Many congratulations to Krys Latuszynski for successfully passing probation and for his promotion to Associate Professor with effect from Tuesday 1st November 2016. Well done, Krys!

Game theory has long been used to apply mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers. In a paper entitled ‘The evolutionary games of pressure (or interference), resistance and collaboration’, Professor Kolokoltsov, from Warwick’s Department of Statistics, has been able to take Game Theory far beyond some of its early applications of two opposing sides in zero sum games, and equipped it with the ability to model the impact of a vast array of individual actors - an “infinite state-space of small players”.

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The Department of Statistics are extremely proud to announce that Professor Jane Hutton has became one of the first recipients of a new Suffrage Science in Mathematics and Computing award, at a ceremony taking place at Bletchley Park on Tuesday 11th October 2016.

The awards, being made on Ada Lovelace Day, launch a new initiative to celebrate women in mathematics and cmputing. As a new branch of the existing Suffrage Science scheme, it will encourage women into science, and to reach senior leadership roles.

Further details of the Suffrage Science award scheme, and a list of the other recipients of the initiative, can be found on the University of Warwick's News and Events page.

Tuesday 11th October saw the launch of an initiative to celebrate women in maths and computing. As a new branch of the existing Suffrage Science scheme, it will encourage women into science, and to reach senior leadership roles.

Francois-Xavier Briol recently received a 2016 Student Paper Award from the section on Bayesian statistical science of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for his paper on "Probabilistic Integration: A Role for Statisticians in Numerical Analysis?". This paper focuses on an emerging area of research called probabilistic numerics. It provides novel theoretical results guaranteeing good performance for a method called Bayesian Quadrature, and includes extensive empirical experiments in applications ranging from computer graphics to oil field simulation.

The paper originates from one of Francois-Xavier's OxWaSP mini-projects, and was written in collaboration with faculty from the University of Warwick, Chris Oates and Mark Girolami, and the University of Oxford, Michael Osborne and Dino Sejdinovic.

As part of the award, Francois-Xavier was invited to present the paper at this year's Joint Statistical Meeting in Chicago and attend the awards ceremony.

Many congratulations to David Rossell who has been promoted to Associate Professor with effect from 15th July 2016. Please join us in congratulating David on his promotion and in wishing him continued success in the Department of Statistics.