R. A. Bailey: Some Past Talks

Date and Time Place Title



7 February 1997, 1515 Newcastle, Statistics Designs for experiments on half-leaves
18 February 1997, 1930 Mathematics Association, Sussex branch Latin squares
19 March 1997 Open University, Combinatorial Design Conference Resolved designs viewed as sets of partitions
18 June 1997, 1700 Royal Statistical Society Statistics and mathematics: the appropriate use of mathematics within statistics
10 July 1997, 1400 British Combinatorial Conference, QMW Partially balanced semi-Latin rectangles
10 November 1997, 1645 BioSS annual staff meeting, Edinburgh Designs for some row-column structures
15 December 1997 Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Optimal designs for complicated block structures



7 April 1998, 1600 50th anniversary conference, British Region of the Biometric Society, Edinburgh Semi-Latin squares in agricultural experiments
22 June 1998, 1000 MODA5 workshop, Luminy, Marseille Optimality for semi-Latin squares
8 July 1998, 1040 23rd Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Brisbane (talk given at Jupiter's Casino, Gold Coast, in a joint session with the 14th Australian Statistical Conference) Partitions and resolved designs
9 September 1998, 1600 British Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual Festival, Cardiff Interfering neighbours (President's address, Mathematical Sciences section)
15 September 1998 28th International Biometrical Colloquium: in Honour of Tadeusz Calinski, Inowroclaw, Poland Choosing designs for nested blocks
12 October 1998, 1500 Reading University, Combinatorics Semi-Latin rectangles
7 December 1998, 1630 QMW, Pure Maths pro-seminar Suprema of association schemes



3 February 1999, 1400 Student Maths Society, QMW Interfering neighbours
11 Februrary 1999, 1630 QMW, Design of Experiments seminar Choosing designs for nested blocks
9 March 1999, 1300 Imperial College: Royal College of Science Union Mathematics Society Latin squares
19 March 1999, 1330 45th German Biometric Colloquium Designs for nested blocks (closing lecture)
29 April 1999 Conference to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Universitair Centrum voor Statistiek, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven A historical look at design of experiments
7 May 1999, 1630 Midlands Universities Pure Maths seminar, Keele Semi-Latin squares
24 June 1999, 1430 Reading / Royal Holloway / Surrey joint Statistics seminar Designs for nested blocks
12 July 1999, 1205 British Combinatorial Conference, University of Canterbury Suprema of association schemes
7 September 1999, 0945 PSI conference, Southampton Randomization



24 January 2000, 1630 QMW, Pure Maths pro-seminar Pairwise-balanced designs
9 March 2000, 1630 (with A. C. Atkinson) QMW, Design of Experiments seminar One hundred years of experimental design in Biometrika
13 April, 2000, 1400 Optimum Design 2000, Cardiff Optimal designs for nested blocks
17 May, 2000, 1500 Kent/Sussex joint Statistics seminar, Sussex Choosing designs for nested blocks
11, 12, 13 September, 2000 Summer School on Algebraic Combinatorics and Computer Algebra, Varna, Bulgaria Association schemes in statistics



26 February 2001, 1630 QMW, Pure Maths pro-seminar Generalized wreath products
15 May, 2001, 0900 PSI (Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry), Chester Cross-over trials
6 July 2001, 1125 British Combinatorial Conference, University of Sussex Balanced colourings of strongly regular graphs
18 July 2001, 1710 Durham Symposium on Groups, Geometry and Combinatorics Generalized wreath products of association schemes
8 November 2001, 1600 (with A. C. Atkinson) Biometrics/Biometrika meeting One hundred years of the design of experiments on and off the pages of Biometrika
22 November 2001 Universität Dortmund Issues in the design of cross-over trials



21 January 2002, 1630 QMW, Pure Maths pro-seminar Crested products
1 July 2002, 1500 Reading, Combinatorics seminar Crested products of association schemes
25 July 2002, International Biometric Conference, Freiburg Designs for sums of parameters: diallels, intercrops, fractions
14 August 2002, 1435 Oscar Kempthorne Memorial Session at the Joint Statistical Societies Meeting in New York Randomization and orthogonal block structures
8 October 2002, 1600 Combinatorics seminar, Royal Holloway Association schemes and their products
14 November 2002, 1545 British Region of the Biometric Society, held at Rothamsted Experimental Station (Presidential address) Design of experiments in biometry: from example to theory and back
12 December 2002, 1630 Design of Experiments seminar, Queen Mary Designs for diallels and mixtures



21 February 2003, 1710 Meeting in Honour of Professor Anthony Atkinson's Retirement, LSE Hasse diagrams for orthogonal designs for experiments with qualitiative factors
1 July 2003, 1205 19th British Combinatorial Conference, Bangor Variance in block designs whose graphs are distance-regular
July 2003 (poster) RSS 2003, Diepenbeek, Belgium Optimal designs for diallel experiments
16 September 2003, 1215 Conference of the British Region of the International Biometric Society, Reading Designs for total effects
25 October 2003, 0800 Session on Association Schemes 1973--2003, Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Chapel Hill Designs on association schemes
24 November 2003, 1500 Reading, Combinatorics seminar Block designs and distance-regular graphs



8 March 2004, 1630 QMUL, Pure Maths seminar Association schemes: Designed experiments, algebra and combinatorics (book launch)
29 March 2004, 1200 Symposium to honour the 80th birthday of John Nelder, Imperial College Principles of designed experiments in John Nelder's papers
14 April 2004, 1500 Glasgow, Statistics seminar Hasse diagrams for orthogonal designs for experiments with qualitative factors
16 April 2004, 1125 Biometric Society meeting in memory of Rob Kempton, Edinburgh Design of field experiments in the presence of interference between treatments
12 May 2004 Reading Combinatorics Colloquium Designs on association schemes
23 June 2004 Biometric Society/RSS meeting in honour of the 80th birthday of David Cox, Oxford Randomization in stages
16 August 2004, 1500 University of Queensland, School of Physical Sciences Hasse diagrams to describe the structure of designed experiments
19 August 2004, 1200 University of Queensland, Combinatorics seminar Association schemes. 1. What association schemes are: definitions and examples
23 August 2004, 1500 University of Queensland, Combinatorics seminar Association schemes. 2. The Bose-Mesner algebra, including the character table.
26 August 2004, 1200 University of Queensland, Combinatorics seminar Association schemes. 3. Partially balanced incomplete block designs.
30 August 2004, 1500 University of Queensland, Combinatorics seminar Association schemes. 4. Orthogonal block structures.
23 September 2004, 1430 Australian National University, Statistics seminar Hasse diagrams to describe the structure of designed experiments
27 September 2004, 1400 Deakin University Block designs for experiments: from microarrays to orthogonal arrays
29 September 2004, 0900 48th Annual Conference of the Australian Mathematical Society, Melbourne Association schemes and their products
8 October 2004, 1200 Sanger Institute, Cambridge Uses and abuses of block designs in experiments in biological sciences
14 October 2004, 1000 13th European Genstat Conference Structure in designed experiments
28 October 2004, 1445 Southampton, Statistics seminar Row-column designs for many purposes
6 December 2004, 1610 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Hasse diagrams to describe the structure of designed experiments
18 December 2004, 1000 2004 NZIMA Conference on Combinatorics and its Applications; the 29th Austalasian Conference in Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing; Lake Taupo, New Zealand Designs on strongly regular graphs



24 January 2005, 1000 BiometricsSA Row-column designs for many purposes
10 February 2005, 1330 Thredbo Statistical Meeting: Biometrics and Genstat Row-column designs for spatial variation
24 February 2005, 1600 Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Seminario di Geometrio Combinatoria Association schemes. I. What they are: definitions and examples. Products.
3 March 2005, 1615 Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Seminario di Geometrio Combinatoria Association schemes. II. The Bose-Mesner algebra, including the character table. Parameters of strongly regular graphs.
10 March 2005, 1615 Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Seminario di Geometrio Combinatoria Association schemes. III. Partially balanced incomplete block designs.
17 March 2005, 1615 Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Seminario di Geometrio Combinatoria Association schemes. IV. Orthogonal block structures. Notes
29 April 2005, 1100 University of Campinas, Brasil Hasse diagrams to describe the structure of designed experiments
24 May 2005, 1600 Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz", Piracicaba, Brasil Design of field experiments in the presence of interference between treatments
17 June 2005, 1400 Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brasil Row-column designs for many purposes
24 June 2005, 1400 Department of Biostatistics, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, Brasil Rectangular experiments: restricted randomization or row-column designs?
29 June 2005, 1530 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Design of field experiments in the presence of interference between treatments
5, 6 and 7 July 2005, 0800-1000 50th annual meeting of the Brasilian Region of the International Biometric Society, Londrina Hasse diagrams in designed experiments: a pictorial aid to thinking about blocking, stratification, degrees of freedom, randomization, and analysis of variance
13 July 2005, 1000 Universidade Federal do Ceara, Fortaleza, Brasil Rectangular experiments: restricted randomization or row-column designs?
18 July 2005, 0900 Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brasil Rectangular experiments: restricted randomization or row-column designs?
19 July 2005, 0900 Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brasil Design of field experiments in the presence of interference between treatments
19 July 2005, 1400 Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brasil Row-column designs for many purposes
26 September 2005, 1630 QMUL, Pure Maths seminar Block designs for experiments: from microarrays to orthogonal arrays



25 January 2006, 1145 Open University, Winter Combinatorics Meeting Association schemes and their products
1 February 2006, 1700 Royal Statistical Society Muliple randomizations
(joint with C. J. Brien)
4 May 2006, 1415 Rothamsted Research Rectangular experiments: restricted randomization or row-column designs?
12 May 2006, 1600 Warwick, Mathematics Colloquium Block designs for experiments: from microarrays to orthogonal arrays
18 May 2006, 1715 Groups in Galway Another proof of Sylow's theorems
15 June 2006, 1415 Oxford, Statistics seminar Anova tables for experiments which are randomized in stages
11 July 2006, 0830 2006 International Conference on Design of Experiments and its Applications, Tianjin, China Multiple randomizations
18 July 2006, 1300 International Biometric Conference, Montreal, Canada Rectangular experiments: restricted randomization or row-column designs?
9 September 2006, 0830 DEMA 2006, Southampton Conflicts between optimality criteria in incomplete-block designs for microarray experiments
27 December 2006, 1630 Statistics in Agriculture, Delhi Rectangular experiments: restricted randomization or row-column designs?
28 December 2006, 1400 Statistics in Agriculture, Delhi Teaching the principles of design of experiments
30 December 2006, 1400 Calcutta Triannial Symposium on Probability and Statistics Optimal designs for diallel experiments



26 April 2007, 1500 Joint Southampton / Queen Mary Statistics seminar, at Queen Mary Structure balance for experiments which are randomized in stages
11 May 2007, 0930 First Channel Network Conference of the International Biometric Society, Rolduc, Netherlands Design of dose-escalation trials
18 May 2007 Workshop on quality improvement methods, Haus Bommerholz, Dortmund Conflicts between optimality criteria in incomplete-block designs for microarray experiments
7 June 2007 Model-Oriented Design and Analysis of Experiments, Almagro, Spain Conflicts between optimality criteria in incomplete-block designs for microarray experiments
13 July 2007 21st British Combinatorial Conference, University of Reading Block designs, spanning trees and resistance in electrical networks
24 August 2007, 1530 Peter Cameron's 60th birthday conference Crested products
20 October 2007, 1200 15th annual meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society and the Quetelet Society, Antwerp Design of dose-escalation trials
1 November 2007, 1315 Design and Analysis of Experiments 2007, University of Memphis Structure balance and anova tables for experiments which are randomized in stages
14 December 2007, 1445 Statistical Models, Design and Data Analysis: A Conference to Celebrate Anthony Atkinson's 70th Birthday Design of dose-escalation trials



11 January 2008, 1630 Combinatorics Study Group, Queen Mary Amorphic association schemes
7 April 2008, 1100 AgResearch, Invermay, New Zealand Experiments in rectangular areas: restricted randomization or row-column designs?
11 April 2008, 0900 AgResearch, Lincoln, New Zealand Experiments in rectangular areas: restricted randomization or row-column designs?
17 April 2008, 0900 AgResearch, Palmerston North, New Zealand Experiments in rectangular areas: restricted randomization or row-column designs?
17 April 2008, 1600 Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, Statistics seminar Conflicts between optimality criteria in incomplete-block designs for microarray experiments
21 April 2008, 1610 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, Statistics seminar Experiments in rectangular areas: restricted randomization or row-column designs?
1 May 2008, 1300 University of Auckland, New Zealand, Bioinformatics seminar Statistical considerations in the construction of designs for two-colour microarray experiments
8 May 2008, 1600 QMUL, Centre for Statistics seminar Design of Comparative Experiments (book launch)
15 May 2008, 1430 Oxford University, Representation theory seminar Representation theory and randomization: why the permutation character of a generalized wreath product is important
26 June, 2008, 0900 Combinatorics 2008, Costermano, Lake Garda Graphs from block designs: concurrence, distance, variance and electrical resistance
15 July 2008, 1815 Fisher Memorial Lecture, University College Dublin Design of dose-escalation trials
17 July 2008, 0900 International Biometric Conference, Dublin Efficient designs for two-colour microarray experiments
13 August 2008, 1130 Designed Experiments: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications (DEMA2008), Isaac Newton Institute Design of two-phase experiments
7 November 2008, 1545 Bridging the Gaps, Queen Mary Block designs and electrical networks
13 November 2008, 1400 University of Kent Efficient designs for two-colour microarray experiments
28 November 2008 University of South Australia Efficient designs for two-colour microarray experiments
5 December 2008, 0900 Australasian GenStat Conference 2008 Experiments in rectangular areas: restricted randomization or row-column designs?



5 January 2009 Group Theory, Combinatorics & Computation (in honour of Professor Cheryl E. Praeger's 60th Birthday), Perth, WA, Australia Properties of graphs of optimal block designs
2 March 2009, 1630 Combinatorics Study Group, Queen Mary Optimal block designs
3 April 2009 Reduction of Complexity in Multivariate Data Structures, Dortmund Design of two-phase experiments
7 July 2009, 1240 British Combinatorial Conference, St. Andrews Phase transition in block designs
18 August 2009, 1230 Queen's Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh Some statistical issues in the design of experiments in medical research
8 October 2009, 1515 Joint Southampton / Queen Mary Statistics seminar, at Queen Mary Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication
15 October 2009 (poster) Design and Analysis of Experiments 2009, University of Missouri at Columbia Row-column designs good for many purposes
20 November 2009, 1645 London Mathematical Society Teaching mathematics: satnav or map?
2 December 2009, 1400 Bridging the Gaps, Queen Mary Basic statistical tips for designing experiments



3 February 2010, 1000 Educational and Staff Development, QM ANOVA and statistical models
18–19 March 2010 Planification et méthodes statistiques spatiales pour simulations numérique. Journées de Groupement de Recherche MASCOT-NUM, Avignon Planification
14 June 2010 Model-Oriented Data Analysis and Optimum Design, Bertinoro, Italy Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication
29 July 2010 LinStat 2010, Tomar, Portugal Circular designs balanced for neighbours at distances one and two
7 October 2010, 1630 QMUL, Statistics seminar The randomization model for two-phase experiments
18 October 2010, 1630 QMUL, Pure mathematics seminar FLIRTs
8 November 2010 CSIRO, Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Adelaide Structure balance and anova tables for experiments which are randomized in stages
9 November 2010 CSIRO, Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Adelaide Design of two-phase experiments
9 November 2010 Statistical Society of Australia, Adelaide Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication
25 November 2010 Australian National University, Statistics seminar Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication
1 December 2010 CSIRO, Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Canberra Design of comparative experiments
7 December 2010 International Biometric Congress, Florianópolis, Brazil Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication



2 February 2011, 1000 The Learning Institute, QM ANOVA and statistical models
14 April 2011 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Statistics seminar Design of comparative experiments
2 May 2011, 1015–1045 Séminaire en l'honneur d'André Kobilinsky, Jouy-en-Josas, France Using characters of Abelian groups, (and the design key), to construct designs for experiments in glasshouses
12 May 2011, 0800–0830 International Conference on Design of Experiments, Memphis, Tennessee Design and analysis of experiments testing for diversity in ecology
18 May 2011, 1500–1530 Visualization and Presentation of Statistics, Open University Bad statistics
27 May 2011, 2000–2100 Friday Evening Discourse, The Royal Institution From Rothamsted to Northwick Park: designing experiments to avoid bias and reduce variance
23 June 2011, 0900–0950 Finite Geometries, Irsee Block designs on the edge
6 July 2011, 0900–0940 Probastat, Smolenice, Slovakia Optimal design of experiments with very low average replication
22 August 2011, 1155–1235 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, Dublin John Ashworth Nelder 1924–2010: Contributions to statistics
25 August 2011, 0945–1005 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, Dublin Panel discussion: Current issues in statistical theory and application
31 August 2011, 1100–1200 Designed Experiments: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications Panel discussion: Future directions for DOE
2 September 2011, 1330–1400 Designed Experiments: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications Optimal design of experiments with very low average replication
26 September 2011, 1410–1420 Cambridge Statistical Initiative Design and analysis of biodiversity experiments
27 October 2011 Algebraic Method in Experimental Design, Isaac Newton Institute Connectivity in block designs, and Laplacian matrices
16 November 2011, 1500–1530 Royal Statistical Society, Young Statisticians' Meeting Talk introducing the read paper
15 December 2011 University of Roehampton From Rothamsted to Northwick Park: designing experiments to avoid bias and reduce variance



10 February 2012, 1630–1730 QMUL, Combinatorics Study Group The Levi graph and the concurrence graph
29 February 2012, 0900–0945 AGROSTAT 2012, Paris Design of experiments with very low average replication
29 March 2012, 1630–1730 North Eastern local group of the Royal Statistical Society, Newcastle From Rothamsted to Northwick Park: designing experiments to avoid bias and reduce variance
17 April 2012, 1500–1600 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Statistics seminar From Rothamsted to Northwick Park: designing experiments to avoid bias and reduce variance
19 April 2012, 1500–1600 Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Centro de Matemática Experiments in rectangular areas: restricted randomization or row-column designs?
20 April 2012, 1400–1500 Universidade Aberta (Lisboa), Seminário de Matemática Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication
8 May 2012, 1400–1445 Brazilian Statistics Meeting, Piracicaba Optimal design of experiments with very low average replication
9 May 2012 Brazilian Statistics Meeting, Piracicaba (joint talk with Silvio Zocchi) Neighbour balance in a strip-block design for an experiment on irrigation
17 May 2012 Combinatorics Day, LSE Levi graphs and concurrence graphs as tools to evaluate designs
8 June 2012, 1110–1200 SETA 2012: Sequences and their Applications, Waterloo, Canada Circular designs balanced for neighbours at distances one and two
3 July, 2012, 1530–1600 3rd Portuguese-Polish Workshop on Biometry, Covilhã Neighbour balance in a strip-block design for an experiment on irrigation
16 July 2012, 0900–0945 LinStat 2012, Bedlewo, Poland Optimal design of experiments with very low average replication
22 August 2012, 1600–1700 St Andrews, Statistics seminar Association schemes
23 August 2012, 1400–1500 St Andrews, Mathematics departmental colloquium From Rothamsted to Northwick Park: designing experiments to avoid bias and reduce variance
4 September 2012, 1420–1450 Royal Statistical Society conference, Telford Randomisation 50 years after Fisher
4 October 2012, 1400–1500 East Kent local group of the Royal Statistical Society From Rothamsted to Northwick Park: designing experiments to avoid bias and reduce variance
11 October 2012, 1930–2000 The Royal Institution, 14-10 Club Experiments in blocks
12 October 2012, 1630–1730 QMUL, Combinatorics Study Group Entropy, partitions, groups, and association schemes, 2
18 October 2012, 1630–1700 DAE 2012, University of Georgia, USA Designs for dose-escalation trials
31 October 2012 University of South Australia, Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre From Rothamsted to Northwick Park: designing experiments to avoid bias and reduce variance
20 December 2012, 1500–1600 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Statistics seminar Circular designs balanced for neighbours at distances one and two
21 December 2012, 1200–1300 Centro de Algebra da Universidade de Lisboa Entropy, partitions and association schemes



25 January 2013, 1600–1700 Cambridge Statistics seminar Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication
6 February 2013, 1630–1730 Cambridge Algebra seminar Association schemes, permutation groups, and their products
28 February 2013, 1700–1800 G. C. Steward lecture, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge From Rothamsted to Northwick Park: designing experiments to avoid bias and reduce variance
7 March 2013, 1700–1800 G. C. Steward lecture, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Latin squares
22 April 2013, 1600–1700 St Andrews, Statistics seminar Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication
2 May 2013 Joint Southampton / Queen Mary Statistics seminar, at Queen Mary Circular designs balanced for neighbours at distances one and two
10 May 2013, 1700–1800 G. C. Steward lecture, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Association schemes
14 June 2013, 1100–1130 Model-Oriented Data Analysis and Optimum Design, Lagow Lubuski, Poland Quasi-Latin designs for experiments in rectangles
20 June 2013, 1500–1530 Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, UCLA: Special session on experimental design in honor of Ching-Shui Cheng Using graphs to find optimal block designs
4 July 2013, 1620–1635 British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society, Channel Network Meeting, St Andrews Design and analysis of experiments testing for diversity in ecology
8 July 2013, 1400–1500 Combinatorics, Algebra and More: A conference in celebration of Peter Cameron, Queen Mary, University of London Incomplete-block designs and Laplacian eigenvalues
18 July 2013, 1130–1230 Durham Symposium on Graph Theory and Interactions Levi graphs and concurrence graphs as tools to evaluate block designs
4 September 2013, 1000–1100 Poznan University of Life Sciences, Statistics seminar Optimal design of experiments with very low average replication
16 October 2013, 1815–1900 Coulter-McDowell lecture, Royal Holloway, University of London Latin squares
22 October 2013, 1500–1600 University of South Australia, Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre Circular designs balanced for neighbours at distances one and two
20 November 2013, 1500–1600 Meeting on `Network coding, partitions and security' in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences at the University of Durham Entropy, partitions and association schemes
14 December 2013, 1430–1455 ERCIM, Senate House, University of London Desmond Patterson and the design key



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