π¨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...
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π¨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...
π¨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
03.07.2025 07:50 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Some 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 π‘
#UCLOpenDays @ucl.ac.uk
Two students smiling outdoors in front of a university building with colorful banners. Text reads 9th in the world, QS World University Rankings 2026
π 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.
π Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
#QSWUR
π₯³ 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
π₯πMany congratulations to Stephanie Dickinson for her achievement in this yearβs BEAMS Professional Services Awards!
More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/n...
Our departmentβs CSML theme is co-organising a βpre-ICMLβ 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...
09.06.2025 09:30 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A 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 t.soo@ucl.ac.uk
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 stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk
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...
15.05.2025 11:03 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Over the weekend, our very own Sam took part in a European defence tech hackathon in Warsaw, and walked away with the grand prize! π
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 KamΓ©lia 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 stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk
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...
BST instead of GMT!
31.03.2025 13:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This 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 stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk
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 stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk
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 β the tendency to prefer inner talent over hard work.
20.03.2025 12:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π¨π¨π¨ 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 stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk
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 stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk
Registration and submission now open for post-Bayes workshop
Date & Location: 15β16 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 stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk
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 stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk
More details and registration can be found at
sites.google.com/view/probabi...
Please register by 20th March 2025 (registration is free but required due to space limitations).
Programme:
Alison Etheridge (University of Oxford) TBA
Wendelin Werner (University of Cambridge) A switching property for Brownian loop-soups
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
π Happy 199th birthday, UCL! π
Weβre 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