About

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. We usually start the meeting with a presentation on a topic from or related to statistics or probability, which is followed by a discussion over tea, coffee and biscuits (and sometimes cake).

Everyone is welcome to attend. Meetings take place on Tuesdays during term time in the Statistics Common Room at 4 pm unless otherwise advertised.

The organizers for the 2018–2019 academic year are Rachel Wilkerson and Jack Carter.

IT Essentials for new PhD students

• Turning your PhD into an R Package with Bookdown examples
• Computational Resources: Hardware, Software & Training
• Mathematical typesetting (LaTeX) and reference management
• Louis Aslett: "Taming the inner loop" slides 

Further reading on optimization and computer architecture:

1. Inside the Machine by Stokes — very accessible and doesn't go into crazy details
2. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Hennessy & Patterson (5th ed) — the Bible, even recommended internally by Intel
3. Agner Fog's work on assembly and optimization

• Literate Programming in R Markdown (slides ; source files )
• Statistical computing on CSC clusters (slides )
• How to Become a Power Linux User (slides ; more on bash scripting)

Upcoming Events

Where an abstract is available, you can view it by clicking on the title of the talk.