Whether you’re a student, academic, alumnus, or industry partner, our events offer opportunities to connect, learn, & explore the latest developments in statistical science.
Explore our programme on our Department webpages here:
https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events
📘 New book by Alexander Krauss at LSE: The Engine of Scientific Discovery explores innovation via Nobel Prize stats. 🔗 Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197829790.001.0001 #LSE #Statistics #ScientificDiscovery #Research #DataScience
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We’re delighted to congratulate Dr Mingwei Lin on being recommended for the award of her PhD for her thesis, Limit order markets and Bayesian learning.
We’re also pleased to share that she continues to contribute to the Department as an LSE Fellow.
Well done, Dr Lin, a fantastic achievement!
Join us for a presentation with Dr Francesca Torti, who will explore how the Joint Research Centre’s framework is used to track the EU’s imports and exports, & why these insights matter for trade policy.
📍 Leverhulme Library | 1-2pm
🎓 Open to all LSE staff and students
Thank you for joining our Statistics Insight Series with Thrinayani Ramakrishnan! Discover how actuarial skills drive sustainability.
📺 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H80z6PQTkU
LSE Department of Statistics students took part in HackEurope Dublin — the largest student-led hackathon in Europe.
Team Beavers built a multi-agent AI system in 24 hours to help automate accounting workflows while keeping humans in the loop.
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Our students had the benefit this week of hearing from Thrinayani Ramakrishnan, Vice Chair of the Sustainability Board at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
Thrinayani delivered a talk on actuarial careers & the importance of sustainability, as part of our Statistics Insight seminar series.
This week's 'Stat of the Week' comes to you in the form of the decrease in turnover that 1 in 5 UK trading businesses are expecting in this month.
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Source: Office for National Statistics
Francesca will be working on the extension of her correlation-based analysis of international trade into a causal framework. Her main application areas include monitoring compliance with trade sanctions on Russia & assessing the impact of tariffs introduced by the US on trade flows.
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We are delighted to welcome Dr Francesca Torti, who works on trade data analysis & anti-fraud at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, as a visitor to the Department this term.
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Stat of the (now) Week is back! And after SO much rain since Christmas, of the first post had to be about the weather...
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The number of days so far this year that rainfall has been recorded in North Wyke, Devon.
Source: Met Office
🧐Check out the our recently launched research blog 'The Measure of it' & explore a growing body of original & accessible content - currently on financial statistics, machine learning, rating-scale data, psychometrics & predicting Antarctic ice melt.
www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/t...
Congratulations to Abhimanyu Pandey and Emily Payne, our Worshipful Company of Actuaries prize winners.
Thank you to Master Emma McWilliam and Andrew Cherkas from the WCA for an excellent lecture on how actuaries can help shape company strategy and performance.
For international women in science day we ask, 'what does it really mean to work as a data scientist today'?
👀Watch the recording of our session last week with three recent Stats grads who shared insights with our current students 📺 👇
youtu.be/XuzW9gwi3hY
We're getting underway this evening here at LSE with our Statistics Insights event with actuary & former senior consultant Andrew Cherkas & Emma McWilliam, Master of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries.
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Our BSc students enjoying brunch on the top floor of the LSE's Chen Kin Ku building earlier today...
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Is hype about AI justified?
Cristobal Garibay-Petersen @lse-ei.bsky.social @mlorimer.bsky.social and @neuralisa.bsky.social argue AI discourse has gone too far, limiting the space for democratic engagement with and control of the technology @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
We are delighted to be joined tomorrow by the Worshipful Company of Actuaries' Andrew Cherkas.
Andrew will draw on selected case studies from his career, and explore the critical components of an insurance business and the environment in which it operates.
Women in Data: The Reality of Being a Data Scientist Today
An in-person panel on careers, challenges, and the changing role of data scientists — with speakers from industry and analytics.
4 Feb 2026 | 5–7pm GMT
LSE, CLM.5.02
www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/s...
#WomenInData #DataScience #LSEEvents
40 alumni. One voice. One LSE Department of Statistics. 📊
Stay in touch with the Department to keep up to date with future international alumni events and opportunities around the world - lnkd.in/eEVdMCrp
#LSEStatistics #LSEAlumni #LSEGlobal #StatisticsAlumni
This 3 day ProbAI Theory of Scaling Laws Workshop looks good @warwickstats.bsky.social, 22-24 June.
PhD students & researchers - check it out!
Reg here until 31 March 👇warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/probai-scaling-laws-2026/registration/
Our AI Task Force has responded to the proposed AI Growth Lab — welcoming its potential but stressing that skills gaps, data readiness and governance must be addressed for real impact
Read more 🔗 rss.org.uk/news-publica...
📢LSE Statistics students: tickets for the 2026 Stats Student Ball are on sale now!
Get your ticket in the e-shop today: eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-cata...
Three course dinner, live DJ, dancing and games at the Waldorf Hilton, Aldwych = not to be missed!
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Today is the beginning of LSE Winter Term 2026. A very warm 'welcome back' to all our students - we hope you enjoyed the Christmas break!🌨️🧊🌧️
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Good intentions aren’t enough to understand poverty—good data matters. Our new interim report with the Centre for Public Data examines gaps in UK poverty data and their impact on policy and research.
Read more: rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Undergraduates — final reminder
Today is the last day to register for the upcoming Cumberland Lodge weekend.
Please check your LSE email — the payment portal will be shared later this afternoon with students who have registered.
Complete your registration today.
📍 LSE Statistics Alumni Meet-Up | Hong Kong
Hong Kong–based alumni are invited to an informal evening of networking and drinks in Central, hosted by James Abdey.
🗓 Sat 24 Jan 2026
⏰ 6–9pm (HKT)
📍 Omaroo Grill & Rooftop Bar
👉 Sign up: forms.gle/eH3wKbnBsXkj...
New LSE Stats blog published today: read Dr Giulia Livieri's remarkable research clarifying how machine learning works on complex graphs & how quickly any method (including Graph Convolutional Networks) can learn from them - with link to her full paper. 👉https://tinyurl.com/yn4crtzd
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🎓 A final look back at our Winter Graduation celebrations from December.
This photo captures the people and moments behind the achievement. Congratulations again to our graduates; we’re proud to count you as part of the LSE Statistics.
#WinterGraduation #LSEStatistics #Alumni
