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
Arkaprabha Ganguli, STT PhD candidate, received a 2022 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science student travel award to present his work “Feature selection integrated deep learning for ultrahigh dimensional and highly correlated feature space.” In recognition of this award, his name appeared in the first page of the 2022 October/November issue of the IMS Bulletin https://imstat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Bulletin51_7.pdf .
Congratulations to PhD candidate Sarah Manski for winning first place for her oral presentation at the 2022 Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture and Natural Resources in May at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
Abhijnan Chattopadhyay graduated from MSU with a Ph.D. in statistics this summer under the co-mentorship of Tapabrata Maiti and David Kramer. As a statistician, Abhijnan had the flexibility and skillset to work in several disciplines, which is how he found himself at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory (PRL).
PhD candidate Andriana Manousidaki was recently presented with the 2021-2022 William L. Harkness Award for outstanding teaching by a graduate student. The award is made possible by a generous gift from William Harkness, a doctoral alumnus from the Department of Statistics and Probability. Recipients are chosen for their remarkable teaching based on student evaluations and faculty observations of teaching.