Dr Martine Barons, Reader in Statistics and Director of the Applied Statistics and Risk Unit in our department, has become 2025 World Champion in Powerlifting, Deadlift and Bench Press at the AWPC World Championship in Idaho Falls, USA! Congratulations, Martine!

Live Chat: Data Science, Maths and Stats and MORSE September 24th, 3:30 PM-4:00 PM Register here: meetandengage.com/un... An opportunity to talk to current staff and students about the Data Science, Mathematics and Statistics, MORSE programmes in Warwick!

Our own Professor Jane Hutton will be giving an interactive session “Lucy Letby – Serial Killer or Coincidence? Hypothesis Testing & The Legal System” on September 23rd, organised by Channel Talent. Suitable for pre-university students (16+) studying, or with a interest in, statistics, law and etc.

We are delighted to announce that Peng Yuan has successfully passed his PhD viva, with minor corrections, on the topic of Non-linear optimal stopping and games with Bermudan strategies. We would like to congratulate Peng on his fantastic achievement!

The winning team from the 2025 Solve for X training camp! The camp is part of the work of the Martingale Foundation. Students who receive funding from the Martingale Foundation for an M.Sc enjoy a four-day workshop during which they use mathematics to solve a real world problem.

PhD scholarship available: Unravelling the sound underground: Detecting and estimating earthworm abundance using low-frequency vibrations.

New paper: Rocco Caprio and Adam Johansen have had their work analysing the EM algorithm by using tools from functional analysis accepted by Biometrika: academic.oup.com/bio...

Registration is now open to attend the one-day workshop on “Statistical Challenges in the Agri-Environment Sector” organised jointly by the BIR (British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society) and NABES (UK Network of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statisticians).

New paper on multiple importance sampling from Felipe Medina-Aguayo and Richard Everitt "Annealing Strategies for Variance Reduction in Balance Heuristic Estimators" Features an extended-space representation for the balance heuristic, enabling incorporation of annealing steps https://rdcu.be/eqe8j

New paper: "Soft Reasoning: Navigating Solution Spaces in Large Language Models through Controlled Embedding Exploration". arxiv.org/abs/2505.2...

Undergraduate Lap Chow has won the PSI undergraduate prize for their dissertation. Lap developed a Bayesian model using viral sequencing data to improve age-specific HIV incidence estimates where testing records are censored, incomplete, or have low coverage. www.psiweb.org/membe...

New paper: "Asymptotically optimal Wasserstein couplings for the small-time stable domain of attraction" (J. González Cázares, David Kramer-Bang and Aleksandar Mijatović), to appear in Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré - Probabilités et Statistiques (2025). arxiv.org/abs/2411.0...

Do you have an excellent knowledge of statistics, and wish to try your hand at teaching? If so, you might be interested in applying to be a Tutor in the Warwick Statistics Department. This is a full time position for one year. Deadline 6th August. warwick-careers.tal....

Many congratulations to our students who are graduating today! Photographed are Statistics staff who participated in the procession.

The Department of Statistics is organising a webinar to introduce their three undergraduate degree programmes (Data Science, MORSE and Maths & Statistics). It will take place at 12pm-1pm London time on 1 August. Register: your.warwick.ac.uk/e...

Warwick Statistics is hosting the first Winter School in Probabilistic AI, 5-8 Jan 2026, targeted at PhD students, academics, and professionals; and features world-leading researchers speaking about recent advances in AI. www.probai.ac.uk/eve...

Applications are now open for the Dual Trimester Program "Geometric Statistics: theory, application, and computation" at the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics in Bonn in Autumn 2026. Find all information as well as the application platform here: www.mathematics.uni-...

PhDs & Research Careers Event for Mathematical and Computing Sciences. Four of the leading Doctoral Training Centres at Warwick (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, HetSys) are hosting an event to answer questions, shatter myths and break stereotypes about PhDs. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

The Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick continues to make waves in AI research with our recent contributions at #ICLR2025! Professor Giovanni Montana led our team's presentations with two papers on offline Reinforcement Learning:

Matthew Adeoye was awarded the 2025 BioInference Reproducibility Award on his work which was at the conference held in Bardonecchia, Italy. He was also awarded a £3000 MWA PhD Travel Grant for a research study visit to Monash University plus funding to present at the LMS-Bath Symposium this week.

Two papers by Prof. Theo Damoulas’ group and led by Dr. Dellaporta (Stats), Dr. O’Hara (CS) and Terje Mildner (4th year CS-DM UG) were accepted as spotlights (2.6% of submitted papers) at ICML 2025...

We are recruiting! A three-year postdoctoral position at Warwick as part of the “Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence” hub on the mathematical foundations of AI. Further details at the link: warwick-careers.tal....

Congratulations to PhD student Rocco Caprio on the acceptance of his first paper, "Error bounds for particle gradient descent, and extensions of the log-Sobolev and Talagrand inequalities" arxiv.org/abs/2403.0..., on functional inequalities and algorithm convergence - it will appear in JMLR.

Recently-completed Warwick PhD student Ian Roberts, with Xavier Didelot, Richard Everitt and Jere Koskela, have had the paper "Bayesian Inference of Pathogen Phylogeography using the Structured Coalescent Model" accepted in PLOS Computational Biology journals.plos.org/pl...

"One-step full gradient suffices for low-rank fine-tuning, provably and efficiently", a paper on on LLM fine-tuning by Yuanhe Zhang (Stats CDT 1st year), Dr Fanghui Liu (Warwick DCS), and Prof Yudong Chen (University of Wisconsin-Madison) was accepted by ICML25 as a spotlight arxiv.org/abs/2502.0...

Congratulations to Romain Palfray who recently passed their PhD viva, the subject being "On the simulation of Lévy processes". A paper from the thesis can be found here: www.tandfonline.com/...

We are looking forward to Prof. Jonathan Wakefield's talk at the CRiSM colloquium on "Small Area Estimation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries", which will begin at 11am today (come to B3.03 in Zeeman, if you are on campus). Lunch will follow. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

New paper from Aleks Mijatović, Benjamin Povar and Gerónimo Uribe Bravo: "Critical branching processes with immigration: scaling limits of local extinction sets". The paper can be found at arxiv.org/abs/2503.2..., and Aleks also has a youtube explainer of the paper at www.youtube.com/watc...

Harita Dellaporta, now a research fellow at UCL (www.ucl.ac.uk/statis...), recently passed her PhD viva, with a thesis entitled “Robust Bayesian Inference under Model Misspecification and Uncertainty in the Data-Generating Process”. Congratulations Harita!

The latest CIMAT-UNAM-Warwick-Bath network “Frontiers in Statistics and Probability” took place 7-11th April. Details here: cuwb.cimat.mx/node/68

The Prob_AI Hub, in which the Department is involved, has just launched its funding for Discipline Hopping Awards for researchers to support a move into the area of probabilistic AI research. The maximum project value is £50k. Deadline 23rd June 2025. www.probai.ac.uk/fun...

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Jonathan Wakefield (University of Washington) will deliver the next CRiSM colloquium on 29th May at 11am. he will speak on Small Area Estimation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Applications are still open for our MSc in Statistics. In case you have any questions, we have a Live Chat this Friday (16th May). To register join here: meetandengage.com/un... For more information, see warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

🗣️ Just 2 weeks until the CRiSM 2.0 - Conference 2025 here at the Warwick Statistics. We can’t wait to welcome you from Wednesday 21st – Friday 23rd May 2025. If you haven’t already, register for the three-day conference event now (deadline today - 8th May!) 🔗 tinyurl.com/2d2b9b7a

Adam Johansen and four collaborators in Australia have recently had a paper entitled "Unbiased and Consistent Nested Sampling via Sequential Monte Carlo", which shows that interpreting the popular nested sampling algorithm as a form of SMC can have a variety of theoretical and practical advantages

Warwick Statistics PhD student Aria Ahari has successfully passed his PhD viva. His thesis is entitled "Boundary crossing problems for one-dimensional Markov processes to moving boundaries". Aria is now working as a tutor within the department. Congratulations!

Massi Tamborrino recently published a paper on "Inference for the stochastic FitzHugh-Nagumo model from real action potential data via approximate Bayesian computation", in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 204, 108095, 2025. www.sciencedirect.co...

Hannah Bensoussane recently passed her PhD viva with a thesis entitled "Bayesian Individual-level Epidemic Models: Accounting for Missing Data and Utilising Covariate Information". Congratulations Hannah! warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Giuseppe Cannizzaro has won the 2025 Adams Prize for "his innovative contributions to stochastic partial differential equations." The Adams Prize is awarded jointly each year by Cambridge's Faculty of Mathematics and St John’s College to UK-based researchers. www.maths.cam.ac.uk/...

*G-Research Warwick MSc Bursary* In 2025, one bursary funded by a generous donation from G-Research (www.gresearch.com/) will be awarded to an outstanding student undertaking an MSc in Statistics within the Department of Statistics – Apply now. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

3 year PDRA position in the OCEAN project (https://oceanerc.com/) to work at Warwick with Gareth Roberts, Adam Johansen and other OCEAN Researchers on a range of topics around scalable distributed computation. Deadline 10th April 2025 at 11.55pm UK time. Details at warwick-careers.tal....

*G-Research Warwick PhD Scholarship* In 2025, one scholarship funded by a generous donation from G-Research (www.gresearch.com/) will be awarded to an outstanding student undertaking a PhD within the Department of Statistics – Apply now. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Dr Martine Barons, Reader in Statistics and the Director of the Applied Statistics & Risk Unit, was recently interviewed on the topic "In 10 years has anything changed for Women and Girls in Science?". You can read her thoughts here: warwick.ac.uk/newsan...

Nicolas Chopin will speak at our CRiSM colloquium *today* at 11am. NIcolas will speak on "Saddlepoint Monte Carlo and its Application to Exact Ecological Inference". For the benefit of people on campus who may be able to attend, the talk will be in MS.02, followed by lunch. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Two of our undergraduates (Ananya Garg and Hinay Patel) will be presenting at the IMA Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today conference, which is being held this weekend. sites.google.com/vie...

PhD opportunity: 'Unravelling the sound underground: Detecting and estimating earthworm abundance using low-frequency vibrations'. This project uses signal processing, modelling, and data science to analyse earthworm movements measured from soil geophones, an emerging technology with much potential.

PhD Studentship in Statistical Theory and Methodology at Warwick. Apply to work with work with Tom Berrett on the ERC-funded project HeDiStat: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/D...

Registration now open for the LMS-Bath Symposium on Inverse Problems and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, organised by Matt Thorpe & Clarice Poon (Warwick) and Mike Roberts (Cambridge). See here for more details: bathsymposium.ac.uk/...

Tomorrow we welcome undergraduate offer holders to campus for a University Offer Holder day. Visitors will get the chance to explore the campus, come to the department and hear talks on "Where Might Modern Mathematics Take Me?" and "How to solve it? Examples from STEP papers" warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Prof. Patrick Rubin-Delanchy (Edinburgh) is giving our Statistical Learning & Inference Seminar today. Patrick is speaking on "What makes a good embedding?". More details about this weekly seminar series can be found on the page warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...