Congratulations to Aditi Shenvi, Marta Catalano and Valero Perrone who have been announced among the eight finalists for the Savage awards of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for outstanding doctoral dissertations in Bayesian econometrics and statistics. Aditi undertook her doctoral research at Warwick (supervisor Jim Smith) as did another finalist Valerio Perrone (co-supervisors Dario Spano and Paul Jenkins, with Ye Whye Teh). Congratulations to all.

The Royal Statistical Society has accredited all six of the department's undergraduate programmes on an unconditional basis for students entering in 2022/2023. This means that any student graduating from one of our programmes will have the opportunity to gain Graduate Statistician (GradStat) status with the RSS. GradStat status adds further value to your degree qualification and the chance to access further professional development opportunities.

Warwick researchers in Statistics build DiAGRAM to help archivists ensure that the 1921 census and other archives remain digitally available as technologies become obsolete and carriers deteriorate.

It is aimed at research students interested in mathematical and statistical population genetics, and will primarily consist of student talks alongside plenary sessions given from researchers covering a mixture of academic career stages.

The conference will consist of a three-day meeting held in the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick from 29th June to 1st July 2022. The conference will be run in person, but will have provisions for attendees to watch the talks online. The conference is partially funded by the London Mathematical Institute, Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, the UKRI/EPSRC Additional Funding Programme for Mathematical Science, and Warwick Statistics Department.

We have accommodation and subsistence grants available to a UK-based postgraduate research students. We also have funds available to help with costs which may constitute a barrier to entry, such as childcare, transport of mobility equipment, or other bespoke arrangements on a case-by-case basis.

Registration is now open from the conference webpage until 30th April 2022, with abstract submissions open until 31st May 2022.

Congratulations to Harita Dellaporta for having her AISTATS 2022 paper on Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based Models being invited (44/1685 submitted papers) for an oral presentation!

Harita's paper titled "Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based Models via the MMD Posterior Bootstrap" has been invited for an oral presentation (44 out of the 492 accepted papers) at this year's AISTATS 2022 conference https://aistats.org/aistats2022/