The University of Warwick has been awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education at a ceremony held on Thursday, 25th February 2016 at Buckingham Palace in London.

The Queen’s Anniversary Prize is in recognition of Warwick becoming a Mathematical Sciences research and impact powerhouse in the University’s first 50 years.

Head of the Department of Statistics Professor Mark Steel said:

"On behalf of the Department of Statistics, I am delighted with the Queen's Anniversary Prize, which is a truly wonderful recognition of all the hard work we and our colleagues in Mathematics have done over the years. Our Department has tripled in size over the last 12 years, which, combined with the world-leading quality of our research, has given us the opportunity to be involved in many exciting initiatives, such as the newly formed Alan Turing Institute. A lot of our work is directly or indirectly linked with applications in biology, medicine, economics, finance etc. and we are very keen to continue to break new ground in delivering research with a substantial impact on society and to train the next generations of forward-thinking statisticians."

A full press release can be found on the University of Warwick's News and Events webpage.

Warwick Statistics Department in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute (ATI) is seeking exceptional candidates for doctoral studentships, starting in October 2016. These studentships are open to those who are interested in working on data science and machine learning in the context of Big Data. Overseas applicants are welcome.

For more information, please see the ATI announcement:

https://turing.ac.uk/jobs/2016-doctoral-studentships/

Informal enquiries about studying at Warwick Statistics should be directed to stats.pg.support@warwick.ac.uk.

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How should the emerging discipline of data science – at the intersection of computer science, mathematics, Statistics and systems engineering – address these challenges?

With talks from industry leaders and top data scientists, this summit will create a conversation to steer research at the Alan Turing Institute. Launched in 2015, the Alan Turing Institute is charged with advancing data science research, which includes industrial collaborations that will ultimately produce societal and economic impact.

Full details of the summit, including the list of confirmed speakers, can be found by following this link.

To register your interest for your complimentary place, please email the summit organiser.

Professor Chenlei Leng has been appointed as chair of the Research Section Committee (RSC) of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), with effect from 1 January, 2016. He is the second member of Warwick academic staff to chair the RSC; Professor David Firth chaired the committee on two occasions previously, between 2001-2003 and in 2009.  

The RSC is responsible for promoting the theory of statistics and the development and applications of statistical methods, and in particular handles papers submitted to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B as discussion papers.