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UCL Statistical Science was the first university statistics department in the world when founded in 1911. Methodological & applied statistics. Fun place to work https://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/

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Research Studentships

🚨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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Research Studentships

🚨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...

11.07.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pre ICML @ London 2025 The goal of this meetup is to bring together students, researchers, and engineers from the greater London area to discuss machine learning research presented at International Conference on Machine Lea...

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

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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 πŸ’‘

#UCLOpenDays @ucl.ac.uk

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Two students smiling outdoors in front of a university building with colorful banners. Text reads 9th in the world, QS World University Rankings 2026

Two students smiling outdoors in front of a university building with colorful banners. Text reads 9th in the world, QS World University Rankings 2026

πŸ† 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.

πŸ”— Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
#QSWUR

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πŸ₯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

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πŸ₯‡πŸŽ‰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...

11.06.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pre ICML @ London 2025 The goal of this meetup is to bring together students, researchers, and engineers from the greater London area to discuss machine learning research presented at International Conference on Machine Lea...

Our department’s CSML theme is co-organising a β€˜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...

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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 t.soo@ucl.ac.uk

02.06.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

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New review on statistical and machine learning tools to advance equity in genomic research Review led by Dr Brieuc Lehmann and PhD student Leandra Brauninger (both UCL Statistical Science) explores how the analytical methods used to process and interpret genomic data play a critical role in...

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...

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Over the weekend, our very own Sam took part in a European defence tech hackathon in Warsaw, and walked away with the grand prize! πŸ†

Their winning solution? An AI model to help predict how to treat wounded soldiers suffering from bacterial infections resistant to antibiotics.

tinyurl.com/4n9suuk8

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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

14.04.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
BayesComp Satellite Workshop on Bayesian Computation and Inference with Misspecified Models

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...

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BST instead of GMT!

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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 stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

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Copula Additive Distributional Regression Using R Copula additive distributional regression enables the joint modeling of multiple outcomes, an essential aspect of many real-world research problems. This book provides an accessible overview of this m...

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

31.03.2025 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Research Studentships

The advert for 1 **Home** Dept Studentship is now ON, with a deadline of 7 April:

www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/p...

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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

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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.

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Research Studentships

🚨🚨🚨 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...

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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

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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

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Advances in post-Bayesian methods – workshop2025

Registration and submission now open for post-Bayes workshop

Date & Location: 15β€”16 May, 2025, Bentham House, UCL, London

Website (key dates and further information available here!):

postbayes.github.io/workshop2025/

Registration link:

tinyurl.com/postBayesWor...

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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

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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

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Probability at UCL - Colloquium_2025 Friday 21 March 2025, 2-5PM UCL, 1-19 Torrington Place, lecture room 115

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).

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Probability at UCL - Colloquium_2025 Friday 21 March 2025, 2-5PM UCL, 1-19 Torrington Place, lecture room 115

Programme:

Alison Etheridge (University of Oxford) TBA

Wendelin Werner (University of Cambridge) A switching property for Brownian loop-soups

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Probability at UCL - Colloquium_2025 Friday 21 March 2025, 2-5PM UCL, 1-19 Torrington Place, lecture room 115

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

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πŸŽ‰ Happy 199th birthday, UCL! πŸŽ‰

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

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