Archive for fencing
sabres bleues [blue wave#4]
Posted in pictures with tags fencing, France, gold medal, Grand Palais, Korean food, Paris 2024 Olympics, Russian invasion, sabre, silver medal, Solidarity with Ukraine, Ukraine on August 1, 2024 by xi'an
Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award deadline extended to 7 August 2022
Posted in pictures, Statistics, University life with tags Arianna Rosenbluth, Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award, David Blackwell, fencing, PhD students on July 30, 2022 by xi'an
The deadline for submission of a nomination for the Blackwell-Rosenbluth j-ISBA Award is now 7 August. Ph.D. students or early career researchers who obtained their PhD after January 1, 2017 are eligible for nomination. A nomination may come from any ISBA member, including the nominee themselves.
Blackwell-Rosenbluth Awards 2021
Posted in Statistics, University life with tags Arianna Rosenbluth, awards, Bayesian conference, C.R. Rao, David Blackwell, fencing, ISBA, j-ISBA, MCMC, Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, Rao-Blackwell theorem, University of Warwick on November 1, 2021 by xi'an
Congratulations to the winners of the newly created award! This j-ISBA award is intended for junior researchers in different areas of Bayesian statistics. And named after David Blackwell and Arianna Rosenbluth. They will present their work at the newly created JB³ seminars on 10 and 12 November, both at 1pm UTC. (The awards are broken into two time zones, corresponding to the Americas and the rest of the World.)
UTC+0 to UTC+13
Marta Catalano, Warwick University
Samuel Livingstone, University College London
Dootika Vats, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
UTC-12 to UTC-1
Trevor Campbell, University of British Columbia
Daniel Kowal, Rice University
Yixin Wang, University of Michigan
Arianna Rosenbluth’s hit
Posted in Statistics with tags 1946, Arianna Rosenbluth, Arianna Wright, fencing, fleuret, foil, Houston Chronicle, Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, obituary, Olympics, Texas on February 8, 2021 by xi'an
