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St Petersburg University Award for Professor Vassili Kolokoltsov
V. N. Kolokoltsov and O. A. Malafeyev received the "University award of St Petersburg University for scientific research for the year 2011, mainly for the book "Understanding Game Theory" and related research".
Their book has been published in 2010 at World Scientific.
St Peterburg University is one of the birthplaces of mathematical probability theory. Some of the founders of this field, P. Chebyshev, A. Lyapunov, A. Markov, were St Petersburg professors. Another famous representative of the University is the inventor of the Periodic Table of chemical elements, D. Mendeleev.
Vassili's homepage:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/kolokoltsov
Martin Klimmek awarded IAS Fellowship
An Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Early Career Fellowship has been awarded to Martin Klimmek at the Statistics Department. IAS Early-Career Fellowships are aimed at advancing postdoctoral careers while promoting interdisciplinary research at Warwick. This particular fellowship will be mentored by Prof. David Hobson and aims to advance research on model-independent methods in mathematical finance, present this research to a cross-disciplinary audience and stimulate discussion on the use and abuse of models and model-independent methods in finance and beyond.
Professor David Hobson elected to Council of the Bachelier Society
Professor David Hobson has been elected to the Council of the Bachelier Society, for a four year term of office.
The Bachelier Finance Society is the primary academic organisation for the exchange and promulgation of ideas in mathematical finance. The objective of the Bachelier Finance Society is, through international contacts, the advancement of the discipline of finance through the application of the theory of stochastic processes, statistics and mathematics. The role of Council is to formulate the policies of the Society.
Guy Medal in Silver awarded to Professor David Firth
http://www.rssenews.org.uk/articles/20120111
David Firth is to receive the 2012 Guy Medal in Silver, awarded annually by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) for outstanding published research. The RSS citation for the award mentions specifically David's influential work on exit-polling and election-night forecasting, as well as extensive contributions to statistical theory, methodology, computing and applications in social science.
The same award was made in 2008 to Professor Gareth Roberts, and in 1987 to Emeritus Professor John Copas (former Head of Department).
The current Head of Department comments: "We at Warwick Statistics are very fortunate indeed to have such distinguished colleagues --- and of course I am absolutely delighted to have become one of the Guys!"
David's homepage: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/dfirth
