Announcements and News

Openings for Professor (all ranks) and a Senior Lecturer, a PhD-level statistician to teach in and supervise our undergraduate program.

UPCOMING!—Watch for news on the third Midwest Statistics Research Colloquium in March 2010 at the University of Chicago.

February 22-26--Spring Quarter Registration for Classes. Students--Please meet with advisors and complete department form.

As a traditional event in our department, we are going to celebrate the Lunar New Year at noon, on Tuesday, February 9, 2010. Traditional Chinese cuisine with drinks will be provided. This is the year of the 虎 (pronounced as “who” meaning Tiger), and the exact date of lunar new year will be 02/14/2010 (St. Valentine’s Day). So you will need to decide who you will be with on that day. Everyone in the department is welcome to join in the festivities.

“Weldon’s Dice, Automated,” the cover story in the Fall 2009 issue of CHANCE and authored by UC student Zacariah Labby, is based on a Statistics 36700 paper he prepared. Zac invented a machine that in one week duplicated the largest dice experiment in history, first performed by Frank Weldon in the 1890s. Reproduced with permission from CHANCE. Copyright 2009 by the American Statistical Association. All rights reserved.

Honorary Degree Recipient, David L. Donoho, Stanford University, received our degree at the 500th Convocation.

Faculty and Instructors—Ready for Classes? See details.

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2010 LUNAR NEW YEAR PARTY, Tuesday, February 9, 2010, at 12:00 pm, in Eckhart 110.