News

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.

We are pleased to congratulate Prof. Steven Lalley for receiving a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring this year.

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.

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!
 

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 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.

Prof. Iain Johnstone of Stanford University will give the 20th Annual Bahadur Lectures on Monday, May 6th, at 4:30 PM in Eckhart Hall, 5734 S. University Avenue, Room 133 (reception before lecture in Jones 111) and on Thursday, May 9th at 3:30 PM in Kent Chemical Laboratory, 1020 E. 58th Street, Room 120.

A workshop celebrating Michael Stein's 60th birthday will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2019, starting at 8:30 AM, in the Stevanovich Center, MS 112, at 5727 S. University Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. 

PhD student Haoyang Liu has received a Physical Sciences Endowed Fellowship award for his work within our doctoral program.

Best wishes to our Spring Quarter 2019 graduates!

Nicholas Chase (MS '17), a trading assistant at the Rosenthal Collins Group, will be giving a career information talk and Q & A session at 12:30 pm on Thursday, February 28th, 2019, in Jones 226. A pizza lunch will be provided.

Prof. Rebecca Willett and co-author Eric C. Hall received the "2018 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award" from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for their article "Online Convex Optimization in Dynamic Environments." Congratulations, Becca, on recognition of your ongoing research!

Prof. Gregory Lawler is a 2019 recipient of the highly prestigious Wolf Prize in mathematics for pioneering research in the use of probability.

Prof. Lek-Heng Lim has been awarded the prestigious Hans Schneider Prize for 2019 by the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS). The Society acknowledges the best scholarship in this area of mathematical research triennially.