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Robust Statistics and Privacy Workshop - Thursday, October 5th - Friday, October 6th

The goal of this workshop will be to present recent developments in robust statistics and differential privacy, including algorithmic foundations, concentration results, inference and applications to high dimensional statistics and machine learning....

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Psychometrics Workshop - September 22-23, 2023

This psychometrics workshop presents research talks on statistical methods (such as latent variable models and graphical models) for complex and heterogeneous data in psychological and educational measurement.  ...

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In Memoriam – Tze Leung Lai

With deep regret and sadness, we share the passing of Tze Leung Lai on Sunday, May 21st. Tze came to our department in 1968 to pursue his doctoral studies under David Siegmund and graduated in 1971....

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In Memoriam – David H. Krantz

With deep regret and sadness, we share the passing of David H. Krantz on Saturday, May 20th. During the most challenging years of our department, when the department was unstable and small, Dave was our most potent protector and advocate on campus....

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Congratulations to our Phd Alum, Adji Bousso Dieng on being awarded the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) 2023 Dean’s Award for the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award.

We proudly announce that Columbia University Department of Statistics PhD Graduate Class of 2020, Adji Bousso Dieng, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Associated Faculty in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Associated Faculty in the Materials Institute, and Associated Faculty in High-Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, has been awarded the prestigious Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) 2023 Dean’s Award for the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award. ...

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Congratulations to Anne van Delft and Andrew Blumberg on being awarded an NSF Grant

Congratulations to Anne van Delft, Assistant Professor of Statistics, and IICD Faculty Andrew Blumberg, Herbert, and Florence Irving, Professor of Cancer Data Research and Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, who received an NSF award for their project about a statistical framework for the analysis of the evolution in shape and topological structure of random objects....

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Statistics Department Summer Courses Cut Across Disciplines

The Columbia University Department of Statistics is offering two sections of STAT GR8201 for Summer 2023, weekdays beginning July 17, 2023 and running through July 28, 2023, which will be held in the School of Social Work, Room 903, with guest faculty Professor Fan Li (Duke University) and Professor Arthur Gretton (University College London)....

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Congratulations to Marcel Nutz on being named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).

Marcel F. Nutz, Professor, Columbia University, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).  Dr. Nutz received the award for outstanding contributions to probability, in particular to optimal transport, stochastic analysis, and mathematical finance; and for dedicated service to the profession....

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