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May 15, 2024
Australian-born Ruth Williams is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her current research involves developing mathematical models of congestion in networks subject to random ‘traffic’ fluctuations, including transport, computing, communications, manufacturing, and biological systems.
Ruth Williams studied mathematics at the University of Melbourne, where she…
SSP Moderator Frederi Viens rites:
Some 150 scholars in mathematics, statistics, and related disciplines, in great majority doctoral students and postdocs from across the US, came to Rice University in Houston, Texas, to attend the annual Seminar on Stochastic Processes (SSP), a conference series sponsored by the Institute of…
The COPSS–NISS Leadership Webinar Series is co-organized by the Committee of the Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Emerging Leaders in Statistics, and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). The purpose is to promote leadership skills for members of the statistical societies at any stage in their careers. The series…
Nancy Reid is University Professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include statistical theory, likelihood inference, design of studies, and statistical science in public policy. She is a former President of the IMS, and is President-Elect of the Bernoulli Society. Nancy was…
Pablo Ferrari is Researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET, in Argentina, and Emeritus Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is Licenciado en Matemática at the same university, and Doutor em Estatística at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; he joined their Department of…