Congratulations to Dr Adam Morgan, who has recently been appointed to a lectureship at the University of Cambridge. Adam works in algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry, obtaining his PhD at Bristol in 2015 under the supervision of Professor Tim Dokchitser. Following postdoctoral positions at Warwick, King’s College London, MPIM Bonn and Glasgow, he will […]
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Maths students win bronze at International Mathematics Competition
Congratulations to Samuel Kelly, Samson Main & Thammadol Tansrivorarat who all struck bronze at the IMC for University Students On behalf of everybody in the School of Maths, we would like to congratulate Samuel, Samson & Thammadol on their medals. The recent competition took place in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria between 31st July-6th August and featured just […]
Congratulations to Compass student published in NeurIPS 2022
Congratulations to Dan Ward, Matteo Fasiolo, Mark Beaumont and their industrial collaborators from Improbable. Compass PhD student, Dan Ward, who along with his supervisors has had their paper Robust Neural Posterior Estimation and Statistical Model Criticism accepted for publication in NeurIPS 2022. Simulators are idealistic approximations of reality, meaning that there is often a disparity […]
Welcome to Rihuan Ke
Dr Rihuan Ke joined the Institute for Statistical Science on 1 February 2022, as a Lecturer in Statistics. Rihuan received his PhD degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked as a researcher at the University of Cambridge before joining the School of Mathematics at Bristol. His research interest lies in the fields of […]
Bayesian Analysis paper accepted
Congratulations to Dr Dennis Prangle, who has had a paper accepted at Bayesian Analysis, “Bayesian experimental design without posterior calculations: an adversarial approach”, written with Sophie Harbisher and Colin Gillespie. The paper proposes a method to speed up Bayesian experimental design and allow it to scale to hundreds of design choices. It replaces the standard way […]
ILRI sponsors Compass PhD project
We are excited to announce a new partnership between Compass – the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Computational Statistics and Data Science – and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The first step in this new partnership is a co-funded and co-created PhD research project entitled A spatially explicit assessment of agro-pastoral sustainability in Kenya and Ethiopia. […]
New paper published at JRSS(B)
Dr Song Liu’s paper ‘Two-sample inference for high-dimensional Markov networks’ has been accepted by the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B). Graphical models are probabilistic models that encode dependencies among random variables. By comparing two graphical models under two different settings, we gain important insights about our data: such as how gene networks react […]
Heilbronn Fellowships in Data Science
Applications are invited for one or more independent postdoctoral Research fellowships in Data Science, in association with the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research (HIMR). Heilbronn Research Fellows divide their time equally between their own research and the research programme of the Heilbronn Institute. HIMR and the Alan Turing Institute have a partnership agreement which enables […]
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 […]
Logic and Set Theory
P. Welch The Härtig Quantifer Model