May
Our Spring Quarter 2019 graduates
May 21, 2019
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 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
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
Best wishes to our Spring Quarter 2019 graduates!
Student career event: Alumnus Q&A
February 14, 2019
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
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
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
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.