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Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Sia Gbondo-Tugbawa ’26, who is among the students who have been awarded UConn IDEA Grants to support 2025-2026 academic year projects.

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Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Sia Gbondo-Tugbawa ’26, who is among the students who have been awarded UConn IDEA Grants to support 2025-2026 academic year projects. For more details, please click this link: https://ugradresearch.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/323/2025/04/UConn-IDEA-Grant-25th-Cohort-Press-Release.pdf

Professor Dipak Dey delivered The Ronald R. Hocking Endowed Lecture Series in Statistics on Breakthrough in Statistical Science and received the award on April 25, 2025, at the Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

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  Professor Dipak Dey delivered The Ronald R. Hocking Endowed Lecture Series in Statistics on Breakthrough in Statistical Science and received the award on April 25, 2025, at the Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Congratulations!   Click here for more information: https://imstat.org/2025/05/15/best-of-statistical-science-workshop-honors-dipak-dey-ramses-mena/  

Paper of the Month: May 2025

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Once a month during the academic year, the statistics faculty select a paper for our students to read and discuss. Papers are selected based on their impact or historical value, or because they contain useful techniques or results. MPCR: Multi- and Mixed-Precision Computations Package in R Prof. Mary Lai Salvana Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02701 Friday, May 2, 12:00 […]

Statistics Colloquium: Trevor Harris, Assistant Professor, UConn, Localized Conformal Inference for Operator Models

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Statistics Colloquium: Localized Conformal Inference for Operator Models Presented by: Trevor Harris, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 4:00 PM, AUST 202 Meeting Link: Link Coffee will be served at 3:30 in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Abstract: Operator models are regression algorithms between spaces of functions and […]

Statistics Colloquium, Suman Majumdar from UConn, Stamford; A cannon is not necessary to kill a fly

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A cannon is not necessary to kill a fly Presented by: Suman Majumdar, Associate Professor University of Connecticut, Stamford Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 4:00 PM, AUST 202 Meeting Link: Link Coffee will be served at 3:30 in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Abstract: How the existing literature maximizes the two-parameter Normal likelihood, both in […]

Sudipto Banerjee, UCLA, Recipient of the 2024 UConn Statistics Department Distinguished Alumnus Award

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Presented by Sudipto Banerjee, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles Recipient of the 2024 UConn Statistics Department Distinguished Alumnus Award Assessing Spatial Disparities in Disease Maps Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 4:00 PM, AUST 202 Webex Meeting Link Coffee will be served at 3:30 in […]

Makuch Distinguished Lecture: Hongtu Zhu, UNC, Computation and Resource Efficient Genome-Wide Association Analysis for Large-Scale Imaging Studies

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Presented by Hongtu Zhu, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics, Statistics, Radiology, Computer Science & Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health AUST 202, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Webex Meeting Link Abstract: Imaging genetics links genetic variations to brain structures and functions, but the computational challenges […]