Welcome to the Department of Statistics
"Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write." H.G. Wells
Orientation 2019
Received an offer of place for 2019? Find out what you need to do before you arrive, what to expect at your Orientation day and where to go for more support. Read more.
Mission to reveal cosmic ripples
Kiwi scientists have joined a bold mission to measure mysterious cosmic ripples from a trio of orbiting spacecraft. Associate Professor Renate Meyer explains all to the NZ Herald.
Join us for the 2019 Ihaka Lectures
Following on from the success of 2018, this year's theme is 'Rise of the machine learners: Statistical learning in the computational era'. The series will run from 13 March to 3 April. Find out more.
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University of Auckland science research attracts major funding
08 November 2018Three of 15 leading-edge research projects within the Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland have attracted funding from this year’s Marsden fund. Find out more. -
Expert advice for intending students
01 November 2018Are you keen to study undergraduate statistics at the University of Auckland? If so, you may get to know Christine Miller and David Smith. They have both been the department’s undergraduate advisers for more than 20 years. -
Quantum computing and deep space research awarded
25 October 2018Associate Professor Renate Meyer is one of six University of Auckland scientists researching topics from deep space to the biodiversity of the sea floor have received top honours from the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ). -
From a SEED grows mighty teaching ideas
18 October 2018When your introductory statistics course has up to 600 students per lecture, how do you keep them engaged? You use technology in an innovative way, say Professional Teaching Fellows Anna Fergusson and Dr Rhys Jones. -
Using statistics to make sense of our world at the 2018 Mathematical and Computational Sciences Showcase
24 September 2018If you let a pregnant rat loose on pest-free Rangitōtō, how fast might the population grow? This question and more were answered in stimulating talks delivered by Statistics staff.
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Faculty of Science Orientation Day Event as iCalendar
25 February 2019 - 28 February 2019Faculty of Science Orientation Day is filled with information to help you be prepared for the start of your new degree. Undergraduate orientation is Thursday 28 February and postgraduate orientation is Monday 25 February. Find out more. -
Ihaka Lecture Series | One | Open source Machine Learning @ Waikato Event as iCalendar
13 March 2019, 6:30pmLaunching our 2019 Ihaka Lecture Series, Professor Bernhard Pfahringer will introduce a number of open-source Machine Learning software suites, reflect on their design decisions and issues, and try to position them in the current international Machine Learning landscape. -
Ihaka Lecture Series | Two | Machine Learning with TensorFlow and R Event as iCalendar
20 March 2019, 6:30pmIn the second lecture of the 2019 Ihaka lecture series, JJ Allaire (CEO of RStudio) will talk about the R interface to TensorFlow, a suite of packages that provide high-level interfaces to both deep learning models (Keras) and standard regression and classification models (Estimators). -
Ihaka Lecture Series | Three | Algorithmic fairness: Examples from predictive models for criminal justice Event as iCalendar
27 March 2019, 6:30pmIn the third of the 2019 Ihaka lecture series, Dr Kristian Lum will demonstrate how – if considerations of fairness and bias are not explicitly accounted for – predictive models could perpetuate and, under some circumstances, amplify undesirable historical biases encoded in the data.
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Funded Doctoral Internships in Mumbai and Medellín
12 February 2019PhD candidate Shohin Aheleroff is in Colombia building international networks and using his expertise to solve real-world industry problems. You could be too with a funded doctoral internship in Mumbai or Medellín. There are still places remaining (NZ citizens and permanent residents only). -
Apply now for a 2019 graduate teaching assistant opportunity
01 January 2019The Faculty of Science invites expressions of interest from postgraduate students for Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) positions in 2019.
