2020
2020 COPSS Presidents’ Award Winner
August 6, 2020
Rina Foygel Barber was awarded the 2020 COPSS Presidents' Award, on August 5, during a JSM (virtual) ceremony. This is generally considered the highest award in statistics. Read more...
Welcome New Faculty Hires for August 2020!
August 4, 2020
The Department is excited to welcome the following new hires...READ MORE
Graduate Research Opportunities for Women 2020
July 9, 2020
September 13, October 18 and 24
University of Chicago
The GROW 2020 conference is aimed at female-identified undergraduate students who may be interested in pursuing a graduate degree in the mathematical sciences. The conference is open to undergraduates from U.S. colleges and universities, including international students. Visit: https://mathematics.uchicago.edu/grow2020/ for detailed information and updates.
Applications for GROW 2020 can be submitted at https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/966. The committee is currently screening applications; those submitted by September 1, 2020 will be given full consideration.
This event is being supported by the University of Chicago Department of Mathematics and the National Science Foundation.
Welcome New Faculty Hires!
July 1, 2020
The Department is excited to welcome the following new hires...READ MORE
Statistics Consulting Project Award
June 17, 2020
Our Consulting Project Award winner for 2019-2020 is Dongyue Xie.
2020 David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
June 3, 2020
PhD candidate, Abby Stevens, awarded the David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics.
Congratulations to our Harper Fellow for 2020-21!
May 27, 2020
Statistics PhD student Sen Na has been awarded the prestigious Harper
Dissertation Fellowship for 2020-21. The University-wide competition awards
financial support toward the completion of the candidate's dissertation.
Spring Quarter 2020 Graduates
May 22, 2020
Best wishes to our Spring Quarter 2020 graduates!
Summer Quarter Graduate Registration
May 22, 2020
May 25, 2020: Summer Quarter Graduate Registration Opens at 8:30 a.m. Email Keisha Prowoznik, (kprowoznik@galton.uchicago.edu) if you have questions.
Rina Foygel Barber wins Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize
March 31, 2020
The Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize recognizes early-career research accomplishments and research promise in statistics, broadly construed. The inaugural recipient of the 2020 Peter Hall Prize is Rina Foygel Barber, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Read more
Winter Quarter 2020 Graduates!
February 28, 2020
Best wishes to our Winter 2020 graduates!
2019
The deadline for our Fall 2020 application is December 31, 2019!
December 31, 2019
Faculty Accolade
December 30, 2019
Matthew Stephens was named the Ralph W. Gerard Professor, effective January 1, 2020.
Autumn Quarter graduates!
December 12, 2019
Best wishes to our Autumn Quarter 2019 graduates!
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award
November 26, 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Wei Biao Wu for being elected to receive a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.