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5 Jan 2025
Thing that would make me happy in 2025: @RockstarGames announces a Red Dead spinoff set in Australia. With inspiration from the stories of Ned Kelly, Truganini, the man from Snowy River, On our Selection, the Eureka Stockade, … there’s plenty of source material!
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14 Nov 2024
Hey @BBCNews I know NZ is regularly left off maps, but why do you call it part of Asia?
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7 Nov 2024
📝Admissions for our STATML are now open!
⏱️Deadline: 8th Jan '25
STATML is an @EPSRC funded CDT in Statistics & Machine Learning. Studentships are fully funded for a 4-year PhD/DPhil research programme.
🔗For more info, visit: statml.io
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31 Aug 2024
5-year positions for early career researchers (here = PhD viva after 1st Aug 2022) in Theoretical Physics (or Mathematics, or Archaeology, Classics, Modern Languages, Politics -- 1 for each subject).
Deadline 6th September
asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctoral-r…
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24 Jul 2024
Tomorrow, Thurs 25, 11:30 a.m. CEST — 1 p.m. CEST, presenting our work at #ICML2024,
"Generalization Error of Graph Neural Networks in the Mean-field Regime"
Location: Hall C 4-9, Poster 508,
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22 Mar 2024
Hello everyone! We are thrilled to announce a big event we are hosting this year at the University of Warwick.
Applied Mathematics Postgraduate (AMP) Conference 2024
Organised by @SiamWarwick and @OxfordSIAMSC
Date: 8 - 10 July 2024
Our website: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/…
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20 Mar 2024
👀Watch his reaction to being awarded the 2024 Abel Prize:
youtu.be/wDIqCN7E7VA?si=0W8x…
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Today we held the Sanctuary Seekers STEM Seminar at Mansfield College. You can find out more about our workshop here:
people.maths.ox.ac.uk/griffi…
@MansfieldOxford
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1 Feb 2024
Come and join a great research group in Mathematical Finance!
We're currently hiring a Departmental Lecturer - this is a 3 year fixed term post, with research and teaching. Applications close 1st March.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
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26 Jan 2024
The Royal Society is advertising the Newton Fellowships. If you would like to spend 3 years in Oxford, please get in touch *next week*.
royalsociety.org/grants-sche…
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22 Jan 2024
With great sadness I have to report that my good friend and colleague Prof Nick Higham FRS has died of cancer. He was 62. Nick was and outstanding numerical analyst, author, and human being. He will be greatly missed, but his work is immortal.
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10 Jan 2024
New College, Oxford is currently advertising for a Junior Fellow (postdoctoral level) in Mathematics
jobs.ac.uk/job/DFB772/gh-har…
Closes 17th Jan, come and join us!
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3 Jan 2024
Maths twitter question: is there a name for the solution of the (nth order, homogenous, linear) ODE
y^(n) -y = 0
with y(0)=1 and y^(m)(0) = 0 for all 1<m\leq n
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20 Dec 2023
Looking for a great doctoral student to work with on optimal decision problems for air traffic control. Fully funded project with @OxUniMaths and @NATS. Details here, listed under studentships
ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate…
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13 Dec 2023
We are recruiting a Senior Research Associate in Machine Learning with @OxfordBiology. Grade 8: £45,585 - £48,350. Apply by 12 Jan. Join our supportive and friendly departments! tinyurl.com/nhc6t56r
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In Dec 1931 WS Gosset (‘Student’) publishes a detailed statistical critique of Leighton & McKinlay’s 1930 Lanarkshire Milk Experiment. His comments still apply to problems seen today with observational studies & clinical trials. 1/5
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20 Nov 2023
New research from Simtopia team! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
We study the basic economics underlying the utilization-based interest rates in decentralised lending and how the interest rate model can be updated to give a desired level of utilisation.
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16 Nov 2023
We are seeking to appoint two full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistants in Quantitative Finance to join the OMI. The full-time positions are fixed-term for up to 3 years.
More details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
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12 Jun 2023
math-twitter question: is there a common name for a measure on R with density k.exp(-x^2/2) with respect to a non-Lebesgue measure? something like relatively-Gaussian?
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10 Nov 2023
For posterity (in case someone else is wondering the same thing), Karatzas calls this the Widder transform of the density.
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14 Sep 2023
New paper with Christoph Knochenhauer and Alex Merkel
arxiv.org/abs/2309.07091
A rigorous look at adaptive control with drift uncertainty - including connections with a (finite dimensional!) HJB equation, and a clear endogenous exploration/exploitation effect!
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