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Welcome to the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley!

We are a community engaged in research and education in probability and statistics. In addition to developing fundamental theory and methodology, we are actively involved in statistical problems that arise in such diverse fields as molecular biology, geophysics, astronomy, AIDS research, neurophysiology, sociology, political science, education, demography, and the U.S. Census. We have forged strong interdisciplinary links with other departments and areas of study, particularly mathematics, computer science, and biology, and actively seek to recruit graduate students and faculty who can help to build and maintain such links. We also offer a statistical consulting service each semester.

• Please join Julie and the rest of his family and the many of us who knew, admired, and loved him in mourning the passing of Erich Lehmann...a great statistician and a great man. He died Saturday morning, September 12th, 2009, at the age of 91. A memorial is planned for Monday, November 9, from 4-6 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Faculty Club. Erich Lehmann's Legacy.
  
• Loeve Prize ceremony: Monday October 26, 2009, 3.10 - 4.00pm, 1011 Evans Hall. Includes presentation of award to Alice Guionnet and non-technical talk about her work by Ofer Zeitouni. Reception: 4.00 - 5.30pm, Womens Faculty Club.
  
• Michael Jordan delivered the 11th Morris H. DeGroot Memorial Lecture on the topic "Completely Random Measures for Bayesian Nonparametrics."
• Commencement 2009 video (quicktime)
• Peter Bickel has been awarded the 2009 Rao Prize.
• Noureddine El Karoui and Yun Song have each received NSF CAREER Awards, for "Random Matrices and High-Dimensional Statistics" and "Computational Methods for High-Throughput Sequencing and Population Genomics Analysis," respectively.
  
• Peter Bickel has been named a SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Fellow. See the SIAM Fellows Class of 2009 page or the SIAM home page for more details.
• Nick Crawford has been selected as a recipient of the two-year Fullbright-ATS-Technion Post-doctoral Fellowship to conduct research at the Technion (Israel). Details will be forth-coming.
• Bin Yu has been named AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for distinguished theoretical contributions in Statistics and machine learning and important engineering science applications, and for fostering and initiating interdisciplinary work in China and the United States.
• Professor Yun Song 1 of 20 scientists and engineers to receive the prestigious Young Researchers' Award from the Packard Foundation!
• Professor and Chair John Rice receives the NISS 2008 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research
• Calendar of Events
• Noureddine El Karoui and Yun Song have been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships
• Sourav Chatterjee has been awarded the 2008 Tweedie New Researcher Award