2020
Our Summer Quarter 2020 graduates
August 14, 2020
Best wishes to our Summer Quarter 2020 graduates!
Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) opening conference
August 10, 2020
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.
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.
Statistics Consulting Award Winner
June 17, 2020
Our Consulting 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.
Our Spring Quarter 2020 Graduates
May 22, 2020
Best wishes to our Spring Quarter 2020 graduates!
Our Winter Quarter 2020 graduates!
February 28, 2020
Best wishes to our Winter 2020 graduates!
2019
Faculty accolade
December 30, 2019
Matthew Stephens was named the Ralph W. Gerard Professor, effective January 1, 2020.
Our Autumn Quarter 2019 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.
2020 Class of Fellows of the AMS
November 1, 2019
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 Summer Quarter 2019 graduates!
August 21, 2019
Best wishes to our Summer Quarter graduates!
RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science
June 24, 2019
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.