2024
Congratulations to Matthew Oline!
April 19, 2024
Congratulations to Matthew Oline, PhD student in the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics on receiving a 2023-24 Physical Sciences Teaching Prize.
Alumni SPOTLIGHT: Meet Jason Willwerscheid, PhD’21
March 15, 2024
Our Alumni SPOTLIGHT focuses on Jason Willwerscheid, PhD'21.
Billingsley Lectures on Probability: Sourav Chatterjee
March 4, 2024
We are pleased to have Prof. Sourav Chatterjee, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, as our honored speaker on Thursday, May 2, 2023, at 4:30 PM, Math/Stat 112, 5727 South University Avenue. A reception will immediately follow the lecture at 5:30 pm, in the Reading Room, Math/Stat 101, 5727 South University Avenue.
Annual Bahadur Memorial Lectures: Emmanuel Candès
March 4, 2024
Prof. Emmanuel Candès, the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University, will give the 23rd Annual Bahadur Lectures on Monday, April 29th, 2024, and Wednesday, May 1st, 2024.
Winter 2024 Consulting Cup Winners
February 28, 2024
Consulting Cup winners, the Friday Team, John Hood, David Chen, Theodora Ko, and Annie Xie. Congratulations!
Our Winter 2024 graduates
February 23, 2024
Please join us in congratulating our Winter 2024 graduates.
Prof. Yuehaw Khoo awarded a prestigious Sloan Fellowship in 2024
February 21, 2024
Prof. Yuehaw Khoo is among five UChicago scholars awarded a prestigious Sloan Fellowship in 2024.
Prof. Rebecca Willett awarded the SIAG DATA Career prize
February 10, 2024
Prof. Rebecca Willett has been awarded the inaugural SIAG DATA Career prize.
The prize will be awarded at the 2024 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS24) to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States from October 21 – 25, 2024.
Student Research Poster Day: photos from the event!
January 19, 2024
We invite all students (Stat and CAM) and faculty to the Student Research Poster Day
SIAM Activity Group on Imaging Science Best Paper Prize 2024
January 19, 2024
Congratulations to Cong Ma and co-authors Kaizheng Wang, Yuejie Chi, and Yuxin Chen on receiving the 2024 SIAG/Imaging Science Best Paper Prize for their work "Implicit Regularization in Nonconvex Statistical Estimation: Gradient Descent Converges Linearly for Phase Retrieval, Matrix Completion, and Blind Deconvolution" published on Foundations of Computational Mathematics.
A warm welcome to Frederic Koehler!
January 16, 2024
Please join us in welcoming Frederic Koehler to our department as a new assistant professor of Statistics and the Data Science Institute.
CISE Distinguished Lecture: Rebecca Willett
January 11, 2024
Rebecca Willett, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, and the Data Science Institute
"Machine Learning Foundations Accelerate Innovation and Promote Trustworthiness"
2023
Alumni SPOTLIGHT: Meet Bowei Kang, SM’20
December 18, 2023
Our Alumni SPOTLIGHT focuses on Bowei Kang, SM'20.
2023 Neumann Prize winner
December 14, 2023
Congratulations to Prof. Stephen M. Stigler on winning the 2023 Neumann Prize for his book, "Casanova's Lottery: The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance."
Our Autumn 2023 graduates
December 1, 2023
Congratulations to our Autumn 2023 graduates!