Algebraic Statistics Seminar, Fall 2018/Spring 2019

This is the webpage of the Algebraic Statistics Seminar at Leiden University in the fall of 2018 and the spring of 2019.
Starting October 10th, we meet Wednesdays from 11.00 until 13.00 in room 174 of the Snellius.

There are no sessions on October 31st and on December 5th.
On December 12th, we will be in room 312.
On January 23rd and February 13th and 20th, we will be in room 401.
On February 27th, we will be in room 405.

Schedule

Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes/Slides	Comments
10-10	Evgeny Verbitskiy	Probability Primer	Slides	Further reading on conditional probabilities: A User's Guide to Measure Theoretic Probability, by David Pollard.
17-10	Ronald van Luijk	Algebra Primer	Slide Videos
24-10	Richard Gill	Conditional Independence I	Videos
07-11	Bas Edixhoven	Conditional Independence II	Videos
14-11	Stéphanie van der Pas	Statistics Primer	Slides
21-11	Amine Hadji	Exponential Families I	Slides Videos
28-11	David Holmes	Exponential Families II	Videos
12-12	Erik Visse	Fisher's Exact Test	Notes Videos
23-01	Richard Gill	Graphical Models	Videos
13-02	David Holmes	Markov bases and the relation with toric ideals I
20-02	David Holmes	Markov bases and the relation with toric ideals II
27-02	Richard Gill	The Intersection Axiom	Slides

References

We are following the book Algebraic Statistics by Seth Sullivant, available here .