Conferences
All funded CDT students are provided with a generous Research Training Support Grant (RTSG) worth £5,000 for the duration of their PhD. This currently includes:
- Provision of a laptop for the duration of the PhD programme*
- Up to - £4,000 - Towards conferences costs and / or study visits*
(*Terms and conditions apply and are available within the Current Students' Handbook. Depending on where your funding is coming from the above may vary slightly. The Department would clarify your RTSG in your offer letter.)
You will be notified in your offer letter from the department if you are being offered an RTSG.
Over the last year, our current PhD cohort have attended over 50 conferences.
Examples of recent conferences and workshops that current students have attended include:
ISBA World Meeting, Venice
12th Bachelier World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, Brazil
RSS International Conference 2024, Brighton
BAYSM 2024, Venice
International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics 2024, Portugal
Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference and Learning, London
Workshop on Monte Carlo Methods, Warsaw
Machine Learning Summer School, Japan
Probabilistic Modelling in Genomics, Austria
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, New Zealand
Self-interacting processes, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge
International Conference on Personalised Medicine, Denmark
INFORMS Conference on Financial Engineering and FinTech, Hong Kong