, Isaac Newton
Institute Industry Day, Frontiers in applications
of data mining, 19 May 08
Presentation to ‘Friends of Imperial’
at IMS, Mathematics in banking and
finance, 10 June 08
Invited Presentation, RBS International
Risk Conference. Credit scoring: a future
beyond empirical models, 12 June 08
Keynote, International Symposium on
Forecasting: International Journal of Forecasting Editor’s Invited Talk, Mining the past to determine the future:
problems and possibilities. Nice,
23-26 June 08
Invited talk. Data driven methods and the requirements for high performance
computers. High Performance
Computing and Statistics meeting, Manchester, 24th July 2008
Invited presentation, British
Association Science Festival, Detecting
fraud in retail banking, Liverpool, 6-11 September 08
Invited speaker: Privacy and statistics. Statistical Dining Club, London, 24 Sept
2008
Lead discussion at open meeting at the
Dana Centre on Mathematical models in
banking, 25 Sept 2008
Invited talk: Data mining for credit applications: promise and perils.
CCR-interactive Conference, London, 7th Oct 2008
Invited talk: Credit scoring and iconic models. RBS, Edinburgh, 20th Nov 2008
Invited talk: Statistical techniques for fraud detection, prevention, and evaluation.
Banque-Finance-Assurance de la SFdS, Paris,
Nov 2008.
Invited
talk: Evaluating predictive classifiers.
Henry Stewart conference on Predictive Analytics. London, 4th Dec, 2008.
Presidential Address to the Royal
Statistical Society, Modern statistics:
the myth and the magic. London, 10th Dec 2008
2009
Invited talk, Oxford and Cambridge
Club: Scientific fraud. London, 13th
Jan 09
Contributed talk, QFRMC conference: Evaluating scorecards. London, 23rd Jan
09
Invited talk, joint NISS-OCC meeting, A (personal) view of statistical issues in
(mainly retail) credit risk assessment. 5-6 Feb, 09
Invited plenary, New Techniques and
Technologies in Statistics, Eurostat, Brussels: Research in statistics: what’s the future of statistics, 18-20 Feb
09
Invited talk, Manchester University
Business School and Statistics Group combined, Fraud in retail financial services: a challenge for statisticians,
24th Feb 09
Institute for Security Science and
Technology, Data mining - an overview,
Imperial College, 12 Mar 09
RSS Founders Day afternoon session: The Royal Statistical Society, Statistics,
and the Future, 18 Mar 09
RSS Founders Day Reception talk, 18 Mar
09
Imperial Seminar, On the incoherence of the area under the ROC curve, and what to do
about it. 20 Mar 09
Plenary, Research students conference, Size Matters, Lancaster 23 Mar 09
Invited presentation: Science,
Technology, Engineering and Medicine PR Association, Just one or two things you always wanted to know about statistics but
were too embarrassed to ask. 26 Mar 09
Invited talk, Sunday Times Oxford
Literary Festival, Statistics: A Very
Short Introduction. 30 Mar 09
Invited talk: Data Science and
Learning, On the incoherence of the area
under the ROC curve, and what to do about it. Paris, 2-5 Apr 09
Invited talk: Cass-CAPCO conference,
Cass Business School, What does fraud
cost the UK? Can we tell? 6th Apr 09
Invited talk: Statistics, Science and
Public Policy, Teetering on the Edge,
Herstmonceux Castle, 22-26 Apr 09
Invited talk: RSS South West gp,
Plymouth, Fraud in retail financial
services: a challenge for statisticians, 29th April 09
RSS Presidential Dinner speech, 13 May
09
Invited talk: RSS SW 60th, Newport: Fraud in retail financial services: a challenge for statisticians, 20th
May
Invited talk: Foundation for Science
and Technology, Royal Society: Mathematics
and the banking crash, 10 June 09
Keynote address: KDD, Paris, Mismatched models, wrong results, and
dreadful decisions: on choosing appropriate data mining models 28 June
Invited Introductory Overview Lecture on Statistical Learning and Data Mining, Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington DC, 3-8 Aug 09
Invited presentation preceding ASA
Presidential Address, Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington DC, 3-8 Aug 09
Invited talk, Model misspecification vs problem misspecification. Joint
Statistical Meetings,
Invited talk, International Statistical
Institute Conference, Comparing
classification methods in diagnosing breast cancer from mass spectrometry data,
Contributed talk, Credit Scoring and
Credit Control Conference, How to
evaluate scorecards: and why using the Gini coefficient has cost you money,
Invited after dinner talk: Credit
Scoring and Credit Control Conference, Edinburgh 26-28 Aug, 09
Invited contribution to session on This house believes that credit scoring
methods and applications are stuck in the 1980s, Credit Scoring and Credit
Control Conference, Edinburgh 26-28 Aug, 09
Various talks, as President, at RSS
2009 conference,
Invited talk for Thales visit to
Institute for Security Science and Technology, Imperial College, 21 Sept 09
Invited Faculty Lecture, Glasgow
University Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Evaluating ROC curves and the incoherence of
the area under the curve, 5th Oct.