2014 Lorraine Schwartz Prize Winner- Jeff Bone
Jeff Bone has been awarded the 2015 Lorraine Schwartz Prize, which is awarded annually for distinctions in the fields of Statistics and Probability.
In the past academic year, Jeff has had a uniformly excellent record in his courses taken in the Statistics and Mathematics departments.
More information about Dr. Schwartz, the prize, and past winners, can be found here.
Congratulations, Jeff!
2014 Nash Medal Winner - Tian Qi (Ricky) Chen
The Nash Medal in Statistics is a prize given to the most outstanding graduating student in the B.Sc. program in Statistics. This year, it has been awarded to Tian Qi (Ricky) Chen.
Ricky graduated with joint Honours in Statistics and Computer Science and is entering the M.Sc. program in Computer Science at UBC this fall.
Congratulations, Ricky!
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Awards from the Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting (June 14-17, 2015)
The department has much to celebrate in terms of awards after the SSC’s Annual Meeting that took place in Halifax in June this year.
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CRM-SSC Prize Winner—Matías Salibián-Barrera
Nancy Heckman Elected to Serve on Council of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Dr. Nancy Heckman, professor and Head of Statistics at UBC, has been elected to serve on the Council of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, as announced in the July 15, 2015 issue of the IMS Bulletin.
Student Paper Award Winner - Camila de Souza
Dr. Camila de Souza has been selected to receive the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics’ Best Student Paper Award for her paper "Switching nonparametric regression models”.
Statistics course offers training in Data Science
This fall, the department is very pleased to expand upon the popular Exploratory Data Analysis Course (STAT 545A) by offering a follow-up topics course titled "Basic Training for Data Science" (STAT 547M) Both courses are open to graduate students from any discipline.
For more information, go here.
Two Upcoming Lectures by van Eeden Invited Speaker Professor Roger Cooke
Coming up in September, the Statistics Department will be hosting two lectures by van Eeden invited lecturer Professor Roger Cooke (Chauncey Starr Chair for Risk Analysis, Resources for the Future, USA; and Department of Mathematics, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands).
The lectures will be on Tuesday, September 22nd and on Thursday, September 24th. There will be small receptions before each lecture in the lobby of the building where the lecture is being held. Lecture times, locations, and abstracts are below.
Statistics Department Award in Data Science
In 2014-15, the Statistics Department announced a new student award, in Data Science, and received many excellent nominations.
This award's first recipient is Rosemary McCloskey, a Master’s student in Bioinformatics, in recognition of her contributions to a large-scale project on virus evolution at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.
Call for Nominations: Department of Statistics Award in Data Science
The Department of Statistics is soliciting nominations for the recently established Department of Statistics Award in Data Science, an award to recognize the importance of developing and applying tools to answer important questions through the analysis of data. This $1000 award is offered to an undergraduate or graduate student who has demonstrated initiative and creativity in making outstanding contributions in the field of Data Science.