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STAT Colloquium: Dr. Brian Weaver from Los Alamos National Laboratory presents “Perspectives on working at a National Laboratory.”
📅 Nov 9 | ⏰ 8:50 AM | 📍 Maxfield Hall 251
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⏰ 2 weeks to go! Register now for the James R. Thompson Distinguished Lecture.
Dr. Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard) on “Privacy, Data Privacy, and Differential Privacy.”
📅 Nov 5, 4:00 p.m. | McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
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STAT Colloquium: Dr. Montserrat Fuentes from St. Edward’s University presents “Spatial Statistical Tensor Modeling of Neuroimaging Data and Drug Addiction.”
📅 Oct 26 | ⏰ 4:00 PM | 📍 Maxfield Hall 251
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STAT Colloquium: Dr. Likun Zhang from @Mizzou presents “Integrating mechanistic dynamics to characterize the causes of extremes in environmental processes.”
📅 Nov 2 | ⏰ 4:00 PM | 📍 Maxfield Hall 251
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What does privacy really mean in a data-driven world?
Dr. Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard) explores the question at the James R. Thompson Distinguished Lecture.
📅 Nov 5, 4:00 p.m. | McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
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STAT Colloquium: Dr. Yufeng Liu from @UMich presents "Low-rank Reinforcement Learning with Heterogeneous Human Feedback."
📅 Oct 19 | ⏰ 4:00 PM | 📍 Maxfield Hall 251
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The James R. Thompson Distinguished Lecture welcomes Dr. Xiao-Li Meng (@Harvard) on "Privacy, Data Privacy, and Differential Privacy."
📅 Nov 5, 2026
4:00 p.m. | McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
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STAT Colloquium: Dr. Corey Abramson from @RiceUniversity presents "Granular Data at Scale: Reducing Human and Machine Error in Ethnographic Research."
📅 Oct 5 | ⏰ 4:00 PM | 📍 Maxfield Hall 251
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Who's really No. 1? Rice statisticians, with Cornell University, built a better way to make sense of competing sports rankings. Tested on MLB data, their Bayesian model combines conflicting rankings, measures uncertainty and reveals what drives them. news.rice.edu/news/2026/whos…
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STAT Colloquium: Dr. Stefan Wild, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, on "Reinforcement Learning- and Adaptive Subspace-Assisted Zeroth-Order Optimization Solvers for Improved Robustness of Sequential Design."
Mon, Sept 28 | 4:00-5:00 PM | Maxfield Hall 251
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🎓 Advance Your Career with Rice University's Master of Statistics (MSTAT). Position yourself for challenging, high-demand roles in AI and data science.📅 Virtual Info Sessions: Oct 21 | Nov 18 | Dec 16
7-8 PM | 💰 Funding available
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New research led by Rice Statistics lecturer Gina Pizzo, with Aaron McCright of @michiganstateu introduces a scale that measures how scientists' disciplinary identities shift across their careers.
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As generative models become widespread, assessing their quality remains a challenge. Join Dr. Li Ma from @UChicago for "Assessing generative models through density-ratio learning."
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Rice Statistics is proud to co-host the 2026 ENVR Workshop in Houston this fall! Dr. Ensor is co-chairing the @AmstatNews biennial meeting on statistics & the environment, Oct 8–10. Short courses, plenaries, 16 scholars presenting and more.
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STAT Colloquium: Dr. Michele Guindani from @UCLA presents "Beyond the Average: Structured Priors for Bayesian Clustering in Neuroscience."
📅 Sep 14
⏰ 4:00 PM
📍 Maxfield Hall 251
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Two Rice alumnae named 2026 @AmstatNews Fellows — the field's highest honor — for their contributions to Bayesian statistics, medicine, public health and statistics education.
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Calling all @RiceStatistics alumni! 🦉 Join us at our reception during #JSM2026 @AmstatNews in Boston — Monday, August 3 from 12–2 p.m. at the Westin Boston Seaport District. Reconnect with faculty, alumni and statisticians from around the world. events.rice.edu/statistics/e…
Doctoral student José Palacio has been named a winner of the JSM- @AmstatNews 2026 Health Policy Statistics Section Student Paper Competition for his paper "Inferring Transmission Dynamics of RSV from Houston Wastewater Data."
👏 Congratulations, José!
The @NatlAcademies just released a roadmap for U.S. statistical science through 2035 — chaired by Katherine Ensor — calling on leaders and policymakers to invest in statistics as the foundation of trustworthy AI and American scientific innovation. statistics.rice.edu/news/nat…
Congrats to Statistics Ph.D. student Arya Muralidharan on receiving the Graduate Teaching Award for Course Support from Rice's Center for Teaching Excellence! The award honors outstanding contributions to course design and delivery.
Read more: news.rice.edu/news/2026/facu…
