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The registration period for departments making a commitment to use and/or support the PhD-training initiative APTS in 2010-11 has just closed, and the number of APTS Member Institutions has risen again, to 26 (last year it was 24).  Fifteen of those departments will form the first cohort of APTS Underwriting Institutions, having each made a financial commitment that will help APTS to secure facilities at APTS-week hosting universities well in advance.

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The new exit-polling techniques developed for elections in 2001 and 2005 by David Firth (in collaboration with of Strathclyde University; see for the full details) were used again at the General Election held on 6 May 2010.  

Dr Omiros Papaspiliopoulos is to receive the Royal Statistical Society's for 2010.  Omiros was Assistant Professor in this Department before moving to Pompeu Fabra University in 2008.

The citation mentions Omiros's innovative work on Monte Carlo probabilistic inference for diffusion processes, work which also involved Gareth Roberts and Alex Beskos of this department.  

Many congratulations to Omiros!

The Department of Statistics at the 果冻传媒 is holding an invitational one-day conference on Friday 8 January, 2010 with the title 'Statistical Inference in Theory and Application'. This is to mark the retirement of Professor John Copas from teaching and administration.  He will remain attached to the department as an active researcher and Honorary Professor.

PhD students Mouna Akacha, Thais Fonseca and Silvia Liverani have won the Young Researcher Data Mining Prize at this year's meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian Statistical Society, hosted in Catania, Italy. The prize was sponsored by the SAS Institute.