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The Department of Statistics will host the 2016 International Indian Statistical Association Conference August 18-21, attracting 200 statisticians from around the world.

A team of mathematicians has released a massive mathematical database that catalogs objects of central importance in number theory.

Transdisciplinary team receives $3 million NSF grant to develop Research Traineeships using Big Data to analyze effects of human activities and climate change on oceans.

Researchers are interpreting and advancing biohealth sciences in innovative new ways by applying the natural sciences, such as mathematics, statistics and chemistry.

The American Statistical Association’s Datafest, a nationally-coordinated data analysis competition for students, is April 15-17, 2016 in Weniger Hall.

Debashis Mondal, an assistant professor of statistics, has been awarded the 2015 Young Researcher Award by the International Indian Statistical Association.

The College of Science has made strategic investments to extend the impact of data science on transdisciplinary research.

Chaitan Baru, Senior Advisor for Data Science for the CISE Directorate at NSF, will present a seminar on current NSF Big Data and Data Science programs on January 15 at 9 am in Valley Library, rm. 3622.

Dean Sastry G. Pantula was a special guest and keynote speaker at the 2nd International Conference on Theory and Application of Statistics in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Many mathematics faculty and alumni are presenting at the 2016 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle January 6-9.

Data science is a key area of growth because it is highly relevant, we have an obligation, we have key strengths and there is opportunity.

The fall 2015 Milne Lecture features Peter J. Bickel, an internationally renowned statistician and Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the Univ. of California, Berkeley.