48641 2011-10-21 00:00:00 00:00:00 Evans Hall On Campus 34 Special Event Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary The UC Berkeley Statistics Department has been selected by Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C as the recipient of an annual fellowship award. This privately owned investment management firm has hired several of our graduates. These graduates have been described by Citadel as extremely well prepared statisticians. The Citadel Fellowship will be awarded for the first time this coming spring and will... Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 49944 2011-12-12 00:00:00 00:00:00 CMI Château Gombert Off Campus 22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Congratulations to David Aldous, who is receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Provence. http://www.cmi.univ-mrs.fr/~mlaunay/dhc_aldous/ Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 50044 2011-12-16 00:00:00 00:00:00 Evans Hall On Campus

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22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Philip Stark and Peter Shearer (UCSD) have been investigating the global risk of big earthquakes, a topic of great interest in light of the number of big earthquakes in recent years. Their analysis found no evidence that the risk has increased lately, and no viable physical theory that would cause the risk to increase. They conclude that the global risk is not on the rise. Philip Stark Department of Statistics Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 50358 2011-12-23 00:00:00 00:00:00 Evans Hall On Campus

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22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Yuval Benjamini and Bin Yu with their colleagues in the Gallant Lab (Neuroscience, Berkeley) have been working on using fMRI data to understand the effect of dynamic stimuli (e.g movies) on brain activity. They gained understanding of how certain parts of the brain represent information in movies and were also able to "reconstruct" movies that had been seen by using brain measurement data. http://sites.google.com/site/gallantlabucb/publications/nishimoto-et-al-2011 Yuval Benjamini and Bin Yu Department of Statistics, UCB Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 52944 2012-02-15 00:00:00 00:00:00 New York, NY Off Campus 22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Congratulations to Allan Sly who has been selected as a 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. Read the <a href="http://www.sloan.org/assets/files/press_releases/2012_srf_press_release_vf.pdf">Sloan Research Fellowships Press Release</a> and the <a href="http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/15/allan-sly-on-probability-theory-and-random-processes/">Berkeley News Center Q&A</a>. http://www.sloan.org/assets/files/press_releases/2012_srf_press_release_vf.pdf Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 54182 2012-03-23 00:00:00 00:00:00 Evans Hall On Campus 22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Congratulations Bernd Sturmfels for being awarded the Sarlo Award. This Award is for outstanding work as a graduate student mentor. http://grad.berkeley.edu/sarlo/previous.shtml#12 http://grad.berkeley.edu/sarlo/index.shtml /images/user_uploads/0_photo.jpg Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 54014 2012-03-23 15:30:00 16:30:00 3:30 4:30 p.m. Evans Hall On Campus

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34 Special Event Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Presentation of the 2011 Loeve Prize to Scott Sheffield, preceded by a non-technical talk on Sheffield's work by Greg Lawler. Followed (4.30 - 5.45) by a reception in the Women's Faculty Club. Gregory Lawler University of Chicago Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 54784 2012-04-13 00:00:00 00:00:00 Evans Hall On Campus 22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Congratulations to Mike Jordan who has been elected as a SIAM Fellow for contributions to machine learning, bringing to bear all the tools of the mathematical sciences to problems in science and engineering. http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2012 Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 54988 2012-04-18 00:00:00 00:00:00 Evans Hall On Campus 22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary The IMS Council has given in-principle approval of a new IMS Lecture in honor of David Blackwell provided that an endowment of $40,000 or more is raised. An anonymous donor has kindly offered matching donations of up to $20,000. Blackwell Lecture donations are held in an escrow account set up by the IMS Business Office. The donations will be returned to donors if the $40,000 goal for the fund is... http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/602 Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 53586 2012-05-15 14:00:00 16:00:00 2 4 p.m. Wheeler Auditorium On Campus 22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary The UC Berkeley Statistics Department Commencement Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, at 2pm in Wheeler Auditorium on-campus. An informal reception will immediately follow the ceremony in the Wheeler Lobby. We are pleased to announce that Nassim Nicholas Taleb will be the Commencement Speaker. Prof. Taleb spent 20 years as a derivatives trader before starting a full-time career as... http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/439 /images/user_uploads/0_Taleb.jpg Nassim Nicholas Taleb Speaker - Featured Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at NYU-Poly Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 56090 2012-06-26 00:00:00 00:00:00 Evans Hall On Campus 22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Professor Bin Yu has been elected President-Elect of IMS (Inst of Mathematical Statistics). http://imstat.org/news/2012/06/19/1340124690475.html The IMS is a leading international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,500 members in all parts of the world. Bin Yu Statistics Department Bin Yu Happening As Scheduled 58613 2012-09-05 00:00:00 00:00:00 Bethesda, Md. Off Campus 34 Special Event Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Berkeley statisticians played a key role in the large ENCODE consortium that determined the function of what was thought to be "junk" DNA in the human genome. Led by Peter Bickel, the statisticians provided several of the tools biologists needed to uncover the functional roles of DNA outside protein coding genes. http://www.genome.gov/27549810 Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 58670 2012-09-13 18:00:00 22:00:00 6 10 p.m. California Academy of Sciences Off Campus

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34 Special Event Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Take your chances, roll the dice, or just trust in the luck of the draw—any way you slice it, we’re all subject to the laws of probability. Learn about the role chance and probability play in the natural world, scientific exploration, love, and of course—poker. Experts from the Stanford Department of Statistics will reveal the truth behind card tricks, how to “cheat” at coin flipping, and how... http://www.calacademy.org/events/nightlife/ /images/user_uploads/0_Luck-NL-181.jpg Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 60753 News and Events 2012-09-23 00:00:00 00:00:00 Evans Hall On Campus 22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Statistics alumni Mark Hansen (Ph.D. '94, advisor Prof. Chuck Stone) has joined Columbia University’s School of Journalism and has been named East Coast director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation. Read more: <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Statistician-Fills-Key-Role-in/134582/>">"Statistician Works to Blend Computer Science With Journalism"</a> Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 57012 An On the Same Page event 2012-09-26 15:30:00 16:30:00 3:30 4:30 p.m. Wheeler Hall On Campus

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6 Panel Discussion Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Each panelist will choose an Ansel Adams image from the Fiat Lux collection. The audience will first have a chance to discuss their own observations and inferences about the photos in groups, after which the panelists will share their own interpretations. This event is followed by an informal reception from 4:30-5:30, in which students and other members of the audience are invited to stay and... light refreshments afterward /images/user_uploads/0_eerie.jpg G. Steve Martin Moderator Dean and Professor Division of Biological Sciences, L&S Fiona Doyle Panelist/Discussant Executive Associate Dean and Professor Materials Science and Engineering Jasper Rine Panelist/Discussant Professor Molecular and Cell Biology Philip Stark Panelist/Discussant Professor and Chair Statistics Department Letters & Science, College of Happening As Scheduled 61264 2012-11-01 00:00:00 00:00:00 American Mathematical Society Headquarters Off Campus 22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary The inaugural class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) include professors David Aldous, Steven N. Evans, Charles J. Stone, Bernd Sturmfels, and Visiting Professor David Goldschmidt. Congratulations to all of them! View the complete list here: <a href="http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list">http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list</a> http://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/ams-fellows Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 60993 2012-11-08 16:30:00 18:00:00 4:30 6 p.m. LeConte Hall On Campus

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55 Workshop Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary This workshop will give physical science majors a broad overview of why and how to get started on undergraduate research. We will outline the main opportunities for science majors on campus, as well as discuss how to define your interests, find a mentor, and apply for funding. http://research.berkeley.edu/haas_scholars/schedule.html#workshopa Wendy Muse Sinek Speaker Program Coordinator, Haas Scholars Program Office of Undergraduate Research Claudia Trujillo Speaker Undergraduate Student Affairs Officer UCB Physics Department Undergraduate Research, Office of Happening As Scheduled 61509 2012-11-21 00:00:00 00:00:00 Melbourne, Australia Off Campus 22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Prof. Terry Speed has won the 2012 Victoria Prize in Australia. Read more here: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/national/gene-data-guru-and-stormwater-expert-win-top-prize-20121121-29q5v.html">http://www.theage.com.au/national/gene-data-guru-and-stormwater-expert-win-top-prize-20121121-29q5v.html</a> http://www.business.vic.gov.au/industries/science-technology-and-innovation/awards/the-victoria-prize-for-science-and-innovation#IntNav2 /images/user_uploads/0_terry.jpg Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled 61924 2012-12-11 00:00:00 00:00:00 Institute of Mathematical Statistics Off Campus 22 Miscellaneous Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has established the Blackwell Lecture, a newly named lecture honoring Prof. David Blackwell. The lecture will be given at the IMS annual meeting approximately once every three years, starting in 2014. http://bulletin.imstat.org/2012/11/blackwell-lecture-fund/ Statistics, Department of Happening As Scheduled