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The Distinguished Alumni Award was presented by Cornell University's Department of Statistical Science.
The award was made during a special graduation ceremony that formed part of the university's 600th Anniversary celebrations.
The Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability is awarded every two years and is intended to recognize outstanding contributions by researchers in probability who are under 45 years old.
The department is pleased to announce this profound recognition of our colleague and offer heartfelt congratulations!
At the School of Earth Sciences Class of 2013 diploma ceremony, Rajaratnam, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Earth System Science as well as in the Department of Statistics, received the annual Earth Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award for “his genuine interest in his students, his extensive preparation and his commitment
The 2013 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences, worth US$1 million dollars, is awarded to David L.
"Persi Diaconis, who in merging the mathematical theory of groups with statistics has radically reconfigured our understanding of randomness."
"The paper of Candès and Recht was selected because of its exposition excellence, the current importance of the topic and the impressive number of citations in three years.
This award is the highest distinction bestowed by the Statistical Society of Canada. It is given annually to a Canadian statistician or probabilist who has made outstanding research contributions to statistical sciences, and is intended to honor a leader in the field.
The National Academy of Sciences elected 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer in the United States.
The Simons Foundation is proud to announce the creation of a joint Chair, shared equally between a Mathematics department and a partner department, by the Math+X: Encouraging Interactions Program. The endowment grant will include substantial operating funds to support activities shared between the two departments.
The department is pleased to announce this profound recognition of our colleague and offer heartfelt congratulations!
The Levi L. Conant Prize is awarded annually to recognize an outstanding expository paper published in either the Notices of the AMS or the Bulletin of the AMS during the preceding five years. The Conant Prize for 2012 is awarded to Persi Diaconis for his article, “The Markov chain Monte Carlo revolution”; Bulletin Amer.
Through its YFA program, DARPA identifies outstanding junior faculty members and exposes them to DoD, its needs and DARPA’s program development process. YFA combines funding, mentoring and networking with industry and DoD early in a recipient’s career to help them in framing future research in the context of defense needs.
A Two-Day Event in Honor of David Siegmund's 70th Birthday (archived)featuring invited lectures on probability, mathematical and applied statistics, statistical genetics, and computational biology
A Seminar Series on the Occasion of the Retirement of Paul SwitzerFriday, October 22, 2010CIS-X Auditorium
A Statistics Department Special Seminar Series in Honor of Richard A. OlshenTuesday, October 5, 2010CIS-X Auditorium
Data were collected from institutions for academic year 2005-2006 through questionnaires distributed to faculty, administrators, and students, as well as from public sources.
Professor Candès with his colleague Terence Tao of the Mathematics Department at UCLA were awarded jointly "for their role in developing the theory of compressed sensing and matrix completion, which enables efficient reconstruction of sparse, high-dimensional data based on very few measurements.
The Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science recognizes an individual in government, industry, or academia, who by virtue of his/her outstanding leadership has had a great impact on the theory and practice of statistical science.
The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 14 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Symposium in Probability and Statistics in Honor of Charles Stein on his 90th Birthday (archived)
The highest honor regularly bestowed by the Institute, the award acknowledges a particular achievement, a series of achievements, or a career of achievements of noteworthy value.
The Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in respect of a paper or papers of special merit communicated to the Society at its ordinary meetings or published in its journals.
Sponsored by the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the AMS-SIAM Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics is awarded every three years to recognize outstanding contributions to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense.
As part of the celebration of the University’s 500th Convocation, four honorees were selected for outstanding scholarship.
The #2 ranked researcher in the field of Mathematics, Robert Tibshirani is a pioneer in microarray research. David Donoho, another high-ranking Mathematics researcher, has a paper of high interest on the list of Stanford's most-cited papers in Engineering.
The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The Conference in Economics and Statistics in honor of Theodore W. Anderson’s 90th Birthday
Hosted by the Departments of Economics and Statistics at Stanford University