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UBC Statistics Alum Luke Bornn wins Pierre Robillard Award

Luke Bornn, former PhD student, has received the Pierre Robillard Award, given annually by the Statistical Society of Canada to recognize the best PhD thesis in probability or statistics defended at a Canadian university during the previous year. Luke's thesis, entitled 'Modeling Latent Correlation Structures with Application to Agricultural and Environmental Science' was co-supervised by Jim Zidek and Arnaud Doucet.

Luke is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University.

2012 Stanley W. Nash Medal Recipient- Ken Lau

The Awards Committee is delighted to announce that Ken Lau is the 2013 winner of the Nash Medal.

The Nash Medal is given to the most outstanding graduating student in the B.Sc. program in Statistics. The Medal honours Prof Stanley Nash (1915-2001), recognizing his service to statistics over his more than forty years at UBC. You can read more about Professor Nash and see the list of past recipients of the Medal at
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Lorraine Schwartz prize winner for 2012 announced

The Department of Mathematics and the Department of Statistics are pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2013 Lorraine Schwartz Prize is Roland Bauerschmidt, PhD student in Mathematics.

New course: STAT 300: Intermediate Statistics for Applications

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.

Vincenzo Coia receives Governer General's Gold Medal

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.

Statistics Imagine Day 2013

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

Trevor Hastie will give a PIMS Public Lecture on September 19 at 4pm

For information on this event, please see:

http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130919-pplysth

Statistics Undergraduate Newsletter

The Department launches the first newsletter, to provide undergraduates with information about Department activities and various deadlines. We anticipate having issues of the newsletter published twice a semester. For comments and suggested content, please email ugradnewsletter at stat dot ubc dot ca.

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Yumi Kondo and Andy Leung awarded Statistics Dept. Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards

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.

Stat 450 and 550 Poster Session

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!