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Prof. David R. Brillinger to receive honorary D.Sc from the University of Toronto
Professor Brillinger will receive an honorary D.Sc. from the University of Toronto in June, in recognition "of his pioneering contributions to the fields of stochastic analysis and time series analysis." This is Prof. Brillinger's fourth honorary doctorate.
Prof. Ben Recht wins Presidential Early Career Award
Assistant Professor Ben Recht, who holds a joint appointment in the departments of EECS and Statistics, is one of 102 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
Sourav Chatterjee wins Loève Prize 2013
Fighting Cancer by the Numbers--Prof. Terry Speed, Department of Statistics, wins 2013 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science
Terry Speed, will receive the 2013 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science in recognition of his life’s work using mathematics and statistics to solve real world issues.
Prof. Nick Jewell wins Berkeley Faculty Service Award
Professor in the Department of Statistics, Nicholas Jewell, has won the Berkeley Academic Senates Faculty Service Award. The award is given to "honor a member of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate who has given outstanding and dedicated service to the Berkeley campus". The Academic Senate provided the following statement to motivate the choice of Prof. Jewell:
Prof. Deborah Nolan awarded the William R. Kenan, Jr. Visiting Professorship for Distinguished Teaching
Professor in the Department of Statistics, Deborah Nolan, has been awarded the William R. Kenan, Jr. Visiting Professorship for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. The award is given to individuals "who have set standards for exceptional scholarship and distinguished teaching". Prof.
Alumni Cocktail at JSM
Dear Alums,
Ph.D. student Jeff Regier is the 2013 Google US/Canada Fellow in Machine Learning
Statistics Ph.D. student Jeffrey Regier has been awarded the 2013 Google US/Canada Fellowship in Machine Learning. Only 15 of these highly competitive fellowships were given out this year, and only one in machine learning. Please congratulate Jeff on receipt of this prestigious award.
There's more information in this Google Research blog post:
Statistics Commencement: May 21st at 2pm in Wheeler Auditorium
The Statistics commencement ceremony will take place at 2pm in Wheeler Auditorium.
The commencement speaker is John P.A Ioannidis from Stanford University.
Terry Speed elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Professor Terry Speed has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Here is a profile of Terry Speed from the Royal Society.
Bin Yu elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor Bin Yu has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics section.
Congratulations, Bin!
See also the complete list of new members.
Peter Bickel to give COPSS Fisher lecture at JSM
Peter Bickel will give the COPSS Fisher lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal on August 7th, at 4pm.
The title of his talk is "From Fisher to "Big Data": continuities and discontinuities".
Here is a partial program for JSM.
Graduate students receive awards
Congratulations to Adam Bloniarz, Geno Guerra, Jeff Regier and Ashia Wilson!
Ashia Wilson and Geno Guerra were awarded NSF fellowships, Jeff Regier was awarded the Citadel Fellowship for 2013-14 and Adam Bloniarz was awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship from the ASEE.
Allan Sly wins 2013 Rollo Davidson Prize
Professor Allan Sly has won the Rollo Davidson Prize for 2013, jointly with Eyal Lubetzky.
The citation recognises his work on the dynamics of the Ising model, and especially his proof of the cut-off phenomenon.
BSTARS industrial alliance conference
We are hosting our first industrial alliance conference (BSTARS) on March 11.
Lisa Goldberg and co-authors receive Graham Dodd award of excellence
Economists Bob Anderson and Stephen Bianchi and Statistician Lisa Goldberg received a Graham Dodd Award of Excellence from the Financial Analysts Journal for their article, "Will My Risk Parity Strategy Outperform?"
Stat Mooc: Adhikari and Stark teach 50,707 students
Ani Adhikari and Philip Stark are teaching a massive open online course (mooc) starting today. Enrollment: 50,707 as of 2/28/2013!
For more details, see the course page.
Big data program at the Simons Institute (Fall 13)
The Simons institute at UC Berkeley is organizing a program on Big Data in Fall 2013. More details are here.