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The Leeds Workshop is a well established annual statistical meeting which was founded in 1974 by Kanti Mardia who led it over four decades until 2015. In 2017 it was directed jointly by Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat and Kanti Mardia. Although begun as an internal event, it now enjoys the support of a number of visitors each year from other universities and research bodies around the world. These workshops usually extend over three days with input by several speakers. Over recent years, the theme of the workshop has reflected the growing, but not exclusive, departmental interest and expertise in bioinformatics, image and shape analysis, wavelets and machine learning. Four decades of the Leeds Workshops were celebrated at the 2015 LASR Workshop.
The LASR mission is to:
- Bring together world-class scientists and statisticians
- Encourage cutting-edge interdisciplinary research
- Sustain and develop workshops
Many of the topics addressed by the LASR workshop are connected to the theme of geometric statistics - the interpretation of information with a geometric flavour such as:
- Spatial statistics
- Image analysis
- Shape analysis
- Bioinformatics
Past LASR workshops
| Geostatistics (Conference) | D.G. Kendall, A. Marechal | LASR 1979 | |
| 1 | Spatial Processes on Regular Lattices | Dr. R.J. Martin | LASR 1980 |
| 2 | Applied Spatial Processes | J. Besag | LASR 1981 |
| 3 | Spatial Statistics | B.D. Ripley | LASR 1982 |
| 4 | Estimation Procedures for Stationary Spatial Processes | X. Guyon | LASR 1983 |
| Statistics of Image Processing (Conference) | J.V. Kittler | LASR 1984 | |
| 5 | Bispectral Analysis and Bilinear Time Series Models | T. Subba-Rao | LASR 1985 |
| 6 | Statistics and Image Processing | J. Haslett | LASR 1986 |
| 7 | Markov Random Fields | H.R. Küünsch | LASR 1987 |
| 8 | Experimental Design Package | Dr. A. Baines | LASR 1988 |
| 9 | Itô Calculus | W.S. Kendall | LASR 1989 |
| 10 | Statistical Image Analysis | C. Jennison | LASR 1990 |
| 11 | Shape Analysis, Landmarks and Biomedical Imaging | F.L. Bookstein | LASR 1991 |
| 12 | Shape and Image Analysis for Industry and Medicine | C.R. Goodall | LASR 1992 |
| 13 | Shape Recognition in 2D and 3D Imaging | M.I. Miller | LASR 1993 |
| 14 | Medical Imaging: Shape and Visualization | S. Pizer | LASR 1994 |
| 15 | Current Issues in Statistical Shape Analysis | F.L. Bookstein, J. Gower, P.J. Green, D.G. Kendall | LASR 1995 |
| 16 | Image Fusion and Shape Variability Techniques | Dr. A. Guéziec, V.E. Johnson, J.J. Koenderink, D. Terzopoulos | LASR 1996 |
| 17 | The Art and Science of Bayesian Image Analysis | U. Grenander, V.E. Johnson, M. Titterington | LASR 1997 |
| 18 | Spatial-Temporal Modelling and its Applications | A. Blake, Sir David Cox, D.C. Hogg, C. Taylor | LASR 1999 |
| 19 | The Statistics of Directions, Shapes and Images | J. Besag, W.S. Kendall, J.V. Kittler, A. Rosenfeld | LASR 2000 |
| 20 | Functional and Spatial Data Analysis | A. Baddeley, M. Berman, B.W. Silverman, C.K. Wikle, K. Worsley | LASR 2001 |
| 21 | The Statistics of Large Datasets: Functional and image data, bioinformatics and data mining | G. J.Barton, L. Edler, Dr M.J.K Gales, D.J. Hand | LASR 2002 |
| 22 | Stochastic Geometry, Biological Structure and Images | C. Bystroff, Dr W. Gilks, J. Hein, A. Lesk, D. Stoyan | LASR 2003 |
| 23 | Bioinformatics, Images and Wavelets | M.J.E. Sternberg, G.P. Nason | LASR 2004 |
| 24 | Quantitative Biology, Shape Analysis, and Wavelets | P.J. Green, V.E. Johnson, Sir J. Kingman, A.F. Neuwald | LASR 2005 |
| 25 | Interdisciplinary Statistics and Bioinformatics | B.D. Athey, J. Besag, Sir D.R. Cox, J.M. Goodfellow | LASR 2006 |
| 26 | Systems Biology & Statistical Bioinformatics | S. Tavaré, A. Tramontano, G.M. Crippen | LASR 2007 |
| 27 | The Art and Science of Statistical Bioinformatics | M. Levitt, Z. Yang, A. Trouvé | LASR 2008 |
| 28 | Statistical Tools for Challenges in Bioinformatics | S. Richardson, D. Wild, Dr. W. Taylor, Dr. D. Theobald | LASR 2009 |
| 29 | High-throughput Sequencing, Proteins and Statistics | T. Speed, E. Wit, G. McLachlan | LASR 2010 |
| 30 | Next Generation Statistics in Biosciences | W.S. Kendall, C.A. Orengo, Y. Zhang | LASR 2011 |
| 31 | New Statistics and Modern Natural Sciences | D. Wilkinson, J. Haslett, Z. Ghahramani | LASR 2012 |
| 32 | Statistical Models and Methods for non-Euclidean Data with Current Scientific Applications | A. Azzalini, C. Deane, M. Hastings, C. Jones, P. Jupp, C. Rueda, A. Wood | LASR 2013 |
| 33 | Geometry-Driven Statistics and its Cutting Edge Applications: Celebrating Four Decades of Leeds Workshops | F. Bookstein, C. Bowman, C. Deane, I. Dryden, C. Goodall, P. Green, T. Hamelryck, S. Huckemann, P. Jupp, A. Laha, J.S. Marron, C. Rueda |
LASR 2015 |
| 34 | Biostatistics and machine learning methods in omics research, joint with the EU MIMOmics network | F. Agakov, H. Battey, G. Bianconi, T. Burzykowski, A. Conesa, H. Guo, W. Hide, N. Intrator, P. Lio, E. Mosca, R. Pfeiffer, D. Remondini, J. Scealy, H. Uh, W. van Wieringen |
LASR 2017 |
| 35 | Big Data: On Time and Space | A. Frangi, I. Ionita-Laza, H. Le, K. Mardia, V. Rondeau | LASR 2019 |
| 36 | Modern Statistics for Interdisciplinary Omics and Big Data, joint with the EU IMforFUTURE network | M. Girolami, H. Li, J. Scealy, C. van Duijn | LASR 2021 |
| 37 | New Faces of Statistical Learning and Beyond | A. Tosi, E. Konukoglu, J. Firth | LASR 2024 |