The division opens up two positions as Ph.D. students in Statistics.
For more information, see the formal announcement.
Deadline for applications is May 18, 2012.

Read more about the programme here.

Bertil Wegmann has been awarded a three-year Wallander post doc scholarship. In his Ph.D. thesis Bayesian Inference in Structural Second-Price Auctions, Bertil developed statistical methods for analyzing and predicting bids in internet auctions using models with strategic bidders. Bertil joins the division in January 2012.

The Statistics division at Linköping is expanding, and we are looking for new Lecturers. We offer positions with a unique research profile: at least 50% of the time is devoted to research during the first 5 years. Statistics at Linköping University is integrated with the Department for Computer and Information Science, with a unique bachelor's programme in Statistics and Data Analysis, an international Master's programme in Statistics and Data Mining, graduate education and research in the areas of Bayesian inference, computer intensive methods, environmetrics and forensic inference. Applicants are expect to be able to teach in Swedish after two years.
Read more (in Swedish)

Karl Wahlin, Lecturer at the division, has published a new textbook Tillämpad statistik - en grundkurs suitable for basic undergraduate courses in Statistics.

Agne Burauskaite-Harju succesfully defended her Ph.D. thesis Characterizing Temporal Changes and Inter-Site Correlations in Daily and Sub-Daily Precipitation Extremes on October 10, 2011.

Oleg Sysoev is new lecturer in Statistics.

Mattias Villani joins the division as new Professor. Mattias specializes in Bayesian Statistics, Computational Statistics and Econometrics.