Our own Pierre Jacob has been appointed John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, effective July 1, 2020. This professorship is named for 1924 Harvard College graduate John L. Loeb, an investment banker and philanthropist whose gifts to the University have supported a Fellowship Fund bearing his name as well as associate, assistant, and junior professorships at FAS.
Statistics Department Hoopes Prize Winners for 2020:
Tessa Han for her project entitled “Applying Mediation Analysis to Predict Feed Forward Loops as Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in Multiple Myeloma: A Novel Statistical Approach”—nominated by Professor Giovanni Parmigiani. Nathan Lewis Hollenberg for his project entitled “Drawing the New NBA Three-Point Line: A Statistical Approach to Determining Its Location and Effect on the Game”—nominated by Dr. Kevin Rader. Michael Zhang for his project entitled “Automated Activity Discovery and Object Detection...
Professor Cynthia Dwork, an affiliate of the Harvard Statistics Department, has been awarded the 2020 Donald E. Knuth Prize. This prize honors contributions to the foundation of computer science. Read more about Professor Dwork's work at https://sigact.org/prizes/knuth/citation2020.pdf.
Learning from COVID-19 Data in Wuhan, USA and Europe on Intervention Strategies
COPSS and NISS are jointly hosting the Webinar "Learning from COVID-19 Data in Wuhan, USA and Europe on Intervention Strategies" by Xihong Lin on Thursday, May 14, 12-1:30 ET. See details at: https://www.niss.org/events/...
