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The Department of Statistics would like to draw your attention to STAT 300, a course offered in its revised form for the first time last year. The course aims to be a general second course in Statistics, accessible to any student who has taken a traditional introductory course in the subject (such as STAT 200, BIOL 300, COMM 291, POLI 380). The course is suitable both for Statistics majors and for those majoring in other subjects.

Congratulations Vincenzo! Vincenzo Coia, currently a PhD student in the Department, received the Governor General's Gold Medal at Brock University for his outstanding record in this Master's program in Mathematics and Statistics. His Master's thesis, supervised by Prof. Mei Ling Huang,focused on extreme value theory and its applications in learning about extreme environmen- tal events, such as floods and hurricanes.

September 3rd, 2013
11:30am
Earth Sciences Building Room 2012
***all students are welcome***

Andy Leung and Yumi Kondo have been awarded Statistics Department Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards. Both have contributed in many important ways to the teaching mission of the Department, through their direct work in courses and also through TA training and mentoring. And I understand that Andy plays a large part in graduate education - keeping graduate students well-informed re computing skills.

Poster Session for STAT 450
When: April 8^th, 9:30-11:30
Where: ESB Atrium
 
Come and see what the students of Stat 450 and 550 have been up to this semester!

Robert Tibshirani is a Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Health Research and Policy
at Stanford University, internationally known for his work in data mining and applied statistics.