Submitted by A.S. Quenault on Tue, 23/07/2024 - 11:21
Our 21st Armitage Workshop and Lecture will be dedicated to the work and achievements of Professor Peter Armitage CBE, who sadly passed away in February 2024 at the age of 99.
The Armitage Lectures were established in 2003 by the BSU, to honour the immense contributions of Professor Armitage, who was at the Unit from 1947 to 1961. Professor Armitage’s work is recognised throughout the world as achieving a successful balance between methodological rigour and applied common sense, to which all statisticians aspire. A series of lectures bearing his name could have been established almost anywhere. However, it is particularly apt that it has been established by the BSU. It was in Cambridge in the 1940s that Peter started his academic career when he read for the Mathematics Tripos. He took his PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and in 1947 he started work at the MRC Statistical Research Unit, the original name for BSU.
The 21st workshop, which take place on Tuesday 12th November in Cambridge, will celebrate Profesor Armitage's pioneering work. There will be sessions on sequential trials and multi-stage theory of carcinogenesis which Professor Armitage was a pioneer in.
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Christopher Jennison from University of Bath, on:
“Peter Armitage’s pioneering work: laying the foundations for sequential medical trials”
As well as this, there will also be talks from; Professor Sue Todd (University of Reading), Professor John Matthews (University of Newcastle), Dr Sofia Villar (MRC Biostatistics Unit), Dr Anna Wilkins (Institute of Cancer Research), Dr Anthony Webster (University of Oxford) and Professor Vern Farewell (MRC Biostatistics Unit).
To register, go to: https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/mrc-biostatistics-unit/armitage-lecture-workshop/21st-armitage-workshop-and-lecture-november-2024
For more information and to view the draft programme, go to: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/events/21st-armitage-workshop-and-lecture