Uncategorized – Luke Fairley

Ambit Stochastics: How to Model Spatio-Temporal Fluctuations

luke-fairley — Thu, 12 May 2022 09:58:38 +0000

During the second term of the Masters year at STOR-i, we are introduced to 4 different active research areas by the experts researching in what are known as the Masterclasses. With a focus on one area per week for four weeks in a row, we are given talks by and engage in interactive activities with […]

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Can a Computer teach itself? A Look at Machine Learning

luke-fairley — Fri, 06 May 2022 13:08:58 +0000

As mentioned in an earlier post, during the MRes year at STOR-i we write papers on two “Research Topics”, one which is seven pages long, and one which is a more substantial twenty pages. Feedback from my first Research Topic paper raised a few issues about my writing style, so the second paper gave me […]

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The Stable Marriage Problem: Programming in Academia

luke-fairley — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 15:58:29 +0000

A long running part of the STOR-i MRes is learning to program in a handful of different programming languages. Namely, we learn to program in R (most familiar to Statistics students), Python, and C++. On top of this, we also learn how to write R packages in C++, giving us the ability to use powerful […]

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The Research Topics, Schools Of Inference, And Gaussian Processes

luke-fairley — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 15:48:23 +0000

The start of the second term of the Master’s year at STOR-i is characterised by a wide range of Research Topics, often shortened to RTs. This begins with eleven days each of which is dedicated to a certain research topic, with around three lectures a day from different researchers in the field. The topics have […]

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The “Sprints”, and what is Operational Research?

luke-fairley — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:14:59 +0000

During Weeks 7-10 of the STOR-i MRes, each week is structured as a “Sprint” on a specific topic. Each week starts with an introductory lecture on a given topic, a research task is set by the Sprint leader, we are randomly assigned into groups, and we have until Thursday afternoon to present our findings and […]

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Extreme Value Theory, and My Internship with STOR-i

luke-fairley — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 15:21:50 +0000

Welcome to my first blog post! I’m Luke, an MRes student at the STOR-i (Statistics and Operational Research in partnership with Industry) Centre for Doctoral Training. As part of this one-year course that prepares us for our PhD with STOR-i, we are tasked with the upkeep of this blog as a way to discuss and […]

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