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Warwick Statistics @warwickstats.bsky.social · 2h

Thinking about doing a PhD in statistics, probability or mathematical finance? Want to learn more about doctoral training at Warwick Statistics? Register now for our upcoming PhD Open Days. Find more information and book your place here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

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Robin Ryder @robinryder.bsky.social · 7d

We are hiring!

We are inviting applications for the Chapman Fellowship in Statistics at Imperial College London.

This is a kind of super-postdoc: 3 years contract, excellent working conditions, and candidates are expected to propose an independent research plan.

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs//search...

Imperial College London Authentication - Stale Request

www.imperial.ac.uk

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Adam Johansen @adamjohansen.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations to Rocco Caprio -- thesis defended, minor corrections done and graduation imminent. Thanks to Gareth Roberts and Andrew Duncan for examining the thesis. Rocco is now a Prob-AI-funded research fellow warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/stat... and I look forward to seeing what comes next.

Rocco Caprio

warwick.ac.uk

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Adam Johansen @adamjohansen.bsky.social · 15d

There are a couple of vacancies in Wollongong for Maths/Stats lecturers:

www.uow.edu.au/about/jobs/j...

www.uow.edu.au

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 16d

Some fun news: We're hiring!

Lectureship (analogous to Assistant Prof.) in Statistical Science and AI, in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol.

Closing date 13 October 2025; link below!

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 28d

RcppSMC 0.2.9 on CRAN: Maintenance
Sequential Monte Carlo / Particle Filters for R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/09...
#rstats #rcpp

Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/09/09#rcppsmc_0.2.9 describing release 0.2.9 of CRAN package RcppSMC

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · Sep 2

An announcement, which might be of some interest:

In the period 2022-2024, myself and a number of other postdocs on the "CoSInES" and "Bayes4Health" EPSRC grants were involved in organising a number of internal tutorial workshops, on topics relevant to researchers in computational statistics.

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Adam Johansen @adamjohansen.bsky.social · Aug 7

Rocco explains this work, among other things, about 90 minutes in to the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrPy49eAe9o](recording of the recent RSS Workshop of Gradient Flows).

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Adam Johansen @adamjohansen.bsky.social · Aug 7

As evidence that this prediction wasn't too bad, [https://academic.oup.com/biomet/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biomet/asaf061/8223075](Rocco's second paper), showing the fast convergence of the venerable EM algorithm using a rather fun functional analysis argument, is in press for Biometrika.

Adam Johansen @adamjohansen.bsky.social · Jun 12

I'm sure this will be the first of many.

Warwick Statistics @warwickstats.bsky.social · Jun 12

Congratulations to PhD student Rocco Caprio on the acceptance of his first paper, "Error bounds for particle gradient descent, and extensions of the log-Sobolev and Talagrand inequalities" arxiv.org/abs/2403.0..., on functional
inequalities and algorithm convergence - it will appear in JMLR.

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Adam Johansen @adamjohansen.bsky.social · Aug 6

Applications are still open for another two weeks.

Adam Johansen @adamjohansen.bsky.social · Jul 23

If anyone is, or knows anyone who is, looking for a postdoc position to work on the foundations of scalable inference and such... applications for a postdoctoral position at Warwick as a part of the OCEAN project (oceanerc.com) are open until 20th August at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre....

OCEAN

OCEAN is an ERC Synergy grant gathering researchers to lay the fundations of the next-generation machine learning algorithms, involving decentralized inference and predictive tasks in the presence …

oceanerc.com

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Adam Johansen @adamjohansen.bsky.social · Jul 23

If anyone is, or knows anyone who is, looking for a postdoc position to work on the foundations of scalable inference and such... applications for a postdoctoral position at Warwick as a part of the OCEAN project (oceanerc.com) are open until 20th August at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre....

OCEAN

OCEAN is an ERC Synergy grant gathering researchers to lay the fundations of the next-generation machine learning algorithms, involving decentralized inference and predictive tasks in the presence …

oceanerc.com

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Massimiliano Tamborrino @mtamborrino.bsky.social · Jul 22

New work on inference for partially observed (hypoelliptic) SDEs in frequentist/Bayesian regimes.

Splitting schemes & controlled SMC (+ bridges) to recover the (pseudo)likelihood of interest
arxiv.org/abs/2507.14535

Work led by Shu, with @adamjohansen.bsky.social and @bayesianstats.bsky.social

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Nicolas Chopin @nchopin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Jul 1

Second blog post about nested sampling: numerical experiments;
https://statisfaction-blog.github.io/posts/30-06-2025-nested-sampling-experiments/

Nested sampling and SMC: numerical experiments – Statisfaction - I can’t get no

statisfaction-blog.github.io

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λ³🎲 @cubiclogic.bsky.social · Jun 20

Shunichi Amari has been awarded the 40th (2025) Kyoto Prize in recognition of his pioneering research in the fields of artificial neural networks, machine learning, and information geometry

www.riken.jp/pr/news/2025...

甘利俊一栄誉研究員が「京都賞」を受賞

甘利俊一栄誉研究員（本務：帝京大学先端総合研究機構特任教授）は、人工ニューラルネットワーク、機械学習、情報幾何学分野での先駆的な研究が評価され、第40回（2025）京都賞（先端技術部門　受賞対象分野：情報科学）を受賞しました。

www.riken.jp

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Warwick Statistics @warwickstats.bsky.social · Jun 26

We are recruiting! A three-year postdoctoral position at Warwick as part of the “Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence” hub on the mathematical foundations of AI. Further details at the link: warwick-careers.tal....

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UCL Department of Statistical Science @statisticsucl.bsky.social · Jun 18

🥳 Congratulations are in order for:

our newly promoted professors

FX
Robin
Paul
Terry

as well as for our newly promoted Associated Professors

Tom H
Alex D
Takoua
Emma
Brieuc

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Nicolas Chopin @nchopin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Jun 13

Post blog on an attempt of giving a simple introduction to NS (nested sampling), and NS-SMC (SMC samplers based on NS):

https://statisfaction-blog.github.io/posts/04-06-2025-simpler-nested-sampling-identity/nested.html

A simpler nested sampling identity – Statisfaction - I can’t get no

statisfaction-blog.github.io

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Adam Johansen @adamjohansen.bsky.social · Jun 12

I'm sure this will be the first of many.

Warwick Statistics @warwickstats.bsky.social · Jun 12

Congratulations to PhD student Rocco Caprio on the acceptance of his first paper, "Error bounds for particle gradient descent, and extensions of the log-Sobolev and Talagrand inequalities" arxiv.org/abs/2403.0..., on functional
inequalities and algorithm convergence - it will appear in JMLR.

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Nicola Branchini @nicolabranchini.bsky.social · May 2

🚨 New paper: “Towards Adaptive Self-Normalized IS”, @ IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop.

TLDR;
To estimate µ = E_p[f(θ)] with SNIS, instead of doing MCMC on p(θ) or learning a parametric q(θ), we try MCMC directly on p(θ)| f(θ)-µ | (variance-minimizing proposal).

arxiv.org/abs/2505.00372

Towards Adaptive Self-Normalized Importance Samplers

The self-normalized importance sampling (SNIS) estimator is a Monte Carlo estimator widely used to approximate expectations in statistical signal processing and machine learning. The efficiency of S...

arxiv.org

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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · Jun 3

Announcing our 2025/26 William Guy Lecturers 📢

Focusing on "Statistics and AI," these talks will inspire students about the role of statistics in our tech-driven world.

🔗 Read more: rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Announcing our 2025-26 William Guy Lecturers

rss.org.uk

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arxiv stat.ML @arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · May 20

Tim Y. J. Wang, Juan Kuntz, O. Deniz Akyildiz
Training Latent Diffusion Models with Interacting Particle Algorithms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12412

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Adam Johansen @adamjohansen.bsky.social · May 23

If anyone missed the RSS Gradient Flow workshop back in March, videos are now available...

Deniz Akyildiz @odakyildiz.bsky.social · May 23

Late - but better than never.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrPy...

2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning

YouTube video by RoyalStatSoc

www.youtube.com

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Warwick Statistics @warwickstats.bsky.social · May 12

Applications are still open for our MSc in Statistics. In case you have any questions, we have a Live Chat this Friday (16th May). To register join here: meetandengage.com/un... For more information, see warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · May 11

RcppSMC 0.2.8 on CRAN: Maintenance
Sequential Monte Carlo / Particle Filters for R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/05...
#rcpp #rstats

Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/05/11#rcppsmc_0.2.8 describing release 0.2.8 of CRAN package RcppSMC

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Warwick Statistics @warwickstats.bsky.social · May 8

🗣️ Just 2 weeks until the CRiSM 2.0 - Conference 2025 here at the Warwick Statistics. We can’t wait to welcome you from Wednesday 21st – Friday 23rd May 2025.
If you haven’t already, register for the three-day conference event now (deadline today - 8th May!) 🔗 tinyurl.com/2d2b9b7a

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