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ISI marks the International Year of Women in Statistics and Data Science
Join the International Statistical Institute, ISI, in celebrating the International Year of Women in Statistics and Data Science (#IYWSDS) from May 2020 through July 2021. The IYWSDS was launched on 12 May 2020 with commemorating the 200th anniversary…
Rina Foygel Barber is Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Before starting at University of Chicago, she was an NSF postdoctoral fellow during 2012–13 in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University, supervised by Emmanuel Candès. She received her PhD in Statistics at the University…
Professor Sir Martin Hairer has won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. Professor Hairer, Imperial College London, is recognised “for transformative contributions to the theory of stochastic analysis, particularly the theory of regularity structures in stochastic partial differential equations.”
He receives US$3 million and a trophy, to be presented at…
https://worldstatisticsday.org
The third World Statistics Day will be celebrated around the globe on 20 October 2020 with the theme “Connecting the world with data we can trust”. This theme reflects on the importance of trust, authoritative data, innovation and the public good in national statistical systems. The website above provides…
Royal Society’s Faraday Prize and Lecture
The UK’s Royal Society has selected Sir David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS as their Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture winner 2020, “for bringing key insights from the disciplines of statistics and probability vividly home to the public at large, and to key decision-makers, in entertaining…