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CfS Afternoon on Risk, Noise, and Extremes

Published: Wednesday, 25 September 2019 Tags: Probability Stochastic Analysis Statistics

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

Published: Wednesday, 25 September 2019 Tags: Probability Stochastic Analysis Statistics jobs outreach Maths 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.

Simons Collaboration on Homological Mirror Symmetry awarded to Nick Sheridan

Published: Wednesday, 11 September 2019 Tags: Algebra Geometry funding award

Nick Sheridan has been awarded funding worth over £250,000 as part of the Simons Collaboration on Homological Mirror Symmetry.

Royal Society University Research Fellowship awarded to Tim Adamo

Published: Wednesday, 11 September 2019 Tags: Mathematical Physics Fellowship funding award

Tim Adamo has been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship worth over £600,000.

ERC Starting Grant Awarded to Nick Sheridan

Published: Wednesday, 11 September 2019 Tags: Algebra Geometry Fellowship funding award

Nick Sheridan has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth over £1 million entitled ‘Homological mirror symmetry, Hodge theory and symplectic topology'.

Sara Wade receives Honourable Mention for the 2019 Young Biometrician Award

Published: Thursday, 5 September 2019 Tags: Statistics

Dr. Sara Wade had been given an Honourable Mention for the 2019 Young Biometrician Award by the British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS). The award acknowledges her work on Bayesian nonparametric regression ...

LMS Berwick Prize Awarded

Published: Wednesday, 31 July 2019 Tags: Algebra prizes

Clark Barwick has been awarded the LMS Berwick prize.

LMS Whitehead Prize Awarded

Published: Wednesday, 31 July 2019 Tags: Geometry prizes

Nick Sheridan has been awarded the LMS Whitehead Prize.

EVA2021 goes to Edinburgh

Published: Tuesday, 16 July 2019 Tags: Statistics

We are very pleased to announce that the 12th conference on Extreme Value Analysis will be held in Edinburgh, 28 June - 2 July, 2021. Since their inception in Vimeiro, Portugal in 1983, EVA conferences have regularly gathered ...

CfS Annual Conference

Published: Tuesday, 18 June 2019 Tags: Statistics

The first Annual Conference of the Centre for Statistics took place at ECCI on June 11, 2011. The conference brought together researchers about 80 researchers working with data from across the University of Edinburgh and Associated Institutions.

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