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Ruth King and Simon Wood to speak at Royal Statistical Society International Conference

Published: Wednesday, 14 September 2022 Tags: Statistics prizes

Ruth King (Barnett Lecture) and Simon Wood are both keynote speakers at the Royal Statistical Society International Conference 2022 to be held in Aberdeen in September 2022. Ruth will also receive the Barnett Award at the conference. Conference ...

Victor Elvira secures further US funding

Published: Wednesday, 14 September 2022 Tags: Statistics funding award

Victor Elvira has been awarded further funding from the US Army Research Laboratory to investigate "State-space models and approximate probabilistic inference over networks". This is a 3-year project worth $150,000.

Amy Wilson awarded EPSRC IAA funding

Published: Friday, 22 July 2022 Tags: Statistics funding award

Amy Wilson has been awarded an EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account award for her project "Statistical framework for the evaluation of gait evidence". This project will fund a secondment to FGA Services. Forensic gait analysis ...

Cecilia Balocchi wins the Savage Award

Published: Friday, 22 July 2022 Tags: Statistics prizes

Cecilia Balocchi was announced as the 2021 Savage Award winner in Applied Methodology during the ISBA 2022 World Meeting in Montreal. The Savage Award is jointly awarded by the International Society of Bayesian Analysis and American ...

Ruth King Named IMS Fellow

Published: Thursday, 21 April 2022 Tags: Statistics Fellowship

Ruth King, Thomas Bayes' Chair of Statistics, University of Edinburgh, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Prof. King received the award for significant contributions to the analysis of ...

Simon Wood has provided evidence to the UK parliament on Covid statistics and modelling

Published: Friday, 1 April 2022 Tags: Statistics

Simon Wood has provided evidence on Covid statistics and modelling to the Science and Technology committee of the UK parliament https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/107375/pdf

Ruth King has been awarded the Royal Statistical Society Barnett Award

Published: Monday, 14 March 2022 Tags: Statistics prizes

The Royal Statistical Society Barnett Award for 2022 is awarded to Ruth King, who is internationally known for her work in statistical ecology, and in particular bringing to prominence in this field, the use of Bayesian statistics. ...

Ruth King gave the 19th Rob Kempton memorial lecture at the BioSS Annual meeting

Published: Wednesday, 24 November 2021 Tags: Statistics

Ruth King gave the 19th Rob Kempton memorial lecture at the BioSS Annual Meeting on Monday 22nd November, with the title of her talk: "Statistical Ecology: The Sky's The Limit!?"

Sara Wade elected as a Board Member of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)

Published: Monday, 22 November 2021 Tags: Statistics international

Congratulations to Sara Wade who has been elected as a Board Member of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) was founded in 1992 to promote the development ...

Miguel de Carvalho involved in the creation of the first International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science

Published: Wednesday, 3 November 2021 Tags: Probability Stochastic Analysis Statistics international outreach

Miguel de Carvalho has been involved in the creation of the first International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science - October 2022.

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