We host a lively programme of Research Seminars , and issue new original work for discussion through our very active series of CSSM Reports . A consulting centre for applied statistics and probability, for developing links and applications both within and without the University. The aim of the CSSM as consulting centre is to make statistical expertise available for the furtherance of a wide range of research activities in the local area. Giving advice is often the first step towards a successful collaboration, and our goal is to develop high-level, close and sustained scientific links that will make for statistical advances as well as advances in the discipline from which the consultation springs. The Director of Consulting for the CSSM is Dr Derek Robinson , who has built up major collaborations with local medical and technological research groups.
All staff are available to be involved in consulting.
Opportunities are in addition sought to find consultations for research students and to involve them in the general process. A forum of information and support for practitioners and developers of statistical methodology in the whole of the University and the wider community. In this third main activity we aim act as a focus and resource for the wide community of statistics users and practitioners in the local area. The premiss is that a very large amount of statistical activity takes place in the local environment and deserves support and recognition. We regularly host meetings of the Royal Statistical Society Sussex Local Group and collaborate with our statistical colleagues at the University of Brighton in the administration of the Group.