Our First Meeting (Janurary 2016)
20 Jan 2016As this was the first meeting, we spend the time on introductions and discussing what we would like from the group.
We decided on a forum-style meeting once per month with lunch and presentations. Ideas for content included:
- present things that people are currrently doing or have done
- for advice / critique from the group, or simply for sharing information
- aim for shorter presentations, with more time for discussion and feedback
- emphasise methodological aspects
- themed meetings around specific funding calls or new data sets (as appropriate)
For the meantime, we decided that we would begin by seeing a presentation from each member to better understand the rang of quantitative-criminology work going on at Leeds.
Some people also suggested that specific tutorials or workshops would be useful, including:
- Self exciting point processes (someone to explain the maths)
- Machine learning
- Structural equation modelling