From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
SSC Gold Medal awarded to Cindy Greenwood
The 2024 Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is awarded to Priscilla E. (Cindy) Greenwood, professor emerita in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia. The citation for the Gold Medal Award, which is given to one…
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University announced that Robert E. Kass, the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, the Machine Learning Department and the Neuroscience Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, is the 2024 Myles Hollander Distinguished…
The Fifth Akaike Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Arnaud Doucet, a professor at the University of Oxford and a Senior Staff Research Scientist of Google DeepMind. Professor Doucet is a leading international researcher in Monte Carlo methods and their applications to Bayesian statistics and, more recently, in machine…
On September 10, 2024, Professor Bradley Efron from Stanford University will be delivering a talk on the topic “A diagnostic function for bootstrap confidence intervals” in honor of the late Dr. C.R. Rao’s birthday.
This online event is the first in a series organized to celebrate the birthday of the…
Dong-Yun Kim and Jessica Kohlschmidt write:
The Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science (CWS) offers awards and scholarships to selected members each year: https://cwstat.org/awards/. Since 2016, CWS has been helping early-career professionals and students travel to participate in the annual JSM meetings. This year, we have a…