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May 14, 2022
On June 16, 2022, Professor Ingrid Van Keilegom (KU Leuven, Belgium) will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of A Coruña (UDC), Galicia, Spain. The ceremony will take place in the auditorium of the UDC rectorate. Taking advantage of this event, a symposium will be held the day…
The International Statistical Institute has announced the ISI Elected members, elected in the first round of the 2022 ISI membership elections, among whom were the following IMS members: Bendek B. Hansen, University of Michigan; Yao Zheng, University of Connecticut; and Ling Zhou, Southwestern University of Finance and…
The Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) at UC San Diego has announced Professor Dimitris Politis as a HDSI Chancellor’s Endowed Chair, the second of ten chair-holders who are being honored for outstanding research scholarship and contributions to UC San Diego and the larger data science community. As an associate director…
Professor Martin Hairer studied at the University of Geneva, where he completed his PhD in Physics in 2001. He subsequently held positions at the University of Warwick (UK) and the Courant Institute (US), before moving to Imperial College London, where he currently holds a chair in probability and stochastic analysis.…
Michael I. Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests bridge the computational, statistical, cognitive, biological and social sciences. Prof. Jordan is a member of the National Academy…