News
How do we find out about cyber criminals?
Security Lancaster and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics held a workshop to form a new collaborative group who will widen the knowledge of cybercrime and start developing innovative approaches to obtaining information on cyber criminals. The workshop included security researchers and statisticians, solicitors specialising in cybercrime, and experts from government agencies.
Thu 16 May 2013
Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate sought for statistics project with Business Safety Systems Ltd
A KTP Associate post has been created as part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Business Safety Systems Ltd, based in Salford, to work in the areas of MCMC and computational statistics. This is a fixed-term post of 2 years, with the possibility of on-going employment with the company partner, and the closing date for applications is 31st May 2013.
Wed 15 May 2013
Senior Research Associate sought for project in Algebra
A Senior Research Associate is sought to collaborate with Dr Paul Levy on an EPSRC-supported project entitled "Varieties of Modules and Representations of Frobenius Kernels of Reductive Groups". This is a fixed-term post of 15 months and the closing date for applications is 30th May 2013.
Wed 15 May 2013
Doctoral thesis prize for Greek student
We are very pleased to report that Ioannis Papastathopoulos has just been awarded the Eleneio Doctoral Thesis Award in Statistics by the Greek Statistical Institute for the best dissertation written by a Greek statistician for the two year period 2011-2012.
Mon 13 May 2013
Events
International Year of Statistics
Tue 01 January - Tue 31 December 2013
Lancaster University
Lancaster University has joined other leading statistical societies to celebrate 2013 as the International Year of Statistics, also known as Statistics 2013. The purpose of the International Year of Statistics is to promote the importance of Statistics to the broader scientific community, business and government data users, the media, policy makers, employers, students and the general public.
RSS Local Group: Practical statistical computing: A workshop on advanced R
Tuesday 21 May 2013, 0930-1730
Postgraduate Statistics Centre, Computer Lab 2 (A46/A49)
This one-day workshop is aimed at those familiar with R but who are keen to explore some of its more advanced features. Specifically, this meeting will cover; interfacing R and C using Rcpp, parallel and GPU computing, and web graphics and applications from R using googleVis and shiny.
Pure Mathematics Seminar: Derek Kitson
Derek Kitson, Lancaster University
Wednesday 22 May 2013, 1600-1700
A54, Postgraduate Statistics Centre Lecture Theatre
Infinitesimal rigidity for bar-joint frameworks in non-Euclidean spaces
Joint Pure Mathematics Seminar and Postgraduate Forum
Postgraduate research student upgrade talks
May 2013 - Date and time to be confirmed
A54, Postgraduate Statistics Centre Lecture Theatre
Short Courses
The Postgraduate Statistics Centre at Lancaster University offers a programme of continuing professional development courses aimed at scientists, social scientists, health researchers, teachers and professional medical statisticians.
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