Careers Event - Thursday 18th June
The annual Careers Workshop is run for postdocs and graduate students at the Department of Statistics to help inform them with making career choices. This year's event is in collaboration with Medical Sciences and will be held using Zoom on Thursday 18th June 2020.
| 2.00 pm | Hugh Nicolson-Lailey, Oxford Careers Service Hugh will consider the current recruitment environment and uncertainty cause by Covid19 and the steps that researcher students and staff can take in relation to career planning, personal development and positioning for the next step in their careers. |
| 2.20 pm |
Keynote 1 - Allan Evans Allan Evans is Senior algorithm researcher at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Following a PhD in statistical physics, Allan has been a mathematics lecturer and worked in the private sector and as an independent consultant. He has worked on holography, drug discovery, TV image processing and forecasting futures prices. He also briefly analysed the flight of traffic accident victims and the sparkle of diamonds. Along the way, he managed research teams and the recruitment of scientific staff, and filed about 30 patents. He now applies neural networks to DNA sequencing. Alan will be outlining:
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| 2.40 pm | Q&A Session with Allan and Hugh |
| 3.10 pm | Lightning Introduction talks by Careers panellists |
| 3.40 pm | Networking session 'Meet the speakers' |
| 4.20 pm | Keynote 2 - Fiona Lethbridge, Science Media Centre |
| 5.00 pm | Finish |