Statistics Associate Professor Alex Bouchard-Côté wins Young Faculty Award
Statistics Associate Professor Alex Bouchard-Côté has just received the 2018 UBC/PIMS Mathematical Sciences Young Faculty Award.
In addition to receiving a monetary award, Alex will give a PIMS-UBC Distinguished Colloquium lecture in the fall. You can read PIMS's announcement, which includes some nice background information, here: https://www.pims.math.ca/news/alexandre-bouchard-c%C3%B4t%C3%A9-wins-2018-pims-ubc-young-faculty-award.
Congratulations, Alex!
Call for Nominations: Department of Statistics Award in Data Science 2019
The Department of Statistics is soliciting nominations for the Department of Statistics Award in Data Science, an award to recognize the importance of developing and applying tools to answer important questions through the analysis of data. This $1,000 award is offered to an undergraduate or graduate student who has demonstrated initiative and creativity in making outstanding contributions in the field of Data Science.
Assistant Professor Sara Mostafavi awarded CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair
Assistant Professor Sara Mostafavi has been awarded a Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence (CCAI) Chair!
Thé Ha wins Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Award
Our IT Director, Thé Ha (a.k.a. help@stat.ubc.ca!), is a 2018 recipient of a Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Award!
Free Statistical Consultation: November 2018 Call
The Statistics Department offers several types of free statistical consultation, via STAT 450/550, SOS and STAT 551, as follows:
UBC's first B.Sc. Data Science course is starting January 2019
Nowadays, data is everywhere and making sense of it can be the key to success. To keep up with the world, students need to learn the skills to extract relevant information from data. The Department of Statistics is excited to provide UBC’s first undergraduate Data Science course, DSCI 100 - Introduction to Data Science, starting January 2019. See https://www.ubyssey.ca/science/new-ubc-data-science-course/.
Free Public Lecture by Jeffery Rosenthal
Jeffrey Rosenthal, author of the best-selling book Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities and professor at the University of Toronto, speaks:
Born on Friday the Thirteenth: The Curious World of Probabilities
Monday, July 30, 2018: 7pm – 8pm
Vancouver Convention Centre, West Ballroom A
You don’t need to register; you don’t need to pay anything.
UBC Statistician and Field Biologist researches penguins
Department of Statistics and Institute for the Oceans & Fisheries Assistant Professor Marie Auger-Méthé not only analyzes data, she collects it. Learn about her research team’s work on Gentoo penguins in the Falkland Islands from UBC News: https://news.ubc.ca/2018/06/27/as-penguins-dive-their-location-data-takes-flight/.
UBC’s first undergraduate Data Science course (DSCI 100—Introduction to Data Science)
We are happy to announce the launch of UBC’s first undergraduate Data Science course, DSCI 100—Introduction to Data Science. It will be offered in Term 2 of the 2018/2019 Academic year (January – April 2019). A working version of the course syllabus is available here: https://github.com/UBC-DSCI/dsci-100. Please note that there is no overlap (credit exclusion) with STAT 200. Space is limited for this first-time offering, and we will not be adding extra seats or sections.