Department of Statistical Science
The Department of Statistical Science has played a major role in the development of the subject ever since its foundation in 1911 as the Department of Applied Statistics (the first department of statistics in the world), with Karl Pearson as its head.
A variety of courses is on offer at an undergraduate level, with the opportunity to study statistics on its own or combined with a wide range of other disciplines.
Research in Statistical Science is based on a blend of project-based research groups, multidisciplinary collaborations and individual research programmes.
During term-time, weekly research seminars are held on Thursday afternoons. In addition Biostatistics seminars are held monthly on Wednesday afternoons.
The Department also accommodates the office of the Biometrika Trust, which publishes the statistical journal Biometrika.
Statistical Science News
PhD Studentships in Statistics Available: “Big Data” and its Applications
PhD Studentships in Statistics: “Big Data” and its applications to Social Network Dynamics, Behavioural Finance, Business Analytics, Computational Retail and Healthcare. More...
Published: Feb 1, 2012 7:31:43 PM
Dr Gianluca Baio to give talks at two conferences later this year.
Dr Gianluca Baio has been invited to give talks at two conferences later this year. He will speak at the Bayes 2012 Workshop, organised by the International Biometrics Society, which will be held in Aachen (Germany, May 9-11) and at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meeting, organised by the American Statistical Association, which will be held in San Diego (CA, July 28-August 2). More...
Published: Jan 29, 2012 1:02:54 PM
Professor Mark Girolami to speak at PEDS-II Workshop
Professor Mark Girolami will be an invited speaker at the Workshop on Parameter Estimation for Dynamical Systems (PEDS-II) at Eurandom, Eindhoven, The Netherlands from 4-6 June 2012. The workshop aims at providing a meeting place for researchers and practitioners in the area of parameter estimation for deterministic and stochastic differential equations, who will review different methods used to tackle the problems arising in these fields, assess the achieved progress and identify future research directions. More...
Published: Jan 24, 2012 9:53:17 PM
Dr Serge Guillas awarded 30,000 euros of funding from PASCAL2
Dr Serge Guillas has been awarded 30,000 euros of funding from PASCAL2 (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning), a Network of Excellence funded by the European Union, for his proposal on the "Uncertainty Quantification Pipeline for Climate Models". This will enable month-long invitations of experts from the University of Texas at Austin, the Illinois Institute of Technology at Chicago, Carroll University in Wisconsin, the US Naval Postgraduate School, and from the research institute INRIA in France. These experts will collaborate with five UCL researchers and together take advantage of UCL's High Performance Computing resources for their simulations. This will lead to the release of efficient open-source code for uncertainty quantification of complex computer models. More...
Published: Jan 23, 2012 7:25:45 PM
Dr James Nelson awarded a £96k EPSRC grant
The project "Multiresolution Markov Models for Detecting Radial Patterns of
Spicules in Mammograms" will develop statistical image analysis/computer vision
methodology to improve the detection of cancerous abnormalities in mammogram
images.
The grant will fund a research associate position in the Department. Along
with Dr Nelson, the post-holder will be supported by Professor Stuart Taylor (from
the Centre for Medical Imaging and University College London Hospital) and Dr Hela Sbano (a
consultant radiologist in the Breast Unit at University College London
Hospital). More...
Published: Jan 21, 2012 11:16:36 PM
Upcoming Events
- As a member of DARPA's Information Sciences and Technology (ISAT) Board, Professor Patrick Wolfe is chairing the mathematical methods portion of the upcoming DARPA ISAT workshop on The Science and Engineering of Function-Specific Networks, to be held on 7-8 March 2012 in Menlo Park, California.
- During February 20-24, 2012 the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) will hold a current topic workshop on "Recent Advances in Statistical Inference for Mathematical Biology" organized by Simon Preston, Mark Girolami, Giles Hooker, and Theodore Kypraios.
- Professor Patrick Wolfe is co-chairing the 10th annual SPIE Computational Imaging Conference to be held on 23-24 January 2012 in San Francisco, California.
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