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a random day, in Paris
Posted in Statistics, University life with tags conference, IHP, Institut Henri Poincaré, journée aléatoire, probability theory, SFDS, SMAI, SMF, statistical inference, Statistics on September 28, 2022 by xi'an
Journées MAS2014, Toulouse, Aug. 27-29
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel, University life, Wines with tags France, Jacques Neveu, MAS, MAS2014, Pierre Jacob, SMAI, Statistics conference, Toulouse on April 16, 2014 by xi'an
For those interested in visiting Toulouse at the end of the summer for a French speaking conference in Probability and Statistics, the Modélisation-Aléatoire-Statistique branch of SMAI (the French version of SIAM) is holding its yearly conference. The main theme this year is “High dimension phenomena”, but a large panel of the French research in Probability and Statistics will be represented. The program contains in particular:
- Six plenary conferences and 3 talks by the recent winners of the “Prix Jacques Neveu” award [including Pierre Jacob!],
- 22 parallel sessions, from probability theory to applied statistics and machine learning,
- Posters session for students
More detail is available on the conference website (in French). (The organizing committee is made of Aurélien Garivier, Sébastien Gerchinovitz, Aldéric Joulin, Clément Pellegrini, and Laurent Risser.)
prix Jacques Neveu goes to Pierre Jacob!
Posted in Kids, University life with tags Fondation Dauphine, Jacques Neveu, NUS, Oxford, PhD prize, SIAM, SMAI, Université Paris Dauphine on March 28, 2013 by xi'an
My former student Pierre Jacob (now at NUS in Singapore and soon in Oxford, England) got the 2012 PhD thesis Jacques Neveu prize. (Jacques Neveu, French probabilist specialist of Markov chains, was also the founder of the SMAI Probability and Statistics branch, which is why this prize is named after him. SMAI is the French version of SIAM.) As a coincidence, Pierre also got the PhD prize of Fondation Dauphine last week… Great news! And well-deserved rewards.
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