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Please register at http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/postgraduate/open_days.page if you are interested. ------------------------------------ The School of Mathematics at the University of Southampton, UK, is holding an open day to give prospective postgraduate students an opportunity to visit the School, hear presentations on current research and possible PhD projects in all areas of the Mathematical Sciences, including Statistics. The open day will be Wednesday 1 February 2012. The Statistics group is part of Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI), one of the largest groups of academic Statisticians in the UK. The focus of the Institute is methodological research and substantive applications, with many projects joint with other sciences, engineering and industry. See http://www.southampton.ac.uk/s3ri/ for more information. PhD topics are available in the areas of Statistical Modelling, Design and Analysis of Experiments, and Biostatistics. Funding is available from a variety of sources, including the Doctoral Training Account, Doctoral Training Centres (DTC), and School scholarships. Overseas students may be eligible for industrial DTC and School scholarships. The programme for the day is: 11:15-12:00: Campus tour for early arrivers. 12:00-13:30: Arrival and lunch with staff and current postgraduate students. 13:30-14:00: Overview of PhD study and funding at Southampton. 14:15-16:45: Presentations by research groups, interviews and individual meetings with potential supervisors. 16:45 onwards: Refreshments. Travel expenses (e.g. standard rail fare or similar) will be reimbursed. For more details, see http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths/postgraduate/open_days.page Registration, through this website, is required. You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.