The latest 2021 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (Shanghai Ranking) places Statistics at the University of Bristol as 35th in the world and 5th in the UK. This confirms the high esteem in which Bristol’s research is held, and recognises the many important contributions made by its researchers in recent years, including many international collaborations […]
Archive | June, 2022
Paper is published in “Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B”
Dr Patrick Rubin-Delancy has had a paper, ‘A statistical interpretation of spectral embedding: The generalised random dot product graph’, published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B. The paper provides mathematical guarantees about spectral embedding, a popular tool for exploring and analysing real-world networks. In particular, it makes sense of the case […]
Dr. Andi Wang to deliver talk at IMS Annual Meeting in Probability and Statistics
Dr. Andi Wang will be speaking at the IMS Annual Meeting in Probability and Statistics, to be held in London, 27-30 June (https://www.imsannualmeeting-london2022.com/special-sessions). This is a large international meeting, spanning a range of topics from theoretical probability to modern statistical methodology and statistical theory. Andi will be giving a talk in the special New Researchers […]
Dr Dennis Prangle to give series of lectures at the Hausdorff School for Mathematics
Dr Dennis Prangle will give a series of three invited lectures in August 2022 at the Hausdorff School for Mathematics within the University of Bonn. This is part of a summer school on “Inverse Problems for Multi-Scale Models“, particularly focusing on mathematical biology. Dr Prangle’s lectures will be on approximate inference methods, covering likelihood-free inference […]
