Archive 2011
Faisal Khan, who is now studying for his DPhil in the Department, has been awarded a top prize in the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs Challenge. He wins £5k of seed-fund money and a fully-sponsored place at the 2011 Ignite Programme for entrepreneurs and innovators at Cambridge's Judge Business School.
Faisal is jointly supervised by Dr Charlotte Deane, and Dr James Wakefield of Exeter University. (June 2011)
Steffen Lauritzen elected Fellow of Royal Society
Congratulations to Professor Steffen Lauritzen who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his many contributions to the theory and practice of statistical science (May 2011)
Christina Goldschmidt joins Department of Statistics
We
are pleased to announce that Dr Christina Goldschmidt, currently
University of Warwick, will join the Department as University Lecturer
and Tutorial Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall from 1 September 2011.
Christina’s research evolves chiefly in the area of probability and
combinatorics, in particular the study of random graphs.
Savage Award honourable mention
Dr
Robin Ryder has been awarded an honourable mention in the Applied
Methodology category of the 2010 Savage awards. Two awards are bestowed
each year by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
for outstanding doctoral dissertations in Bayesian econometrics and
statistics. The awards are named in honour of Leonard J. "Jimmie"
Savage. Robin's DPhil thesis on Phylogenetic Models of Language Diversification was supervised by Dr Geoff Nicholls.
Arnaud Doucet joins Department of Statistics
We are pleased to announce that Professor Arnaud Doucet, who currently has a Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia,Vancouver, will join us as Professor of Statistics and Kay Fellow of Jesus College from 1 August 2011.
Professor Doucet is primarily known for his work in modern sequential Monte Carlo Methods, also known as particle filters. He has his doctorate from Université du Paris-Sud (Paris XI) in Orsay, France and was a Fellow and Lecturer at Churchill College, Cambridge before moving to Vancouver in 2005.
Guy Medal for Nicolai Meinshausen
Dr Nicolai Meinshausen has been awarded a Guy Medal in Bronze by the Royal Statistical Society for his innovative work on theoretical, methodological and computational aspects of high-dimensional data analysis, including his paper read before the Society `Stability Selection' (JRSS B, 72 (2010), 417-473, with P. Buehlmann), and for his important work as an applied researcher, for example in the study of climate change. (January 2011)
Inaugural Oxford-London lecture
On 1 February 2011, Professor Peter Donnelly gave the inaugural lecture for the Oxford-London Lecture series. Exploring the newest research emerging from Oxford, this lecture and panel discussion considers how research at Oxford impacts on the world in the twenty-first century.
IMS Medallion lecture
Professor Chris Holmes
was chosen to give a Medallion Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, held together with the Joint
Statistical Meeting in Miami Beach in August 2011.
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