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Less than a week 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
🔗 Register: statistics.rice.edu/news-eve…
🎉 Alumni Weekend is almost here, and we’re bringing back the Rice Statistics crew for lunch! Come grab a bite, catch up with familiar faces, and say hi to faculty and students.
Friday, Nov 13 · 11:30 AM–1:00 PM | Maxfield Hall 129
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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
🔗 Register: statistics.rice.edu/news-eve…
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
🔗 Register: statistics.rice.edu/news-eve…
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
🔗 Learn More & Register: statistics.rice.edu/news-eve…
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…
ALT Baseball player in pinstriped uniform and helmet stands on the pitcher's mound holding a bat under stadium lights at dusk.
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
🔗 statistics.rice.edu/academic… #AIJobs
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.
Read more: engineering.rice.edu/news/tw…
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!
