Archive for Challis Lecture
snapshot from UF campus
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel, University life with tags Challis Lecture, Florida, Gainesville, University of Florida, USA on November 15, 2014 by xi'an
back in Gainesville (FL)
Posted in pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags ABC, Challis Lecture, finite mixtures, Florida, Gainesville, George Casella, random forests, seminar, University of Florida on November 12, 2014 by xi'an
Today, I am flying to Gainesville, Florida, for the rest of the week, to give a couple of lectures. More precisely, I have actually been nominated the 2014 Challis lecturer by the Department of Statistics there, following an impressive series of top statisticians (most of them close friends, is there a correlation there?!). I am quite excited to meet again with old friends and to be back at George’s University, if only for a little less than three days. (There is a certain trend in those Fall trips as I have been going for a few days and two talks to the USA or Canada for the past three Falls: to Ames and Chicago in 2012, to Pittsburgh (CMU) and Toronto in 2013…)
