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Dr. Chae-Young Lim and Dr. Sarat Dass win the Frank Wilcoxon Award - Dr. Chae-Young Lim and Dr. Sarat Dass were selected as the winners of the Frank Wilcoxon Award in September 2012 for best application paper for their paper on "Assessing Fingerprint Individually Using EPIC: A Case Study in the Analysis of Spatially Dependent Marked Processes" in the 2011 issues of Technometrics.

Peter J. Bickel--James Francis Hannan Visiting Scholar - We are honored to have internationally renowned statistician Peter J. Bickel, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley visiting the MSU Department of Statistics and Probability as the first James Francis Hannan Visiting Scholar.

Prof. Mandrekar Awarded Fellowship - Professor Mandrekar has been awarded a National Research Council Fellowship by the National Academy of Science. He will be a Senior Associate at the Naval Post-Graduate School in Monterey, CA.

James Francis Hannan Visiting Scholars in Theoretical Statistics and Probability

Faculty Position in Mathematics - Michigan State University invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professorship, 75% in MSU's Lyman Briggs College (LBC) Mathematics group and 25% in the Department of Statistics and Probability (STT).

Large Sample Inference For Long Memory Processes - Book published: written by Liudas Giraitis, Hira L Koul & Donatas Surgailis.

The paper of Professors Lim and Dass are published in Technometrics. - The paper of Professors Lim and Dass on "Assessing Fingerprint Individuality Using EPIC: A Case Study in the Analysis of Spatially Dependent Marked Processes", published in Technometrics, 53 (2011), no. 2, 112–124, has been chosen as the recipient of the ASA's Outstanding Statistical Application award for this year. Since nominees can come from any journal or monograph, the award is quite an honor.

Professor Tapabrata Maiti - has been elected to be a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2012.

The International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013) - The International Year of Statistics ("Statistics2013") is a worldwide celebration and recognition of the contributions of statistical science. Through the combined energies of organizations worldwide, Statistics2013 will promote the importance of Statistics to the broader scientific community, business and government data users, the media, policy makers, employers, students, and the general public.

Lijian Yang has been appointed as an Editor of Sankhya, Ser B. - , one of the prestigious journal of statistics.

Lessons in High Performance Computing with Open Source - written by Erik Segur

Book Review: Stochastic Differential Equations in Infinite Dimensions - Book written by Gawarecki, Leszek and Mandrekar, Vidyadhar

Stochastic Models for Fractional Calculus - New book by Mark Meerschaert and Alla Sikorskii

NBER - NSF Time Series Conference - Michigan State University is enthusiastic to host the 2011 NBER-NSF Time Series Conference. This conference is the premier international meeting on the statistical analysis of time series data and attracts leading researchers from around the world. Program

A History of the Department of Statistics and Probability

Featured article in May issue of Technometrics - The article "Assessing Fingerprint Individuality Using EPIC: A Case Study in the Analysis of Spatially Dependent Marked Processes," by the two faculty members of the Department, Chae-Young Lim and Sarat Dass, which appears in the May issue of Technometrics, has been selected by the Editor Hugh Chipman of the journal to be the issue's Featured Article.

Professor Lijian Yang has been elected a 2011 Fellow of the American Statistical Association for his

Shujie Ma - has won the CHINESE GOVERNMENT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SELF-FINANCED STUDENTS ABROAD. She is one of the 23 winners from the Midwest of this award, and the only MSU student winner for this year.

Professor Yimin Xiao has been elected to be a Fellow in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2011.

Peter Hall visits MSU Department of Statistics and Probability - Internationally renowned mathematical statistician Professor Peter Hall, FAA, FRS,visited the MSU Department of Statistics and Probability from March 21 to April 1, 2011, and gave a public lecture (March 22) and 2 additional lectures ( March 24 March 29 ) during his visit.

Probability at Michigan State - The research group in probability theory at Michigan State University includes faculty and graduate students from the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Statistics and Probability.

New book by Gawarecki and Mandrekar - Stochastic Differential Equations in Infinite Dimensions with Applications to Stochastic Differential Equations Series: Probability and its Applications

Dr. Maiti named ASA Fellow - Statistics Professor Tapabrata “Taps” Maiti has been named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Maiti is Graduate Director for the Department of Statistics and Probability and was presented the award at the Joint Statistical Meetings in August of 2010.

William L. Harkness Award - The William L. Harkness Award was presented to Dr. Dennis Gilliland , Wenning Feng and Kai Zhang on November 9, 2010.

Bose-Nandi best paper award for Maiti and Chen - “Analysis of cDNA Microarray Experiment with External Controls: A Mixed Model Approach" had been adjudged as the best publication in the Section ' Applications of Statistics" appeared in Volume 59( 2007) of Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin.