News: 2019

May

Our Spring Quarter 2019 graduates

May 21, 2019

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Best wishes to our Spring Quarter Graduates!
 


April

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 Mykland, Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor

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.


Bahadur Memorial Lectures

April 8, 2019

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.


March

Michael Stein’s Workshop

March 29, 2019

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. 


Student Fellowship Award

March 21, 2019

Haoyang Liu

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


February

Our Winter Quarter 2019 graduates!

February 22, 2019

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Best wishes to our Spring Quarter 2019 graduates!


Student career event: Alumnus Q&A

February 14, 2019

Kirsten Wellman

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.


January

Rebecca Willett—IEEE Award for Best Paper

January 30, 2019

Rebecca Willett, Professor, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science

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!


Gregory Lawler awarded Wolf Prize

January 23, 2019

Gregory F. Lawler

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


Award-winning faculty

January 15, 2019

Lek-Heng Lim

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.