Warwick Statistics

We are recruiting! Two fully funded PhD positions as part of the “Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence” hub on the mathematical foundations of AI. Further details at the link. findaphd.com/phds/program/p…

Join us! We are currently advertising two faculty positions: Assistant Professor (Computational, Methodological or Theoretical Statistics or Machine Learning) and Assistant Professor (Mathematical Finance). warwick.ac.uk/statjobs Deadline: Jan 6th

There is funding for students/ECRs to attend with a 5th January 2025 deadline for application (the application form is here: forms.gle/PNjzrXpvpEsAx2… and can also be found on the webpage). Registration will open in January 2025.

This is a 2-week programme, funded by the ICMS, where the first week is a summer school and the second week is a workshop. More information here: bathsymposium.ac.uk/symposium/inve…

Two of our colleagues (Matt Thorpe and Clarice Poon) are organising an LMS-Bath Symposium on Inverse Problems and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine to be held at the University of Bath, 23rd June – 4th July 2025.

In the summer Richard Everitt released a new R package for visualising the output of SMC samplers and ensemble-based methods. The package is available on CRAN cran.r-project.org/package=ggsmc (see also richardgeveritt.github.io/ggsmc/)

New paper from Warwick statisticians Kieran Drury & Jim Smith on parallel Bayesian graphical statistical code, which has been developed for various policing bodies. "Dynamic Bayesian Networks, Elicitation and Data Embedding for Secure Environments" arxiv.org/pdf/2409.07389

Warwick Statistics PhD Conor Hughes is working with us as a Tutor this year. Along with leading tutorials, he is one of the main organisers for SMASH (a support scheme for all first and second year students for Stats modules) and runs STEP classes for undergraduate offer holders.

PhD student Gengyu Xue has won a student travel award worth $800US for the ICSDS conference in Nice this December. The award committee has given out 17 awards out of more than 110 applications and she is the only UK based recipient this year. Congratulations Gengyu!

Anastasia Mantziou has joined us as Harrison Assistant Professor. Her research interests lie in statistical analysis of networks. She specialises in statistical modelling of network populations, with applications in neuroscience, ecology, economics and cyber-security.

Grace Huang is working with us as a Tutor this year. She is a former MORSE undergraduate, who also has an MSc in Statistics from Imperial College. Grace's interests are in Biostatistics and Medical Statistics. She will be leading tutorial classes for our undergraduate students.

With colleagues at Turing Jim Smith has a paper applying CEGs to crime: "Chain Event Graphs for assessing Activity-Level Propositions in Forensic Science in Relation to Drug Traces on Bank Notes" arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02778 to appear in Law, Probability and Risk

This summer Busola Oronti joined the Department as a Research Fellow in the Applied Statistics and Risk Unit. Busola’s research interests include AI in Healthcare and Digital and Global Health.

Applications are now open for the Warwick Centre for Doctoral Training in Statistics. Follow the links below to apply, or to register for our open day on Wednesday. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statis… warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statis…

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This summer Karen Habermann started a new role in the Department as Associate Professor. Karen’s research lies at the interface of stochastics and geometry, with a focus on hypoelliptic diffusions, sub-Riemannian geometry and geometric statistics.

Note, however, that a good grade in TMUA can lead to reduced A-level and IB requirements.

We are currently receiving applications for our undergraduate degrees in MORSE, Mathematics and Statistics and Data Science. Full details of our typical conditional offers can be found on this page. In particular, note TMUA is not required. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statis…

The first talk of Season 6 is next week! On 31st October, 11am GMT, Ullrich Köthe (University of Heidelberg) will talk about "Free-form flows for physics-informed generative modelling". The talk will be on MS teams. Sign up to the list to get the link: listserv.csv.warwick.ac.uk/mailman/listin…

This is the new account for the One World Approximate Bayesian Inference (ABI) Seminar. Please follow if you are interested in any flavour of approximate Bayesian inference, including simulation-based inference. Website: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statis…