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.
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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 […]
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
Distinguished Lecture Series 2018
University of Bristol
The 2018 Distinguished Lecture Series will be given by Ingrid Daubechies, Duke.
The talks will be held over three days:
Wednesday 11th April 16.00 (Colloquium) 1.15 Queens Building
Thursday 12th April 16.00 SM1 Main Maths Building
Friday 13th April 14.00 4th Floor Seminar Room, Howard House **CHANGE OF TIME
Please register for the Colloquium here. Registration not required for the remaining more specialised talks.
Title and abstract for Colloquium:
Wavelets, with Image processing applications for Art History
Wavelets are the building blocks for mathematical tool that emerged in
the 1980s as an interesting way to decompose, understand and compute
with signals, data and operators. The talk will review the basics of
wavelets and their mathematical properties; in a second part, we will
visit some recent applications of wavelets and image processing to
help understand art works, their manufacture process and their state of
conservation.
Talk 2
Thursday 12th April: Adaptive time-frequency localisation. 16.00, SM1 Main Building Maths
Talk 3
Friday 13th April: Biologically relevant distances between surfaces. 14.00, 4th Floor Seminar Room, Howard House
Support for travel for UK based PhD students may be available, please contact heilbronn-coordinator@bristol.ac.uk with any requests by Monday 12th March 2018.
We are pleased to announce that we are able to consider applications for funding to support care costs*
This event is organised in collaboration with the Heilbronn Institute of Mathematical Research.
*Applies to expenses incurred exceptionally as a result of attending the lecture series. Please contact heilbronn-coordinator@bristol.ac.uk for further information.
** CHANGE OF TIME AND LOCATION – The Friday 13th talk has been changed to 14.00 and will take place in the 4th Floor seminar room at Howard House, Queen’s Road.
Time between world-changing volcanic super-eruptions less than previously thought
After analysing a database of geological records dated within the last 100,000 years, a team of scientists from the University of Bristol has discovered the average time between so-called volcanic super-eruptions is actually much less than previously thought. Volcanoes and bolides, such as asteroids, are geohazards powerful enough to be destructive on a global scale. […]
Congratulations to Thantkrit Kaewtem who has won an ATS Education Award 2017
The Anglo-Thai Society presents yearly awards to recognise the academic achievements of Thai postgraduate scholars studying in the UK. Awards cover a number of subjects including: Science, Medical Science, Engineering, Humanities & Social Science, Environment and the Arts. The Society also award a non-Thai national who’s research focuses on Thailand. Thantkrit (3rd year PhD student) […]
