Lecture Series
The Statistics and Probability Department currently has two ongoing guest lecture series:
John Kinney Memorial Lectureship
- October 2018 - David Aldous - University of California, Berkeley
- August 2013 - Persi Diaconis - Stanford University
James Francis Hannan Lecture Series
- April 2019 - Jim Berger - Duke University
- April 2018 - Iain Johnstone - Stanford University
- November 2016 - Peter Bühlmann - ETH Zürich
- April 2015 - S.R Srinivasa Varadhan - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- September 2012 - Peter J. Bickel - UC Berkeley
MSU statistician attains uncommon Institute of Mathematical Statistics "Annals quadfecta" status
PhD student Nilanjan Chakraborty was recently presented with the William L. Harkness Award for outstanding teaching by a graduate student.
Mr. Andrew McDonald, an Honors College junior majoring in Computer Science in the College of Engineering; and Statistics, and Advanced Mathematics in the College of Natural Science, has been named a recipient of the nationally competitive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
Professor Yijun Zuo has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Fellows of the IMS are selected based on “demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability,” and the fellowship process is highly competitive.