LASR Workshops

 

 

 

1979 – Geostatistics Conference where the idea of LASR workshops was conceived

(From left to right: D. G. Kendall, P. A. Dowd, A. Marechal, K. V. Mardia.)

Image © K.V. Mardia

 

 

  • Founder and organizer of the Leeds Annual Statistical Research (LASR: established formally in 1981). For historical account starting from 1974, see the following article, “LASR Workshop’s Silver Anniversary and Beyond”, Mardia, K.V., LASR Proceedings, 2006.

 

This has been formally running now for more than 25 years. Its 25th anniversary (LASR 2006) was celebrated last year. LASR has been a showcase for new and innovative statistical methods with applications in image analysis, geosciences, medicine and biology. The mission through these workshops has been to:

 

a.         bring together world-class scientists and statisticians

b.         encourage cutting-edge interdisciplinary research

c.         sustain and develop workshops as complimentary to other conferences.

 

Year after year, LASR has attracted participants from universities, industry, and other research institutions from all over the world. Many of the topics addressed at the LASR Workshop have had connections with broad interdisciplinary themes.

 

These have led to not only increasing awareness of a new cutting edge area for innovative statistical applications and methodologies. Since 2001, LASR has a predominately focused on statistical applications and methodologies in bioinformatics/biology.

 

For more information, please see Leeds Annual Statistics Research Workshops (LASR).

 

 

Geostatistics (Conference)                                                      Prof. D.G. Kendall,      1979

                                                                                                Prof. A. Marechal

1.   Spatial Processes on Regular Lattices                              Dr. R.J. Martin             1980

2.   Applied Spatial Processes                                                 Prof. J. Besag               1981

3.   Spatial Statistics                                                               Prof. B.D. Ripley          1982

4.   Estimation Procedures for Stationary Spatial Processes Prof. X. Guyon             1983

      Statistics of Image Processing (Conference)                     Prof. J.V. Kittler           1984

5.   Bispectral Analysis and Bilinear Time Series Models       Prof. T. Subba-Rao      1985

 

6.   Statistics and Image Processing                                       Prof. J. Haslett              1986

7.   Markov Random Fields                                                    Prof. H.R. Künsch        1987

8.   Experimental Design Package                                         Dr. A. Baines               1988

9.   Itô Calculus                                                                       Prof. W.S. Kendall       1989

10. Statistical Image Analysis                                                 Prof. C. Jennison          1990

 

11. Shape Analysis, Landmarks and Biomedical Imaging      Prof. F.L. Bookstein     1991

12. Shape and Image Analysis for Industry and Medicine      Prof. C.R. Goodall       1992

13. Shape Recognition in 2D and 3D Imaging                        Prof. M.I. Miller           1993

14. Medical Imaging: Shape and Visualization                      Prof. S. Pizer                1994

15. Current Issues in Statistical Shape Analysis                     Prof. F.L. Bookstein,    1995

                                                                                                Prof. J. Gower,

                                                                                                Prof. P.J. Green,

                                                                                                Prof. D.G. Kendall

 

16. Image Fusion and Shape Variability Techniques             Dr. A. Guéziec,            1996

                                                                                                Prof. V.E. Johnson,

                                                                                                Prof. J.J. Koenderink,

                                                                                                Prof. D. Terzopoulos

 

17. The Art and Science of Bayesian Image Analysis             Prof. U. Grenander,      1997

                                                                                                Prof. V.E. Johnson,

                                                                                                Prof. M. Titterington

 

18. Spatial-Temporal Modelling and its Applications            Prof. A. Blake,             1999

                                                                                                Sir David Cox,

                                                                                                Prof. D.C. Hogg,

                                                                                                Prof. C. Taylor

 

19. The Statistics of Directions, Shapes and Images              Prof. J. Besag,              2000

                                                                                                Prof. W.S. Kendall,

                                                                                                Prof. J.V. Kittler,

                                                                                                Prof. A. Rosenfeld

 

20. Functional and Spatial Data Analysis                              Prof. A. Baddeley,        2001

                                                                                                Prof. M. Berman,

                                                                                                Prof. B.W. Silverman,

                                                                                                Prof. C.K. Wikle,

                                                                                                Prof. K. Worsley

 

21. The Statistics of Large Datasets: Functional and            Prof. G. J.Barton,         2002

      image data, bioinformatics and data mining                    Prof. L. Edler,

                                                                                                Dr M.J.K Gales,

                                                                                                Prof. D.J. Hand

 

22. Stochastic Geometry, Biological                                       Prof. C. Bystroff,          2003

      Structure and Images                                                        Dr W. Gilks,

                                                                                                Prof. J. Hein,

                                                                                                Prof. A. Lesk,

                                                                                                Prof. D. Stoyan

 

23. Bioinformatics, Images and Wavelets                               Prof. G.P. Nason,         2004

                                                                                                Prof. M.J.E. Sternberg

 

24. Quantitative Biology, Shape Analysis, and Wavelets       Prof. P.J. Green,           2005

                                                                                                Prof. V.E. Johnson,

                                                                                                Sir J. Kingman,

                                                                                                Prof. A.F. Neuwald

 

25. Interdisciplinary Statistics and Bioinformatics                 Prof. B.D. Athey,         2006

                                                                                                Prof. J. Besag,

                                                                                                Sir David R. Cox,

                                                                                                Prof. J.M. Goodfellow

 

26. Systems Biology & Statistical Bioinformatics                   Mr. C. Bowman,          2007

                                                                                                Prof. G. Crippen,

                                                                                                Prof. S. Tavaré

                                                                                                Prof. A. Tramontano,

                                                                                                Dr. L. Wernisch

 

27. The Art and Science of Statistical Bioinformatics            Dr. C. Bowman,           2008

                                                                                                Prof. M. Levitt

                                                                                                Prof. A. Neuwald

                                                                                                Dr. S. Schmidler

                                                                                                Prof. A. Trouvé

                                                                                                Prof. Z. Yang

 

28. Statistical Tools for Challenges in Bioinformatics           Prof. P. Henderson,      2009

                                                                                                Prof. S. Richardson

                                                                                                Prof. S. Tavaré

                                                                                                Prof. W. Taylor

                                                                                                Dr. D. Theobald

                                                                                                Prof. D. Wild