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Our application for Fall 2021 is now closed!

Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) will be hosting an online conference on October 7-9 to introduce the areas it will be focusing on.  Registration is required, but free. 

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.

Our Consulting Project Award winner for 2019-2020 is Dongyue Xie. 

PhD candidate, Abby Stevens, awarded the David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics.

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.
 

Best wishes to our Spring Quarter 2020 graduates!

May 25, 2020:  Summer Quarter Graduate Registration Opens at 8:30 a.m. Email Keisha Prowoznik, (kprowoznik@galton.uchicago.edu) if you have questions.

Best wishes to our Winter 2020 graduates!

Best wishes to our Autumn Quarter 2019 graduates!

Congratulations to Prof. Wei Biao Wu for being elected to receive a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Lek-Heng Lim, Associate Professor in Statistics and the Computational and Applied Mathematics Initiative, has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2020 for his contributions to applied mathematics, particularly numerical linear algebra. 

Our application for Fall 2020 is now open!