The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded the School of Mathematics over £6 million to launch a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT). University and industry contributions take total funding for the centre to over £10.5 million. The CDT, known as COMPASS, is a four-year funded PhD programme with the first cohort of […]
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Welcome Professor Carey Priebe to the School of Mathematics
Professor Carey Priebe, the School’s inaugural Heilbronn Distinguished Visitor in Data Science visits from February 1st- April 30th We are delighted to welcome Professor Carey Priebe from Johns Hopkins University, who is the School’s inaugural Heilbronn Distinguished Visitor in Data Science. Carey will be visiting from February 1st to April 30th. Carey’s main research interests […]
The School of Mathematics welcomes our inaugural Heilbronn Distinguished Visitor, Professor Zeev Rudnick
The School of Mathematics is delighted to welcome Professor Zeev Rudnick. Zeev holds the Cissie and Aaron Beare Chair in Number Theory at Tel Aviv University and his main research interests are in number theory and mathematical physics (quantum chaos in particular). Zeev is the School’s inaugural Heilbronn Distinguished Visiting Professor. This new initiative, in partnership with the […]
PhD Studentship in Statistical Science
PhD Studentship in Statistical Science The Project: The School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol invites applications for a PhD Studentship position in Statistical Science. The aim of the project is to work on scaling up Bayesian computational methods in order to address current challenges posed in various areas of science and engineering. The project […]
New Alan Turing Institute fellows from Bristol
Congratulations to Statistics Institute members Christophe Andrieu, Haeran Cho, Guy Nason, Nick Whiteley and Yi Yu, who have won Turing Fellowships from the Alan Turing Institute. Turing Fellows are scholars with proven research excellence in data science, artificial intelligence or a related field, whose research could be enhanced through active involvement with the Turing network […]
Yi Yu receives 2018 Distinguished Paper award by the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematics
Congratulations to Yi Yu, who has received the 2018 Distinguished Paper award by the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians, for her paper ‘A useful variant of the Davis–Kahan theorem for statisticians’ (Biometrika, 2015, vol 102, pages 315-323)
Partnership with Google to grow quantum software industry in the UK
The University of Bristol is joining forces with UCL and Google to launch a £5.5m Prosperity Partnership, which aims to harness the revolutionary power of quantum computers for applications in modelling and simulation. The initiative, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), is a collaboration between the UCL Quantum Science and Technology […]
Professor Oliver Johnson inaugural lecture
On 1 November 2018, Professor Oliver Johnson will give his Inaugural Lecture, entitled “Shannon and group testing: finding needles in haystacks”. The abstract for the talk is as follows: Claude Shannon’s Information Theory bridges mathematics and engineering, and shows how well every communication and data storage system can perform. In this lecture, Professor Johnson will […]
International Workshop on Statistical Modelling to be hosted in Bristol
The 33rd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling 2018 will be hosted by the Statistics groups of the Universities of Bath and Bristol and the Jean Golding Institute and will take place at the University of Bristol. There is a short course on causal inference on 15 July followed by the main meeting 16-20 July. The […]
Teaching Associate position
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 […]
