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Miguel de Carvalho has been elected President of the Portuguese Statistical Society
Miguel de Carvalho, President of the Portuguese Statistical Society
Prof. Chris Dent on data, algorithms and 2020 national assessment
Prof. Chris Dent writes on the issues around award of marks for national high school exams in the UK under Covid.
Dr Skarleth Carrales has been allocated a grant to develop a tool to support communities in Edinburgh hampered by COVID-19
Dr Skarleth Carrales has been allocated a grant, £12,904, to develop an innovative tool to support communities in Edinburgh hampered by COVID-19. This work is a collaborative effort between the School of Mathematics, the ...
Miguel de Carvalho has been awarded the Lindley Prize
Miguel de Carvalho has been awarded the Lindley Prize for the article "On the Geometry of Bayesian Inference"
Edinburgh SIAM-IMA Student Chapter PhD Colloquium 2020
The Edinburgh SIAM-IMA Student Chapter PhD Colloquium 2020 (http://www.maxwell.ac.uk/siam-ima/PhDcolloquium2020.html) was held on February 12 at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS). The aim of the event was ...
A new paper in a top journal Acta Mathematica
Congratulations to Jonathan Hickman for his new paper "Sharp estimates for oscillatory integral operators via polynomial partitioning" in prestigious Acta Mathematica! The paper can be found at the journal website: ...
RSS and CfS Event on Decision-Support in Litigation
The Centre for Statistics will be welcoming John MacKenzie (partner at Shepherd and Wedderburn), Dr Alex Biedermann (University of Lausanne), and Wen Zhang (London School of Economics) who will showcasing modern opportunities for Statisticians and Data Scientists to work with lawyers to to improve the legal decision-making process. Joint event with the Royal Statistical Society.
CfS Afternoon on Risk, Noise, and Extremes
The Centre for Statistics will be welcoming the world experts Jonathan Rougier (Rougier Consulting Ltd.), Georg Lindgren (Prof. Em., Lund University) and Jonathan Tawn (Prof. Lancaster University) who will introduce topics in risk, noise, and extreme events. Joint event with Heriot-Watt University via the Maxwell Institute.
CfS Symposium on Training and Education
The Centre for Statistics will be welcoming Ed Humpherson (UK Statistics Authority) and John MacInnes (RSS Vice President) who will be speaking about the importance of trustworthiness and the new RSS accreditation process.
EPSRC grant awarded to Aram Karakhanyan
Aram Karakhanyan has been awarded an EPSRC research grant.
