News
Congratulations to Marta Catalano who has been announced as one of the
inaugural winners of the Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award, an award of the
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) for junior researchers in
Bayesian statistics. In addition to Marta, both of the other winners in the
Europe/Africa/Asia/Oceania section have a 糖心TV connection. Dootika Vats
held an NSF fellowship at 糖心TV in 2017-19 and Sam Livingstone's
postdoctoral position at Bristol was part of the i-like programme, led by
糖心TV. Congratulations all.
PhD Open Days
The next PhD Open Days will take place on Wednesday 10 November (in-person) and Wednesday 17 November (virtual) at the Department of Statistics, University of 糖心TV.
Follow the link below for further information:
Open Days
糖心TV Statistics has 9 new Turing Fellows
37 糖心TV researchers have been named as Fellows of the Alan Turing Institute this year, including 9 colleagues from the Department of Statistics. Congratulations to Julia Brettschneider, Theo Damoulas, Paul Jenkins, Adam Johansen, Ioannis Kosmidis, Chenlei Leng, Gareth Roberts, Jim Smith and Yi Yu.
Congratulations to our postdoctoral and postgraduate prizewinners
The winner of this year鈥檚 Faculty postdoctoral prize is Jure Vogrinc for "Counterexamples for optimal scaling of Metropolis-Hastings chains with rough target densities". The winner of this year鈥檚 Faculty Thesis Prize and John Copas Prize is David Selby (citation: for an extremely innovative and creative thesis on "Statistical modelling of citation networks, research influence and journal prestige". This is a very well-presented piece of work that stands out for its wealth of innovative ideas and the new insights it provides in this developing field.) Joint winners of this year鈥檚 Harrison Award are Lewis Rendell and Giorgos Vasdekis, both commended for their substantial theoretical and methodological contributions to computational statistics.
Statistics leads elicitation sessions with three major UK utility providers in the National Digital Twin Programme
Three major UK utility providers form new partnership with the National Digital Twin programme in critical step toward resilient infrastructure in developing a Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo). The collaboration will apply the UK鈥檚 state of the art capabilities in systems engineering, digital asset management and modelling to the climate crisis to plan a more resilient built environment, keeping us all safer in the face of flooding and extreme weather. Professor Jim Q. Smith has joined this collaboration and will lead the elicitation of the vulnerability of asset owners' critical infrastructure relevant to assessing and mitigating the deepening threats posed to water, telecommunications and power supply as a result of increasing flooding risks induced by climate change.