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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!

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

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

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.

Graduate course registration for Summer Quarter runs Monday, May 20, through NOON on Thursday May 23, 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.

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.

The tenth annual GradUCon will take place Friday, April 5, 2019, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, at International House, 1414 East 59th Street. Registration is now open!

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. 

Graduate course registration for Spring Quarter runs from Monday, February 25th, through NOON on Friday, March 1st, 2019. See Keisha in Jones 222A with your signed registration form or if you have any questions.

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.