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 2019–2020 academic year are Suzie Brown and Marco Palma.

Upcoming Events

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

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)