Spotlight on... Dr Purvasha Chakravarti, Lecturer at UCL Statistical Science Read more at: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

Dr Purvasha Chakravarti

Dr Purvasha Chakravarti is a Lecturer in the Department of Statistical Science at UCL.

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Successful promotions have been published, we celebrate: Sam’s promotion to Professor Tom B’s promotion to Associate Professor Alessandra’s promotion to Associate Professor Sebastian’s promotion to Associate Professor Javier’s promotion to Associate Professor Many congratulations to each of them.

The eCOTs Statistics Education Workshop visited UCL Dept of Statistical Science on 18th June 2026 This event was hosted by the Researchers of Statistics Education Network (RoSE Network) and dealt with curriculum design in a changing educational environment in the age of AI.

Congratulations to our very own Prof. Jim Griffin on winning the 2025 Lindley Prize of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis @isba-bayesian.bsky.social for his paper "Expressing and Visualizing Model Uncertainty in Bayesian Variable Selection Using Cartesian Credible Sets"

MAPS Faculty ECR Forum Awards 2026 – Winners Announcement 🎉 Congratulations to Domna Ladopoulou, recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award at the MAPS Faculty ECR Forum Awards 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

MAPS Faculty ECR Forum Awards 2026 Winners Announcement

The MAPS Faculty Early Career Researchers Forum is pleased to announce the winners of the MAPS Faculty ECR Forum Awards 2026.

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[JOB] Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow in Causal Inference www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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This week's seminar will be given by Sara Wade (University of Edinburgh) Date and time: Wednesday 3rd June 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

A special seminar will be given this week by Heather Battey (Imperial College London) Date and time: Thursday 4th June 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: Room 115, 1-19 Torrington Place

🔦 Spotlight on Dr Anna Calissano of UCL Statistical Science @statisticsucl.bsky.social! Learn about her research on #statistical and #MachineLearning methods and about new grants focusing on different #biological applications: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical... #stats #statistics #biology #cells

Dr Anna Calissano

Dr Anna Calissano is a Lecturer at the Department of Statistical Science.

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FA Europe conference In May 2026, Dr Tom Bartlett presented recent research findings at the FA Europe conference, following recent computational-statistical modelling work in the Department of Statistical Science. Read the full article here: sample-space.org/posts/featur...

⏳ Final week to secure your place UCL’s renowned Practical Statistics for Medical Research (PSMR) short course is almost at capacity. 📅 16–19 June 2026 🖥️ Online 🔗 Course details & registration: lnkd.in/eruQCn-d #ClinicalResearch #ShortCourse #HealthResearch #UCL

Don't miss the chance to celebrate the history of UCL #Mathematics, one of UCL's founding departments 200 years ago! Join us for a full-day symposium & festival with guests like Prof @fryrsquared.bsky.social, Prof @chrischirp.bsky.social & more 🤩 🗓️ Book now: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical... #UCL200

Congratulations to Dr Purvasha Chakravarti & Prof François-Xavier Briol !

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The 2026 Mardia Prize has been awarded to Dr Purvasha Chakravarti & Prof François-Xavier Briol (UCL). Their series, Statistics Meets Fundamental Physics, will bring statisticians & physicists together to tackle shared challenges and spark new collaborations 💫📊 Read more rss.org.uk/news-publica...

This week's seminar will be given by Davide Pigoli (King's College London) Date and time: Wednesday 20th May 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

IMSS Annual Lecture and London Meeting on Computational Statistics The end of April was an exciting time for our Department, hosting the annual lecture for the UCL Institute of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, and the London Meeting on Computational Stats sample-space.org/posts/featur...

Next week's seminar will be given by Francesco Pozza (Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics BIDSA) Date and time: Wednesday 13th May 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

Spotlight on... Dr Anna Calissano, Lecturer at UCL Statistical Science www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

Dr Anna Calissano

Dr Anna Calissano is a Lecturer at the Department of Statistical Science.

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Next week's seminar will be given by Bryon Aragam (University of Chicago) Date and time: Wednesday 6th May 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

This week's seminar will be given by Claire Miller (University of Glasgow) Date and time: Wednesday 22nd April 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

A Mathematical Sciences Curriculum in the Age of Generative AI 📅 Date: Wednesday 1 June 2026 ✴️ In-person at University College London 🌐 Workshop website: lnkd.in/ecKMksd5 🔗 Registration form (no registration fee): lnkd.in/eYeT5XHu Registration deadline: 11 May 2026

Karl Pearson b #OTD 1857 (d April 27 1936) Founder of biometrics, & developer of mathematical statistical theory with many classical statistical methods still in use. In 1911 he launched the world's first university statistics department at UCL

This week's seminar will be given by Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and Google Deepmind) Date and time: Wednesday 25th March 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

The UCL Centre for Data Science announced a six-day Data Science Summer School for professionals and graduate students seeking a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of data science. www.ucl.ac.uk/data-science...

Boost your skills in #MedicalStatistics with the popular Practical Statistics for Medical Research (PSMR) short course at UCL. This popular course offers hands-on training for #health researchers. #Biostatistics #ClinicalResearch #shortcourse Details: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

Practical Statistics for Medical Research

Advance your career with Practical Statistics for Medical Research at UCL Statistical Sciences. Expert-led training in biostatistics, clinical data analysis, and evidence-based research methods.

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Next week's seminar will be given by Anastasia Mantziou (University of Warwick) Date and time: Wednesday 11th March 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

This week's seminar will be given by Ben Van Calster (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven) Time and date: Wednesday 4th March 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

This week's seminar will be given by David Bourne (Heriott-Watt University) Time and date: Wednesday 18th February 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk

Posters@UCL 4th edition, 4 June 2026

The UCL IMSS Annual Lecture will take place on the 27th April with a keynote from @lestermackey.bsky.social. The theme is 'Computational Statistics and Machine Learning' and we'll have talks from Alessandro Barp, Paula Cordero Encinar & Po-Ling Loh. imss2026.github.io @statisticsucl.bsky.social

This week's seminar will be given by Christoforos Panagiotis (University of Bath) Time and date: Wednesday 4th February 2-3pm (UK) In-person location: 1-19 Torrington Place, B09 Link to join online: contact stats-seminars-join@ucl.ac.uk