Two M.A. in Statistics students, Hanxi Sun and Chi-Heng Lin, win the Davis Award for excellent academic achievement.
The Davis Fellowship carries provides a small monetary award presented to outstanding academic achievement and is funded by a $10 million bequest from the late Kathryn Wasserman Davis, ’31 GSAS. Read More ...
Congratulations to Marcel Nutz on winning an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. This is an extremely prestigious award and we at the Department of Statistics are delighted and proud that Marcel’s research has been recognized.…
David Blei has been elected as a fellow of The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). David Blei is a leader in the area of large data analysis through machine learning. One of his central contributions is the rigorous treatment of the area of topic modeling, wherein a large data set is mathematically decomposed into latent themes....
Yixin Wang (Phd student in Statistics), sent correct answers to all three parts to Student Puzzle Corner 9.
Full article here – IMS Bulletin (http://bulletin.imstat.org/2015/07/solution-to-student-puzzle-corner-9/)
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The Columbia-JAFEE meetings began at Columbia in 1997 and have been alternating between taking place in Japan and New York ever since. This will be the 11th conference, and the Columbia Statistics Department is proud to host the JAFEE (Japanese Association of Financial Econometrics and Engineering) scholars on October 2 and 3, 2015....
The IWSM is organized every two years. The first IWSM 2007 was held at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA. Then, the IWSM 2009 and IWSM 2011 were held at University of Technology of Troyes, France and Stanford University, USA, respectively. The workshop covers all aspects of sequential methodologies in mathematical statistics and information theory from theoretical developments in optimal stopping, sequential analysis, change detection to different applications in mathematical finance, quality control, clinical trials, signal and image processing, among others....
The goal of this workshop is to bring together economists, mathematicians, statisticians, and industry experts, in order to discuss recent advances in systemic risk. The objective is to expose the audience to interesting aspects behind systemic risk, including its quantification and optimal mitigation strategies.
This workshop is sponsored by the Department of Statistics and the Program for Financial Studies at Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. We also acknowledge support from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, the Center for Management of Systemic Risk, and the Center for Financial and Business Analytics. There is no registration fee but we kindly ask you to register in advance to help coordinate logistics....
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