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🎉 Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧 Wishing all our students, staff, alumni, and friends a joyful and prosperous Chinese New Year. May the Year of the Horse bring energy, success, and exciting new opportunities to everyone associated with Warwick Statistics!

✨ 新年快乐，马到成功 🐎

Huge thanks also go to Nick Tawn, Francesca Basini, PhD, Esther de Perlaky and Charlie Hattersley for organising such a successful series of events!

As we wrap up this year’s Flagship Careers Events, we would like to extend a big thank you to all speakers across the three events. We hope students who attended gained valuable insights into different industries and feel better equipped to make informed career choices.

The second half of the event featured an engaging hands-on session led by Dr Leo Westbury, an MSc Statistics alumnus from Warwick. Using a real medical dataset on cancer remission, students from all years experienced first-hand what it is like to work with real-world medical data.

They shared their career journeys in biostatistics, health and care technology, and the biopharmaceutical sector, offering real project insights and inspiring students to connect their undergraduate learning with future career paths in these exciting industries.

More than 60 students from Statistics, Mathematics, DCS and Warwick Medical School joined us to hear from our keynote speakers, Professor Rhiannon Owen (Swansea University Medical School) and David Hartley (DSH Advisory and Warwick Statistics PhD alumnus).

Yesterday afternoon, we hosted the third and final event in this year’s Flagship Careers Series: Medical Statistics and Health Data Science.

On 19 February, Gareth will give a public lecture in Kolkata, titled “Biases in draws for major football competitions, and how to fix them.”

Professor Gareth Roberts will deliver this year’s P. C. Mahalanobis Lectures, presenting six talks between 13-23 February at the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi, Kolkata, and Bangalore.

Information about the P.C. Mahalanobis Lectures 2025-26: www.isibang.ac.in/~s....

This workshop is jointly funded by Prob_AI Research Hub and University of Warwick - Department of Statistics via Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM).

Target audience: PhD students and researchers with graduate-level backgrounds in probability, statistics, machine learning theory or other related mathematical disciplines. No prior knowledge on scaling laws is required.

Confirmed speakers include Blake Bordelon (Harvard), Leena C Vankadara (UCL), Lénaïc Chizat (EPFL), Mufan Li (Waterloo), Sam Smith (OpenAI).

This three-day workshop focuses on the theoretical understanding of scaling laws in large neural network models, whose empirical principles have already been instrumental in modern AI breakthroughs.

Another exciting workshop to be held at Warwick Statistics this coming June: The ProbAI Theory of Scaling Laws Workshop from 22-24 June!

Website of the workshop: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Registration open until 31 March on a first-come-first-serve basis: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc....

Read more about the Founding Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences here: www.acadmathsci.org.uk/2026/01/29/a...

This appointment recognises Andreas’s outstanding contributions to probability theory and applied mathematics, as well as his leadership and service to the wider mathematical sciences community. Many congratulations, Andreas — a fantastic achievement and a proud moment for Warwick Statistics! 👏

The newly established Academy for the Mathematical Sciences is a new national academy created to bring together the UK’s strongest mathematical scientists across academia, education, business, industry, and government to help solve some of the UK’s biggest challenges.

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Andreas Kyprianou on his appointment as a Founding Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences!🎉

The newly established Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (AMS) is a new national academy created to bring together the UK’s strongest mathematical scientists across academia, education, business, industry, and government to help solve some of the UK’s biggest challenges.

Last Wednesday, we celebrated our newest graduation cohort. Congratulations to our prize winners and indeed all our graduates — we are so proud of you! We hope you will stay in touch and remain part of our Warwick Statistics family as alumni. 💜

Congratulations to our Statistics graduates graduating today 🎓 Enjoy the day, and from everyone in the department, best wishes for the future!

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The expertise of our team covers the whole spectrum of Probability, Statistics, Machine learning and Data analysis. More information about time and location, booking and our service 🔗:

🩺 The clinic is run by our PhD students in Statistics, where they offer advice on statistics related questions to all Warwick PhD students. Thanks to the DDSAI Spotlight’s Small Grant, our service will now be expanding the offering to all Early Career Researchers at the university this term.

📰 Our Statistical Advisory Clinic is back for Term 2!!

🎉 We are happy to announce that the Statistical Advisory Clinic has been awarded the Digital, Data Science, and AI (DDSAI) Spotlight’s Small Grant Scheme at Warwick!

Our first CRiSM colloquium of the year will be given by Daniela Witten, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at the University of Washington. Daniela is a recipient of the COPSS Presidents’ Award in 2022.

Join us from 2–3pm on Tuesday, 27 January!

Today marks the start of Term 2 of the 2025/26 academic year, and we are delighted to welcome all our students back to the department. We wish everyone sitting January exams the very best and hope you all have a great start to the new term.

As we sign off for 2025, we would like to thank all our staff, students and alumni for another successful year at Warwick Statistics. Thank you to everyone who has followed the news and updates from our department throughout the year. We wish you all a very happy Christmas and see you again in 2026!

Ollie Kemp successfully passed his PhD viva last week! The PhD thesis is titled 'Reducing estimation bias in challenging modelling settings'. Ollie is supervised by Prof. Ioannis Kosmidis. On behalf of the entire department, we would like to congratulate Ollie on this fantastic achievement!!

Today marks the end of Term 1. Well done to all our students who have worked hard over the past ten weeks — through lectures, tutorials, assignments, and etc. We wish everyone a happy Christmas break and look forward to welcoming you back in the New Year!

🎉 Many congratulations to Sanket Agrawal, who passed his PhD viva last month! Sanket has research interests in topics in probability and stochastic processes, with a focus on the stability and convergence of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms.