🚨3 Departmental PhD Studentships have now become available. The deadline for applications will be 31 of July. Available for overseas and home students. www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/p...

🚨3 Departmental PhD Studentships have now become available. The deadline for applications will be 31 of July. Available for overseas and home students. www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/p...

Today is the day of the pre-ICML event at UCL! Come check out the exciting work from academics, industry researchers, postdocs and PhD students from around London: sites.google.com/view/pre-icm... @statisticsucl.bsky.social @ucl-csml-ellis.bsky.social

Some shots from #OpenDay two! Featured: @uclchemistry.bsky.social odour #experiment, @statisticsucl.bsky.social taster on #Bayesian #statistics, learning about angular #momentum with UCL Physics & Astronomy, and exploring #maths for #finance with UCL Mathematics 💡 #UCLOpenDays @ucl.ac.uk

🏆 UCL is ranked 9th globally in the 2026 QS World University Rankings for the third year in a row. This marks our 14th year in the global top 10, reflecting the strength of our academic and employer reputation. 🔗 Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... #QSWUR

🥳 Congratulations are in order for: our newly promoted professors FX Robin Paul Terry as well as for our newly promoted Associated Professors Tom H Alex D Takoua Emma Brieuc

🥇🎉Many congratulations to Stephanie Dickinson for her achievement in this year’s BEAMS Professional Services Awards! More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/n...

Our department’s CSML theme is co-organising a ‘pre-ICML’ event to showcase the exciting research in machine learning taking place at UCL and across London on the 3rd July. Details on registration and the call for talks/posters is available here: sites.google.com/view/pre-icm...

A special seminar will be given by Philip Dawid (Cambridge) Time and date: Thursday 12th June 11am-12pm (BST) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, 102 For more information contact [email protected]

This week's seminar will be given by Chia-Jung Tsay (UCL) Time and date: Wednesday 28th May 2-3pm (BST) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, 102 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

New review funded by @genomicsengland.bsky.social & led by Dr Brieuc Lehmann & PhD student Leandra Brauninger (@statisticsucl.bsky.social) explores how the analytical methods used to process & interpret #genomic #data play a critical role in promoting #health #equity: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

Over the weekend, our very own Sam took part in a European defence tech hackathon in Warsaw, and walked away with the grand prize! 🏆 Their winning solution? An AI model to help predict how to treat wounded soldiers suffering from bacterial infections resistant to antibiotics. tinyurl.com/4n9suuk8

This week's seminar will be given by Kamélia Daudel (ESSEC Business School). Time and date: Wednesday 16th April 2-3pm (BST) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

The BayesComp workshop on 'Bayesian Computation and Inference with Misspecified Models' will take place in Singapore on the 16-17th June. We have an open call for posters/contributed calls, with a deadline on the 1st May. More details on the website: postbayes.github.io/BayesMisspec...

This week's seminar will be given by Hui Guo (The University of Manchester) Time and date: Wednesday 2nd April 2-3pm (GMT) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

New book coming soon, co-authored by our very own Giampiero Marra: "Copula Additive Distributional Regression Using R" By Giampiero Marra, Rosalba Radice www.routledge.com/Copula-Addit... #R #rstats

The advert for 1 **Home** Dept Studentship is now ON, with a deadline of 7 April: www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/p...

This week's seminar will be given by Desi Ivanova (University of Oxford). Time and date: Wednesday 26th March 2-3pm (GMT) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

The next talk of the "Women & Diversity" series will be held on May 28, 2pm in room 102 at 1-19 Torrington. The speaker is Chia-Jung Tsay (UCL) and she will talk about naturalness bias — the tendency to prefer inner talent over hard work.

🚨🚨🚨 1 "Departmental Studentship" (this is the new name for Teaching Studentships) for Home Fees applicants with a deadline of application the 3rd of April will be advertised very soon on our standard studentship website: www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/p...

This week's seminar will be given by Uri Shalit (Tel Aviv University). Time and date: Wednesday 19th March 2-3pm (GMT) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

This week's seminar will be given by Sir John Aston (University of Cambridge). Time and date: Wednesday 12th March 2-3pm (GMT) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

Registration and submission now open for post-Bayes workshop Date & Location: 15—16 May, 2025, Bentham House, UCL, London Website (key dates and further information available here!): postbayes.github.io/workshop2025/ Registration link: tinyurl.com/postBayesWor...

Next week's seminar will be given by Minmin Wang (University of Sussex). Time and date: Wednesday 26th February 2-3pm (GMT) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

This week's seminar will be given by Anastasia Papavasiliou (University of Warwick). Time and date: Wednesday 19th February 2-3pm (GMT) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

We are very pleased to announce the Bloomsbury Probability Colloquium, an afternoon of research talks in Probability hosted by the probability group at UCL. Date and time: Friday 21st March 2025, 2-5PM Venue: UCL, Department of Statistical Science, room 115, 1-19 Torrington Place, London

🎉 Happy 199th birthday, UCL! 🎉 We’re just one year away from celebrating 200 years of innovation, discovery, and impact. UCL has always been a place of firsts. Now, we look ahead to an exciting bicentenary year! Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe... #UCL200 #UCLFoundationDay #UCLBirthday

This week's seminar will be given by Marton Balazs (University of Bristol). Time and date: Wednesday 12th February 2-3pm (GMT) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

This week's seminar will be given by Hera Shi (University of Cambridge) Time and date: Wednesday 5th February 2-3pm (GMT) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

This week's seminar will be given by Clair Barnes (Imperial College London). Time and date: Wednesday 29th January 2-3pm (GMT) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

This week's seminar will be given by Sarah Filippi (Imperial College London). Time and date: Wednesday 22nd January 2-3pm In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

This week's seminar will be given by Julia Hatamyar (University of York Centre for Health Economics). Time and date: Wednesday 15th January 2-3pm In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

🎄 UCL students are embracing the festive season! ✨ As the holiday season nears, UCL Student Storyteller Zoe Dahse shares how students celebrate Christmas — or enjoy the season in other ways away from campus. 🎅❄️ Read more: ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/de... #UCL #FestiveSeason #StudentLife

The Bloomberg fellowship will fund the next two years of Matias' PhD at @statisticsucl.bsky.social, where he is co-supervised by Jeremias Knoblauch and I. More details about Matias: maltamiranomontero.github.io

Huge congratulations to @maltamiranomontero.bsky.social for being awarded a prestigious Bloomberg Data Science fellowship! Matias has been doing some outstanding work on making Bayesian statistics and machine learning more robust and scalable. www.bloomberg.com/company/stor...

This week's seminar will be given by Sarah Heaps (Durham University). Time and date: Wednesday 11th December 2-3pm In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

Thanks to @statisticsucl.bsky.social for supporting this!

5 EPSRC PhD projects available at UCL Statistical Science. More information: ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2025-26-proj... www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctor... The deadline for applications is: 13:00 UK time on 28 Jan 2025.

#JOBS Student Adviser UCL - Department of Statistical Science Location: London, Salary: £43,124 to £51,610 Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Closes:6th December 2024 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT642/s...

This week's seminar will be given by Maria Fernanda Pintado (Queen Mary University of London). Details below. Time and date: Wednesday 27th November 2-3pm In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

Up to 5 Departmental PhD Scholarships Deadline: 10 January 2025 The Departmental Scholarships will be 3.5 years in duration, full time (or 6 years for part-time), and includes full tuition fees, an annual stipend, and an allowance for research training. www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/p...

I’m hiring- info in the link below, or get in touch if interested 📣 JOB OPPORTUNITY!  💻 Research Fellow in causal inference and machine learning, Statistical Science Department, UCL 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 📅 Deadline 5th December #causality #stats

I made a starter-pack for Statistics and Statistics-related groups, departments or organisations. Please share, and suggest accounts that I have missed. go.bsky.app/q6MfWL

Next week's seminar will be given by Prof. Anne McMunn (UCL). This is a special seminar organised for Women and Diversity in Mathematics. Time and date: Wed 20th Nov 3:30-4:30pm Location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B07 (Teal Room) Online: contact [email protected]

Our latest article on our magazine Sample Space --- written by our very good friend Prof. Mario Cortina Borja on Mervyn Stone's seminal paper! sample-space.org/posts/featur...

This academic year, students in our department will design an “Online Open Access Course” about eugenics, from the perspective of Statistical Science and with reference to it. More info 👇: sample-space.org/posts/featur...

Staff update [2/2] Dr Louis Sharrock is also joining us as Lecturer in Statistics. Louis is currently a Senior PDRA in Statistical Machine Learning at Lancaster University.

Staff update [1/2] Dr Anna Calissano will soon join our department as Lecturer in Statistics. Anna studied mathematical engineering at Politecnico di Milano in Italy and received her Ph.D. in collaboration with DTU in Denmark.

This week's seminar will be given by Oliver Dukes (Ghent University). Time and date: Wednesday 13th November 2-3pm In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact [email protected]

🚨🚨🚨 Applications are now open for the following PhD studentships: - Teaching Assistant (TA) Studentships. - UCL's Research Excellence Scholarships. - China Scholarship Council - UCL Joint Research Scholarships are now on. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/p...