Many congratulations to Anastasia Papavasiliou for her promotion to Reader with effect from 1st June 2018. Well done, Tessy!

On Wednesday 31 January 2018, the Department of Statistics will hold a PhD open day, from 1000 to 1600 in C0.06.

The programme will be as following:

· 1000 Start (tea and coffee and biscuits);

· 1130 Talks by Director of Graduate Studies and Admissions Tutor about doing a PhD at Warwick;

· 1230 Lunch followed by coffee.

• 1330 Q&A sessions.
• 1430 Presentations by two academics:

Dr Martine Barons, “Networking probabilistic models for decision support”

Dr Shahin Tavakoli, “Statistics on Sounds of Languages ”

· 1500 Talks by two Warwick Statistics PhD students

· 1530 End (tea and coffee and biscuits).

Should you be interested in attending, please register via the following booking form by January 24th.

On Wednesday 22/11, the Department of Statistics will hold a PhD open day, from 1430 to 1630 in C0.06.

The programme will be as following:

• 1430 Tea / coffee, opportunity to meet current PhD students, talk to professors.
• 1445 Talks by DGS/Director of OxWaSP DTC (Warwick) about doing a PhD at Warwick.
• 1515 Summary of applications procedure by Admissions Director
• 1530 Two talks by Warwick Statistics PhD students.
  Also 10 minutes from Murray Pollock on Gregynog.
• 1550 Questions
• 1615 End

Should you be interested in attending, please register via the following booking form by Thursday 16/11

Simon French has been named as the Ramsey Medalist for 2017 by the Decision Analysis Society within INFORMS. The award is the highest award of the Decision Analysis Society and recognizes distinguished contributions to the field of decision analysis. Much of Simon's work has centered on the use of expert judgment in risk and decision analysis, particularly the aggregation of disparate opinions. After the Chernobyl Accident, he became deeply involved in the fields of risk communication and emergency management. This led to a string of papers and work focused on nuclear and food safety. More recently, he has become interested in social decision making and democracy in the internet age.

The Department of Statistics would like to congratuate our PhD Prize winners for 2016/17:

The John Copas Prize in Statistics (sponsored by the Faculty of Science)

Awarded for the best PhD thesis eligible for the Departmental Completion Award:

Giacomo Zanella

Harrison Award

Awarded in recognition of a Highly Commended Thesis:

Panayiota Touloupou

Alex Sing Lam Tse

Elena Hernández-Hernández