will be given by Stephen Penneck (Executive Director of Methodology, Office of National Statistics) on ONS Challenges and Opportunities in Methodology. It will be held on Wednesday 10 December at 3.45pm in Bldg. 58 Murray Lecture Theatre. For more information,

S3RI is organising a 3-day short-course on hierarchical modelling of spatial and temporal data to be given by Professor Alan Gelfand from the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University, USA and Dr Sujit Sahu from S3RI.The course