£2M UKRI NetworkPlus bid “Mathematical Innovators in the Digital Space” (MInDS) grant awarded.

Award from the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) to participate in the UK-China Symposium on The Resilient Planet organised by the British Council in Beijing, China.

Ella Kaye has been selected as an SSI Fellow, recognising her as an ambassador for good software practice, and providing a grant and mentorship for nurturing the rainbowR community.

Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal, a Research Software Engineer at Imperial College London, is visiting the department this week. She is working with Heather Turner on updates to the R Development Guide (https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide), aimed at contributors to the open-source statistical software R. Mastodon links: @saranjeet@fosstodon.org, @heathrturnr@fosstodon.org

The department was saddened to hear of the death of Henry Wynn on November 2. Henry was a distinguished statistician and Professor in the Department of Statistics from 1995-2003. He was the founding Director of RISCU, the Department’s Risk and Consultancy Unit, the precursor to the current Applied Statistics and Risk Unit (AS&RU). RIP Henry.

RSS obituary