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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”.

In the latest national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) the Department of Statistics had a quarter of its research activity assessed at the RAE's very highest quality level (level 4*, "Quality that is world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour"). 

Among the top 5 ranked Statistics research groups, the Department of Statistics was one of the two largest.