Young Researchers’ Meeting

The Young Researchers' meeting (YRM) is a weekly seminar for postgraduate students and postdocs. It provides an informal forum where we discuss our research and exchange ideas.

Everyone is welcome to attend. Unless otherwise stated, meetings take place every Thursday at 5pm in the Statistics Common Room (MSB) during term time. The organisers for the 2025–26 academic year are Jing Liu and Jia Le Tan. If you are interested in giving a talk get in touch with us.

Term 1

9th October, 5pm Common Room	Introductory presentations from current PhD students.
16th October, 5pm Common Room	Introductory presentations from new first year PhD students.
23rd October, 5pm Common Room	Introductory presentations from new first year PhD students.
30th October, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Ruairi GarrettLink opens in a new window Title: Genealogy of large logistic branching processes Abstract: Logistic branching processes have been introduced as a simplified model of a population competing for resources. Genetic drift in such populations was recently studied (Forien '25) and shown to converge to the family of so called Beta-Fleming Viot processes. In this talk we will give some background on (probabilistic) population genetics, and discuss an extension of the result of Forien to obtain the behaviour of the genealogy relating finite samples taken from the population at some fixed time horizon. These are shown to converge to Kingman, Beta(2-alpha, alpha) and Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescents. Based on joint work with Julio Ernesto Nava Trejo.
6th November, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Leonardo BaggianiLink opens in a new window Title: Optimal Dynamic Fees in Automated Market Makers Abstract: Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are emerging as the most popular decentralized trading platforms. In this study, we examine the problem of determining optimal dynamic fees in a Constant Function Market Maker (CFMM). We assume that order arrivals in the market depend on the distance between the oracle price and the exchange rate within the pool. We demonstrate that if the oracle price is close to its fundamental value, the model admits a closed-form solution. Furthermore, we highlight the key features of our model and compare the optimal strategy against different fee structures.
13th November, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Alexander KentLink opens in a new window Title: TBC Abstract: TBC
20th November, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Usman LadanLink opens in a new window Title: TBC Abstract: TBC
27th November, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Juan Pablo Chávez OchoaLink opens in a new window Title: TBC Abstract: TBC
4th December, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Yunus CobanogluLink opens in a new window and Edwin TangLink opens in a new window Title: TBC Abstract: TBC
11th December, 5pm Common Room	(TBC) Small Talks

Term 2

15th January, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
22nd January, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
29th January, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
5th February, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Hugo QueniatLink opens in a new window Title: TBC Abstract: TBC
12th February, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
19th February, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
26th February, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
5th March, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
12th March, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
19th March, 5pm Common Room	(TBC) Small Talks

Term 3

30th April, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
7th May, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
14th May, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
21st May, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
28th May, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
4th June, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
11th June, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
18th June, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
25th June, 5pm Common Room	Speaker: Title: Abstract:
2nd July, 5pm Common Room	(TBC) Pizza Social

About Football Social

As part of the social activities within the Statistics Department, Football Social sessions take place every Tuesday at 5pm in Term 1, organised by Peter MatthewsLink opens in a new window.

Anyone among PhD students, PostDocs and staff from the Statistics Department is welcome to participate, no prior experience needed. If you wish to get involved or if you have any questions, please contact Peter.