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UW Statistics will be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during Spring quarter 2026. To learn more details and sign up, see: bit.ly/47ajvyi

Daniela Witten co-authors new National Academies report, "Frontiers of Statistics in Science and Engineering: 2035 and Beyond". See details here: bit.ly/4bGfwvW

Join us for a seminar happening today (3/9) at 11:30am-12:30pm (PT). Dr. Bamdad Hosseini will be giving a talk on "A unifying perspective of scientific machine learning with kernel methods” bit.ly/4s3yOkO

Join us for a seminar happening today (3/2) at 11:30am-12:30pm (PT). Dr. Jingshu Wang will be giving a talk on "Aggregating dependent signals: validity and power of Heavy-Tailed Combination Tests” bit.ly/3MXu0Os

Ema Perkovic will be the Program Co-Chair this year for the 2026 UAI (Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence) Conference! See details here: bit.ly/3N8mIHN

Join us for a seminar happening today (2/9) at 11:30am-12:30pm (PT). Dr. Qiyang Han will be giving a talk on "Algorithmic inference via nonconvex gradient descent” bit.ly/3O6UEVt

Abel Rodriguez will be speaking at the “Statistics and Data Science Programs – Challenges and Opportunities” workshop, to be held at the WashU campus in St. Louis on March 20, 2026. See details here: bit.ly/46hgQ5o

Join us for a seminar happening today (2/2) at 11:30am-12:30pm (PT). Dr. Trevor Campbell will be giving a talk on "Automating Statistical Inference for Modern Probabilistic Models” bit.ly/3NQpOjP

Join us for a seminar happening today (1/26) at 11:30am-12:30pm (PT). Dr. Edgar Dobriban will be giving a talk on "How to Use Synthetic Data for Improved Statistical Inference?” bit.ly/4bStJ9E

Congratulations to Shreya Prakash for being selected as a winner of the 2026 American Statistical Association (ASA) student paper competition! See details here: bit.ly/4sORwxn

Congratulations to Olivia McGough for receiving an Early Career Award from the ASA Section on Statistics in Epidemiology! See details here: bit.ly/4sH0iNM

Join us for a seminar happening today (1/12) at 11:30am-12:30pm (PT). Dr. Eleanor Feingold will be giving a talk on "Foundational statistical issues in contemporary genomics” bit.ly/3YUJzJr

Join us for our Distinguished Seminar In Optimization Data. Our guest speaker, Robert Schapire, will be giving a talk on "Convex Analysis at Infinity: An Introduction to Astral Space" on Mon., Jan. 12, 2026 @ 4:00PM to 5:30PM in CSE2 G20.

UW Statistics will be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during Winter quarter 2026. To learn more details and sign up, see: bit.ly/4iZhXM7

Congratulations to Ronak Mehta and Yikun Zhang for being the Z.W. Birnbaum award recipients, and Kayla Irish and Ethan Ancell for being the Dorothy M. Gilford teaching award recipients for 2024-2025! See details here: bit.ly/4iQnpkv

Join us for a seminar happening today (11/24) at 11:30am-12:30pm (PT). Dr. Nicolai Meinshausen will be giving a talk on "Reverse Markov Learning for high-dimensional generative models with distributional shifts” bit.ly/4pa63Bi

Congratulations to Mateus Piovezan Otto and Ronak Mehta on their recent honors! See details here: bit.ly/4it43C1

Congratulations to ACMS students Evelynn Prewitt and Kiryn Morita on being awarded the Bernbaum Family Endowed Scholarships. See details here: bit.ly/3K3lThR

Join us for a seminar happening today (11/17) at 11:30am-12:30pm (PT). Dr. Rahul Mazumder will be giving a talk on "Simplifying Complex Machine Learning Models” bit.ly/43yO9j4

Join us for a seminar happening today (11/3) at 11:30am-12:30pm (PT). Dr. Alex Reinhart will be giving a talk on "Do LLMs write like experts? Quantitative techniques to measure writing style and the effect of LLMs on student writing” bit.ly/47TSnEu