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The School of Mathematics is seeking to make an appointment in statistical science at the level of Lecturer (analogous to Assistant Professor), Senior Lecturer, or Associate Professor, depending on the experience of the successful candidate. We are looking for world-class researcher who has demonstrated, or shown potential for, the highest achievements in any area of […]

The University of Bristol is excited to announce IBM Research Europe as a new partner of Compass – the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Computational Statistics and Data Science. IBM scientists are collaborating with Prof. Robert Allison and Compass PhD student Anthony Stephenson, on a research project entitled Fast Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale. The project’s […]

Thursday 16 September – Friday 17 September 2021 This event is part of the Fry Conference Series, being held to celebrate the move of the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol to the recently refurbished Grade II listed Fry Building at the heart of the university campus. This meeting is aimed at a […]

The University of Bristol is announcing a new industrial sponsor of Compass – the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Computational Statistics and Data Science. Improbable, a global technology company which provides innovative products and services to makers of virtual worlds and simulations, is sponsoring a PhD research project entitled Agent-based model calibration using likelihood-free inference. […]

Congratulations to Patrick Rubin–Delanchy whose paper ‘Manifold structure in graph embeddings’ was accepted at NeurIPS 2020, and among the 385 selected from a total of 9454 submissions for spotlight/oral presentation. A preprint of the paper is available here.  

The University of Bristol is today announcing a new supporter of Compass – the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Computational Statistics and Data Science. South West based learning technology company Sparx, has agreed to sponsor a PhD student’s research project which will investigate new approaches to longitudinal statistical modelling within school-based mathematics education. Sparx, […]

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) 2020 highlights the world’s top universities in a range of popular subject areas. Amongst the 20 subjects at the University of Bristol […]

A virtual discussion covering the statistical aspects of Covid- 19 Monday 29 June, 17.30 to 19.00 The Parliamentary & Scientific Committee, an All-Party Parliamentary Group, and the oldest, having been formed in 1939, will be holding a Zoom discussion meeting on Monday 29 June, from 5.30pm to 7.00pm covering statistical aspects of Covid-19. Professor Olly Johnson […]

Ellen Brown and Jack Burgess both completed their final year projects on group testing, an area that is currently being directly applied to efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Group testing is an area of mathematics that falls between statistics and combinatorics. It looks at subsections of a population that are in some way defective, […]

Bristol team emphasises the need for testing random samples of the population to establish disease prevalence and properly measure the size of the epidemic and disease severity. The comment on a paper by Verity et al. (2020) from the Imperial College infectious diseases modelling team will appear in Lancet Infectious Diseases. It is written by […]