Department of Statistical Science

Applications are invited for two PhD funding opportunities offered jointly by the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UCL and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. The studentships will commence in September 2013 and are based both at A*STAR and the UCL Department of Statistical Science.

Dr Gianluca Baio has given an invited lecture on "Introduction to Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation" at the Bayes Pharma 2013 conference, in Rotterdam.

The MRC funded project "The regression discontinuity design: a novel approach to evaluating the effects of drugs and treatments in primary care" will officially begin in September 2013 when Dr Aidan O'Keeffe (currently at MRC Biostatistics Unit) will join as Research Associate. Dr O'Keeffe will be based in the department and will work under the supervision of Dr Gianluca Baio.

On 8-9 November 2013, the UCL Department of Statistical Science will host a joint meeting of the British Classification Society and the Data Analysis working group of the German Classification Society with focus topic "Variable Selection and Dimension Reduction in Clustering and Classification", organised by Dr Christian Hennig. Everybody is welcome.

Dr Gareth Peters is a co-investigator on a successful three year joint research grant proposal with Professor Tomoko Matsui from the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo, Professor Kazuya Takeda from Nagoya University and Professor Konstantin Markov from the University of Aizu. Funding has been awarded from 2013 to 2016 and is provided by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under the KAKENHI grant scheme. The project will grow and strengthen research collaboration between UCL and several Japanese institutes.