Past Events and Department Highlights

May 5, 2008, Film screening: Wolfgang Doeblin a mathematician rediscovered 

The 5TH Annual SOBEL LECTURE, April 30, 2008, Dr. Michael Newton (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Dirichlet orderings, differential expression, and gene sets

The 2007-08 Ruth and Joe Gani Prize was awarded to Deepali Paradkar. The Gani prize is awarded to a graduate student for best dissertation.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2007-08 Lowes Scholarship: Christie O'Hara and Lindsey Aspel. The Lowes Scholarship is awarded each year to outstanding Financial Mathematics and Statistics majors.

Professor David Hinkley's paper, "Bootstrap diagnostics and remedies" (joint with A. Canty, A. Davison, and V. Ventura) was awarded the 2006 Canadian Journal of Statistics Prize for outstanding paper.

4Th Annual SOBEL LECTURE, May 23, 2007: Dr. Scott Zeger, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Micronutrient Supplementation, Birth Weight and Infant Mortality; On Estimation of Percentile-Specific, Mediated Intervention Effects

Regents Lecture, An Idiot's Guide to Option Pricing by Dr. Bruno Dupire, Bloomberg and NYU. April 26, 2007, Corwin Pavilion, 4:00 PM. Slides Photos Poster

Center for Research in Financial Mathematics and Statistics (CRFMS) Inauguration, October 16, 2006.
      Poster Press Release

Professor Yuedong Wang Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association 2006

3rd Annual SOBEL LECTURE, Raymond Carroll, Texas A & M University.
       March 14, 2006: Measuring Diet
       March 15, 2006: Semiparametric methods for gene-environment case-control studies

30TH CONFERENCE ON STOCHASTIC PROCESSES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS UCSB June 26-July 1, 2005

WORKSHOP ON STOCHASTIC MODELS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Held at UCSB Sunday, June 26, 2005

2nd Annual SOBEL LECTURE, April 19, 2005, Elizabeth Thompson, University of Washington, Seattle, Fuzzy p-values in the detection of genetic linkage

1st Annual SOBEL LECTURE, April 20, 2004, Rudy Beran, Statistics Department at UC Davis, 'Beyond ANOVA: Superefficient Fits to Discrete Multi-way Layouts.'

"Business Careers for Math and Statistics" Robert C. Lowes, Corwin Pavilion, May 8, 2003

"Derivative Pricing and Risk Management in the Energy Markets: the Role of Mathematics", May 16, 2003,
Rene Carmona, Paul Wythes Professor of Engineering and Finance Bendheim Center for Finance and ORFE, Princeton University.