UNIVERSITY OF SURREY
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Opportunities for Postgraduate Research
Students interested in starting postgraduate study in October 2000
in any of the areas listed below are invited to apply for support through
one or more of the following schemes. Applicants should have, or expect
to obtain, a UK first class honours degree, or a UK Master's degree with
distinction, or equivalent.
1. Mathematical Sciences Studentship Scheme
***Closing date 30 April 2000***
This Scheme has funding to support one full-time PhD student in Statistics
for three years. The studentship covers tuition fees at the home rate and
a maintenance grant at the current EPSRC studentship rate.
2. University Scholarships
***Closing date 21 April 2000***
A limited number of University research studentships are available to
support outstanding students. The studentships cover tuition fees at the
home rate and a maintenance grant at the current EPSRC studentship rate,
plus a supplementary award of \pounds1500 pa.
It is likely that some additional scholarships that will become available
in the near future. Enquiries should be made to Prof M. J. Crowder
(tel: 01483-259640 email: [log in to unmask], or [log in to unmask])
An application form, together with the current University and
Departmental postgraduate prospectuses, can be obtained from:
The Postgraduate Secretary,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Surrey,
Guildford GU2 5XH
(tel: 01483-259631, email: [log in to unmask]).
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The interests of the Statistics research group at Surrey cover a broad
range of applied and theoretical topics, as listed below. The
group has an establishment of six academic staff and includes two
Research Fellows. The Statistics group achieved rating 4A in both the
1992 and 1996 HEFCE research assessment exercises.
Further details on the activities of the group can be found at
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Research/Stats/
Current research areas include, but are not confined to, the following:
Health and Medical Statistics
Reliability Analysis
Financial Statistics
Extreme Value Statistics
Bayesian Statistics
Theoretical Statistics
Application areas are varied and interesting. Recent projects include:
models for flow cytometric data; air pollution and health statistics;
NHS systematic reviews; feeding practices of for low birth weight infants;
fibre breaks in composites; defect detection in ceramic tiles;
models for degradation data (EPSRC); small satellite reliability; analysis
of Rutherford backscattering data; extremes of multivariate and temporal
processes (EPSRC); extremal aspects of digital TV signals; new standards
for advanced audio coding; mobile satellite communications systems; solutions
of complex turbulence models; number use in language (ESRC).
The Departmental postgraduate booklet includes descriptions of a number
of sample PhD projects.
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