Chicas News Announcements

An article about Chris’ work with GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) for epidemic modelling has been published by Nvidia in their “Parallel ForAll” developer blog site. In it, Chris details the speedups that GPU processors give that make them essential to his research. Read the full article at the Nvidia Parallel ForAll blog site.

As part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations, the University sought to appoint fifty new staff at lecturer level or above. As a result of this and other funding and transfer opportunities, CHICAS will be welcoming five new staff in the autumn. Frank Dondelinger James Hensman Jo Knight Jon Read Luigi Sedda

In 2013 we published a paper in BMJ Open describing the use of the newly-released GP prescribing data. This dataset contained monthly summaries of all NHS drug and appliance prescriptions for each GP practice, broken down by chemical formula. We looked at the first released month and discovered stark contrasts between adjacent areas of the…

Emanuele Giorgi, a current PhD student in CHICAS, has been awarded an MRC Fellowship which will see him travelling between Lancaster and Malawi to investigate patterns of disease in Africa. He said: This is an important achievement that will help to advance my career and give me the opportunity to form key collaborations with experts…

Chicas researcher Theresa Smith recently returned from a week-long workshop funded by the British Council Researcher Links programme. She said: The workshop re-emphasized for me that by collaborating with scientists, medics, vets, community leaders and other experts, statisticians and epidemiologists (like those in Chicas) can help create a lot of good in the world. The…

The Geostats Summer School for 2015 will happen at Lancaster from the 16th to the 23rd of August. This series of summer schools has been running for ten years, most recently in 2014 in Bergen, Norway. The school brings together statisticians and developers in the open source geospatial field to deliver courses to students from…

As the new term starts we welcome two new research staff, two visitors, and two new PhD students. Our new staff are Daniela and Theresa. Daniela is working on Loaloa analysis until January, and is then employed with the Noisy Knees group. Theresa is looking at Campylobacter data modelling. Our visitors are Carla and Dileepa.…

The prediction modelling for the Alder Hey hospital admissions project went live yesterday. This will provide the hospital with predictions for medical and surgical admissions for a two week forecast. A web site will show graphs and tables for easy interpretation of results from a complex statistical prediction model. See the project link for more…

Research student Emanuele Giorgi has won the International Student Showcase competition and the International Biometric Society’s conference.