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The CDT at the Frontiers of Mathematics and Statistics will train 12 students. They will be tackling 21^st century maths and stats challenges, including those imposed by the volume and complexity of modern data and communicating the need for applications in science and technology.

Francesca Crucinio, a researcher from the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick struck Bronze at a competition in the House of Commons, for the excellence of her mathematical research, walking away with the £750 Bronze prize.

PhD student Jeremias Knoblauch has just won a Facebook fellowship: https://research.fb.com/fellows/knoblauch-jeremias/ 
Details of the fellowship here: https://research.fb.com/programs/fellowship/

Jeremias is also a visiting Turing researcher in the DCE programme and his FB application was supported by Professor Mark Girolami and the DCE programme.

Professors Jane Hutton and Saul Jacka have been funded by the Royal Society to run a Hooke Discussion meeting on:

How should pension liabilities be valued? Risk aversion and demographic uncertainty
(link to: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2019/03/pensions/ )

Monday 25 March 2019 and Tuesday 26 March 2019, at
The Royal Society, London, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG

Several challenges arise in estimating the liabilities and assets needed for pensions provision. The UK Government has increased the State Pension Age to reflect longevity. For developing countries, achieving reliable estimates of life expectancy is not easy. Actuaries, economists, and statisticians use varied definitions of risk and methods for estimation and forecasting. Disagreement centres on concepts of risk and prudence.

This meeting will air some slow-burn economic and social issues, to initiate a more co-ordinated approach and to dispel some widely-held misapprehensions.

"Judgements made by committees, based on esoteric actuarial arguments, can have large implications for people's lives."

Registration is required.