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The new exit-polling techniques developed for elections in 2001 and 2005 by David Firth (in collaboration with John Curtice of Strathclyde University; see Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 171, 509–539 for the full details) were used again at the General Election held on 6 May 2010.  

Dr Omiros Papaspiliopoulos is to receive the Royal Statistical Society's Guy Medal in Bronze for 2010.  Omiros was Assistant Professor in this Department before moving to Pompeu Fabra University in 2008.

The citation mentions Omiros's innovative work on Monte Carlo probabilistic inference for diffusion processes, work which also involved Gareth Roberts and Alex Beskos of this department.  

Many congratulations to Omiros!

The Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick is holding an invitational one-day conference on Friday 8 January, 2010 with the title 'Statistical Inference in Theory and Application'. This is to mark the retirement of Professor John Copas from teaching and administration.  He will remain attached to the department as an active researcher and Honorary Professor.

PhD students Mouna Akacha, Thais Fonseca and Silvia Liverani have won the Young Researcher Data Mining Prize at this year's meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian Statistical Society, hosted in Catania, Italy. The prize was sponsored by the SAS Institute.

This week the Warwick Department of Statistics played host to over 30 young researchers from the UK and further afield at the third “Probability at Warwick Young Researchers' Workshop”.