The Department of Statistics and Data Science and the Department of Biostatistics hosted this seminar celebrating the 50th anniversary of Tom Ferguson’s seminal research paper, “A Bayesian Analysis of Some Nonparametric Problems” at the Alumni Center. Professors Igor Prünster, Peter Müller and Wesley Johnson spoke at the event. More details of their talks are available at this link which shows the flyer that advertises the seminar. The seminar was streamed live through a Zoom webinar that was sponsored by Bayesian Nonparametrics Section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). A recording of it is below.

A cocktail reception followed the seminar. This was to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of our department. Our faculty, students, staff and alumni mixed. At the reception many people reconnected with friends and colleagues from past years.

Chad Hazlett has joint appointments in the Department of Statistics and Data Science and the Department of Political Science. His work in statistics focuses on causal inference and machine learning methods. Please congratulate Chad for his promotion.

Our colleague Dr. Michael Tsiang has been featured in the latest Amstat News magazine with a mention on the cover! In the article he discusses the Michael Tsiang Fund for Belonging in Statistics, his reasons for starting it, its purpose, and ways to contribute to it.

You can read the article at this link. Thank you Michael for the excellent work!