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The Warwick Statistics Department Man Prizes for 4th year MMORSE and MMathStat Students

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This year's winners

Two Statistics Department Man Prizes of £500 are awarded annually to the two best 4th Year Masters Degree students on the MMORSE or MMathStat programmes. The funds for these are provided by Man Investments. The basis of the prizes will be excellent overall performance in the examinations and project assessments leading to the final degree classification. Excellent performance will be judged by the Board of Examiners, guided by the requirement of a clear first class degree classification with a mark at or above the 78% level. Preference will given to students with finance-orientated projects containing some empirical analysis. Each winner of a prize is expected to allow Man Investments to receive a copy of their 4th year dissertation and a curriculum vitae.

The prizes will be awarded, in person where possible, at the departmental reception for students and their families associated with the degree ceremony in July.

Man Investments is part of the Man Group, a world-leading alternative investment management business and member of the FTSE 250, employing 1,600 people in 13 countries. Its AHL division manages one of the world’s largest and most successful futures-style hedge funds. Part of this success is due to robust and rigorous research underpinning statistically-based trading models. The Man Group sponsors the Man Booker literary prizes and contributes to a range of charities.

The Department of Statistics this week welcomes Dr Simon Spencer as a full member of academic staff. Simon worked at the University of Nottingham and at Massey University in New Zealand before coming to Warwick as a postdoc in Complexity Science. His new position is an important one for the Department, at the interface between Statistics and the Warwick Centre for Analytical Sciences, an EPSRC-funded "Science and Innovation" initiative.

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V. N. Kolokoltsov and O. A. Malafeyev received the "University award of St Petersburg University for scientific research for the year 2011, mainly for the book "Understanding Game Theory" and related research".

Their book has been published in 2010 at World Scientific.

St Peterburg University is one of the birthplaces of mathematical probability theory. Some of the founders of this field, P. Chebyshev, A. Lyapunov, A. Markov, were St Petersburg professors. Another famous representative of the University is the inventor of the Periodic Table of chemical elements, D. Mendeleev.

Vassili's homepage:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/kolokoltsov

An Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship has been awarded to Martin Klimmek at the Statistics Department. IAS Early-Career Fellowships are aimed at advancing postdoctoral careers while promoting interdisciplinary research at Warwick. This particular fellowship will be mentored by Prof. David Hobson and aims to advance research on model-independent methods in mathematical finance, present this research to a cross-disciplinary audience and stimulate discussion on the use and abuse of models and model-independent methods in finance and beyond.