The School of are looking to recruit Teaching Associates who have experience of teaching mathematics to undergraduate students. The positions are fixed-term until 30th June 2019. The School of Mathematics is a supporter of the LMS Good Practice Scheme aiming at advancing women’s careers in mathematics and we therefore particularly welcome applications from women for […]
Archive | 2018
New Lecturer in Statistical Science
We would like to welcome Dr Tobias Kley who will be joining the Institute for Statistical Science in September 2018. Dr Kley will be a Lecturer in the School of Mathematics.
Christophe Andrieu and Anthony Lee win EPSRC grant
Congratulations to Christophe Andrieu and Anthony Lee who have won a £2.5M EPSRC Programme Grant “CoSInES” (COmputational Statistical INference for Engineering and Security) jointly with colleagues from Imperial College, Lancaster, Oxford and Warwick, with the participation of the Alan Turing Institute. There are tremendous demands for advanced statistical methodology to make scientific sense of the deluge of data […]
Logic and Set Theory
P. Welch The Härtig Quantifer Model
University of Bristol to join The Alan Turing Institute
Bristol together with the University of Southampton are the latest to join a growing network of university partners in the Institute: since November 2017 six universities (Birmingham, Exeter, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Queen Mary University of London) have been announced as new partners, joining Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, Warwick and UCL who were selected as founder […]
Congratulations to Céline Maistret who takes gold at STEM for Britain Awards
Congratulations to Céline Maistret who takes gold at STEM for Britain Awards. Céline’s poster entry to explain her research in number theory on the parity conjecture was up against hundreds of entries from across the country. Céline Maistret commented: “It was really interesting to see the diverse range of research in my category and I’m delighted […]
Yi Yu awarded UOB- CUHK exchange programme grant
Congratulations to Yi Yu who has been awarded a UOB- CUHK exchange programme grant. Survival analysis is an important branch of statistics studying the time-to-event data. For instance, in a clinical trial, one would like to know if a specific treatment will significantly increase life expectancy of patients of a certain disease. The main difficulty […]
Christophe Andrieu wins EPSRC grant
Congratulations to Professor Christophe Andrieu who has won a £3.6M grant, “New Approaches to Bayesian Data Science: Tackling Challenges from Health Sciences”, from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) jointly with Professor Mark Beaumont (Institute for Statistical Sciences Affiliate) and colleagues from Lancaster, Oxford, Warwick and the MRC Biostatistics Unit at Cambridge. The grant […]
Professor Bernard Silverman, Emeritus Professor, is awarded Knighthood
Bernard Silverman, Emeritus Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bristol and lately Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office, has been knighted in the New Year Honours List 2018 for public service and services to Science. Click here to read more
