16 – 17 September 2021 (Online)

The Fry Conference Series events are being held to celebrate the move of the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol to the recently refurbished Fry Building. The historic, Grade II listed Fry building is situated at the heart of the university campus, providing world class facilities for teaching and research. Find out more about the Fry Building. 

In 1871, Florence Nightingale published the second of two seminal papers on the preparation of hospital data.  These are still widely regarded as some of the most important works in the history of statistics. Exactly 150 years later, with challenges from climate change to epidemics, unlocking the potential of data is more important than ever. Where will you fit in?

Organisers:

Haeran Cho (Bristol)
Sidharth Jaggi (Bristol)
Oliver Johnson (Bristol)
Henry Reeve (Bristol)
Sam Tickle (Bristol)

Speakers:

Moulinath Banerjee (Michigan)
Arnaud Doucet (Oxford)
Peter Green (Bristol)
Thomas House (Manchester) [Public Lecture]
Po-Ling Loh (Cambridge)
Alon Orlitsky (UC San Diego)
Judith Rousseau (Oxford)
Sara van de Geer (ETH Zurich)