Archive | 2019

Welcome to Dr-to-be Andi Wang who will be joining the Institute as a senior research associate at the end of October to work with Dr. Anthony Lee and Prof. Christophe Andrieu as part of the EPSRC funded programme grant CoSInES. Andi has just submitted his PhD thesis at the University of Oxford where he has […]

Congratulations to Dr Kathryn Leeming, who recently graduated with a PhD. Her thesis was supervised by Professor Guy Nason, and titled New Methods in Time Series Analysis: Univariate Testing and Network Autoregression Modelling. She is now a Research Fellow in Warwick, working on the CoSInES grant (Computational Statistical Inference for Engineering and Security).

The following promotions/progressions have occurred within the Institute of Statistical Science: to Senior Lecturer: Haeran Cho, Patrick Rubin-Delanchy to Associate Professor (formerly Reader): Anthony Lee, Nick Whiteley A warm congratulations to Haeran, Patrick, Anthony and Nick on this well deserved achievement.

On 6 June 2019, Tobias Kley of the Institute for Statistical Science gave an invited talk on the conference “New Developments in Econometrics and Time Series” in Graz, Austria. On 4 July 2019, he gave an invited talk in the seminar of the Institute of Mathematical Stochastics of the TU Braunschweig, Germany. Further information: http://www.stat.tugraz.at/Graz2019/

Research and teaching in key areas at the University of Bristol is among the best in the world, according to a new international league table. Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects(GRAS) 2019 highlights the world’s top universities in a range of popular subject areas. It confirms that 19 subjects at the University of Bristol […]

Members of the Institute for Statistical Science will be speaking at a workshop on “High Dimensional and Bayesian Inference toward Quantifying Real-World Uncertainties” on 30 and 31 May 2019. This marks a new partnership between the University of Bristol and The Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Japan. We need to use limited amount of information […]

Jenny Chakravarty is one of eight doctoral researchers through to the Bristol final of the Three Minute Thesis competition. Nineteen researchers competed in the semi-final on 30 April, delivering spoken presentations on their research topic with just one slide and in no more than 180 seconds. Jenny’s research topic is ‘Security over the Air for […]