Professor Caitlin Buck
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Professor
Deputy Head of School
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School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
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葫芦影业
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Prof Buck has a BSc in Archaeological Science (1987, Bradford) and a PhD in Statistics (1994, Nottingham). Her research interests lie in the applications of Bayesian statistics to archaeology and palaeoenvironmental science. She is best known for her seminal work in Bayesian radiocarbon dating which is widely held to have revolutionised archaeological chronology construction.
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Drawing on experience in archaeology, palaeoenvironmental science and Bayesian statistics, Prof Buck works with teams of other experts from a range of fields to develop statistical models, methods and software. Previous and current work includes:
- analysis of field survey data from Britain and Greece.
- provenancing archaeological ceramics via multivariate chemical compositional data.
- calibration and interpretation of radiocarbon determinations.
- developing models and methods for estimating radiocarbon calibration curves.
- modelling relative archaeological chronologies (seriation).
- analysis of the structure of prehistoric corbelled domes.
- Bayesian tephrochronology.
- Bayesian approaches to palaeoclimate reconstruction.
- models for the (re-)colonisation of landscapes in response to past climate change.
- models for ice cores and lake/ocean sediments.
- graphical theoretic approaches to describing and analysing archaeological stratigraphy.
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Current grants, as Principal Investigator
Heritage Data Analytics: Sustainable strategies for large and complex stratigraphic and chronometric data AHRC Past grants, as Principal Investigator Uncertainty in Palaeoclimate International Network Leverhulme Statistical Support for BAS Palaeoclimate Studies BAS NERC Past grants, as Coinvestigator
The future of the past: A robust framework for the upgrade and development of the international radiocarbon calibration/comparison curves (IntCal) NERC NERC
- Teaching activities
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MAS106 Mathematics Core MAS2001 Mathematics Core II MAS6041 Dissertation