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Benjamin Sudakov receives Humboldt Research Award

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awards the Humboldt Research Award 2014 to Prof. Benjamin Sudakov.
Peter J. Bickel receives honorary doctorate

The Department proposed the statistician Prof. Peter J. Bickel for the honorary doctorate of the ETH Zurich. He was honored for his pioneering work on semiparametric and high-dimensional statistics and on resampling methods for statistical inference.
Meike Akveld receives Golden Owl

The student association VSETH awards the Golden Owl to Dr. Meike Akveld. She is lecturer at the Department and responsible for the teaching of Analysis I and II at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.
50 Years of Statistics at ETH Zurich

The colloquium: "From robust to high-dimensional statistics: 50 years of statistics at ETH Zurich" celebrates the 50-year anniversary of Statistics at ETH Zurich. It is organized by the Seminar for Statistics, has started today and will last until 25 November 2014.
Finanzmathematiker – beliebte Sündenböcke
Finanzmathematiker der ETH Zürich wehren sich in einer Replik auf einen NZZ-Artikel von Volker Bieta und Hellmuth Milde gegen den Vorwurf der Weltfremdheit. Der Versuch einer Ehrenrettung für das Prinzip der Arbitrage-Freiheit.