Prof. David R. Brillinger to receive honorary D.Sc from the University of Toronto
Professor Brillinger will receive an honorary D.Sc.
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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 P
Sourav Chatterjee wins Loève Prize 2013
The Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability, awarded every two years, commemorates Michel Loève, Professor at the Univ
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
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.
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.
Alumni Cocktail at JSM
Dear Alums,
Terry Speed elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Professor Terry Speed has been elected a Fellow of 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 sec
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.
Graduate students receive awards
Congratulations to Adam Bloniarz, Geno Guerra, Jeff Regier and Ashia Wilson!
Allan Sly wins 2013 Rollo Davidson Prize
Professor Allan Sly has won the Rollo Davidson Prize for 2013, jointly with Eyal Lubetzky.
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
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!
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.
Selected works of Peter Bickel published
Springer has just published the selected works of Peter Bickel.