Open Positions: Full Professor in High Dimensional Data analysis

Megan (Meece) Mocko (MS 2001) was featured in a Sept. 2011 AmStat News article, "Where Will Your Next Stop Take You?".
Megan is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Florida.
Here is a link to the story (reprinted by permission).

A short course on "Applied Bayesian Nonparametrics" was given in the department on August 22-24
by Tim Hanson and Alejandro Jara, who was visiting from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

We are very pleased to announce that graduate student Bereket Kindo has been awarded an academic scholarship
by the International Association of Black Actuaries Foundation for the 2011-2012 school year. Congratulations Bereket!

The annual USC alumni get-together at JSM was held on Tuesday Aug. 2 at 7:30 PM.

Annual Newsletter 2011
The department annual newsletter is now available.

SRCOS Summer Research Conference 2011.
Go here for more information.
For a program of events go here.
For a list of abstracts go here.

The Palmetto Lecturer for 2011 was Jim Ramsay, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, McGill University.
Dr Ramsay visited the Department from March 28-31.
Go here for more information.