Congratulations to Marta Catalano who has been awarded grant funding from the Heilbronn Institute's Small Grant Scheme to support research into "Optimal Transport Methods for Bayesian Nonparametric Learning".

Congratulations to Giuseppe Cannizzaro who has been awarded a four year UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for the project "Large-scale universal behaviour of Random Interfaces and Stochastic Operators" under Round six of the scheme. See further details here: 84 new Future Leaders Fellows and £100m for next round announced – UKRI

We've previously published the news that Harita Dellaporta's paper "Robust Bayesian Inference for Simulator-based Models via the MMD Posterior Bootstrap" has been invited for an oral presentation at AISTAT 2022, see https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/?newsItem=8a17841b7e6d30bd017e8c2d4bd17922.
The paper has now received the best paper award at the AISTAT2022 Conference, see https://twitter.com/aistats_conf/status/1508855583880929286

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.