{"id":1738,"date":"2017-03-29T09:46:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T08:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2017-03-29T09:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T08:46:55","slug":"department-of-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/2017\/03\/29\/department-of-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor David van Dyk has accepted the appointment as Head of the Department of Mathematics with effect from 1 October 2017, for a period of 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>Professor van Dyk joined the College in 2011 as a Chair in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics. He previously held a Chair in the Department of Statistics at the University of California.<\/p>\n<p>Professor van Dyk\u2019s research focuses on Astrostatistics and Bayesian Methods and Computation. He was made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2006, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2010 and was awarded a Wolfson Merit Award by the Royal Society in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Neilson<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege Secretary &amp; Registrar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor David van Dyk has accepted the appointment as Head of the Department of Mathematics with effect from 1 October 2017, for a period of 5 years. Professor van Dyk joined the College in 2011 as a Chair in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics. He previously held a Chair in the Department of Statistics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":786,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}