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Boost your skills in #MedicalStatistics with the popular Practical Statistics for Medical Research (PSMR) short course at UCL. This popular course offers hands-on training for #health researchers. #Biostatistics #ClinicalResearch #shortcourse Details: ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-p…

Interested in using polygenic scores (PGS) in social science or health research? We are running a 2-day intensive short course @stats_UCL (20–21 April 2026): tinyurl.com/5n6hwyxy. Ideal for all quantitative researcher across Social and Health Sciences! Get started!

Next week's seminar will be given by Anastasia Mantziou (University of Warwick) Date and time: Wednesday 11th March 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

This week's seminar will be given by Ben Van Calster (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven) Time and date: Wednesday 4th March 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

Mathematics & Statistics Speed Networking: An Industry Experience Date: Thursday 12th March 2026 Time: 6.15pm - 8.15pm Location: IOE Building - 20 Bedford Way: Room W3.01 Link to book your place: uclcareers.targetconnect.net/leap/event.htm…

This week's seminar will be given by David Bourne (Heriott-Watt University) Time and date: Wednesday 18th February 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

Dr Alessandra Cipriani was awarded an @EPSRC New Investigator Award to study the properties of the Abelian sandpile and its links with fermionic variables. gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=U…

Congratulations to Prof Elinor Jones (@stats_UCL), Prof Helen Wilson (UCL Mathematics) and Dame Celia Hoyles (UCL Institute of Education) on being elected inaugural Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences! 👏 ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/jan/…

Our third Annual Lecture is coming up on 27 April! Coinciding with UCL's 200th anniversary, the event focusses on the theme of Computational Statistics & Machine Learning. Book your place to join us as we welcome Dr Lester Mackey as our keynote speaker: imss2026.github.io

The UCL IMSS Annual Lecture will take place on the 27th April with a keynote from @LesterMackey. The theme is 'Computational Statistics and Machine Learning', and we will have talks from Alessandro Barp, Paula Cordero Encinar & Po-Ling Loh. imss2026.github.io @stats_UCL

This week's seminar will be given by Christoforos Panagiotis (University of Bath) Time and date: Wednesday 4th February 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

We are delighted to announce that a Silver Athena Swan Award has been conferred to the Department of Statistical Science. 🎉

This week's seminar will be given by Chris Nemeth (Lancaster University) Time and date: Wednesday 28th January 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

🚨🚨Practical Statistics for Medical Research course 2026🚨🚨 Up to 10 award places are available for researchers from UCLH/UCL Medical School, offering a reduced registration fee at £200 (⏰application deadline 30 January 2026⏰). Apply here 👉 uclh.biostatistics@nhs.net

🚨🚨🚨 Job alert! Research Fellow in Probability Theory at the Department of Statistical Science at UCL. ⏰Closing date: 12-Jan-2026 More information: 👇 ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Our very popular PSMR (Practical Statistics for Medical Research) short course will run between the 16th - 19th of June 2026. For details and registration please visit: ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-p…

Open letter sent by Health Economists Karl Claxton and Mark Schulpher to the UK Prime Minister: york.ac.uk/media/che/docu…

The BMJ: bmj.com/content/391/bm…

The government has announced that it will increase the thresholds NICE uses in evaluations of new medicines to decide which are cost-effective for use in the NHS. nice.org.uk/news/articles/…