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Senior Lecturer/Senior Scientist in Statistics
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The Seminar for Statistics invites applications for a Senior Scientist position.
ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellowships
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The ETH AI Center offers a unique fellowship programme for doctoral students, designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and a positive impact to society.
From data to causal insight
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Jonas Peters started his position as a full professor of statistics on 1 April 2023. His work at the intersection of statistics, data science and machine learning brings fresh impetus to the research, teaching and outreach at the Department.
Sara van de Geer elected to European Academy of Sciences
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer was elected member of the European Academy of Sciences.
Discover, solve puzzles, find role models
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ETH invited the 100 best female 7th graders from the Kangaroo mathematics competition to the Hönggerberg campus, providing them with a unique opportunity to meet ETH researchers such as Maybritt Schillinger.
Sara van de Geer: farewell lecture
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5月31日,萨拉van de吉尔教授给她ewell lecture entitled: "Data dust". She has been a professor at the Seminar for Statistics since 2005.
Sara van de Geer: Bahadur Memorial Lectures
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer has been invited to deliver the 2023 Bahadur Memorial Lectures at the University of Chicago.
Jonas Peters: newly appointed professor
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We warmly welcome our new faculty member, Professor Jonas Peters. He was appointed by the ETH Board in September 2022 and took up his position on 1 April 2023.
做ctoral exam of Corinne Emmenegger
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Corinne Emmenegger successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Statistical machine learning for complex data". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Meta Lina Spohn
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Meta Lina Spohn successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "On missing value imputation and treatment effect estimation on network data". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Jeffrey Näf
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Jeffrey Näf successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Distributional prediction, missing values, and tree ensembles". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of An-phi Nguyen
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An-phi Nguyen successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Interpretable machine learning: definitions, methods and applications to computational biology". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Jinzhou Li
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Jinzhou Li successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Error-controlled statistical learning and topics in causality". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Drago Plecko
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Drago Plecko successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "From statistical to causal inference in fair machine learning and intensive care medicine". Congratulations!
Peter Bühlmann: IMS President
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Bühlmann has been elected President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) by its members.
2022 Graduation Ceremony
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Last Friday, the students of the Master's programmes in Mathematics, Statistics as well as Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) celebrated their graduation. Congratulations to all on the successful completion of their studies!
做ctoral exam of Yulia Kulagina
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Yulia Kulagina successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Mixture models, theory with application to species richness, clustering, classification and all that jazz". Congratulations!
Sara van de Geer elected to National Academy of Sciences
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer was elected International Memer of the National Academy of Sciences.
Peter Bühlmann elected to the Leopoldina
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Bühlmann has been elected to the Leopoldina, Germany's National Academy of Sciences.
做ctoral exam of Nicolas Bennett
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Nicolas Bennett successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Enabling external validation for machine learning applications using intensive care data". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Leonard Henckel
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Leonard Henckel successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Graphical tools for efficient causal effect estimation". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Loris Michel
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Loris Michel successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Distributional metrics in computational statistics". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Domagoj Ćevid
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做magoj Ćevid successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Confounding adjustment for causal inference". Congratulations!
Marloes Maathuis: Ethel Newbold Prize
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The 2021 Ethel Newbold Prize was awarded to Marloes Maathuis at the ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague. Congratulations!
Sara van de Geer: Tukey Lecture
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We are very pleased to announce that Sara van de Geer will deliver the Tukey Lecture at the Bernoulli-IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics.
做ctoral exam of Claude Renaux
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Claude Renaux successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Hierarchical testing and inference for groups or single covariates in high-dimensional statistics". Congratulations!
Marloes Maathuis: Elected ISI Member
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We are pleased to announce that Professor Marloes Maathuis has become an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
做ctoral exam of Peter Hinz
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Peter Hinz successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "An analysis of the piece-wise affine structure of ReLU feed-forward neural networks". Congratulations!
Two speakers and one award at the 8th European Congress of Mathematics
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Three Department members will be represented at this year's European Congress of Mathematics (8ECM): Peter Bühlmann as Plenary Speaker, Emmanuel Kowalski as Invited Speaker, and Joaquim Serra to be presented with an EMS Prize.
做ctoral exam of Francesco Ortelli
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Francesco Ortelli successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Oracle results for total variation regularization". Congratulations!
2021 Graduation Ceremony
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Last Friday, the graduates of the Mathematics, Statistics as well as the Computational Science and Engeneering (CSE) Master's degree programmes celebrated their successful graduation. We wish them all the best for the future!
做ctoral exam of Solt Kovács
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Solt Kovács successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Change point detection algorithms and methodology for large-scale data". Congratulations!
Statistics postdoc tames decades-old geometry problem
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To the surprise of experts in the field, a postdoctoral statistician has solved one of the most important problems in high-dimensional convex geometry.
Marloes Maathuis: Breiman Lecture
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Marloes Maathuis has delivered the Breiman Lecture at the 2020 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020).
2020 Graduation Ceremony
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At yesterday's ceremony, the graduates of the Mathematics, Statistics as well as the Computational Science and Engeneering (CSE) degree programmes celebrated their successful graduation. We wish them all the best for the future!
Sara van de Geer elected to Academia Europaea
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer was elected to the Academia Europaea.
Fadoua Balabdaoui: newly appointed adjunct professor
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We are delighted to announce that Dr Fadoua Balabdaoui was appointed Adjunct Professor at the meeting of the ETH Board in September 2020.
Sara van de Geer: Kálmán Lecture
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer has delivered the Kálmán Lecture at the 2020 SFB Colloquium.
Martin Mächler: newly appointed adjunct professor
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We are delighted to announce that Dr Martin Mächler was appointed Adjunct Professor at the meeting of the ETH Board in May 2020.
Marloes Maathuis: Van Dantzig Award
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We are very pleased to announce that Professor Marloes Maathuis has been awarded the 2020 Van Dantzig Award. This prize is considered the highest Dutch award in statistics and operations research and is awarded once every five years.
做ctoral exam of Marco Eigenmann
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Marco Eigenmann successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Improving and assessing causal inference algorithms for DAGs". Congratulations!
Jan欧内斯特: 2019 Golden Owl
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The student association VSETH has awarded the 2019 Golden Owl to Dr Jan Ernest, lecturer at the Department of Mathematics.
做ctoral exam of Niklas Pfister
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Niklas Pfister successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Intervention stability in statistics: benefiting from causality". Congratulations!
ETH medals for three doctoral students
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Mads Bisgaard, Matthew Kwan and Dominik Rothenhäusler have been awarded an ETH Medal for their outstanding doctoral theses. Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Andreas Elsener
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Andreas Elsener successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Regularized empirical risk minimization under missing observations". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Britta Velten
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Britta Velten successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Multivariate methods for heterogeneous high-dimensional data in genome biology". Congratulations!
When data drop from the sky
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Intelligent data science approaches are changing science, the economy and society. In a new interdisciplinary initiative, ETH researchers from the fields of mathematics, computer science and information technology are therefore increasingly dedicating themselves to the foundations of data science.
Peter Bühlmann: Challis Lectures
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Bühlmann will deliver the 2019 Challis Lectures organized by the Statistics division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Florida.
做ctoral exam of Christina Heinze-Deml
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Christina Heinze-Deml successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Computational causality and learning from partitioned data". Congratulations!
Sara van de Geer: Markov Lecture
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer will deliver the 2018 Markov Lecture at the INFORMS annual meeting in Phoenix.
做ctoral exam of Shu Li
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Shu Li successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Estimating causal effects from time series". Congratulations!
Peter Bühlmann: Guy Medal in Silver
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The Royal Statistical Society has awarded the 2018 Guy Medal in Silver to Professor Peter Bühlmann for his highly-cited paper "Stability selection", among other contributions.
ETH Medals for Matthias Kirchner and Jana Janková
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The Department warmly congratulates Dr Matthias Kirchner and Dr Jana Janková who were awarded an ETH Medal for their outstanding doctoral theses.
Peter Bühlmann: Neyman Lecturer
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Bühlmann will deliver the 2018 Neyman Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
做ctoral exam of Gian Thanei
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吉安Thanei成功通过他的口腔博士thesis examination entitled: "Computationally efficient inference for large-scale data". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Dominik Rothenhäusler
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做minik Rothenhäusler successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Causal models for heterogeneous data". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Emilija Perkovic
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Emilija Perkovic successfully passed her oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Graphical characterizations of adjustment sets". Congratulations!
Peter Bühlmann and Rahul Pandharipande: ERC Advanced Grants
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We are delighted to announce that Peter Bühlmann and Rahul Pandharipande are two out of ten ETH Zurich researchers that have receive a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Their projects are funded with around 2 to 3 million Euro each.
Sara van de Geer: member of the Oberwolfach Scientific Committee
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer has been appointed as a member of the Oberwolfach Scientific Committee.
Sara van de Geer and Peter Bühlmann: Highly Cited Researchers 2017
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Professors Sara van de Geer and Peter Bühlmann have been selected to the list of "Highly Cited Researchers 2017" published by Clarivate Analytics.
做ctoral exam of Sylvain Robert
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Sylvain Robert successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Ensemble Kalman particle filters for high-dimensional data assimilation". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Benjamin Stucky
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Benjamin Stucky successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Asymptotic confidence regions and sharp oracle results under structured sparsity". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Jana Janková
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Jana Janková successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Asymptotic inference in sparse high-dimensional models". Congratulations!
Scientifica 2017: rock-paper-scissors
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"Rock-paper-scissors: Beat the Statistics Machine!" This is the challenge that two statisticians are throwing open to visitors at this year's Scientifica event.
Marloes Maathuis: IMS Fellow
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Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the IMS, has elected Professor Marloes Maathuis as a 2017 IMS Fellow.
Peter Bühlmann: honorary doctorate
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The Université catholique de Louvain has awarded Professor Peter Bühlmann with the Doctor Honoris Causa.
哈比卜是mari and Peter Bühlmann: 2016 Highly Cited Researchers
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Professors Habib Ammari and Peter Bühlmann have been selected to the list of "Highly Cited Researchers 2016" published by Clarivate Analytics.
Sara van de Geer: Van Wijngaarden Award
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The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam has awarded the 2016 Van Wijngaarden Award to Professor Sara van de Geer.
做ctoral exam of Laura Buzdugan
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Laura Buzdugan successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Assessing statistical significance in genome wide association studies". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Jan Ernest
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Jan欧内斯特successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Causal inference in semiparametric and nonparametric structural equation models". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Ruben Dezeure
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Ruben Dezeure successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Statistical inference in high-dimensional models". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Preetam Nandy
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Preetam Nandy successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Causal learning from high-dimensional observational data". Congratulations!
Nicolai Meinshausen: COPSS Award
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Nicolai Meinshausen has received the 2016 COPSS Presidents' Award.
Peter Bühlmann: ASA Fellow
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The world's largest association for statisticians, the ASA, has appointed Professor Peter Bühlmann as a Fellow.
Marloes Maathuis: newly appointed full professor
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Marloes Maathuis was appointed full professor at the meeting of the ETH Board in July 2016.
Nicolai Meinshausen: IMS Fellow
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The Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the IMS, has appointed Professor Nicolai Meinshausen as a Fellow.
Sara van de Geer: Wald Lectures
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Sara van de Geer will deliver the 2016 Wald Memorial Lectures at the World Congress in Probability and Statistics in Toronto.
做ctoral exam of Alan Muro
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Alan Muro successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Penalized least squares and quadratic forms". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Chenchen Zhu
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Chenchen Zhu successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "High throughput approaches to study molecular pathways from genotype to phenotype". Congratulations!
做ctoral exam of Anna Drewek
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Anna Drewek successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Statistical inference on pathogen entry into human cells". Congratulations!
Sara van de Geer: Royal decoration
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His Majesty the King of the Netherlands appointed Sara van de Geer to Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau for her outstanding contributions to mathematics and statistics.
做ctoral exam of Christopher Nowzohour
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Christopher Nowzohour successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Estimating causal networks from multivariate observational data". Congratulations!
Nicolai Meinshausen: 2015 JSM Medallion lecturer
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We are delighted to announce that Prof. Nicolai Meinshausen will deliver the Medallion Lecture entitled: "Causal discovery with confidence using invariance principles"at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Seattle starting on 8 August 2015.
Sara van de Geer: President Bernoulli Society
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We are delighted to announce that Prof. Sara van de Geer will be President of the Bernoully Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability from 30 July 2015.
Peter Bühlmann: 2015 EMS forum lecturer
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We are delighted to announce that Prof. Peter Bühlmann will be forum lecturer at the European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) in Amsterdam starting on 6 July 2015.
Sara van de Geer: 2015 Le Cam Award
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We are delightedto announce that Prof. Sara van de Geer will deliver the Conférence Lucien Le Cam 2015 at the 47èmes Journées de Statistique de la SFdS in Lille.
做ctoral exam of Jacopo Mandozzi
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Jacopo Mandozzi successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Hierarchical and sequentially rejective testing methods for high-dimensional regression with correlated variables". Congratulations!
Peter J. Bickel receives honorary doctorate
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The Department proposed the statistician Prof. Peter J. Bickel for the honorary doctorate of the ETH Zurich. He was honored for his pioneering work on semiparametric and high-dimensional statistics and on resampling methods for statistical inference.
50 Years of Statistics at ETH Zurich
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The colloquium: "From robust to high-dimensional statistics: 50 years of statistics at ETH Zurich" celebrates the 50-year anniversary of Statistics at ETH Zurich. It is organized by the Seminar for Statistics, has started today and will last until 25 November 2014.
Hans-Rudolf Künsch: farewell lecture
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On 12 November, Prof. Hans-Rudolf Künsch gave his farewell lecture entitled: "Welch ein Zufall!". He has been professor at the D-MATH since October 1983.
做ctoral exam of Christian Kerkhoff
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Christian Kerkhoff successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "Statistical methods to analyze climate model output". Congratulations!
Three D-MATH professors are "Highly Cited Researchers 2014"
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Peter Bühlmann, Nicolai Meinshausen and Wendelin Werner have been selected to the list of "Highly Cited Researchers 2014" published by Thomson Reuters.
做ctoral exam of Patric Müller
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Patric Müller successfully successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled: "L1-Regularization for non-linear models". Congratulations!
Nicolai Meinshausen and Benjamin Sudakov: inaugural lectures
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On 26 March, Prof. Nicolai Meinshausen and Prof. Benjamin Sudakov gave their inaugural lectures.