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Dipak Dey writes:
The Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut hosted the 30th Distinguished Statistician Colloquium, sponsored by ASA, Pfizer and UConn. The Pfizer colloquium series ran from 1978 until 2012, and was renewed in 2018. The colloquium series has featured C. R. Rao, Bradley Efron, D.R. Cox,…
Million-dollar Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics awarded to Yoav Benjamini, Daniel Yekutieli and Ruth Heller
An international and independent jury, appointed by the King Baudouin Foundation, has selected the pioneering work on the False Discovery Rate (FDR) as the recipient of the prestigious biennial Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics 2024. This million-dollar…
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…