Recent Events
Recent announcements and events in the Department of Statistics can be found below.
2008:
- Congratulations to Elizabeth Thompson for being elected into the National Academ of Sciences. story
2007:
- Congratulations to alumnus Chris Volinski, a member of the research team that won the Netflix progress prize! You can read a news blurb and links here, an overview of their methods here, and a related paper detailing their methods here.
- Congratulations to Peter Guttorp and alumnus Jim Hughes, frequent contributors to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change! This panel, along with former Vice President Al Gore, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. You can read more about the award here, and see the list of contributors here.
- Congratulations to Toby and Ruth White on the birth of their daughter, Aleah White!
- Congratulations to Qunhua Li for winning the best poster competition at the 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). The award is given to the best poster presentation by a WNAR member (http://www.wnar.org/). The award was for her poster entitled "Statistical methods for Peptide Identification Using Tandem Mass Spectrometry Through Sequence Database Searching." The poster is joint authored with Matthew Stephens and the abstract is available here.
- Congratulations to Peter Guttorp for being awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics and the Environment. The award is in recognition of his innovative work on statistical methodology in environmental research, leadership in the development of environmetrics, and service to the profession.
- Congratulations to Peter and Jenn Hoff on the birth of their son, Henry Hoff!
- Congratulations to Adrian Raftery for being elected Fellow of the IMS!
- Congratulations to Donatello Telesca and alumnus Anton Westveld for winning the student paper competition in the ASA Section of Bayesian Statistical Science!
- Congratulations to Bryan and Addi Daisley on the birth of their daughter, Lyla Cynthia Daisley!
2006:
- Congratulations to Paul Scheet, who is one of two recipients of the 2006 "Cotterman Award" for the best paper published by a student last year in the American Journal for Human Genetics.
- Congratulations to alumnus Ross Taplin, who recently gave a Royal Statistical Society Read Paper on the use of consulting role plays in teaching statistics. The paper will be published with discussion and rejoinder in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. Details of the paper and how to submit a discussion are at http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=1836. The deadline for submissions is September 26.
- Congratulations to Adrian E. Raftery , Mark S. Handcock , and alumnus Jeremy Tantrum, whose paper "Model-Based Clustering for Social Networks," will be read to the Royal Statistical Society at a Meeting of the Society in London on October 11. The paper will subsequently be published with discussion and rejoinder in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. Scientists are welcome to submit short discussions (no more than 400 words plus one figure) for publication as part of the discussion of the paper. Such discussions should be submitted to RSS Executive Editor Dr. Martin Owen (email: M dot Owen at rss dot org dot uk) no later than October 20.
- Kristin Sprague, our former Graduate Program Assistant, died on Aug. 19 of natural causes. You can read her obituary here.
- Congratulations to Adrian E. Raftery who recently received the Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research from NISS at JSM 2006.
- The Joint Statistical Meetings were held in Seattle August 6-10.
2005:
- Congratulations to Nema Dean for winning the first prize in the 2005 WNAR student paper competition (at the IMS-WNAR Western Regional meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska) , and to Garrett Hellenthal for winning one of the two second prizes.
- It has just been announced that Adrian E. Raftery was the most cited mathematician in the world for the period 1995-2005, according to the Institute for Scientific Information. Congratulations to Adrian for a tremendous accomplishment!
- Congratulations to Tilmann Gneiting who is the recipient of the inaugural Tweedie New Researcher Award. He will present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the 2005 New Researchers Conference in Minneapolis, MN, Aug 2-6, 2005.
2004:
- Congratulations to Addi Daisley who will replace Kristin Sprague as the Graduate Program Assistant beginning on October 11th, 2004. And many thanks to Kristin for all that she's done for the department!
- We celebrated the department's 25th anniversary on September 23/24 with a great symposium and a party. Check out the anniversary webpage (removed) for details.
- Congratulations to our alumnus Michael Newton for winning the COPSS Presidents' Award 2004.
- Congratulations to Mathias Drton for winning the best student paper award at the 20th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2004). The paper was co-authored by Thomas Richardson .
- Congratulations to Raphael Gottardo for winning the first prize in the 2004 WNAR student paper competition (at the IMS-WNAR Western Regional meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico).
- Congratulations to June Morita for being elected Council of Chapters Board Representative of the ASA.
- Congratulations to Julian Besag for being elected Fellow of the Royal Society. "He is distinguished for his pioneering work on the statistical theory and analysis of spatial processes, especially conditional lattice systems. His work has been seminal in recent statistical developments ranging from image analysis to Markov chain Monte Carlo methods."
- Congratulations to Adrian E. Raftery , who was the third most-cited mathematician for the decade 1993-2003 as reported by the Institute for Scientific Information.
- The article "Model-based clustering and data transformations for gene expression data," by Ka Yee Yeung, Chris Fraley , Alejandro Murua , Adrian E. Raftery and Larry Ruzzo (Bioinformatics, 2001), was identified by Thomson-ISI, publishers of the Web of Science and the Science Citation Index, as one of the most cited papers in the research area of "Gene Expression Data". They will publish a commentary on the paper in January 2004 under the heading Fast Moving Fronts.
- The Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers (CF) has appointed Peter Guttorp as their Environmental Professor during 2004/05. This professorship is awarded to an internationally known researcher in order to stimulate and catalyze Swedish environmental research. It is funded from the CF Environmental Fund. He will be located in Lund in southern Sweden.
- Congratulations to Marloes Maathuis for winning a student paper competition award of the ASA Statistical Computing/Statistical Graphics section. She will present the paper at the JSM 2004 in Toronto.
- Congratulations to Saonli Basu who won the distinguished student paper award at the ENAR Spring Meeting.
2003:
- The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences is now a permanent unit of the University of Washington.
- Congratulations to Raphael Gottardo for winning the first prize in the poster competition of the annual RSS conference.
- Congratulations to Rebecca Nugent for winning a UW Excellence in Teaching Award.
2002:
- Congratulations to Jeremy Tantrum for winning a KDD 2002 Student Research award.
- Congratulations to Elizabeth Thompson for winning a Guggenheim Fellowship.
- The UW Demography Center (CSDE) has won one of the Center Grants in Demography, awarded only to a small number of leading demography centers in the nation. Congratulations to Martina Morris and Mark S. Handcock !
- Congratulations to Tilmann Gneiting who won a NSF Early Career Award that supports exceptionally promising junior faculty committed to the integration of research and education.
- The department's faculty retreat was carried out on Tuesday 22nd January 2002. Check out all the discussions that took place! Faculty retreat website.
2001:
- Congratulations to Elizabeth Thompson who recently received the first Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research from NISS at JSM 2001.
- Congratulations to Samantha Bates who shared the prize for best student paper, and won the award for best risk analysis paper at the recent International Environmetric Society meeting.
- Congratulations to Elizabeth Thompson for winning the Weldon Memorial Prize, awarded by the University of Oxford.
- Peter Guttorp has been elected President-Elect of the International Environmetric Society.
- Congratulations to Peter Guttorp for being elected ASA fellow.
- Workshop: Statistical Genetics and Computational Molecular Biology (12/16-18).