News
Corinna Bremer features in the Edinburgh Evening News
Corinna Bremer's charity work with Meal Makers was featured in the Edinburgh Evening News.
Grant Success: James Maddison
Congratulations to James Maddison who has been awarded a NERC grant in collaboration with the Universities of Oxford and East Anglia.
Grant Success: Jelle Hartong
Congratulations to Jelle Hartong, our incoming Royal Society University Research Fellow, who has been awarded a Royal Society Enhancement Award.
Our online module: "Statistics: Unlocking the World of Data" will go live soon
We are pleased to announce that (the second edition of) our online module: "Statistics: Unlocking the World of Data", will go live on the 10th January 2018.
David Finney Centenary Lecture
The David Finney Centenary Lecture took place on November 30th at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences. This event was in honour of Prof. David Finney, who turned 100 on January 3rd 2017. Prof. Finney was an eminent ...
Award for Teaching Excellence won by Chris Sangwin and collaborators for STACK
Congratulations to Chris Sangwin and the STACK team based at the Open University who have won one of the Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence from the Higher Education Academy.
MIGSAA features strongly in EPSRC document
MIGSAA, our Centre for Doctoral Training run jointly with Heriot-Watt University, was ranked in the top category following EPSRC's mid-term review.
Prof Ruth King has been elected to the Royal Statistical Society council
Prof Ruth King has been elected to the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Council. Her term on the Council will start in January 2018 and will last for 4 years. The council ballot results can be found in https://www.statslife.or ...
Centre for Statistics launch event
The University of Edinburgh is establishing a new Centre for Statistics, which is being spearheaded by the School of Mathematics. The vision for the Centre is to act as a focus for statistical activity across the University, to promote the establishment of innovative inter-disciplinary statistical research programmes, provide effective communication of statistical ideas to an academic and external audience and to be at the forefront of training the next generation of statisticians and data scientists.
Dr Jonathan Gair contributes to the first detection of a powerful astronomical event
Dr Jonathan Gair from the School of Mathematics has contributed to the first detection and analysis of a powerful astronomical event - the merger of two very dense neutron stars.
