2019
Geometric Learning Bridges Mathematics and Statistics to Marine Biology and Geophysical Sciences
September 5, 2019
Tingran Gao, William H. Kruskal Instructor, has been developing geometric learning frameworks to analyze 3-D scans of complex biological surfaces.
Best wishes to our Summer Quarter Graduates!
August 21, 2019
Best wishes to our Summer Quarter Graduates!
RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science
June 24, 2019
Consulting Project Award Winner
June 5, 2019
Consulting Project Award Winner
David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
June 4, 2019
PhD candidate, Yuxin Zou, awarded the David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics.
Stephen M. Stigler Awarded the Arthur L. Kelly Prize
June 4, 2019
Prof. Stephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor, has been awarded the Arthur L. Kelly Prize for exceptional service in the Physical Sciences Division.
Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
June 3, 2019
We are pleased to congratulate Prof. Steven Lalley for receiving a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring this year.
Congratulations to our Harper Fellow!
May 24, 2019
Statistics PhD Peter Panov has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2019-20. The University-side competition awards financial support toward the completion of the candidate’s dissertation.
RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science
May 22, 2019
The Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics and the Department of Statistics hosted a series of six lectures on numerical methods in data science and two seminars on deep neural networks in the afternoons of June 17, 19, 21
Best wishes to our Spring Quarter Graduates!
May 21, 2019
Jiageng Liu, MS
Juan Mora, MS
Suchan Park, MS
Gang Qiao, MS
Jasha Sommer-Simpson, MS
Rui Wang, MS
Heqing Ye, MS
Mahtiyar Bonakdarpour, PHD
Joelle Mbatchou, PHD
Fan Yang, PHD
Statistics Fellowship Information Session
May 21, 2019
Karen Rosenthall, the Fellowship Director at UChicagoGRAD, will present a talk about funding opportunities available to Statistics graduate students tailored specifically to our department on Friday, May 31, 2019, at 2:30 PM in Jones 304.
Summer Course Registration
May 9, 2019
Graduate course registration for Summer Quarter runs Monday, May 20, through NOON on Thursday May 23, 2019.
Department Picnic
May 8, 2019
All Statistics students, faculty, staff, and their families are invited to the annual Department Picnic on SUNDAY, June 2, 2019, at 12 pm, at Promontory Point in Hyde Park.
Elaine K. Bernstein Women in Science Award
April 23, 2019
PhD student Wanrong Zhu is the recipient of the Elaine K. Bernstein Women in Science Award. The award provides additional assistance for student research and travel.
Per Mykland Chosen as Guggenheim Fellow
April 15, 2019
Per A. Mykland, Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor in Statistics and Finance, has been named a recipient of the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.