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.
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:
Dear Alums,
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:
The Statistics commencement ceremony will take place at 2pm in Wheeler Auditorium.
The commencement speaker is John P.A Ioannidis from Stanford University.
Professor Terry Speed has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Here is a profile of Terry Speed from the Royal Society.
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 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.
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.
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.
We are hosting our first industrial alliance conference (BSTARS) on March 11.
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?"
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.
The Simons institute at UC Berkeley is organizing a program on Big Data in Fall 2013. More details are here.
Springer has just published the selected works of Peter Bickel. [Springerlink] [Springer] [Amazon]
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has established the Blackwell Lecture, a newly named lecture honoring Prof. David Blackwell. The lecture will be given at the IMS annual meeting approximately once every three years, starting in 2014.
Prof. Terry Speed has won the 2012 Victoria Prize in Australia.
We invite applications for a position in all areas of Probability and Statistics beginning July 1, 2013. Position #1742 is at the tenure-track level (Assistant Professor). We will consider strong candidates in any area of probability or theoretical, applied, or computational statistics. Candidates with ABD ("all but PhD degree") status will be considered, but the successful candidate must finish the PhD within one year of their appointment.
Berkeley statisticians played a key role in the large ENCODE consortium that determined the function of what was thought to be "junk" DNA in the human genome. Led by Peter Bickel, the statisticians provided several of the tools biologists needed to uncover the functional roles of DNA outside protein coding genes.