Research lectures, seminars and events
The events listed in this area are research seminars, workshops and lectures hosted by Durham University departments and research institutes. If you are not a member of the University, but wish to enquire about attending one of the events please contact the organiser or host department.
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Events for 12 March 2012
Seminar - Waking the giant: climate forcing of geological hazards
Contact brett.cherry@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Royal Society Visit
Contact research.grants@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
The molecular ecology of predation risk
The Recovery of Beauty Public Lecture - Beauty, Pain, and Violence: Through Lessing to King Lear
Contact enquiries.ias@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Beauty, Pain, and Violence: Through Lessing to King Lear
Contact catherine.syson@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Roland Langrock: Animal movement modelling: overview of approaches and an example application to multiple bison movement paths
Analyzing animal movement is essential for understanding the animals' motivations, the dynamics of populations and their distribution in space. While the development of statistical methodology for animal movement data may have lagged behind the advancements in tracking technology, it is nevertheless also true that the last decade has seen substantial progress in terms of our ability to incorporate ecological realism in animal movement models. My talk will be split into two parts. Part I gives an overview of some of the most popular approaches to modelling animal movement, including a discussion of their respective advantages and disadvantages. The talk will cover simple random walks, hidden Markov models (HMMs), Lévy walks and stochastic differential equations (with a focus on Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes). In Part II of the talk I will discuss an example application of HMMs to movement paths of nine bison. I will also consider extensions of basic HMMs that (i) allow for more flexible distributions for the times the animals spend in the different motivational states and (ii) that involve random effects for capturing the heterogeneity across individuals.
Contact i.r.vernon@durham.ac.uk, i.h.jermyn@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Anish Ghosh: CANCELLED
Contact dzmitry.badziahin@durham.ac.uk, alexander.stasinski@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Dr Martin Kitchen: 'Reading the Transfiguration: Character and Plot'
Contact francis.watson@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
The Rev Professor Chris Cook: The Spirituality of Forgiveness
Contact anthony.bash@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
