• Professor Anthony Lee and Professor Nick Whiteley appointed as Heilbronn Data Science Chairs

Congratulations to Professor Anthony Lee - Unit Director for Statistical Computing 1 in the Compass CDT programme - and Professor Nick Whiteley - Compass CDT Director - who have been appointed to the position of Heilbronn Chairs in Data Science. Anthony and Nick have distinguished themselves as internationally outstanding leaders in their field and these appointments support our position as one of the top centres for statistical and data science in the UK. 

• Pierre Jacob Lectures March 2020

The Heilbronn Institute are delighted to welcome Pierre Jacob, Associate Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, to the University of Bristol in March.
Pierre will be delivering lectures on Couplings and Monte Carlo for the Compass CDT students.  In his lectures, Pierre will cover couplings, total variation and optimal transport. He will describe the use of couplings in Monte Carlo methods, such as coupling from the past, diagnostics of convergence, and bias removal.

• Jethro Browell, University of Strathclyde and Matteo Fasiolo, University of Bristol February 2020

Hackathon on Regional Electricity Demand Modelling - to investigate consumption data aggregated in several "grid supply point groups", for the purpose of electricity market settlement and network charging.

• Professor Gunnar Carlsson Colloquium March 2020

The Heilbronn Institute welcomes Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University) to the University of Bristol to deliver a Heilbronn Colloquium in March 2020 on Topology for Machine Learning.

•  Milan Vojnovic from London School of Economics at the School of Mathemathics in February 2020

On 26 February 2020, Milan Vojnovic from London School of Economics is invited at the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol to talk about "Learning to Match in Online Platforms", focusing on the matching problem that arises in online platforms that requires to match users and tasks so that work is performed efficiently. 

• Eric Moulines Lectures January 2020

Eric Moulines from Ecole Polytechnique is visiting University of Bristol School of Mathematics in January 2020 to present a mini-series of lectures addressing: Convex optimization for machine learning