NERC funded PhD Studentship
A NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) PhD studentship is currently available at the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series. The thesis topic will focus on structural model error in the context of an evolving (non-stationary) physical system and will be supervised by Professor Leonard Smith and Dr David Stainforth. The studentship is to start in October 2012 and will cover fees and living expenses for UK students or fees only for students from member states of the European Union.
Further details can be viewed here|.
LSE Teaching Prizes 2012
On Tuesday the 22nd May 2012 the Teaching and Learning Centre celebrated LSE’s teaching with the presentation of teaching prizes. We are proud to announce that staff from the Department of Statistics were among the prize winners. Dr Erik Baurdoux (right) was presented with a Major Review Award by the Pro-Director of Teaching and Learning, Professor Janet Hartley. Major Review Awards are given to academic staff whose individual performance from the start of contract through to Major Review is judged to be outstanding. Quality of teaching, innovative approaches and development of teaching excellence are all considered in light of feedback from both students and colleagues. Professor Hartley also presented Mai Hafez (middle) with a Departmental Class Teacher Award. These awards recognise the special contribution made by Graduate Teaching Assistants and guests teachers to LSE’s academic departments. The winners are nominated by the departments themselves as a result of exceptional feedback from students, lecturers and other department members. Georgios Zouros (left), who was nominated by the Mathematics department, also received an award and teaches along with Mai on our course ST102 (Elementary Statistical Theory).
Statistics PhD Presentation Event Prize for Research Poster
Our PhD candidate Edward Wheatcroft was awarded a prize of £100 by the department for his research poster Using shadowing ratios to evaluate data assimilation techniques, presented at the annual PhD Statistics Presentation Event, day two, on 11 May 2012.
Ed is pursuing his PhD in the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS). His PhD is supervised by Professor Leonard A Smith, the Director of CATS, and Dr David Stainforth, a Senior Research Fellow in CATS and the Grantham Research Institute.
Statistics PhD candidate awarded Deutsche Bank financial risk management and regulation prize
We are very pleased to announce that our PhD candidate Hongbiao Zhao has been awarded first prize in the Deutsche Bank Award in Financial Risk Management and Regulation 2012, hosted by the Financial Markets Group in LSE's Department of Finance.
Hongbiao has been awarded £10,000 for the most outstanding research paper, Portfolio credit risk of default and spread widening|.
Further details|.
Albert Shiryaev
The renowned mathematician Albert Nikolayevich Shiryaev| of the Steklov Mathematical Instititute in Moscow visited the Departmentv of Statistics between 20 January and 15 February 2012. During this visit, Professor Shiryaev gave six special two-hour lectures on specigic topics of stochastic calculus and its methods. Lecture slides can be viewed here| and here|. He also gave a seminar talk on 'The concept of randomness: evolution of notions'.
Professor Shiryaev is a distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Statistics.
Actuarial Science students awarded prize at the 2011-12 Worshipful Company of Actuaries guest lecture
The Department of Statistics was proud to host our annual guest lecture in conjunction with the Worshipful Company of Actuaries on Tuesday 22nd November 2011. This year's guest lecturer was David C Bowie, Partner and Head of Quantitative Analysis at Hymans Robertson and a Director of the Institute of Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE). David's talk was entitled "Enterprise risk management for actuaries: a paradigm shift or the emperor's new clothes?".
During the event the Master of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries presented two final year BSc Actuarial Science students with prizes for outstanding academic achievement in their 2nd year examinations. Kenneth Lim Chu Ming (left) and Kenneth Huanyi Zheng (right) do not only have a name in common; both have excelled in their studies during the first two years of their degree programme and this achievement was awarded by the Worshipful Company of Actuaries.
Department of Statistics partners nth International Forum of Statistics
The Department of Statistics is very pleased to announce that it is a partner at the 5th International Forum of Statistics, taking place on 14th and 15th July 2012 at the School of Statistics, Renmin University of China, in Beijing. Professor Qiwei Yao of our Time Series Group will be be one of the keynote speakers.
Please visit the conference website| for further details.
Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship awarded to H. P. Wynn
Professor Henry Wynn has been awarded an Emeritus Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust| to pursue a research project entitled Advances in algebraic statistics. The grant starts on 1 August 2011 for a period of 24 months. Professor Wynn is a leading figure in the UK in the area on the interface between statistics and computational algebraic geometry. The project will consolidate research in a number of sub-areas in which Professor Wynn is engaged with co-researchers in Italy, Spain and Japan, including the application of the theory of monomial ideals in reliability, experimental design and hierchical model structures.
Professor Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
Department of Statistics seminar
Learning from numbers to generate new knowledge
The Department of Statistics is delighted to announce that Professor C. R. Rao|, one of the world's foremost statisticians, will be the distinguished speaker at a seminar in room NAB.1.04 in the New Academic Building on Tuesday 28 June 2011, starting at 2pm. An abstract of the talk is available here|.
Professor Rao is professor emeritus at Penn State University and research professor at the University of Buffalo. He is being awarded the Guy Medal in Gold| by the Royal Statistical Society in 2011.
Amongst his many other prestigious awards is the National Medal of Science|, awarded in 2002 for his theoretical work which helped to lay the foundation of modern statistics.
Please see here| for a map of the LSE campus, showing the location of the New Academic Building.
Please email Stats.Events@lse.ac.uk| for further details.