The Conference
The Research Students’ Conference (RSC) in Probability and Statistics is an annual conference for post-graduate research students in all areas of probability and statistics. Organised and hosted by PhD students, the conference provides a friendly environment for students to meet others with similar interests.
The 46th edition of the RSC will take place on the 11-14th September 2023 at the University of Sheffield. The university was founded in 1905 and its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828. Sheffield is one of the founding members of the prestigious Russell Group of leading research-intensive UK universities. Sheffield has been ranked as a top 100 university in the world by QS for the last fifteen years. In 2019, Time Higher Education ranked the university 22nd in Europe for teaching excellence. Sheffield's Students' Union has been regularly been ranked number one in the UK for the past 15 years.
The RSC prides itself on allowing all participants the chance to present their work should they wish to, in the form of either a talk or a poster. In order for the event to run effectively, everyone wishing to present their work will be asked to send an abstract to the organising committee a month prior to the conference.
Talks
Delegates are encouraged to disseminate their work in the form of an oral presentation. Talks will be 13-15 minutes long with a further 3-5 minutes for questions. If they have not yet obtained any results, students are welcome to present a more general talk on their research area, including what their future work may involve.
Posters
Participants will also have the opportunity to present a poster. Attendees will have the chance to meet and chat with the authors, as well as some representatives from the sponsoring companies.
Each presentation session will require a chairperson and more information about this role, and instructions for those presenting, can be found here.