We invite applications for two full-time three-year PhD studentships in Mathematics and Statistics commencing 1st October 2014. PhD students are based at the University’s Walton Hall campus in Milton Keynes, UK. 
 Studentships cover full-time fees and include a stipend (currently £13,726 per annum + £1250 per annum to cover training and conference participation). 
 Overseas applicants are also welcome but those from a non-European Economic Area country that is not majority English-speaking must hold a Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) certificate for English at B2 level or higher. 
 There are currently three PhD projects available in Statistics: 
 (1) Real time forecasting and monitoring of high frequency data 
 (http://www.mathematics.open.ac.uk/) 
 – Álvaro Faria; 
 (2) Application and comparison of transformations for orthogonality 
 (http://www.mathematics.open.ac.uk/) 
 – Paul Garthwaite; and 
 (3) Forecasting and monitoring traffic network flows 
 (http://www.mathematics.open.ac.uk/) 
 – Catriona Queen.
